Dear Colleague,

transversity and transverse spin are of growing theoretical and experimental
interest.  Indeed, a two-year Ministry-funded inter-university Research Project
of National Interest (PRIN) in Italy aimed specifically at the study of this
aspect of hadronic physics is now in its second year.  As part of the project,
the members have planned the present workshop to gather together
experimentalists and theorists engaged in investigating the nature of
transverse spin in hadronic physics, with the aim of exchanging up-to-date
theoretical and experimental ideas and news on the subject.

The Workshop will be held in Como from 7th. to 10th. September 2005 with the
title:

               International Workshop on
  Transverse Polarisation Phenomena in Hard Processes
                  (Transversity 2005)

and under the auspices of the International Committee for Spin Physics
Symposia.  The workshop web pages may be found at

  http://scienze-como.uninsubria.it/phil/WS2005/

The precise site of the conference will be Villa Olmo on the the shores of Lake
Como in the North of Italy.  Villa Olmo is well equipped as a conference centre
with a permanent experienced technical and secretarial staff.  The registration
fee, covering coffee breaks, lunches, conference dinner (including an excursion
on lake Como) and a copy of the proceedings, will be 250 Euros.

On the basis of interest already expressed, we are expecting a total of 70-80
participants and plan on a number of theoretical and experimental presentations
with approximately 40 speakers (by invitation only) and one or two round-table
discussions.

A preliminary list of speakers together with the committee lists may be found
at the foot of this message.  Further information may be obtained from
<philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it>.  Finally, apologies for any duplicate
mailings and please pass this message on to anyone you feel may be interested.

Best wishes, the Local Organising Committee:

  Vincenzo Barone (Alessandria)
  Maria Pia Bussa (Torino)
  Delia Hasch (Frascati)
  Paolo Lenisa (Ferrara)
  Anna Martin (Trieste)
  Philip G. Ratcliffe (Insubria, Chair)

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The speakers so far enlisted are (* to confirm):

  Aidala, Christine A.     Kotzinian, Aram
  Anselmino, Mauro         Kumano, Shunzo*
  Avagyan, Harut           Leader, Elliot
  Bianconi, Andrea         Ma, Bo-Qiang
  Bland, Les*              Maggiora, Marco
  Blümlein, Johannes*      Metz, Andreas
  Boglione, Elena          Mielech, Adam
  Bradamante, Franco       Mukherjee, Asmita*
  Brodsky, Stan            Murgia, Francesco
  Bunce, Gerry             Nikolaev, Nikolai
  Burkardt, Matthias*      Pijlman, Fetze
  Chen, Jian-ping          Prokudin, Alexei
  Contalbrigo, Marco       Radici, Marco
  Di Salvo, Elvio          Schlegel, Marc
  Drago, Alessandro        Schmidt, Ivan*
  Ferrero, Andrea          Schnell, Gunar
  Gamberg, Leonard         Schweitzer, Peter
  Goldstein, Gary          Seidl, Ralf*
  Guzzi, Marco             Sivers, Dennis
  Horn, Igor               Teryaev, Oleg
  Hwang, Dae Sung          Trueman, Larry
  Hägler, Philipp          van der Nat, Paul

International Advisory Committee:

  Mauro Anselmino (Torino)
  Franco Bradamante (Trieste, Chair)
  Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC)
  John C. Collins (Penn State)
  Anatoli Efremov (JINR)
  Robert L. Jaffe (MIT)
  Elliot Leader (London)
  Piet Mulders (VU, Amsterdam)
  Frank Rathmann (Jülich)
  Klaus Rith (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Naohito Saito (Kyoto)
  Jacques Soffer (CNRS, Marseille)

International Committee for Spin Physics Symposia:

  T. Roser (Brookhaven, Chair)
  A.D. Krisch (Michigan, Past-Chair)
  K. Imai (Kyoto, Chair-Elect)
  F. Bradamante (Trieste)
  O. Chamberlain* (Berkeley)
  E.D. Courant* (Brookhaven)
  D.G. Crabb (Virginia)
  A.V. Efremov (JINR)
  G. Fidecaro* (CERN)
  G. Mallot (CERN)
  W. Haeberli* (Wisconsin)
  K. Hatanaka (RCNP)
  R.G. Milner (MIT)
  Y. Mori (KEK)
  C.Y. Prescott (SLAC)
  F. Rathmann (COSY)
  Yu.M. Shatunov (Novosibirsk)
  V. Soergel* (Heidelberg)
  E. Steffens (Erlangen)
  E.J. Stephenson (Indiana)
  N.E. Tyurin (IHEP)
  W.T.H. van Oers* (Manitoba)
  * Honorary Members

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