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2nd 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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This is the 2nd circular of 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 for 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 (from the afternoon on 20th Aug to the morning on 22nd Aug) and a "working time" part in the 2nd half (the afternoon on 22nd Aug and the morning on 23rd Aug).
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. The selection of the participants will be made on a first-come-first-served basis.
Therefore we would strongly encourage you to complete the registration as soon as possible, through the workshop webform.

For the collaboration working-time session in the latter half of this workshop, we would ask the participants to propose possible discussion items. Based on the input from participants, we will arrange some parallel sessions and provide opportunities to work together. For example, you can propose some possible future observational proposals, technical discussion for various modeling issues, and so on. Please describe your ideas in the registration webform. Again, you can skip this part and just attend the first half of the workshop --- in this case, please leave the text box for this blank.

The conference will be held in the center of Sapporo, the biggest city on 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.

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):
  -- 15 Mar: 1st circular
  -- 10 May: 2nd circular
  -- 31 May: registration deadline
  -- 20 Aug: opening the conference

Prices:
  -- registration fee (not including meals nor room charges): 5000 JPY
  -- room charge (single room): 8500 JPY/night/person
  -- workshop dinner (on 21st Aug): ~5000 JPY/person
  -- these fees should be paid at the conference desk
  -- if you would like to stay in non-single room, please specify your
     requests in the "Any other comments" box in the registration form
     (in this case the room charge is different from the above price)

Registration:
  -- through the workshop webpage:
     http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/20130312agnw/
  -- deadline: 30th May 2013
  -- please specify if you need a visa to visit Japan in the webform

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