Our friend and colleague Jan Stern very sadly passed away in July 2008. It is a very big loss for the whole community. Indeed his enthusiasm, his scientific rigor and his profound culture made of him a remarkable physicist. This colloquium aims at paying a tribute to him. Some of the subjects he was very much interested in will be discussed.

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Invited speakers Damir Becirevic (LPT, Orsay) Giancarlo d'Ambrosio (Naples) Eduardo de Rafael (CPT, Marseille) Pierre Fayet (ENS, Paris) Juerg Gasser (Bern) Jean Iliopoulos (ENS, Paris) Heinrich Leutwyler (Bern) Ulf Meissner (Bonn/Juelich) Peter Minkowski (Bern) Antonio Pich (Valencia, Spain) Patrick Roudeau (LAL, Orsay) Mikhail Shifman (Minnesota, USA) Andrei Smilga (Subatech, Nantes) Jose Wudka (Riverside, USA)

Organizers Véronique Bernard (IPN, Orsay) Sébastien Descotes-Genon (LPT, Orsay) Marc Knecht (CPT, Marseille) Bachir Moussallam (IPN, Orsay) Hagop Sazdjian (IPN, Orsay) Secretaries Valérie Frois (IPN, Orsay) Nathalie Escoubeirou (IPN, Orsay) Jocelyne Puech (LPT, Orsay) e-mail: confjstern@ipno.in2p3.fr