QED 2000 2nd Workshop on Frontier Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics and Physics of the Vacuum 5 - 11 OCTOBER 2000 Miramare, Trieste, Italy Co-sponsored by: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste - S.I.S.S.A. Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Fisica Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - I.N.F.N. Regione Friuli - Venezia Giulia ETH - Zürich Anti-Matter Science Project of the University of Tokyo Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trieste Assicurazioni Generali DIRECTORS Emilio Zavattini Daniele Amati INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD S.L. Adler (Sandia, USA) W. Greiner (Frankfurt) T. Kinoshita (Cornell, USA) F. Kottman (ETH, Zurich) V.W. Hughes (Yale, USA) L. Maiani (CERN) E. Picasso (Pisa) J. Rafelski (Arizona) E. Remiddi (Bologna) T. Yamazaki (Tokyo) G. Zu Putlitz (Heidelberg ) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Giovanni Cantatore (Coordinator and Scientific Secretary) Dimitre Bakalov Federico Della Valle Carlo Rizzo WWW address http://www.ts.infn.it/conferences/QED2000/ The Trieste QED 2000 Workshop, second in a series, will be mainly devoted to recent results in the fields of QED, the experimental and theoretical aspects of the structure of the vacuum, the standard model and the fundamental constants. More specifically, it will concentrate on the discussion, based on current theoretical ideas, of experimental tests of QED seeking to extract information on the structure of the vacuum through precision measurements. Space will be given to the discussion of precision measurements having results from QED as their foundation, such as the study of specific bound systems and the g-2 of leptons. Finally, technical topics, originating from the presented experimental investigations, will be welcome. The purpose of the meeting, following the experience of the first workshop in the series, held in Sadanski, Bulgaria, in 1998, is to gather experimental and theoretical physicists, all active in related fields, to search for innovative ideas and open new theoretical challenges leading to improved experimental tests of QED and physics of the vacuum. MAIN TOPICS € photon-photon interactions € bound systems € heavy ions interactions € structure of the vacuum € particle physics aspects of QED € dark matter € fundamental constants The Conference is open to scientists from all countries of the world that are members of the UN, UNESCO or IAEA. Although the main purpose of the Abdus Salam ICTP is to help researchers from developing countries through a programme based on international co-operation, students and post-doctoral scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. The activity will be conducted in English. 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