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XVI Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics (D-SPIN2015)
doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/678/1/011001pmid: N/A
Dear Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of the Directorate of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research(JINR) it is a pleasure for me to welcome you here to Dubna for the 16th InternationalWorkshop on High Energy Spin Physics. It provides an opportunity to present and discuss thenews accumulated during last year. Another important feature of this series of workshops hasalways been the participation of a large number of physicists from the former Soviet Union andEastern European countries, for which long trips have previously been limited by financial(and earlier also by bureaucratic) reasons. It thus represents an important addition to theseries of large International Symposia on spin physics held in even-numbered years in differentcountries, including the Symposium held in Dubna in 2012.JINR has a long-lasting tradition of experimental and theoretical studies of spin phenomena. The workshops on high energy spin physics started in Dubna in 1981 due to the initiative of L. Lapidus, an outstanding theoretical physicist. Since then, these meetings have been held in Dubna in every odd year and have become regular thanks to Anatoly Vasilievich Efremov, the chairman for many years.Recent years have brought a lot of new experimental results, and above all the discovery anddetermination of quantum characteristics of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.