1. Agenda
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    Sunday, October 23
    9:00 am Satellite Meeting: Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC, Ortiz Ballroom, Hilton Hotel
    4:00 pm - 9:00 pm Conference Registration, Promenade, Hilton Hotel
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Conference Reception, Mesa Ballroom, Hilton Hotel
    5:00 pm - 11:00 pm Computers and wireless connections, Aspen room, Hilton Hotel

    Monday, October 24
    All Plenary Sessions on Main Floor, Sweeney Convention Center
    7:30 am - 4:30 pm Conference Registration, Lobby, Sweeney Convention Center
    Plenary Session 1:
      Chair: Itzhak Tserruya, Weizmann Inst.
    8:45 am - 9:45 am I - Welcome Session
    Peter D. Barnes - Welcome to Sante Fe and to PANIC
    Thomas J. Bowles, LANL - LANL Representative
    Willem T.H. van Oers, Univ. of Manitoba - IUPAP Representative  
    Martin D. Cooper - Welcome and general instructions  

    II - Conference Introduction
    9:45 am - 10:15 am William Marciano, BNL
    Electroweak Physics: Status and Outlook
    25 + 5 mins
    10:15 am - 10:45 am     Coffee Break
      Chair: Piermaria Odonne, Fermilab
    10:45 am - 11:15 am Martin Savage, Univ. of Washington
    Quantum Chromodynamics: Status and Challenges
    25+5 mins
    11:15 am - 11:45 am Angela Olinto, Univ. of Chicago
    Astrophysics: New Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies
    25+5 mins

      III - Strong Interactions and QCD
    11:45 am - 12:15 am David A. Kosower, Saclay
    QCD at the Dawn of the LHC Era
    25+5 mins

    12:15 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch break, local restaurants
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Student Hot Topic Session I - Tom Hemmick on Heavy Ions (Hilton Ortiz room).

    2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Parallel Session 1
    4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Coffee Break
    4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Parallel Session 2

    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Student Reception (Hilton Ortiz room).
    8:00 pm - 10:30 pm International Forum - Anasazi Ballroom, Eldorado Hotel
      Chair: Sally Dawson, BNL  
    Physics at High Energies - Vision for the Future
    Piermaria Oddone, Director, Fermilab
    Fumihiko Takasaki, Vice-Director of IPNS / Head of Linear Collider Project Office, KEK
    Albrecht Wagner, Director, DESY
    Samuel Aronson, Associate Director, BNL

    Tuesday, October 25
    Plenary Session 2:
      III - Strong Interaction and QCD, cont.
      Chair: Ken'ichi Imai, Univ. of Kyoto
    9:00 am - 9:30 am Chris Sachrajda, Univ. of Southampton
    Lattice Flavor Dynamics
    25+5 mins
    9:30 am - 10:00 am Krishna Rajagopal, MIT
    Phases of QCD
    25+5 mins
    10:00 am - 10:30 am James Nagle, Univ. of Colorado
    Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: Status
    25+5 mins
    10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break

      IV - Electro-Weak Interactions
      Chair: Albrecht Wagner, DESY
    11:00 am - 11:30 am Michael Ramsey-Musolf, CalTech
    Probing the Fundamental Symmetries of the Early Universe
    25+5 mins
    11:30 am - 11:55 am David DeMille, Yale University
    Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
    20+5 mins
    11:55 am - 12:25 pm Bradley Filippone, CalTech
    Tests of Fundamental Symmetries with Neutrons
    25+5 mins

    12:25 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch break, local restaurants
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Student Hot Topic session II - Dan Holz on Cosmology (Hilton Ortiz room).

    2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Parallel Session 3
    4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Coffee Break  
    4:00 pm - 6:30 pm Poster Session and Reception (Wine and Cheese)
    Anasazi Ballroom, Eldorado Hotel
    List of posters,   instructions for poster authors.

    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Public Science Lecture, Lensic Theater
    Chair: Robert A. Eisenstein, Santa Fe
    Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA
    "The Accelerating Universe".

    Wednesday, October 26
    Plenary Session 3:
      III - Strong Interactions and QCD, cont.
      Chair: Walter F. Henning, GSI
    9:00 am - 9:30 am Urs Wiedemann, CERN
    Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC and at the LHC: Physics Challenges
    25+5 mins
    9:30 am - 10:00 am Naohito Saito, Univ. of Kyoto
    Nucleon Structure: Spin Content
    25+5 mins
    10:00 am - 10:30 am Douglas H. Beck, Univ. of Illinois
    Contributions of Strange Quarks to Proton Structure
    25+5 mins
    10:30 am - 10:50 am Coffee Break

