Italy, represented by the Italian Physical Society SIF, is special guest of honor of this DPG Spring Meeting. Italy and Germany have a long-standing tradition of successful cooperation in nuclear and hadron physics. The DPG wishes to strengthen Società Italiana di Fisica and extend the existing ties between Italian and German physicists. In the programme of the DPG Spring Meeting in Cologne, this is reflected by a number of plenary and main speakers from Italy, representing Italian-German collaborations and common endeavors.

The Italian Physical Society and the divisions Hadronic and Nuclear Physics (HK) and Mass Spectrometry (MS) of the DPG kindly invite all participants to a selection of Italian finger-foods, served on Thursday from 12:30—13:00 in the Foyer of the Physics Building.

The president of the Italian Physical Society, Prof. Dr. Angela Bracco, will give an overview of existing and future common projects on Thursday at 13:00 (PV XII) in HS 1 Physik.