We are delighted to announce that the joint conference titled "AGORA in Asia + 5th Numerical Galaxy Formation (NGF) Meeting in Korea" will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, from May 7-10, 2024.  

- Please visit the workshop website (ngfagora.github.io) to learn more about the workshop rationale and its tentative program; and register by March 5 if you’d like to join us.  

- The first part (May 7-8) will be an annual meeting of the numerical galaxy formation (NGF) community in Korea, which and is behind the latest large simulation effort, the DARWIN Project.  We will hear talks from aspiring students and postdocs, and hope to find synergies between the ever-growing numerical astrophysics community in Korea/Asia and the emerging science opportunities from the new and ongoing AGORA simulations. 

- The second part of the meeting (May 9-10) will be the AGORA mini-workshop, taking place between the annual workshops in August.  In light of the three AGORA papers recently submitted/accepted to ApJ (Papers IV-VI: “CosmoRun-2”, “Satellites”, “CGM”), we plan to use this mini-workshop to (re)introduce the Project, facilitate discussions about ongoing and future efforts (e.g., Papers "Mergers-I/II", "Satellite Quenching”, etc), and identify new projects with inputs from new and experienced Collaboration members.  While non-AGORA members are welcome to join the AGORA portion of the week, we encourage them to sign up for the Collaboration in advance (without any obligation).  

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Please feel free to forward this email to anyone potentially interested, especially to the young numerical astrophysicists who are looking for opportunities to participate in the science comparison in AGORA, and/or to present his/her work at the NGF meeting. 

Thank you very much, and we will hope to see you in Seoul!

Sincerely,

Ji-hoon Kim, Joel Primack, Santi Roca-Fabrega, and Jihye Shin on behalf of the SOC

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