[AGORA-mailing-list] AGORA Paper III Accepted + August Workshop Online

[Ji-hoon Kim]

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you very much as always for your interest and participation in AGORA.  We have a few exciting announcements to make.


[1]  Paper III “CosmoRun” + Santi’s Talks + Public Data Release

● The 3rd Paper from the AGORA Collaboration introducing the suite of high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way-mass halo on “seven" different code platforms (ART-I, ENZO, RAMSES, CHANGA, GADGET-3, GEAR and GIZMO) is now accepted by the ApJ and is on today's arXiv.  We thank everybody who contributed to this ambitious endeavor over the years, including Santi Roca-Fabrega and the code leaders (Ji-hoon Kim, Loic Hausammann, Ken Nagamine, Alessandro Lupi, Johnny Powell and Ikkoh Shimizu). 

- https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09738 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09738>  
- https://benty-fields.com/most_popular <https://benty-fields.com/most_popular>  (Santi’s short video introducing the results can be found here; choose Most Popular "Last Week” and you can see the paper is already among the top 20.) 
- http://www.agorasimulations.org/about <http://www.agorasimulations.org/about>  (A link to his video and the paper are also in the landing page of the Collaboration website.)
  
● Santi will hold two live public talks on Zoom on June 28 (Mon) to introduce Paper III and discuss the Collaboration’s immediate future plans.  

- 1st talk for Europeans/Asians/Oceanians: 
 IPARCOS seminar at Universidad Complutense de Madrid  /  June 28, 10:00 CEST, 17:00 JST/KST  
- 2nd talk for Americans/Europeans: 
 CGI seminar at University of California at Santa Cruz  /  June 28, 13:00 PDT, 16:00 EDT, 22:00 CEST 
- Zoom links for both talks will be sent to this mailing list next week.  Both institutions have kindly agreed to circulating the Zoom links to a larger astrophysics community.  The video of his talk will also be posted on the AGORA Project website (www.agorasimulations.org <http://www.agorasimulations.org/>).  

● We plan to release some of the simulation snapshots used in Paper III publicly once we set up a user-friendly interface on a reliable host.  The system could be accessed through the AGORA Project website, and the announcement will be made in this mailing list when ready.  Early access to the data can be provided upon request to Santi (sroca01 at ucm.es <mailto:sroca01 at ucm.es>) or to the Project Coordinator (santacruzgalaxy at gmail.com <mailto:santacruzgalaxy at gmail.com>, Ji-hoon).  


[2]  AGORA Workshop 2021 + New Project Website 

● We plan to hold the 9th annual AGORA Workshop online on August 12-13, 2021 (Thu-Fri, tentative dates).  We will have not only the technical discussions for the existing members, but also the Collaboration-wide discussions with existing and new members on the future of the Project to best harness the power of multi-platform approach in numerical galaxy formation.  We are also considering to solicit contributed, recorded < 20-min talks on numerical galaxy simulations, and curate them on the Workshop webpage.  More information on the tentative program, registration, etc will be sent to this mailing list in a few weeks.  So, please stay tuned!  (If not already, please talk to the Project Coordinator to be on the mailing list; or bookmark the AGORA Project website.)  

● This year’s Workshop will be a great chance for new participants in particular — especially if they want to take the opportunities for science comparisons that just opened up.  You are already welcomed to contribute to any ongoing projects in AGORA (sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/collaborative-documents/progress-report-21 <http://sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/collaborative-documents/progress-report-21>; membership required to view), including those that are natural extensions of Paper III.  New code groups are encouraged to follow the calibration steps presented in Paper III — the calibration results of the newly participating codes are to be in the follow-up Papers as an appendix.  

● As a final note, the Project’s websites — both the public front (www.agorasimulations.org <http://www.agorasimulations.org/>) and its workspace (sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace <http://sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/>) — have just been completely renovated.  You are welcomed to explore them, and let the Project Coordinator know if you find any missing information, or links that do not work.  Notable pages include:  Publicly available AGORA Tools and Data (www.agorasimulations.org/data <http://www.agorasimulations.org/data>), Workspace landing page that collects Key Softwares and FAQs (sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/home <http://sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/home>).   


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Please feel free to forward this message to anyone potentially interested.  Please let us know if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.  Great thanks once again for your continued interest in AGORA!  

Sincerely,
Joel, Santi and Ji-hoon on behalf of the AGORA “CosmoRun” Group and the AGORA Steering Committee




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Ji-hoon Kim
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
www.jihoonkim.org / me at jihoonkim.org 
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