      IV - Electro-Weak Interactions, cont.
      Chair: Torleif Ericson, CERN
    10:50 am - 11:20 am Boris Kayser, Fermilab
    Status and New Opportunities in Neutrino Physics
    25+5 mins
    11:20 am - 11:45 am William C. Louis III, LANL
    New Results in Neutrino Measurements
    20+5 mins
    11:45 am - 12:10 pm Marina Artuso, Univ. of Syracuse
    SM and Beyond: Clues from Recent Charm Measurements
    20+5 mins
    12:10 pm - 6:00 pm Lunch break and free afternoon
    Conference Excursions (leaving at 12:30 pm from the Hilton)


    Thursday, October 27
    Plenary Session 4:
      V - Astrophysics and Cosmology
      Chair: Samuel Aronson, BNL
    9:00 am - 9:30 am Mark Trodden, Univ. of Syracuse
    Connecting Dark Energy and Fundamental Physics
    25+5 mins
    9:30 am - 9:55 am Daniel S. Akerib, Case Western Reserve Univ.
    Dark Matter: Search for WIMPS
    20+5 mins
    9:55 am - 10:25 am Peter Gorham, Univ. of Hawaii
    New Prospects for Detection of the Highest Energy Cosmogenic Neutrinos
    25+5 mins
    10:25 am - 10:55 am Coffee Break

      IV - Electro-Weak Interactions, cont.
      Chair: Anthony Thomas, Jefferson Lab
    10:55 am - 11:20 am Jeffrey D Richman, UC Santa Barbara
    Rare and Semileptonic Decays of B and K Mesons
    20+5 mins
    11:20 am - 11:45 am Kazuo Abe, KEK
    CP Violation in B Decays: Status of the Unitarity Triangle
    20+5 mins
    11:45 am - 12:10 pm Abolhassan Jawahery, Univ. of Maryland
    CP Violation in B Decays: Search for Physics Beyond the SM
    20+5 mins

    12:10 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch break: local restaurants
    12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Student Hot Topic session III - Rex Tayloe on Neutrinos (Hilton Ortiz room)

    2:30 pm- 4:00 pm Parallel Session 4
    4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Coffee Break
    4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Parallel Session 5
    6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Conference Reception: Anasazi Ballroom, Eldorado Hotel
    7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Conference Banquet: Pavilion Ballroom, Eldorado Hotel
    Banquet Speaker - Eric Blinman
    Office of Archeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico:
    "Florescence and Crash: Highlights of Environmental and Cultural History in the Southwest".

    Friday, October 28
    Plenary Session 5:
      III, IV - Strong and Electroweak Interactions
      Chair: Mark Strikman, Penn State Univ.
    9:00 am - 9:25 am Evelyn Thomson, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    Progress in Top Quark Physics
    20+5 mins
    9:25 am - 9:55 am Matthew Strassler, Univ. of Washington
    String Theory: Making Contact with Hadron Physics
    25+5 mins
    9:55 am - 10:25 am Coffee Break
      Chair: J. David Bowman, Los Alamos National Lab.
    10:25 am - 10:50 am Markus Diehl, DESY
    Generalized Parton Distributions: Recent Results
    20+5 mins
    10:50 am - 11:15 am Frithjof Karsch, BNL
    Lattice QCD at High Temperature and the QGP
    20+5 mins
    11:15 am - 11:45 am Reinhard A Schumacher, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
    Experimental Pentaquark Searches: Current Status
    25+5 mins
    11:45 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch break: local restaurants

    Plenary Session 6:
      VI - New Facilities
      Chair: Janet Conrad, Columbia University
    1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Tomofumi Nagae, KEK
    The Physics Program at J-PARC
    25+5 mins
    2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Albert De Roeck, CERN
    Physics Opportunities at the Large Hadron Collider
    25+5 mins
    2:30 pm - 3:00 pm JoAnne L. Hewett, SLAC
    Physics at the High Energy Frontier
    25+5 mins
    3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break

    3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Closing Session of Conference
    Peter Barnes: Final remarks
    Martin Cooper: Final Remarks
    4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Final Coffee Break
    4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Student Farewell (Sweeney Plenary room)

    Saturday, October 29
    9:00 am - 5:00 pm RHIC Satellite Meeting: Physics Opporunities and Accelerator Challenges, Mesa Ballroom, Hilton Hotel
    9:00 am - 5:45 pm Neutrino Satellite Meeting: Future of Neutrino Physics, Mesa Ballroom, Hilton Hotel

    Sunday, October 30
    9:00 am - 5:00 pm RHIC Satellite Meeting: Physics Opporunities and Accelerator Challenges, cont. Mesa Ballroom, Hilton Hotel
    9:00 am - 5:45 pm Neutrino Satellite Meeting: Future of Neutrino Physics cont., Mesa Ballroom, Hilton Hotel

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