2009, Vol.12, No.4

The XXXIX International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics ISMD 2009, was held on 4-9 September at ''Gold Sands'', Gomel Region, Belarus. This series of symposia traditionally attracts participants from different areas, with a common interest in processes where a large number of particles are produced. Usually this has mainly included both accelerator and cosmic ray physics, Small x physics and diffraction, High density systems, Fluctuations and correlations, Astroparticle physics. Organizers added also the direction: Quantum properties of multiparticle states. Thus eight cross-disciplinary sessions were organized.

• New Physics:

Conveners: Sergei Chekanov (ANL, Argonne, USA), Alexey Gladyshev (JINR, Dubna, Russia), Albert De Roeck (CERN)

• Small x physics and diffraction:

Conveners: Alexei Kaidalov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia), Chris White (Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Fluctuations and correlations:

Conveners: Mark Gorenstein (ITP, Kiev, Ukraine), Tom Trainor (University of Washington, USA)

• Heavy flavors:

Conveners: : Ladislav Šándor (IEP SAS, Kosice, Slovakia), Giorgio Torrieri (JW Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany)

• Soft interactions:

Conveners: Alexander Bakulev (JINR, Dubna, Russia), Evgeni Levin (HEP Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel), Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum (CERN)

• Astroparticle physics:

Conveners: Alexander Sakharov (CERN), Oleg Smirnov (JINR, Dubna, Russia)

• High density systems:

Conveners: David d'Enterria (CERN), Peter Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

• Quantum properties of multiparticle states

Conveners: Sergey Kilin (IP, Minsk, Belarus), Andrey Kuzmin (JIPNR-Sosny, Minsk, Belarus)

The symposium has gathered 83 participants from 18 countries: Belarus - 17, Belgium - 3, Brazil - 1, Czech Republic - 1, France - 2, Germany - 6, Hungary - 1, Israel - 1, Japan - 3, the Netherlands - 1, Norway - 1, Poland - 5, Russia - 25, Switzerland - 2, Slovakia - 1, Spain - 1, Ukraine - 3, USA - 9.

Technical support: Wi Fi and Internet - 4 MB/sec were accessible.

Number of talks: 75. Number of talks in every sections: Soft interactions: 13; Small x physics and diffraction: 6; Heavy flavors: 9; Fluctuations and correlations: 8; Quantum properties of multiparticle states: 7; Astroparticle physics: 4; High density systems: 16; New physics: 5; Conference Summary: 5.

We wish to thank all the participants of ISMD09 for making this symposium so interesting. We thank especially the conveners for their enormous work in the preparation of this symposium.

We are in particular indebted to the summary speakers: Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum, Tom Trainor, Vladimir Nikitin, Mikhail Tokarev, Giorgio Torrieri who in an excellent way fulfilled their difficult tasks.

We are grateful members of The Local Work Committee:

Valery Shaparau, Vadzim Piatrou, Mikhail Galynskii, Teresa Chyzheuskaya, Anatoly Khmialeuski, Dzenis Litskevich, Valentina Savinka, Nina Lysenko, Konstantin Babich, Alexandre Yuchko, Alexandre Seitliev, Vasilii Andreev, Sergei Son for their help in registration, transportation to the hotel, recording the talks and all technical help.

We are grateful to JINR, NAS of Belarus, National Founder for Basic Sciences, JIPNR-Sosny for financial support of this symposium and the authorities the sanatorium "Gold Sands" for the hospitality which they extended to all participants of the symposium.

The Advisory Committee: A. Bialas (Cracow), T. Csörgő (Budapest), A. Dorokhov (Dubna), I. Dremin (Moscow), K. Fialkowski (Cracow), W. Gary (Riverside), G. Gustafson (Lund), T. Hallman (Upton), Y. Hama (Sao Paulo), L. Jenkovszky (Kiev), H. Jung (DESY), W. Kittel (Nijmegen), T. Kodama (Sao Paulo), L. Liu (Wuhan), L. McLerran (Upton), P. Van Mechelen (Antwerp), V. Nikitin (Dubna), L. Sandor (Kosice), N. Schmitz (Munich), V. Simak (Prague), A. Sissakian (Dubna), H. Stocker (Frankfurt, M. Tokarev (Dubna), A. Valkarova (Prague), E. de Wolf (Antwerp), G. Wolschin (Heidelberg), N. Xu (Berkeley)

The Organizing Committee: V. Andreev (Gomel, Belarus), A. Babich (Gomel, Belarus), L. Babichev (Minsk, Belarus), V. Baryshevsky (Minsk, Belarus), S. Chubakova (Dubna, Russia) T. Gromova (Gomel, Belarus), S. Kilin (Minsk, Belarus), E. Kokoulina (Dubna, Russia, Co-Chair), Yu. Kurochkin (Minsk, Belarus), V. Kuvshinov (Minsk, Belarus, Chair), A. Kuzmin (Minsk, Belarus, Scientific secretary), N. Maksimenko (Gomel, Belarus), N. Myshkin (Gomel, Belarus), V. Nedil'ko (Minsk, Belarus), A. Pankov (Gomel, Belarus), Yu. Pleskachevskii (Minsk, Belarus), A. Rogachev (Gomel, Belarus), V. Sen'ko (Gomel, Belarus), R. Shulyakovsky (Minsk, Belarus), N. Shumeiko (Minsk, Belarus, Co-Chair), S. Timoshin (Gomel, Belarus), A. Yacobson (Gomel, Belarus)

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