From orr@physics.utoronto.ca Sun May 21 19:46:10 2006
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 04:40:12 -0400
From: Robert S. Orr <orr@physics.utoronto.ca>
To: kotwal@phy.duke.edu
Cc: william@physics.utoronto.ca, Robert S. Orr <orr@physics.utoronto.ca>
Subject: 2009 HCP Symposium


Dear Ashutosh:
                       Peter Jenni recently distributed your call for
proposals to host HCP2009. I discussed this with colleagues in the 
University of Toronto particle physics group and we enthusiastically agreed 
to propose that HCP2009 be hosted by the University of Toronto. I notice 
that HCP2007
will be in Pisa and HCP2008 at CERN. So, it seems natural to us that 2009
should be in North America.

The enthusiasm we have for hosting this meeting stems mainly from the fact
that hadron collider physics is central to the work of our group. We have
been long standing members of both CDF and ATLAS, and we believe that there
will be many exciting results from the field at the end of this decade. Our 
Department also has a strong theory group who will support this proposal.

We are confident that we have the resources to host such a meeting. Pekka
Sinervo, Pierre Savard,  David Baily and Richard Teuscher have expressed
willingness to work on this. William Trischuk and myself are willing to make
it our main activity in the necessary timescale. We would expect to have
practical support from the staff of the University and the Department. In
terms of financial support we would solicit that from the University of 
Toronto, the Faculty
of Arts & Science, The Institute of Particle Physics of Canada, TRIUMF, the 
National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and
perhaps industrial sponsors. We are confident that we would come up
with the necessary support.

Recently, our Department hosted both Strings2005 and the 2nd North American
ATLAS Physics Workshop. Both of these meetings were successful; we regard
them as existence proofs that we can take on this task. Apart from the
science program, we believe that participants found Toronto an interesting
and congenial place to have a conference.

I understand that William Trischuk is on the International Advisory 
Committee, and will attend the symposium. I am sure that he would be glad to 
discuss this proposal with you.

                     Sincerely,
                                      Robert S. Orr