Preface: MENU-2019, the 15th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon

Abstract

MeNu2013, the 13th International Conference on “Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon” (http://menu2013.roma2.infn.it) was held in Rome (Italy) from September 30th to October 4th 2013. The Conference belongs to a series started in Karlsruhe, Germany (1983) and continued in Los Alamos, USA (1987), Gatchina/Leningrad, Russia (1989), Bad Honnef, Germany (1991), Boulder, USA (1993), Blaubeuren, Germany (1995), Vancouver, Canada (1997), Zuoz, Switzerland (1999), Washington DC, USA (2001), Beijing, China (2004), Juelich, Germany (2007), and Williamsburg, USA (2010). More than 200 physicists, both experimental and theoretical, convened from all over the world with the aim of exchanging expertise and confronting different approaches to the study of quark confinement and to the understanding of how hadrons are formed of quarks and gluons in a quantitative way. The Conference featured invited as well as contributed talks, with morning plenary sessions and afternoon parallel sessions, covering the following topics: ∗ Hadron Spectroscopy ∗ Nucleon Structure ∗ Few-Body Systems ∗ Meson-Nucleon Interactions ∗ Electro-weak Probes and Fundamental Symmetries ∗ New Trends in Theory ∗ Future Facilities and Directions.