The VIII Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF-2012) will be held from September 10 to 14, 2012, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The WPCF-2012 continues the tradition of bringing together experts in experimental and theoretical aspects of measuring source characteristics in high-energy collisions through particle short- and long-range correlations and fluctuations.

The workshop will cover the problems of the evolution of quark/hadronic matter formed in high-energy collisions and of the methods to extract the information on this evolution by the analysis of data on final state particles.

Topics:

• 1. First observations at the LHC: Theory & Experiment
  (conveners: Dariusz Miskowiec, Edward Sarkisyan-Grinbaum)
• 2. New results from RHIC-BES and SPS
  (conveners: Mike Lisa, Marek Gazdzicki)
• 3. LQCD results on correlations and kurtosis
  (conveners: Zoltan Fodor, Hans Georg Ritter)
• 4. Fluctuation in initial conditions (v3, ridges, etc.)
  (conveners: Yogiro Hama, Takeshi Kodama)
• 5. Femtoscopy with penetrating probes
  (convener: Yuri Sinyukov)
• 6. Imaging (beyond Gaussian source): extracting detailed size and shape information
  (conveners: Tamas Csorgo, Scott Pratt, Pavel Danielewicz)
• 7. Collective flow (including pp collisions at LHC)
  (conveners: Roy Lacey, Raimond Snellings)
• 8. Chiral magnetic effects/local parity violation
  (convener: Sergei Voloshin)
• 9. Jet Correlations (2 or 3 particle correlations, azimuthal angle dependence)
  (convener: ShinIchi Esumi)
• 10. Perspectives for FAIR and NICA
  (conveners: Harald Appelshaeuser, Richard Lednicky)

The venue of Workshop will be at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.