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1st circular on "East-Asia AGN Workshop 2013"
20-23 August 2013, Sapporo
http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/20130312agnw/

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It is our pleasure to announce that we are organizing a workshop
entitled "East-Asia AGN Workshop 2013" on 20th-23rd August 2013
in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. This is the second opportunity for
East Asian collaborations in the AGN field. The first workshop,
held in September 2012 at Jeju island, South Korea, was very
successful with ~40 participants from China, Korea, and Japan.
The workshop provided a stimulating forum for presenting and
discussing new results and ideas on various topics related to AGN
research, ranging from black holes, AGN physics, evolution, to
AGN surveys, etc.

This series of meetings is aimed at fostering close collaborations
among AGN researchers in East Asian countries. Thanks to the short
distances between countries in East Asia among these countries,
there are promising possibilities of fruitful collaborations.
Fostering these collaborative activities at the current stage is
extremely important as we enter the era of large international
projects, including TMT and GMT. Based on feedback from the
participants of the previous Jeju workshop, this workshop will put
special emphasis on initiating collaborative work. For this
purpose, this workshop consists of a "conference" part in the 1st
half and a "working time" part in the 2nd half. Note that you do
not have to attend both parts; you can attend only the 1st part,
or only the 2nd part, or both, depending on your interests and
schedule. We will limit the number of participants to ~50 to
ensure close interaction among participants. Further details will
be announced in the 2nd circular that will be distributed later.

The conference will be held in the center of Sapporo, the biggest
city on the Hokkaido island in Japan. As you may know, the high
summer temperatures and humidity in Japan are somewhat tough to
endure --- except for Hokkaido. Hokkaido is a nice comfortable
urban city, and many tourists visit Sapporo to enjoy the cooler
climate of Hokkaido. We would strongly encourage you to keep your
schedule available during this period!


Date and Place:
  -- 20th - 23rd August 2013
  -- Hotel Bluewave Inn Sapporo (Hokkaido, Japan)
  -- http://www.orixhotels.jp/eng/bw/hotels/sapporo/index.html

Important Dates (not yet fixed):
  -- 17 Mar: 1st circular
  -- 30 Apr: 2nd circular
  -- 31 May: registration deadline
  -- 20 Aug: opening the conference

  NOTE: Please start your required preparations far earlier than
  the registration deadline, if you need a visa to enter Japan.
  We strongly encourage you to register as soon as possible after
  the 2nd circular distribution, for avoiding any troubles
  related to the visa issue.

Science Organizing Committee:
  -- Nobunari Kashikawa (NAOJ)
  -- Nozomu Kawakatsu (Tsukuba)
  -- Tohru Nagao (Kyoto)
  -- Jonghak Woo (SNU)
  -- Weimin Yuan (NAOC)

Local Organizing Committee:
  -- Kenta Matsuoka (SNU)
  -- Tohru Nagao (Chair, Kyoto)
  -- Jaejin Shin (SNU)
  -- Alexander Wagner (Tsukuba)

Contact:
  -- Tohru Nagao (tohru@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp): LOC chair





Tohru Nagao
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku,Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
tel: +81-75-753-3691    /    fax: +81-75-753-3897
mail: tohru@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
web: http://www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/eng/