Dear friends of fast protons,

Following the start of the LHC (with almost all beams in the pipe) and
some great experience during the last Aspen workshop we would like to
organize a workshop on `New Physics at the LHC'.

Our aim is to bring together young phenomenologists and
experimentalists from across the World who lead active but sometimes
small groups at their home universities and might be interested in a
forum to discuss ideas as well as techniques. To create a constructive
atmosphere and avoid a drift towards a conference we unfortunately
have to limit ourself to roughly 50 people who we think might be
interested.

The meeting will be held from
  2/23/09 - 2/26/09
at the 
  Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH) 

The workshop will start and end with lunch and we are planning to have
three talks and two scheduled discussions per day. The workshop fee
will be around 150 Euros including lunches and the workshop dinner.

We would like to ask all participants to stay for all three days, since 
the whole idea is to trigger discussions around a few scheduled events. 
Possible topics for overview talks could be

 Dark matter and missing energy - what is there apart from SUSY?
 Reconstructing masses with missing energy - crucial for dark matter?
 Jet structures in new physics and Higgs searches - can we do it?
 High-pT and flavor physics - what is reasonable and possible?
 Higher orders and jet merging - what is needed for signals and backgrounds?
 Extracting model parameters - are our techniques fit for the job? 
 Supersymmetry beyond the MSSM - new correlations or new signatures? 
 Models built to avoid LHC - how useful are they?
 Signature-based searches - how realistic and useful are they?
 
Getting to Heidelberg is easy, if you are not in train distance you
simply hop on a plane to Frankfurt and take either an airport bus or
the train to Heidelberg. If you would like to extend your stay in
Europe we will try our best to coordinate with other places. If this
first meeting should be fun and a success we would like to make this
group into a frequent LHC working group and meet again in other pretty 
places.

If you just send us an email we will reserve one of the places for you 
and will contact you with more details soon. Some not yet public
information on the workshop you can find under 
  www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~tplehn/npf09

We are very much looking forward to hopefully seeing all of you in 
Heidelberg in February and would like to apologize in advance for the weather

Mihoko Nojiri, Tilman Plehn, Tim Tait and John Terning