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) has 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.

(To locate ICISE, open a Google Earth window and just type International Center of Interdisciplinary Science Education in the Search field.)

  The Rencontres du Vietnam on
Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe
will focus on what is also called astroparticle physics. This meeting will be organized in Quy Nhon on a regular basis every 4 years, alternating with the Rencontres de Moriond meeting on the same subject. 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. Special emphasis will be placed on active participation by younger researchers and post-docs.

This will be the 14th meeting in this series of topical international multidisciplinary meetings, created by Jean Trân Thanh Vân and which has in the past covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology. All sessions take place in the newly created International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and education, in the university town of Quy Nhon, in Vietnam. Lunchs are served in the center to all participants, in order to enhance interaction between scientists at all levels.

Links to other recent meetings in this series may be found at http://vietnam.in2p3.fr

The detailed scientific programme is currently under construction; if you urgently need information which is currently not available on this site, you may contact Gérard Fontaine, at the email address: fontaine@admin.in2p3.fr

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The conference has been announced on the CERN, INSPIRE-HEP, CADC and COMS conference databases.

The main topics of the conference will include (non exhaustive list):

• Gamma Ray Astronomy
• Cosmic Rays
• Neutrino Astronomy
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Dark Matter
• Multi-messenger astronomy
  (including gravitational waves)

Joao Pedro Athayde Marcondes de Andre IPHC, Strasbourg, France	Laurent Derome LPSC, Grenoble, France	Damien Dornic CPPM, Marseille, France
Jacques Dumarchez LPNHE, Paris, France	Carmelo Evoli GSSI, L'Aquila, Italy	Gérard Fontaine LLR, Palaiseau, France
Noémie Globus Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem, Israel	Francis Halzen Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, USA	Marianne Lemoine-Goumard CENBG, Bordeaux, France
Nicolas Leroy LAL, Orsay, France	Manuel Meyer KAVLI, Stanford, USA	Robert Mochkovitch IAP, Paris, France
Emmanuel Moulin Irfu, Saclay, France	Éric Nuss LUPM, Montpellier, France	Frédéric Piron LUPM, Montpellier, France
Pablo Saz Parkinson University of Hong Kong, China	Günter Sigl ITP, Hamburg, Germany	Christian Spiering DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
Fabian Schüssler Irfu, Saclay, France	David Thompson GSFC, Greenbelt, USA	Jean Trân Thanh Vân LPT, Orsay, France

For questions regarding the scientific program contact:

Gérard Fontaine fontaine@admin.in2p3.fr

Éric Nuss eric.nuss@umontpellier.fr

For administrative information contact:

Aimie Fong Secretary of the Rencontres du Vietnam rencontres.vietnam@gmail.com BP 33 F-91192 Gif sur Yvette France Tel : 33 (0)1 69 28 51 35