1st bulletin
2nd bulletin
Final bulletin
Final bulletin
1. Scientific Program
You can find the (almost) final version of the workshop program
on the workshop web-site:
http://tau2012.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/doc/tau2012_program.pdf
If you have any questions or find mistakes, please inform us (
tau2012@hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
) about them immediately.
The workshop is held at the Sakata-Hirata Hall on the ground floor
in the South Science building inside Nagoya University Campus.
On the 1st day (17th Sep,), we will start the 1st session with
"the opening address" at 9:40 am.
2. Reception
The registration will start from 8:30 am on 17th Sep.
At the reception desk, we kindly request you to pay
the registration fee (20,000 YEN) in Japanese YEN.
We can only accept it in cash.
After that, you will receive your name plate (badge),
the documents related to the workshop and social events,
the workshop bag and so on.
We also assign the ID and password to connect to the internet.
The reception desk will be set in front of the Sakata-Hirata hall.
3. Travel
3-1-1. From Narita airport to Nagoya station take Narita Express
or Airport Rapid to JR Tokyo Sta. (60 min),
then transfer to Tokaido Shinkansen to Nagoya Sta.
(100 min by NOZOMI superexpress).
In total, it costs 12,580 Yen.
3-1-2. From Nagoya airport to Nagoya station take the Meitetsu Line
to Nagoya Station. (40 min, 850 Yen).
We do not recommend taxi, as it is very expensive;
it costs about 15,000 Yen from the airport to the center of Nagoya.
3-1-3. From Kansai airport to Nagoya station take JR Kansai Airport
Limited Express HARUKA to JR Shin-Osaka Sta. (52 min),
then transfer to Shinkansen to Nagoya Sta. (52 min by NOZOMI superexpress).
In total, it costs 7,500 Yen.
3-2 traffic inside Nagoya city
Subway is convenient:
You can get the subway instruction at
http://www.kotsu.city.nagoya.jp/english/english_sub.html
and the root map at
http://www.kotsu.city.nagoya.jp/dbps_data/_material_/localhost/_res/english/_res/pdf/subwaymap.pdf
where Higashiyama Line and Meijyo Line
are indicated by the yellow and purple line, respectively.
The relation of the location for Nagoya station,
Sakae and Nagoya University is illustrated on
http://tau2012.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/doc/subway.jpg
3-2-1 From Nagoya to Nagoya University take the Subway Higashiyama Line
bound for Fujigaoka Sta.,
then transfer at Motoyama Sta. to the Subway Meijo Line
and get off at Nagoya Daigaku Sta. (21 min, 260 Yen).
3-2-2 From Nagoya to Nagoya downtown (Sakae)
take the Subway Higashiyama Line bound for Fujigaoka Sta.
(5 min, 200 Yen).
3-3 From Sakae to Nagoya University
take the Subway Higashiyama Line bound for Fujigaoka Sta.,
then transfer at Motoyama Sta. to the Subway Meijo Line
and get off at Nagoya Daigaku Sta. (16 min, 230 Yen).
Jordan will help your traffic access:
http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/
where "enter" does not mean "search",
please click "search".
i) from Nagoya international airport
Please enter "Centrair Japan Intl Airport" to "Departs"
ii) from Narita international airport
Please enter "Narita-Airport" to "Departs"
(You may ask once more, please select just "Narita-Airport")
iii) from Kansai international airport
Please enter "Kansai-Airport" to "Departs"
a) to Nagoya University
Please enter "Nagoyadaigaku" to "arrives"
b) to Nagoya downtown
Please enter "Sakae" to "arrives"
c) to Nagoya station
Please enter "Nagoya" to "arrives"
(You may ask once more, please select just "Nagoya")
4. Weather in Nagoya
In September, it is warm and humid.
The highest and lowest temperatures are 28 and 20 degrees centigrade
in average, respectively.
However, the highest one sometimes exceeds 30 degrees.
Since it is also a typhoon season,
from time to time we may have a heavy rain and wind.
5. Speakers
We will prepare a PC and projector for the presentation,
where PDF/ppt/pptx are acceptable.
To avoid wasting valuable time, we will use the INDICO system
and we kindly request each speaker to upload his/her slides
to the corresponding slot on the INDICO page 1 day before a talk.
We can also upload your slides by your request.
If you need our help, please contact us soon or send your slides to
tau2012@hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
(LOC members are indicated by different-color name plate.)
The URL for the agenda of TAU2012 is
http://www2.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/indico/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=0#20120917
(The ID and password to upload slides will be announced
to the speakers later.)
6. Poster presenters
A poster session will be held in the evening of 18th Sep.,
at Science Seminar Room (SS107), neighboring to the conference hall.
There, some 1200 mm × 1560 mm poster boards are arranged
and an A0 (841 mm × 1189 mm) poster will fit the board.
The presenters can put their poster on the board
just after the registration and are expected to show it
before the 18th evening.
7. Social events
7-1. Workshop dinner
We will have the workshop dinner in the evening of 19th Sep.
at Koushoji, an old Japanese temple built in 17th century.
Such a place is usually not for banquets,
so we recommend not to miss this opportunity.
A Nobel Prize winner Prof. Maskawa will join us.
During the banquet, there will be a short talk by the Head Priest
and a cultural performance.
7-2. Excursion
All participants are cordially invited to the excursion bus tour
to Tokugawa art museum and Tokugawaen in the afternoon on 20th Sep.
Tokugawa art museum is one of the most famous museums in Nagoya
and collects more than 12,000 items,
including Japanese Samurai swords, armor, Noh items and so on.
Tokugawaen is a famous Japanese garden, neighboring to Tokugawa museum.
The details can be found in the workshop materials.
You can get the bus inside Nagoya University
and we will take you to the bus from the workshop place.
8. Networks
Nagoya university has a wireless network system open to the guests (NUWNET).
You need the ID and password to connect to NUWNET,
and they will be distributed with the workshop materials at the reception.
9. Proceedings.
The proceedings will be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.).
The details will be announced at the conference.
10. Money exchange
You can make an exchange of main world currencies
at the airport/railway station or bank/post office
at about the same exchange rate.
11. Lunch, food and drink
Restaurants, cafeterias, coffee shops and kiosks will be available
for lunch or to purchase food and drink on Campus during the workshop
except the first day, September 17th.
Their locations will be indicated in a map
you will receive at the reception desk of the workshop.
Some restaurants and convenience stores can be also found off Campus,
but there are not many of them around the University.
Note that some drink and refreshment will be served in coffee breaks.
September 17th is a national holiday in Japan.
No places to have lunch or to purchase food and drink will be available
on Campus.
Instead, lunch boxes will be delivered upon request.
Please follow the instruction to order in the following mail.
12. Insurance
In case of getting sick or injured during the workshop,
conference organizers can help to take him/her to the hospital.
In such a case, a non-Japanese patient has to pay
for medical treatment in Japanese YEN cash.
It is recommended to have a travel accident insurance and confirm
the procedure to get refunded from the insurance company.
13. Emergency Call during the workshop
During the workshop period (September 17th to 21st),
you can use the following telephone
080-6973-0689
to contact TAU2012 local organizing committee members.
TAU2012,
Department of Physics,
Nagoya University,
Furo-cho, Chikusa-Ku
Nagoya 630-8506, Japan
e-mail:
tau2012@hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
2nd bulletin
1. General Information
The 12th International Workshop on Tau-Lepton Physics, Tau2012,
will be held at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan)
from Monday, September 17 to Friday, September 21, 2012.
This is the twelfth workshop of this series devoted to
physics of the tau lepton and its associated neutrino.
The meetings have been organized every two years since
the first workshop at the University of Paris (Orsay,France) in 1990.
The latest workshop was held in 2010, in Manchester.
The goal of the Workshop is to give theorists and experimentalists
an opportunity to discuss recent progress in tau lepton physics.
At the workshop the following topics will be covered:
Static properties of the tau
Lepton universality
Hadronic decays and QCD
Decays into kaons and |Vus|
Decays of b and c to tau
CP violation in the tau sector
Lepton flavor and lepton number violation (LFV/LNV)
Lepton g-2
Neutrino physics
Tau in EW tests at hadron colliders
Tau in SM Higgs searches
Tau in searches for BSM
Prospects for tau physics
2. Scientific Program
The workshop will include invited talks, contributed talks
as well as poster presentations.
If you are interested in giving a presentation at the workshop,
please submit an abstract when you make a registration by July 13, 2012.
If you have already registered, please contact
tau2012@hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
We can accept several contributed talks and 30 poster presentations.
We may ask you to give a poster presentation instead of the oral talk.
The details of the scientific program will be posted at the workshop web site.
The program will continue to be updated as the speakers are confirmed.
The proceedings will be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.).
