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c Societ` aItalianadiFisica/Springer-Verlag2007 The IX International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP 2006) was held in Mainz (Germany) from October 10 to 14, 2006. The conference was jointly organized by the Gesellschaft fur ¨ Schwerion- forschung (GSI), Darmstadt and the Institut fur ¨ Kernphysik, Mainz. It was hosted by the Johannes-Gutenberg- Universit¨ atMainz. Thiswasthe9thconferenceinaseriesthatwasstartedbyBogdanPovhin1982inHeidelberg,andwasfollowedby meetingsinUpton(NewYork)1985,Padova(Italy)1988,Shimoda(Japan)1991,Vancouver(Canada)1994,Upton (New York) 1997, Torino (Italy) 2000 and Newport News (Virginia) 2003. The scienti?c program of the conference was based on the advice and the comments from the members of the International Advisory Committee. It took account of the developments during the past few years and the perspectives for the near future. Like its previous editions, HYP 2006includedsubjectsrelevantbothtohigh-energyandhadronphysicsaswellastonuclearphysics. Besidestraditionalthemeslikestructure,spectroscopyandweakdecaysofhypernuclei,aparticularfocusofthepresent meetingwasonthepropertiesofstrangemesonsandtheirbindinginnuclearsystems.Anumberoftalksalsodiscussed recent?eld-theoreticalapproachestohypernucleiaimingataconnectionbetweenQCDandnuclei. HYP 2006 brought together about 180 scientists from 17 nations presenting 52 invited plenary talks and 52 parallel contributions. A poster session covering 36 contributions was also organized. During the conference we had twospecialinvitedtalksbyD.H.DavisandAvrahamGal,payingatributetothememoryofProf.RichardH.Dalitz, an outstanding and active member of the hypernucleus community and a member of the International Advisory Committeeofthisconferenceseries,deceasedatthebeginningof2006. A most important feature of the conference was the participation of a large number of young physicists, both amongtheparticipantsandthespeakers.Theseproceedings,containingwriteupsofmostofthesepresentations,will hopefullybeapermanentrecordoftheprogresstodateandchallengesremaininginthestrangenuclearsystems. On behalf of the Organizing Committee we would like to thank all participants for coming to Mainz, for the contributionstheygavetothemeetingandfortheexcitedandfruitfuldiscussions.Oursinceregratitudetothemembers oftheInternationalAdvisoryCommitteefortheirinvaluablehelpinshapingtheprogramandtothemembersofthe LocalOrganizingCommitteeisalsoacknowledged.Wearedeeplyindebtedtotheconferencesecretaries,I.Andres,P. BischofandS.Fischer.Withouttheirprofessionalhelpanddedication,thisconferencecouldnothavebeenasuccess. We gratefully acknowledge ?nancial support from GSI, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the state of Rheinland-Pfalz.

Experimental nuclear and elementary particle physics --- Elementary particles --- Nuclear physics --- elementaire deeltjes --- quarks --- deeltjesfysica --- kwantumleer --- kernenergie

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