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THE UNIVERSE IN THE LIGHT OF AKARI
and Synergy with future Large Space Telescopes
9-11 July 2014 Oxford, UK
http://akari.open.ac.uk/
Main topics:
The AKARI Project and Legacy; Solar system objects, Zodiacal
emission and Debris Disks; Star Formation and Stellar Evolution;
Nearby Galaxies; Active Galactic Nuclei and Ultra-Luminous
Galaxies; Deep Extragalactic surveys with AKARI; Multi-Wavelength
Modelling of Galaxies; SPICA and other Future projects
Meeting theme:
This Conference will bring scientists together to discuss the
results from AKARI, which successfully carried out all-sky surveys
at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths, along with many additional
pointed observations, between 2006 and 2011.
The science areas covered by the symposium encompass the interests
of the entire infrared astronomical communities in the UK, Japan,
Korea and Europe, ranging from local studies such as asteroids
in our own Solar System, to the stars and dust in our own Galaxy,
out to the most distant galaxies in the Universe. The symposium
will also provide a road map for future UK-Japanese-Korean-European
(and possibly other partners) scientific collaboration leading to
the next generation JAXA led space mission, SPICA, by bringing
together the SPICA interested researchers in the UK astronomical
community.
The timing for this symposium is excellent given that the European
Space Agency's flagship Herschel Space Observatory has recently
completed its active phase of data collecting, since the results
from AKARI provide an important synergy with the longer wavelength
Herschel observations. This Symposium is intended to develop
collaborative research between the UK, Japanese, Korean and
European communities, as well as taking AKARI's legacy forward
into the future.
Conference Organizer:
Glenn White (OU/RAL) glenn.white@open.ac.uk;
Chris Pearson (RAL/OU/Oxford), Dimitra Rigopoulou (Oxford/RAL)
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