3. Workshop schedule
| September 17 (Monday) |
| Registration |
| Morning session: | LFV I |
| Afternoon session: | LFVII & Tau CPV |
| September 18 (Tuesday) |
| Morning session: | Static property of tau
and lepton universality |
| Tau hadronic decay I |
| Afternoon session: | Tau hadronic decay II |
| Tau or LFV/LNV decay
from heavy hadrons |
| Poster session |
| September 19 (Wednesday) |
| Morning session: | Muon g-2 I & II |
| Afternoon session: | Neutrino I & II |
| Workshop dinner |
| September 20 (Thursday) |
| Morning session: | LHC related I & II |
| Afternoon: | Excursion |
| September 21 (Friday) |
| Morning session: | Future projects & summary |
4. Registration and Accommodation
The registration fee is 20,000 Japanese yen.
The registration fee includes a workshop dinner,
coffee-service during breaks throughout the workshop,
the half-day excursion on September 20 and the cost of proceedings.
The registration fee for each accompanying person is 8,000 yen.
This fee covers a workshop dinner, coffee-service
and the half-day excursion.
We kindly ask you to pay the registration fee
in cash (Japanese yen) upon arrival.
All participants are requested to register via the TAU2012 web page:
http://tau2012.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
We recommend the hotel called "Meitetsu inn", where
the special price is available for the participants by the end of August.
You can book the rooms via the PDF file on our "accommodation" page.
The instruction for the PDF file (how to book the rooms via the PDF file)
is also available.
5. Workshop dinner and Excursion
The Workshop dinner will be held on Wednesday, September 19.
The excursion on Thursday afternoon, September 20
will include a visit to Tokugawa-en.
6. Access to Nagoya
The most convenient means of transportation is to take a direct flight
to the Chubu International Airport.
From there, the simplest route to Nagoya is by the express
called "Mu-Sky" on the Airport Line by Meitetsu,
which takes approximately 30 minutes to arrive at the Nagoya station.
It costs 850 Yen.
You can also arrive at Nagoya from the Narita International Airport,
near Tokyo.
By the JR Narita express, you can reach Tokyo station (1 hour)
and from there you can arrive at Nagoya by Shinkan-sen
(1 hour and 40 minutes).
It totally costs around 13,000 Yen.
When you arrive at the Kansai International Airport near Osaka,
you can reach Shin-Osaka by JR Express Haruka (50 minites).
From Shin-Osaka to Nagoya, it takes around 50 minutes by Shinkan-sen.
It totally costs around 8,000 Yen.
7. Access to workshop site
The Workshop will be held in the Sakata-Hirata Hall at Nagoya University.
The subway station, "Nagoya Daigaku" ("Daigaku" means university),
is the closest station to Nagoya University.
Within a 5 minute walk, you can arrive at the Sakata-Hirata Hall.
The detailed map is shown in the "Transportation" page of our site.
1. From Nagoya station to Nagoya Daigaku
On the Higashiyama metro line, you have a connection at the Motoyama station.
There, you can take the Meijo metro line in a clockwise direction.
The next station to Motoyama is Nagoya Daigaku.
2. From Sakae to Nagoya Daigaku
On the Higashiyama metro line, you have a connection at the Motoyama station.
There, you can take the Meijo metro line in a clockwise direction.
The next station to Motoyama is Nagoya Daigaku.
3. From Kanayama to Nagoya Daigaku
By the Meijo metro line in a counterclockwise direction, without transfer,
you can reach the Nagoya Daigaku station.
8. Weather in Nagoya in September
The temperature in Nagoya in September is between
20 and 28 degrees Centigrade.
It is quite warm in the daytime and becomes cooler
in the morning and evening.
The weather is usually fine but can sometimes suddenly change.
September is a typhoon season in Japan,
which hits Japan once per month on the average.
9. Visas
Participants from the countries for which a visa is
required should apply to a Japanese Consulate before their departure.
For general information about a visa application, please visit:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/.
Official letters of invitations to the Workshop for a visa application
or other purpose can be provided for participants on request.
Please contact us by the end of July to allow enough time
for a visa application for your September visit.
10. Schedule
Here are some important dates to remember:
| July 13 (Friday) |
Deadline for abstract submission of oral presentation
(Since the oral session has been crowded, we may ask you the poster presentation, instead.) |
| August 17 (Friday) |
Deadline for abstract submission of poster presentation |
| August 31 (Friday) |
Deadline for the registration |
| September 17 (Monday) |
Registration starts at 9 am and scientific program starts at 9:30 am. |
| September 18 (Tuesday) |
| September 19 (Wednesday) |
Workshop dinner |
| September 20 (Thursday) |
Excursion in the afternoon |
| September 21 (Friday) |
Ends by 13:30 pm |
11. Correspondence
All correspondence concerning the workshop should be addressed by E-mail to
tau2012@hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Our postal address is
TAU2012
tau lepton physics research center,
Graduate school of science,
Nagoya University,
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku,
Nagoya 630-8506, Japan
Tel. +81-52-789-2902
Fax +81-52-782-5752
The workshop is supported in part by tau lepton physics research center
and Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute in Nagoya University.
