[AGORA-mailing-list] Wrapping up the first AGORA Mini-Workshop in Seoul

[Santi Roca Fabrega]

Dear AGORA Colleagues,

Thank you very much for contributing to the AGORA's first successful regional mini-workshop at Seoul National University, Korea!  We had an incredibly productive 2-day discussion about the present and future of AGORA.  Our meeting notes can be found in the links below:
https://sites.google.com/site/projectagoraworkspace/collaborative-documents/progress-report-27
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hdau7l65UsQezRvoOSrZXK4MYajDViu_HQixfZASt3Q

The link to the slides presented by the participants during the preceding science talk sessions, can be found in the “Detailed Program” on this page:
https://ngfagora.github.io/program/

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A general summary of the workshop is the following:

● 1- Three new projects led by Thinh, Ramón, and Minyong are in progress with a very solid timeline ahead (Papers “Mergers", "Satellite Quenching", “Disk Morphology”; potentially Paper VII to IX).  They will work to have a complete draft ready for discussed at the next workshop in August (more info below).  We congratulate the three of them for their tremendous work!

● 2- Several new projects are ongoing but with somewhat longer timelines.  In particular, Papers “HighresRun” and “High-z Comparison” are in a preparatory phase with only some groups participating.  As soon as these groups get their first results, these will be presented to the AGORA community and new groups will be invited to participate.  Similarly, the “SKIRT-Mocks+Morphology” project will be led by a few groups and experts/interested individuals and will be presented to the community when it is more mature.

● 3- There are several satellite projects that, although related to AGORA, will be published outside the Collaboration.  These include a new halo finder algorithm developed by Kirk Barrow that will be combined with a particle tracking method developed by Ramón, to follow the halos during the final stages of mergers.  Also, the “AGN-Isolated” project (only driven by the GADGET and ENZO groups) or the ARAGORN-DM run (ARrakihs-AGORa) are parallel to the Collaboration, but not entirely within it.

● 4- Online meetings:  We will resume our bi-monthly online meetings, starting in late June or early July.  We will send out a Doodle poll to set the date.  With these meetings, we hope to follow up on all the ongoing AGORA Papers and speed up their progress.

● 5- The authorship policy change:  In the future papers using the “CosmoRun” data, the code leaders will be moved to the third set of authors instead of the second set, which will be for the main contributors/analyzers.

● 6- Data release:  We will release the data at specific redshifts (3, 2, 1, 0) and the metadata (centers, general properties, merger trees) via FlatHub.  We will prepare an ArXiv note for the next online meeting.

● 7- Next workshops:  On August 8, 2024 (PDT), the 12th annual AGORA Workshop will be held online, with some participants joining us in person from Santa Cruz.  Please visit the AGORA website for more details (http://www.agorasimulations.org/workshops).  Since we have found that having a mini-workshop between the annual workshops is very effective, another mini-workshop is planned in Osaka, Japan, hosted by Kentaro Nagamine in the spring of 2025 (tentatively).  In August 2025, we will have our regular annual workshop back in Santa Cruz.  In the spring of 2026 (tentatively), we will have yet another mini-workshop in Lund, Sweden, hosted by Santi Roca-Fàbrega and Oscar Agertz.

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Of course, we discussed all these and many other topics in a great detail, which you can find in the meeting notes.  If you have any question or would like to participate in any of the ongoing/future projects, please contact the Project Coordinator (santacruzgalaxy at gmail.com<mailto:santacruzgalaxy at gmail.com>).

Many thanks once again for all your help and support for AGORA!

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