FIRST CIRCULAR
                        
  LOWq-03: 2nd Workshop on Electromagnetic Nuclear Reactions at 
           Low Momentum Transfer
        
         Thursday July 17 - Friday July 18, 2003
         Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
                           Canada
                           
     Jointly sponsored by Saint Mary's University
			  Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
                          MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center

                 http://www.ap.smu.ca/LOWq03/ 
                 
The renewed opportunities for precision measurements in 
nuclear systems at low-momentum transfer was the topic of a
successful Workshop in the summer of 2001.  Focus was 
directed toward chiral perturbation theory, effective field 
theories, and improved phenomenology in potential models  - all
which allow for the possibility of precision tests, and
model-independent extraction of nucleon and nuclear
properties associated with electroweak physics.  

Following the enthusiasm generated by this first "LOWq Workshop"
in 2001, we are organising this a 2nd Workshop ("LOWq-03")
with an emphasis on precision measurements with electromagnetic 
probes, with each session providing for ample discussion and 
interaction between theory and experiment.

Sessions will focus on:

Proton Properties    (convenor TBA)
Neutron Properties   (convened by Haiyan Gao, Duke/MIT)
Few-Body Physics     (convened by Walter Gloeckle, Bochum)
Nuclear Astrophysics (convenor TBA)

(The international advisory committee is listed on the Web Page.)

Sessions will consist of a few invited talks, a couple of contributed
talks, and a lot of discussion.  Emailed submissions of contributed
abstracts (up to 1 page, postscript of PDF format, to sarty@ap.smu.ca)
will be accepted; some contributions will be accepted for the oral 
presentations, and some for poster presentation.

Registration will be available from our Website.
Updates of this circular, along with a detailed program, and other information
on the meeting will be posted at the Website as well ( www.ap.smu.ca/LOWq03 ).

As well as the workshop, Nova Scotia is a wonderful tourist
destination, especially in summer - should you wish to bring 
family along, or even take a break yourself around the time
of the workshop.

With regards from the organizers,

Henry Weller   (weller@tunl.duke.edu, phone: 919-660-2633)
Adam Sarty     (sarty@ap.smu.ca,      phone: 902-420-5664)