FPCP_2003, Flavor Physics and CP Violation, is the second in a series of conferences, the first one in 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, USA (http://www.hep.upenn.edu/FPCP/). The third will be held in 2004 in South Korea. FPCP came about as the result of the merging of two major high-energy physics events, the annual Heavy Flavor Physics Conference (founded by Klaus Schubert) and the biannual International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation (founded by A.I. (Tony) Sanda).

FPCP_2003 will be held June 3rd - 6th, 2003 on the former campus of Ecole Polytechnique, in the heart of the "Quartier Latin", in Paris, France and is open to all experimental and theoretical physicists interested in the field. The "Carré des Sciences" organization, located on the Descartes site within the Ministry of Research and Technology, will host the Conference. You will find the entrance at 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement.

The Conference has an all-plenary format. Poster submissions are encouraged and related questions and discussion will take place during the breaks. Additionally, if you would like to contribute a paper to FPCP_2003, please send it in postscript or pdf format to the Conference Staff (fpcp2003@in2p3.fr). You may also send the URL address of the paper so that we can place a link to it on our web site. Please refer to Bulletin#1 for more detailed information.

Conference sessions will be held in the Poincaré Amphitheatre and the Poster exhibits will be in a separate room, called "La Rotonde". Coffee breaks will take place in an adjacent hall. In addition, sit-down luncheons will be served on site to allow for Conference flow.

Close to the Conference Center (2 minutes walking distance) is the Paris' Panthéon whose crypt contains the remains of many "Grands Hommes" like Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie, as well as Rousseau, Voltaire, and Victor Hugo. In 1851, the French astronomer, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault installed a 67m long pendulum under the dome of the Panthéon. As we all know, this wonderfully simple and ingenious experiment triggered, all over the world, an enormous amount of literature (scientific and otherwise) together with many related experiments. In 1995, the 28 kg iron sphere of the original Foucault's pendulum (seen on the FPCP_ 2003 Poster) was reinstalled in the Panthéon where it can be viewed everyday from 10:00am till 6:00pm.