6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons: Illinois Institute of Technology 28 June - 3 July 2004

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6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm
and Beauty Hadrons Illinois Institute of
Technology28 June - 3 July 2004

• Nickolas Solomey (Chairman)
• End of Conference Remarks

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This project started off as my baby 2 1/2 years
ago.

Then 10 days before the conference my wife (Anna)
and I got our first baby.
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Lisa
17 June 405 AM 8 lb. 1.6 oz 20.5 inches
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Anna Lisa
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Thanks are due to many

• Faith Kancauski
• Lillie Arias
• Homer Harwood
• Hart Wilson
• Secretarial and Organizational support

• David Ehle
• Chris Chen
• Computer Support and design

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Thanks are due to my Co-Organizers

• Howard Rubin
• Jon Rosner
• Marco Bozzo
• Calvin Kalman
• Janis McKenna
• Ilya Narodetskii
• Paul Singer

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Hosting a conference in Chicago is an expensive
affair and we had substantial funding from

• USA DOE Office of Science, P.K. Williams
• IIT College of Sciences and Letters,
  Provost A. Myerson and Dean F.R. McMorris
• Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research
  C. White
• Center for Accelerator and Particle Physics
  at IIT, D. Kaplan

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A special thanks to Prof. Nicola Cabibbo from
Univ. of Rome for being the introductory speaker.

• Prof. Cabibbo was referred to 282 times during
  the conference
• Cabibbo theory
• Cabibbo angle
• CKM matrix
• Cabibbo allowed
• Cabibbo suppressed
• etc.

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The conference was also a great success because
of the intense scientific program with all of you
presenting such great talks and new results.
83 talks 2566 minutes
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I am sure that the 7th International Conference
on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons will we be
equally great

• It will be in Lancaster England,
• 3 - 8 July 2006
• Maria Smizanska (Chairman)

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Dr. Joel Butler of Fermilab agreed to be our
summary speaker and by Friday morning, seeing how
tired he was, I was feeling bad about having
assigned him the job. We owe him our thanks, so
give him a big applause.