Since 1993 the Rencontres du Vietnam , which is an official partner of UNESCO, has organised international scientific conferences and schools to foster exchanges between Vietnamese or Asia-Pacific scientists and colleagues from other parts of the world.

The construction of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in the city of Quy Nhon (Central Vietnam) will have the ambitious objective to focus on developing Science and Education, helping young Asian students and scientists to meet with the International Science community, bringing the opportunity to accelerate their knowledge from attending lectures and sharing ideas with overseas high-level counterparts.

  The Inaugural Conference of the ICISE on
Windows on the Universe
will review the most recent status of Particle Physics, Astroparticle and Cosmology. The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited indepth oral presentations (review talks and talks on specific specialised topics), and contributed papers, in the form of relatively short oral papers - in parallel sessions - or posters. Special emphasis is being placed on active participation by young researchers and post-docs.

The main topics of the conference are:

• Particle Physics
• Production and Properties of the Higgs Boson
• Searches for New Physics
• Phenomenology of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Production and Properties of the Heavy Quarks
• Studies of Electroweak and QCD physics
• Latest Results from Heavy Ion Collisions
• Recent Results from the Intensity Frontier
• Neutrino Physics from the Laboratory
• Future Facilities (Accelerators)
• AstroParticle Physics and Cosmology
• Gamma-Ray Astronomy : Ground-Based and Satellite Experiments
• Cosmic Rays : Ground-Based and Satellite Experiments
• Multi Messenger Astronomy (Neutrinos, CR and GW)
• Dark Energy and Dark Matter
• The Cosmic Background Radiation
• The Early Universe
• Large Scale Structures
• Future Facilities (Satellites and Telescopes)

The conference will include both invited and contributed talks and will be organized in plenary and parallel sessions (one day)

Ministry of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam

Rencontres du Vietnam Gif sur Yvette, France

Trân Viêt Thanh Ministry of Science and Technology Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyên van Hiêu Institute of Physics Hanoi, Vietnam

Trân Thanh Vân Rencontres du Vietnam Gif sur Yvette, France

James Cronin University of Chicago, USA	Jerome Friedman MIT, Cambridge, USA	Sheldon Glashow Boston University, Boston, USA
David Gross Univ. California, Santa Barbara, USA	Martin Perl Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Carlo Rubbia CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
George Smoot University Diderot, Paris, France	Jack Steinberger CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Samuel Ting MIT, Cambridge, USA
Guido Altarelli CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Jean Audouze IAP, Paris, France	Etienne Augé Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Patrick Aurenche LAPP, Annecy, France	Barry Barish Caltech, Pasadena, USA	Ursula Bassler Irfu-SPP, Saclay, France
Pierre Binetruy APC, Paris, France	Philippe Bloch CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Catherine Cesarsky IRFU, Saclay, France
Swee-Ping Chia Univ. of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur	Michael Danilov ITEP, Moscow, Russia	Pierre Darriulat INST, Hanoi, Vietnam
François Englert Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium	Jie Gao IHEP, Beijing, R.P. China	Belen Gavela Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain
Xiao-Gang He NCTS, Hsinchu, Taiwan, China	Werner Hofmann MPIK, Heidelberg, Germany	Jean Iliopoulos ENS, Paris, France
Xiangdong Ji Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, R.P. China	Stavros Katsanevas CNRS, Paris, France	Jane Luu MIT, Cambridge, USA
Shih Chang Lee Academia Sinica, Taipeh, Taiwan, China	Luciano Maiani Univ. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy	Guido Martinelli SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Victor Matveev JINR, Dubna, Russia	Peter Michelson Stanford University, Stanford, USA	Dong-Pil Min KISTI, Seoul, Korea
Thierry Montmerle IAP, Paris, France	Shoji Nagamiya J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan	Kok Khoo Phua Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore
Stefano Ragazzi LNGS, L'Aquila, Italy	Valery Rubakov INP, Moscow, Russia	Lisa Randall Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Yoshimitsu Shimizu KEK, Tsukuba, Japan	Mel Shochet University of Chicago, USA	Michel Spiro CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Achille Stocchi LAL, Orsay, France	Trinh Xuân Thuân Univ. Virginia, Charlottesville, USA	Michael Turner University of Chicago, USA
Henry Tye IAS, Hongkong University, R.P. China	Ahpisit Ungkitchanukit Chulalongkorn University, Thailand	Laurent Vigroux IAP, Paris, France
Yi Fang Wang IHEP, Beijing, R.P. China

Boaz Klima Fermilab, Batavia, USA	Gérard Fontaine LLR, Palaiseau, France	Chung I Tan Brown Univ., Providence, USA
Hiro Aihara IPMU, Tokyo, Japan	Ludwik Celnikier Observatoire, Meudon, France	Gabriel Chardin IN2P3, Paris, France
Dam Thanh Son University of Chicago, USA	Jacques Dumarchez LPNHE, Paris, France	Gilles Gerbier CEA, Saclay, France
Berrie Giebels LLR, Palaiseau, France	Yannick Giraud-Héraud APC, Paris, France	Christophe Grojean CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Karl Jakobs University of Freiburg, Germany	Rocky Kolb University of Chicago, USA	Manel Martinez IFAE, Barcelona, Spain
Meenakshi Narain Brown Univ., Providence, USA	Nguyen Trong Hien JPL Caltech, Pasadena, USA	Reynald Pain LPNHE, Paris, France
Monica Pepe-Altarelli CERN, Geneva, Switzerland	Pham Quang Hung Univ. Virginia, Charlottesville, USA	Bolek Pietrzyk LAPP, Annecy, France
Sylvie Rosier-Lees LAPP, Annecy, France	Joe Silk IAP, Paris, France	Christian Stegmann DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
David Thompson NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, USA

Chia-Chu Chen National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan, China	Le Duc Ninh KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany, Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam	Nguyen Quynh Lan Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Hong Van Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam	Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong University of Quy Nhon, Vietnam	Pham Ngoc Diep INST, Hanoi, Vietnam
Phan Bao Ngoc Ho Chi Minh International University, Vietnam	Tran Huong Lan LAL, Orsay, France	Tran Minh Hieu Hanoi Univ. of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Tran Ngoc Tiem Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam

For questions regarding the scientific program contact:

Boaz Klima for Particle Physics klima@fnal.gov

or

Gérard Fontaine for Astrophysics and Cosmology fontaine@admin.in2p3.fr

For administrative information contact:

Hady Schenten Secretary of the Rencontres du Vietnam hady.schenten@yahoo.com BP 33 F-91192 Gif sur Yvette France Tel : 33 (0)1 69 28 51 35