The 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons-NSTAR2011
May 17-20, 2011
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, Virginia USA
 http://conferences.jlab.org/nstar2011/index.html

The 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons -NSTAR2011 
will take place at Jefferson Laboratory from 17th to 20th May, 2011.

The excitation spectrum of the nucleon provides a powerful theatre in 
which to hone our understanding of QCD in the strong-coupling regime.  
Thus there are major experimental, theoretical and computational 
efforts that aim to explore both the spectrum and the structure 
of excited nucleons.   Dedicated experimental programs exist to 
perform accurate measurements of meson photo- and electro-production 
off the nucleon in order to discover its excitations, and determine 
its internal structure.  QCD-inspired models and Schwinger-Dyson 
solutions of QCD aim to identify the key degrees of freedom 
describing the nucleon, while lattice QCD strives to provide 
first principles calculations of a precision that can confront 
experiment.  The purpose of this workshop is to present the 
latest results in each of these areas, and explore how together 
they can build a picture of nucleon excitations and the nature 
of QCD in the low-energy regime.

  The program will comprise a series of invited plenary 
talks, together with contributed parallel sessions and 
a poster session.  The topics will include:

    * New results on pseudoscalar and vector meson production
    * "Complete" experimental determinations of meson-production amplitudes
    * Reaction models, PWA and resonance parameters
    * Baryon resonance structure and quark models
    * Baryon structure at short and long distances
    * Dynamical models and coupled channel analysis
    * Dyson-Schwinger approaches to baryon resonances
    * Baryon resonances in lattice QCD
    * Baryon resonances in holographic QCD
    * Chiral symmetry and baryon resonances
    * Laboratory reports and future projects

Website: http://conferences.jlab.org/nstar2011/index.html
For general inquiries: nstar2011_loc@jlab.org

Local Organizing Committee:
V. Burkert (Chair)
J.-P Chen
L. Elouadrhiri
M. Jones
T.-S. H. Lee
V. Mokeev
M. Pennington
D. Richards
A. Sandorfi