<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear AGORA Colleagues,<div><br></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We are pleased to share the news that AGORA Papers IV to VI are becoming available on arXiv. Also, we </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">announce that the registration is open for the first AGORA mini-workshop from May 7-10, in Seoul,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> Korea. </span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">--</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">[1] AGORA Papers on arXiv</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Here are the three papers that have just appeared or will very soon appear on arXiv. We congratulate all the people who contributed to these papers, which took a truly Herculean effort to complete. <span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">All this and more can also be found on the recently updated </span><a href="http://www.agorasimulations.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">AGORA website</a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Paper IV (a.k.a. “CosmoRun-2” /</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <u>ApJ submitted</u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">): </span><a href="https://physics.snu.ac.kr/cosmo/agora/AGORA_Paper_CosmoRun2_draft.pdf">[local]</a><font color="#3f87d6"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [</span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaISZv_cve0">intro video</a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font color="#3f87d6">]</font> (to be available on arXiv next week, along with press releases)</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#000000">- Paper V (a.k.a. “Satellites” /</font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <u>ApJ accepted</u></span><font color="#000000" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">): </font><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05392">[arXiv]</a><font color="#3f87d6"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></font><font color="#3f87d6"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">[</span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HShRJYvPe1k" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">intro video</a><font color="#3f87d6"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span></font></div></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HShRJYvPe1k"></a></div><div>- Paper VI (a.k.a. “CGM” / <u>ApJ accepted</u>): <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05246">[arXiv]</a><font color="#3f87d6" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l-08HrSU9k"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">[intro video]</span></a><span style="color: rgb(66, 156, 255); white-space: pre-wrap; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal;"> </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">[2] </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;">AGORA Mini-workshop </span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Registration</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">As </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">announced last month, we are delighted to tell you that the joint conference titled "</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AGORA in Asia + 5th Numerical Galaxy Formation Meeting in Korea</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">" will be held at Seoul National University, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Seoul, Korea, from May 7-10, 2024. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">- <b><u>Please visit the</u> <a href="https://ngfagora.github.io/">workshop website</a> </b>to learn more about the workshop rationale and its tentative program; and <b><a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=QoAOSjuIWEeWB7BoZIrWxEZa5jE41ixCorOdBpf3JvtUMUlUVlU2OFRXTElOQ1JOS1NRNURVUU4xRi4u">register</a> <u>by March 5</u></b> if you’d like to join us. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We will arrange an online AGORA session in the Thursday afternoon, May 9 to share our progress with the registered remote participants in the US and European time zones. If you wish to join this online Collaboration-wide brainstroming discussion, please <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=QoAOSjuIWEeWB7BoZIrWxEZa5jE41ixCorOdBpf3JvtUMUlUVlU2OFRXTElOQ1JOS1NRNURVUU4xRi4u">register</a> (registration required to receive a Zoom link). </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">While non-AGORA members are welcome to join the AGORA </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">portion of the week (May 9-10), we will encourage them to </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/santacruzcomparisonproject/about#h.aisumosqg4mr" target="_blank" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">sign up</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> for the Collaboration in advance (without any obligation). </span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">- </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In light of the three <a href="http://www.agorasimulations.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">AGORA papers</a> recently submitted/accepted to ApJ, we plan to use this mini-workshop to (re)introduce the Project,<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> facilitate discussions about ongoing and future efforts</span> (e.g., Papers "Mergers-I/II", "Satellite Quenching”, etc), and identify new projects with inputs from new and experienced Collaboration members. This will be a great chance 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. </span></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">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 Numerical Galaxy Formation meeting. </span></div><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Thank you very much, and we will hope to see you in Seoul/online soon!</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sincerely,</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Santi, Joel, and Ji-hoon</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div>
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