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Second circular of SOKENDAI-UST Asia Winter School (SAWS) 2019:
"Star and Planet Formation: Key Questions and Challenges"
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Title: SOKENDAI-UST Asia Winter School (SAWS) 2019
Star and Planet Formation: Key Questions and Challenges
Web site: https://guas-astronomy.jp/eng/Applicants/winter2018.html
Date: February 27 to March 1, 2019
- Lecture; 1.5 days
- Group discussion; 0.5 days in daytime (+ extra nighttime)
- Presentation; 0.5 days
Venue: Headquarters of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,
Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan (https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/access/mitaka/)
Official language: English
Candidate Lecturers and topics:
- Observations of forming planets; Jun Hashimoto (ABC/NAOJ)
- Theory of planet formation: Eiichiro Kokubo (NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Yasunori Hori (ABC/NAOJ)
- Brown dwarf, IMF/CMF: Motohide Tamura (Univ. Tokyo/ABC/NAOJ)
- First core: Kengo Tomida (Osaka Univ.)
- Low-mass star-formation, outflow/jet: Naomi Hirano (ASIAA)
- Dust and polarization: Akimasa Kataoka (NAOJ/SOKENDAI)
- High-mass star-formation: Kee-Tae Kim (KASI/UST)
- First stars and metal/dust production in the Era of Reionization:
Akio Inoue (Osaka Sangyo Univ.)
- Astrochemistry and astrobiology: Hideko Nomura (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
- Future projects: Masao Saito (NAOJ/SOKENDAI), Paul T. P. Ho (EAO)
Format:
- Lecturers will review each topic and give key questions.
Key scientific papers will be provided to students.
- Students will be divided into small groups to discuss each key
question based on the papers, under supervision by lecturers
and additional tutors.
- We would like to ask lecturers to help discussion if they
are available. We will also ask local staff to help as tutors.
- The results of discussion will be presented in the last session.
Call for applicants:
About 40-50 will be accepted mainly from the MS/PhD students studying
in mainly East Asian region, and travel and hotel expenses are supported
(or offered) for students selected by SOC from SOKENDAI or UST.
If you wish to attend SAWS2019, please download and complete the
application from (https://guas-astronomy.jp/eng/Applicants/winter2018data/applicationform.doc) and the letter of recommendation
by the supervisor (https://guas-astronomy.jp/eng/Applicants/winter2018data/recommendation.doc),
and send these two files to saws2019-loc_at_nao.ac.jp.
Please do not forget to ask your supervisor for the recommendation
letter on your attendance to the winter school. This is mandatory.
The submission deadline of both two files are the same:
*** November 19 Monday, JST17:00 (UT08:00) ***.
Financial support:
SOKENDAI or UST will partially support travel cost for attendees
if they request. The support will be fixed amount of up to
JPY40,000 (for those from Japan) and JPY60,000 (for those from
foreign countries) for each. Please note that the financial support
is subject to change.
Further details will be announced to the successful applicants.
Registration form:
https://guas-astronomy.jp/eng/Applicants/winter2018data/applicationform.doc
Letter of recommendation:
https://guas-astronomy.jp/eng/Applicants/winter2018data/recommendation.doc
Accommodation:
We will reserve some rooms in Cosmos Kaikan (NAOJ guest house) and
Hotel Mets Musashi-sakai (near Musashi-sakai train station).
Please be aware that the end of February is the busy season because
of the entrance examination of nearby universities.
Future schedule:
- 2018 Oct. 1: 1st circular
- 2018 Oct. 20: 2nd circular, start of registration
- 2018 Nov. 19: deadline of registration
- 2018 Nov. late: announcements to successful applicants
- 2018 Dec. early: booking of accommodation
- 2018 Dec. late: 3rd circular
- 2019 Feb. early: final circular
- 2019 Feb. 27: start of SAWS2019
Sponsor: SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
UST (University of Science & Technology, Korea)
Partial financial supports to students will be available.
SOC: Ryohei Kawabe (Chair, NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Masahiko Hayashi (NAOJ/SOKEDAI),
Jongsoo Kim (KASI/UST),
Eiichiro Kokubo (NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Nagayoshi Ohashi (NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Motohide Tamura(Univ. Tokyo/ABC/NAOJ),
Koji Tomisaka (NAOJ/SOKENDAI)
LOC: Tomoya Hirota (Chair, NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Yutaka Hayano (NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Saeko Hayashi (NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Fumitaka Nakamura (NAOJ/SOKENDAI),
Takashi Tsukagoshi (NAOJ/SOKENDAI)
Contact: saws2019-loc_at_nao.ac.jp
