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First Circular
 
The 7th Korean Astrophysics Workshop on “Dynamics of Disk Galaxies”, October 21-24, 2013, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Web Page: http://astro.snu.ac.kr/dg2013/
 
Scientific Rationale
Disk galaxies exhibit a variety of structures on various scales. On large scales, global spiral patters wind out from the central parts to almost the outer edge of an optical disk. Often, the inner ends of spiral arms are connected to a bar that extends to both sides of the nucleus. On small scales, interarm spurs, feathers, arm branchings and segments are in close geometrical association with spiral arms, while inner rings, dust-lane shocks, nuclear rings, and nuclear spirals are associated with bars. While a significant progress has been made over past sixty years in our understanding of these structures, there still remain many unsolved issues regarding the patterns in disks and other related processes, which are important to understand disk dynamics. The main topics to be addressed are structures of disks, bulges, and bars, formation and maintenance of patterns, secular evolution of galaxies driven by bars/spiral arms, substructure formation of bars/spiral arms, dynamical modeling, pattern speeds and pitch angle determinations, gaseous component, and the Milky Way Galaxy.
We call for contributed talks and posters. We encourage you to register at your earliest convenience through the meeting web page,
http://astro.snu.ac.kr/dg2013/
The accommodation and travel information is also provided on the meeting web site.
 
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Hong Bae Ann (PNU, Korea), Lia Athanassoula (OAMP, France), John Beckman (IAC, Spain), Bob Benjamin (UWW, USA), Jo Bovy (IAS, USA), Aeree Chung (Yonsei , Korea), Francoise Combes (Obs-Paris, France), Sebastien Comeron (Oulu, Finland), Bruce Elmegreen (IBM, USA), Filippo Fraternali (Bologna, Italy), Ortwin Gerhard (MPE, Germany), Shigeki Inoue (Tohoku, Japan ), Sung Soo Kim (KHU, Korea), Woong-Tae Kim (SNU, Korea), Julia Kennefick (Arkansas, USA), Eija Laurikainen (Oulu, Finland), Myung Gyoon Lee (SNU, Korea), Shude Mao (NAOC, China), Eric Martinez-Garcia (INAOE, Mexico), Marco Matos (UNAM, Mexico), Stacy McGaugh (CWRU, USA), Paul McMillan (Oxford, UK), Isabel Perez (UGR, Spain), Florent, Renaud (CEA-Saclay, France), Michael Rich (UCLA, USA), Rok Roskar (Zurich, Switzerland), Heikki Salo (Oulu, Finland), Ralph Schoenrich (OSU, USA), Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers, USA), Juntai Shen (SHAO, China), Kartik Sheth (NRAO, USA), Martin Smith (SHAO, China), Kristine Spekkens (RMC, Canada), Monica Valluri (Michigan, USA), Keiichi Wada (Kagoshima, Japan), Ye Xu (PMO, China)
 
Orginizers
Martin Bureau (Oxford, UK), Aeree Chung (Yonsei, Korea), Victor Debattista (UCLan, UK), Bruce Elmegreen (IBM, USA), Ortwin Gerhard (MPE, Germany), Jongsoo Kim (KASI, Korea), Woong-Tae Kim (SNU, Korea; chair), Richard Rand (UNM, USA), Dongsu Ryu (CNU, Korea), Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers, USA), Juntai Shen (SHAO, China; co-chair), James Stone (Princeton, USA), Keiichi Wada (Kagoshima, Japan)
 
Important Dates
- May 5 : Opening of the Registration
- June 31 : Deadline for Visa Application
- Sep. 2 : Deadline for Registration and Abstract Submission for Contributed Talks and Posters
- Sep. 23 : Deadline for Abstract Submission for Invited Talks
 
Registration Fee
The registration fee is 200,000 KRW (or 200 USD) for Drs and 100,000 KRW (or 100 USD) for students, which is to be paid at the on-site registration desk by cash. Participants without any financial support may ask for the waiver of the registration fee.
 
Accommodation
We have secured a block of rooms at the Hoam Faculty House, an on-campus hotel where foreign and domestic visitors to Seoul National University usually stay. Please indicate the number of nights you want to stay at the Hoam Faculty House in the registration form.
 
Contact
Woong-Tae Kim: wkim@astro.snu.ac.kr
Juntai Shen: jshen@shao.ac.cn
LOC: dg2013@astro.snu.ac.kr
 
This Workshop is sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, and Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe.