[AGORA-mailing-list] Save the date: AGORA mini-workshop in Seoul, May 7-10, 2024

[Ji-hoon Kim]

Dear AGORA Colleagues, 

We wish you a Happy New Year 2024!  After much discussion in the telecon last month and afterwards, we are pleased to announce that the first “AGORA mini-workshop" will be held from May 7-10, 2024 at Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea.  For now, this is a “Save the Date” announcement, and the registration will open in early February, so please stay tuned.  


[1]  Mini-workshop Rationale:

In light of the three AGORA Papers to be posted on the arXiv this month (Papers IV to VI: “CosmoRun-2”, “Satellites”, “CGM”), we plan to hold this mini-workshop to (re)introduce the Project, give a boost to the ongoing efforts (Papers "Mergers-I", "Mergers-II", "Satellite Quenching”), and identify exciting projects with inputs from new and experienced collaboration members.  This will also serve as a regional workshop, so we will also aim to introduce the AGORA Project to the Asia region, and have an opportunity to hear from the galaxy simulation community there.  

[2]  (Tentative) Program:

We are planning the mini-workshop in two parts: 
● On May 7-8 (Tue-Wed), we plan to hold joint sessions with the 5th "Numerical Galaxy Formation Meeting" in Korea, an annual meeting by the Korean galaxy simulation community that has grown despite the hardships of COVID-19.  We will welcome participants to give talks and extend our invitation to the wider Asian region and beyond.  This will be a great opportunity to find common interests and projects to work on, and to promote ongoing AGORA efforts.   
● On May 9-10 (Thu-Fri), we will have working sessions for ongoing AGORA Papers, and a brainstorming session on Collaboration-wide issues.  We may arrange online sessions in the afternoon (e.g., 15:00pm KST) to share our progress with the registered remote participants in the US and European time zones (e.g., 23:00pm PDT, 08:00am CEST).  FYI, the latest Collaboration progress report + online meeting notes can be found in our usual Workspace <https://sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/collaborative-documents/progress-report-27> (membership required).  

[3]  Timeline, Logistics:

● Important timeline
- Jan. 5:  "Save the Date" announcement
- Feb. 1 (tentative):   Registration and workshop webpage opens 
- Feb. 26 (tentative):  Registration closes
- May 7:  AGORA mini-workshop begins  (Note that May 5-6 is a national holiday in Korea.)  

● We are planning to hold the workshop on the main campus of SNU, and are trying to arrange for a block of rooms at the university's on-campus hotel for international participants (link <https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g294197-d7178669-Reviews-Hoam_Faculty_House-Seoul.html>; there is a direct shuttle bus connection between this hotel and the ICN/Seoul Airport, almost door to door).  We have secured some funds that will hopefully help pay for the conference rooms, lunches, and a banquet.  You are welcome to stay and work before and after the workshop.  
● We aim to iron out all the logistical details, and open the registration in early February, to accompany the three AGORA Papers that will be posted on the arXiv in late January.  This will be a great opportunity to attract more participants to AGORA.  


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Please contact the Project coordinator <mailto:santacruzgalaxy at gmail.com> (Ji-hoon) if you have *any* questions/comments about the workshop, and stay tuned for future announcements.  Please also feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested, especially those who wish to perform science-oriented simulation comparisons.

Thank you very much!

Sincerely,
Ji-hoon, Santi, and Joel on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee and the AGORA Steering Committee



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