*************** Second Announcement ***************
International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics
( SNP School 2016 )
November 18th, Friday to 20th, Sunday, 2016
Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN
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Detailed information is given and will be updated at the following URL:
http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/snpsc2016/

We are pleased to announce that the SNP School 2016 will take place on
the campus of Tohoku University, Sendai from November 18rd to 20th,
2016. This school is the fifth school of a series of SNP schools 2012,
2013, 2014 and 2015. This year, the school is organized as the
pre-conference event of the International Symposium on Neutron Star
Matter (NSMAT2016) and The 8th Asian Nuclear Physics Association
Symposium (ANPhA2016) to be held at Tohoku University from September
21th through 25th. We encourage young scientists who intend to
participate in NSMAT2016 and ANPhA2016 to join also the SNP School
2016 and to present their research at the young researchers' session.

# Scheduled Lectures (title of lectures are tentative)
Y-G. Ma (SINAP) "Strangeness Physics at RHIC"
D. Lonardoni (NSCL-MSU and LANL) "Quantum Monte Carlo for Strangeness
Nuclear Physics"
J.-K. Ahn (Korea U.) "H-dibaryon and related topics"
TBD (ELPH-Tohoku) "Experimental Physics at ELPH-Tohoku"

# Venue:
The school will be held at the Aoba Science Hall in the Aobayama
campus of Tohoku University (Sendai, Miyagi pref.). The city of Sendai
with a population of one million is the center of the northern part of
Japan, "Tohoku District". It is located about 350 km north of Tokyo
and can be accessed in 1 hour and 45 minutes by the super-express
train (Tohoku Shinkansen). We are planning to visit an electron
accelerator facility at ELPH-Tohoku with a lecture as a part of the
SNP School 2016.

# Style of School:
The school will welcome a maximum of approximately 50 graduate
students and young scientists from all over the world both in
experiments and in theory. Though budget is quite limited but
participants have a chance to have financial support for their local
expenses during the school. Deadline of application is the 20th
September, 2016. In addition, the organizers strongly advise the
persons who need a visa to enter Japan, to contact the organizer as
soon as possible, since the issuance of a visa may take a long time.

The school will organize special sessions to give a chance of
presentation for participants.

We encourage young scientists to present their research in the school
and enjoy lectures. It should be noted that giving presentation is
required to have financial support from the school.

The school will award the Hashimoto prize to the best presentation in
the young researchers' session.

# Application and Selection of participants:
Application form can be submitted together with NSMAT2016 and
ANPhA2016 at the NSMAT2016 homepage:
http://lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp/nstar/NSMAT2016/

No registration fee for the SNP School 2016 is necessary.

Selections of participants (students and post-docs) and financial
support for them will be performed based on the abstract of the
presentation. All young participants are expected to present his/her
activities by poster or oral sessions during the school. Especially
for those who want to have financial support, application to the
presentation is mandatory. Deadline of application/registration is the
20th of September 2016 however later registration results in less
chance for financial support. We encourage earlier registration for
participants who want to have financial support.

# Accommodation:
We expect that participants book hotel by themselves, but limited
numbers of rooms are pre-booked by the organizer. The hotel booking
page is available in the SNP School 2016/NSMAT2016/ANPhA2016
registration page. Pre-booked rooms will be arranged on a
first-come-first-served basis.

If you have any question about hotel arrangement, please contact the organizer.

# Important dates:

2nd announcement August 2016, this document
Application deadline September 20, 2016
Final announcement October 2016
SNP School 2016 November 18-20, 2016
NSMAT2016 November 21-24, 2016
(Sakunami Session, a part of NSMAT2016 Night of 23rd)
ANPhA2016 November 24-25

# Contact:
Prof. Satoshi N Nakamura
Dept. of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University,
Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, JAPAN
E-mail: snpsc16@lambda.phys.tohoku.ac.jp

Please forward this announcement to students and colleagues who
may be interested.

Best regards,
Prof. Satoshi N. Nakamura, Chair of the SNP School 2016
Department of Physics, School of Science, Tohoku University

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Satoshi N. Nakamura, D.Sc.
Professor of Physics,
Graduate School of Science
Tohoku University
nue@tohoku.ac.jp