The construction of the Agua Negra tunnel under the Andes Mountains

between Argentina and Chile gives the scientific community a unique

opportunity to build ANDES (Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site): an

Underground Laboratory inside the tunnel at its deepest point.

This site will be 1750 m deep under the Earth surface, and it will be the

first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The planning of  ANDES  is

expected to be finished by mid 2011, before the excavation of the tunnel

begins. The completion of the Agua Negra tunnel and the underground lab

ANDES is expected to be in 2018.

The Third International Workshop for the Design of the ANDES Underground

Laboratory follows the workshops held in April 2011 (Argentina) and June

2011 (Brazil) , and it is a call to the Particle and Astroparticle Physics

community, specially the community in Latin America, to participate in the

future planning and use of this international facility. Registration Fee $100 USD.