We are pleased to announce the 38th Symposium on Nuclear Physics that will be held in

Cocoyoc, Mexico, January 6 9, 2015. This Symposium has been organized yearly since
1978 and provides a relaxed and informal environment to exchange ideas on research areas
related to the interests of the local groups.

Scientific

program:

The Conference program will consist of about 30 invited talks and a permanent poster
exhibition on the topics listed below:

Nuclear structure,
Nuclear reactions,
Physics with radioactive ion beams,
Hadron physics,
Nuclear astrophysics, Neutron physics,
LHC physics.

Call for abstracts:

We would like to invite all plenary speakers to complete the attendance form and submit
their abstract electronically through: http://www.nucleares.unam.mx/~snp/form.php or by
email to snp@nucleares.unam.mx before November 30th, 2014.
Those wishing to present a poster on the topics listed above, are also invited to register to
the Symposium by submitting their abstract. Authors will be notified about the acceptance
of their poster before December 15th, 2014.

Proceedings:
The Symposium proceedings will be published in IOP Journal of Physics: Conference
Series. Only invited talks will be included in the proceedings. All papers will be refereed.

Financial Support:
We regret not having funds available to support travel, lodging, and registration fee for
participants.

Students:
We offer financial support to graduate and undergraduate students registered in Mexican
Universities and working on the research topics listed above.
To apply for financial support, students are encouraged to present their work during the
poster session and also required to have a recommendation letter (written by their research
supervisor) sent to the Local Organizing Committee, no later than November 30th, 2014.

Fees:
Conference registration will be onsite only.

Method of payment
Cash or traveler's check
Debit or credit card

Participant
USD$400
USD$425

Accompanying
Person
USD$80
USD$85

This includes all meals and coffee breaks during the symposium, bus transportation from
Mexico City to Cocoyoc and back.

Venue:
The Symposium will be held in Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc http://en.hcocoyoc.com/ , a resort
in the state of Morelos (municipality of Yautepec), about 90 km (1 hr and 15 min) from the
Southern part of Mexico City.

Ground
Mexico

transportation
City :

Mexico

City

Cocoyoc

Bus transportation has been arranged on January 6th and 9th, to take the participants from
Mexico City to Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc and back (Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc to Mexico
City) at no cost.

It consists on a single run departing from Hotel Hilton Reforma (Juarez 70) at 10:00, with
two stops, one at Hotel Tulip Inn Ritz (Madero 30) and another at Sanborns San Angel
(Insurgentes Sur 2105) to pick up other participants. The arrival time at Hotel Hacienda
Cocoyoc would be around 14:00.
On January 9th the bus is scheduled to depart around 15:00

Leisure:
Besides the scientific program we are planning a guided visit to Chalcatzingo, an
archeological site near the conference hotel. Further information will be provided in the last
Circular.

Local

Organizing

Elizabeth Padilla-Rodal
Eli F. Aguilera Reyes
Andrs Sandoval Espinosa
Roelof Bijker

Committee:

ICN-UNAM
ININ
IF-UNAM
ICN-UNAM

Program Advisory Board:

Osvaldo Civitarese
Jerry P. Draayer
Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri
Paulo Gomes
Piet Van Isacker
Reiner Krcken
Jorge Lpez
Jorge Piekarewicz
Stuart Pittel
W. Michael Snow
Adam Szczepaniak
Michael Wiescher

(Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

(Louisiana State University, USA)
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
(Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
(GANIL, France)
(TRIUMF, Canada)
(The University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
(Florida State University, USA)
(University of Delaware, USA)
(Indiana University, USA)
(Indiana University, USA)
(University of Notre Dame, USA)

Correspondence:
All correspondences should be made through:
38th Symposium on Nuclear Physics
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM
Circuito Exterior de CU, S/N
Coyoacan 04510, Mexico City
phone: 525556224739 ext. 2251
email: snp@nucleares.unam.mx

URL: http://www.nucleares.unam.mx/~snp/