The Banff Centre, Banff Alberta
18-20 February 2005
(Friday evening to Sunday noon)

Introduction

This is the first time in 21 years that the Western Regional will not be held at Lake Louise. By switching to the Banff Centre  we have achieved significant cost savings, which we hope will make it possible for more students and researchers to attend.

The Conference(WRNPPC '05) is organized by the University of Manitoba and TRIUMF. As usual, it will be held on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday immediately preceding the Lake Louise Winter institute.

Note to speakers regarding Projectors and Computers:

Conference Sessions

• Friday evening: 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (followed by a reception)
  
• Saturday morning: 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
  
• Saturday evening:  7:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m.
  
• Sunday morning: 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
  
  

Organizing Committee

• Peter Blunden- chair
• Elly Driessen - coordinator/secretary
• Shelley Page
• Wim van Oers
• Des Ramsay

If you have a question, email wrnppc@triumf.ca .

Invited Speakers

• Mike Roney, University of Victoria
  Latest Results from BaBar
  


• Kenneth Ragan, McGill University
  Particle Astrophysics (TBA)
  


• Gerald Gwinner, University of Manitoba
  A Test of Relativistic Time Dilation with Laser Spectroscopy of Heavy Ions in a Storage Ring
  


• Zisis Papandreou, University of Regina
  Rare Decays of the Eta-Meson
  


• Andrzej Czarnecki, University of Alberta
  Testing the Electroweak Interaction
  


• Andrew Miller, TRIUMF
  The Spin Structure of the Nucleon
  


• Glen Marshall, TRIUMF
  First Results from TWIST
  


• Des Ramsay, University of Manitoba
  The Gzero Experiment at Jefferson Lab -- A Measure of the Strange Quark Content of the Proton
  


• Mark de Jong, Saskatchewan Light Source
  The Canadian Light Source -- First Year of Operation
  


• Michael Landry, LIGO-Hanford
  Searching for Gravitational Waves with New Interferometers
  

Schedule for the Conference:

Deadlines

• Economy Registration (students FREE) -- 15 December 2004
• Accommodation -- 6 January 2005 (2 December preferred)
• Abstracts -- 23 January 2005

Registration

Click the button above to register directly on the web, OR download the PDF form and mail it to Elly Driessen, TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver V6T 2A3. Indicate if you will be contributing a paper so we know to expect your abstract. To save money, submit your registration form before December 15, 2004. The registration fee is $75 before this advanced registration deadline, or $100 after. Student registration before December 15 is free, and $50 after. You can also email your registration to wrnppc@triumf.ca.

The registration fee includes the reception, coffee breaks, and a copy of the abstracts.

Abstracts

Abstracts are best prepared using LaTeX. If you edit this LaTeX Template the formatting will automatically be right. If you don't use LaTeX, the hardcopy should look like this PDF example . The example also gives you more details. Please send both the source file (.tex, .doc,  .wpd, ...) and a printer ready PostScript or PDF file, as email attachments to wrnppc@triumf.ca. The deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, January 23, 2005.

Contributed talks are 12 minutes with 2 or 3 minutes for discussion.
Invited talks are 25 minutes with 5 minutes for discussion.

Click here to see the abstracts

Accommodation

Please book your accommodation as soon as possible, preferably before Thursday, December 2, 2004, but definitely before Thursday, January 6, 2005. After that, unbooked rooms will be released.

Special conference rates have been arranged for rooms and meals. The package rates include accommodation and 6 meals, starting with evening meal on Friday and ending with Sunday lunch.  Also included are coffee breaks, gratuities, parking and access to the Sally Borden Recreation Facility.  Taxes are not included.

Conference Rates

Three days before and three days after the conference a room is $100 a night for one or two people, meals not included.

Book your accommodation DIRECTLY with  The Banff Centre . Use either the Secure Server (click on "Make Reservations") or the toll-free reservations number 1-800-884-7574 .  Be sure to say you are with the Western Regional  to get the special rates.

Other amenities

The Sally Borden Recreation Facility houses a 25 metre pool, steam rooms, whirlpool, weight room, full-sized gymnasium with indoor running track, badminton, squash court, and climbing wall.  Excellent skiing is available within a short drive.

Transportation

Driving:

Some Helpful Links at The Banff Centre website:

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