The Symposium will be devoted to the investigation of nuclei in extreme states and, in particular, at the limits of nuclear stability (from very light neutron- and proton-rich up to superheavy nuclei). The Topics to be discussed are:

• Methods of production of light exotic nuclei and study of their properties
• Superheavy elements. Synthesis and properties
• Rare processes and decays
• Radioactive beams. Production and research program
• Experimental set-ups and future projects

The programme will include oral and poster presentations of contributed papers. It is expected that during the Symposium there will be enough time for informal meetings at which one can discuss future prospects of mutual collaboration the efforts of different scientific centers for performing joint investigations.

The Symposium will start in the afternoon of Monday, 1 October and finish in the afternoon of Saturday, 6 October 2012.  All details will be given in the web-page http://exon2012.jinr.ru.

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The second circular will be issued in January 2012.

CO-CHAIRMEN: S. Galès (GANIL, Caen) K. Gelbke (MSU, Michigan) En’yo (RIKEN, Wako-shi) Yu. Oganessian (JINR, Dubna) H. Stöcker (GSI, Darmstadt)	INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: F. Azaiez (IPN, Orsay) D. Guillemaud-Mueller (IN2P3, Paris) S. Hofmann (GSI, Darmstadt) T. Uesaka (RIKEN, Wako-shi) S. Kubono (CNSU, Tokyo) M. Lewitowicz (GANIL, Caen) V. Miklushevskiy (FEFU, Vladivostok) W.H. Trzaska (JYU, Jyväskylä)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Yu. Penionzhkevich (Chairman) Yu. Sobolev (Scientific secretary) B. Reznik (FEFU, Vladivostok) D. Kamanin (JINR, Dubna) V. Ivanshin (JINR, Dubna) E. Kuznetsova (JINR, Dubna) V. Maslov (JINR, Dubna) Yu. Sereda (JINR, Dubna) e-mail: exon2012@jinr.ru