A Workshop on NUCLEI and MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS will be held at National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 23-26, 2004.

The goal of the Workshop is to open the way for exchange of ideas between physicists working in different areas of quantum physics but studying the objects of mesoscopic nature which reveal important generic features and allow for similar approaches. Among these objects are complex nuclei, atoms and molecules, nanoscale condensed matter systems, atomic clusters, atoms in traps, prototypes of quantum computers etc. There are also exciting analogies in particle physics, astrophysics and even "econophysics".

The format of the Workshop will be defined by 40-45 min presentations and sufficient time for cross-fertilizing discussions.

The topics will include:

Many-body quantum theory
Shells and supershells
Halos and Efimov states
Open mesoscopic systems
Quantum chaos
Phase transitions
Collective phenomena
Superfluidity and superconductivity
Dissipation and decoherence
Fundamental symmetries in mesoscopic systems

A preliminary list of speakers includes: S. Aberg (Lund), Y. Alhassid (Yale) , B. Altschuler (Princeton), W. Bauer (MSU), O. Bohigas (Orsay), P. von Brentano (Cologne), R. Broglia (Milan), B. Barrett (Tucson), J. Carlson (Los Alamos), P. Cejnar (Prague), D. Ceperley (Urbana), A. Chang (Duke), D. Dean (Oak Ridge), M. Dykman (MSU), D. Fedorov (Aarhus), V. Flambaum (Sydney), T. Guhr (Lund), H.-J. Hammer (Seattle), M. Hjorth-Jensen (Oslo), M. Hussein (Sao Paulo), F. Iachello (Yale), F. Izrailev (Puebla), C. Marcus (Harvard), B. Mottelson (NORDITA), T. Otsuka (Tokyo), T. Papenbrock (Oak Ridge), P. Piecuch (MSU), S. Pittel (Bartol), S. Reimann (Lund), A. Richter (Darmstadt), J. Schiffer (Argonne), E. Shuryak (Stony Brook), V. Sokolov (Komo),  D. Tomanek (MSU), A. Volya (Florida State).

Local organizing Committee: Wolfgang Bauer, B. Alex Brown, Piotr Piecuch and Vladimir Zelevinsky; secretary Shari Conroy. Program advise has been given by H. Baranger (Duke), G. Bertsch (Seattle), G. Mitchell (TUNL), H.A. Weidenmueller (Heidelberg) and by many of the speakers.

The registration fee of $100 is established that can be paid at registration. It includes reception and coffee breaks. The block of rooms and suites is reserved for the participants in Town Place Suits, next to the MSU campus. The participants are asked to register with the hotel. Their telephone number is (517) 203-1000. You immediately get put into a voice mail system, but you can just hit "0" (zero) to reach a person who can make a reservation for you.

The Group name is "Mesoscopic Workshop" our group code is MES. Rate for a studio suite is $59 plus taxes (1 queen bed); rate for a two bedroom is $79 plus taxes; our block of rooms expires on Sept. 15, 2005. After you  register please notify Shari Conroy,

conroy@nscl.msu.edu, phone (517) 333-6333,

Additional information will be given in the second announcement.

Please inform your colleagues about the Workshop. All correspondence concerning the Workshop can be sent to Prof. Vladimir Zelevinsky, e-mail "zelevinsky@nscl.msu.edu", phone (517)333-6331, or to Shari Conroy.