1st bulletin
The 12th International Workshop on Tau-Lepton Physics, Tau2012,
will be held in Nagoya (Japan), at Nagoya University,
from Monday, September 17 to Friday, September 21, 2012.
This is the twelfth workshop of this series devoted
to physics of the tau lepton and its associated neutrino.
The meetings have been organized every two years
since the first workshop at the University of Paris (Orsay,France) in 1990.
The latest workshop was held in 2010, in Manchester.
The goal of the Workshop is, by getting together
theorists and experimentalists, to discuss recent progress
in tau lepton physics.
New tau results from high energy machines,
low energy machines and B-factories will be presented as well as
recent results from g-2 and neutrino oscillation experiments.
Also included in the program are related subjects
like the hadron cross section measurement at e+e- colliders
as well as a search for mu LFV decays.
In addition, there will be several review talks on the future prospects.
1. Topics
At the Workshop, we will discuss the following subjects:
Static properties of the tau
Lepton universality
Hadronic decays and QCD
Decays into kaons and |Vus|
Decays of b and c to tau
CP violation in the tau sector
Lepton flavour violation
Lepton g-2
Neutrino physics
Tau in EW tests at hadron colliders
Tau in SM Higgs searches
Tau in searches for BSM
Prospects for tau physics
2.Date
The workshop will be held from
September 17(Mon) to September 21(Fri), 2012.
3.Workshop site
The Workshop will be held in Sakata-Hirata hall
in Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Nagoya city is Japan's fourth most populated city
with over two million inhabitants.
It is the capital of Aichi Prefecture,
situated 350 km to West from Tokyo and 200 km East from Osaka.
The closest international airport is the Chubu international airport.
It takes 35 minutes from the airport to Nagoya by express.
4. Registration/Accommodation
Registration and Booking the room can be done through our site:
http://tau2012.hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
5. Visa
A valid passport is required for entry in Japan.
Participants from some countries will also need a visa.
Participants, who need a visa, should contact
the Organizing Committee well beforehand.
6. Talks and Abstracts
The workshop will consist of plenary talks only.
We encourage contribution talks.
If you would like to present a talk,
please submit an abstract before July 13, 2012.
7. International Advisory Committee
Michel Davier (LAL, Orsay, France)
Simon Eidelman (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Hisaki Hayashii (Nara Women's University, Japan)
Junji Hisano (Nagoya University, Japan)
Toru Iijima (Nagoya University, Japan)
Yuri Kudenko (INR, Moscow, Russia)
Johann Kuhn (KIT, Germany)
George Lafferty (University of Manchester, UK)
Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN Pisa, Italy)
William Marciano (BNL, USA)
Klaus Moenig (DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany)
Vittorio Paolone (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Martin Perl (SLAC, USA)
Antonio Pich (IFIC, Valencia, Spain)
Lee Roberts (Boston University, USA)
Michael Roney (University of Victoria, Canada)
Achim Stahl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Changzheng Yuan (IHEP, Beijing, China)
Zbigniew Was (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow and CERN PH-TH)
8. Local Organizing Committee
Masato Aoki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Masayasu Harada (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kiyoshi Hayasaka (Nagoya University, Japan), chair
Hisaki Hayashii (Nara Women's University, Japan)
Junji Hisano (Nagoya University, Japan)
Yasuyuki Horii (Nagoya University, Japan)
Toru Iijima (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kenji Inami (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kodai Matsuoka (Nagoya University, Japan)
Mitsuhiro Nakamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
Osamu Sato (Nagoya University, Japan)
Yoshiaki Susaki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kazuhito Suzuki (Nagoya University, Japan)
Masaharu Tanabashi (Nagoya University, Japan)
Makoto Tomoto (Nagoya University, Japan)
9. Second Circular
The second circular will be sent in May, 2012.
It will include further information on registration,
scientific program and accommodation.
10. Contact
If you have any questions or comments,
please send E-mail to the following address:
tau2012@hepl.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
'Tau2012 Workshop',
Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center,
graduate school of science, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
464-8602, Japan
Fax +81-52-782-5752
