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SKA 2005
October
31-November 3, 2005
NCRA-TIFR, Pune, India
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA), is a unique radio telescope
being planned by an international consortium consisting of
Europe (including UK), USA, Australia, China, Canada, India,
South Africa and countries in South America. SKA will
have a
collecting area of 1 million sq.m., in the frequency rangefrom
0.15 GHz to 20 GHz.
A meeting of the astronomers and engineers to discuss,
review and refine the science and engineering aspects of SKA
will be held during Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2005 at the Regal Hall,
Hotel Pride, Pune, INDIA. This follows the URSI GA 2005
(Oct.
23-29, 2005) being held at New Delhi.
Format of the Conference
The scientific programme will consist of invited talks, and
contributed oral presentations as well as poster
presentations. The invited talks will be generally of 30
minutes duration (including discussion) and contributed talks
of 15 minutes duration. Depending on the available time and
number of abstracts received, the SOC may have to request that
some of contributed papers be presented in the form of
posters.
One day will be reserved for the trip to the Giant Metrewave Radio
Telescope (GMRT) Observatory, which is located about
90 km
north of Pune.
The Science Forum will have talks both from SKA
consortium and external to SKA project. The Engineering Forum
will consist of invited and contributed presentation related
to various areas of engineering development related to the SKA.
Poster presentations on all aspects of the SKA project are
welcome.
Venue
Located about 170 km southeast of Mumbai (earlier known as
Bombay) on the Deccan Plateau about 550m above meanse a level,
Pune is well connected by air, rail and road to Mumbai, the
nearest international airport. It is also connected by air to
Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai (earlier known as Madras) with
flights operating every day.
Weather
The weather in Pune in October/November is generally pleasant with
a day-time maximum temperature of about 30°C and a night time
low of about 10°C.
Registration
Participants will be required to pay a registration fee of
US$175, which includes the conference Banquet, a cultural
event, tea and coffee during the meetings, stationery, etc.
Accommodation
Arrangements are being made to book sufficient rooms in
hotels within a few kms of the Venue. The approximate
chargesper night are expected to range between US$ 100 and
200,depending on the type of hotel.
A block booking of 80 rooms has been made in The Pride Hotel,
where the conference is being held.
More details about specific hotels are given at
http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/~ska_pune/.
Preliminary Registration
To help us make a realistic assessment of the number of
participants and the hotel reservations needed, we request you
to kindly fill in and return the following Preliminary
Registration Form to the contact address by fax, email or
regular mail BEFORE January 31, 2005. Returning the
preliminary registration form will also ensure that you
receive the second circular.
Contact
Secretariat SKA 2K5
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
TIFR, Post Bag 3, Ganeshkhind, Pune University Campus
Pune 411007, India
Tel: +91 20 25697107; Fax: +91 20 2569/565 7257
E-mail: ska_pune@ncra.tifr.res.in
For more information, please
visit the website http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/~ska_pune/.
Workshop on Theoretical Physics
2K5
2 May 2005
Bandung-Indonesia
http://www.opi.lipi.go.id/situs/wtp2k5/
The meeting is the second one of the annual meeting on
theoretical physics in Indonesia organized by the consortium
consists of multi institutions in Indonesia. We invite both
local and international participants to attend and present
their current researches in the parallel session.
The meeting
will be followed by a night tour (in the same day) to the Bosscha Observatorium at Lembang. Next day (May3rd, 2005), a
public lecture by the invited foreign speakers will be held at
the same venue.
Topics
All topics related on the studies of theoretical
physics are welcome. The workshop consists of several review
talks on the latest and hot topics in particular subjects, and
several short talks. Review talks are based on invitation,
while the short talks are based on contributed papers.
• Astrophysics
• Biophysics
• Cosmology
• Condensed Matter
• High Energy Physics
• Lattice
• Mathematical Physics
• Non-linear Physics
• Nuclear Physics
Date
Monday, 2nd May 2005 (09:00 - 18:00).
Venue
Boscha Room
Departemen Fisika, Institut Teknologi Bandung
Jl. Ganesha 10
Bandung 14242
Indonesia
Registration
Registration should be done in advanced
through the link of online registration form, however all
payment should be made on arrival. In order to reduce the
administration work, manual registration is not accepted.
Participants who wish to contribute a talk are requested to
provide the electronic version of their papers in LaTeX format
on arrival. The paper should be written in English, and will
be published as the workshop’s proceedings in the Physics
Journal of the IPS. The authors are suggested to use the
template provided by the publisher which can be downloaded
from the site. The deadline of registration for the
participants with talk contribution is 19th April 2005, while
for the others is anytime till the day of workshop.
The proceeding will be available on the publisher’s site for
free, and the access is open for public a week after the
workshop. Delay submission of the paper will not be
considered.
For more information please visit the website
http://www.opi.lipi.go.id/situs/wtp2k5/.
Full Text
of IPAP Books 2 Is Available On-line
Dear colleague,
I’d like
to introduce a new book in English entitled “Photonics Based
on Wavelength Integration and Manipulation” which is available
on-line, free of charge, at
http://www.ipap.jp/index_proceedngs.html.
This 378-page book is the final report of a joint research
project in academia in Japan entitled “Photonics Based on
Wavelength Integration and Manipulation—Towards the Ultimate
Utilization of Spectral Resources.” There are 32 research
teams from various universities that participated in this
four-year project carried out until 2004. Following an
additional brief overview of the above project, 32 research
papers contributed from all the respective teams are
presented. Each team is encouraged to include an appropriate
introduction and review of the relevant research field so
that readers who are not familiar with the field can
comprehend it more easily.
The 32 original research papers have been arranged into the
following six parts:
1. Ultraviolet/Visible-Wavelength Materials
and Devices,
2. Novel Emitters and Amplifiers,
3. Wavelength Conversion Devices,
4. Wide-Wavelength-Range Switching Devices,
5. Ultrafast Switching Devices/Systems,
6. Wavelength Routing Devices/Systems.
This joint research project has been funded by the Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
of Japan through a “Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Re-search on
Priority Areas.” The whole project was aimed at developing a
new photonic technology which can integrate and manipulate the
wavelengths of light in a precise, parallel, and fast manner,
to achieve a much better utilization of spectral resources.
This technology involves various new integrated or discrete
high-performance devices that are compact in size, enabling
light emission, amplification, and wavelength conversion, as
well as ultrawide-band and ultrahigh-speed modulation and
switching, wavelength routing and signal processing over a
very wide wavelength range. This technology and science may
open up a new and rich world of photonics based on the
combination of three coordinates — wavelength, time and space
— instead of the present technology which exists mainly in the
time and space domain.
Through this four-year joint research
project, an enormous amount of novel and valuable results have
been generated. The number of published journal papers and
international conference
papers totals 1200. The essence of all these most advanced
results and ideas are summarized in this book. We all
sincerely hope that our results will contribute to the
progress of information and communication technologies as much
as possible.
This book has just been published through the Institute of Pure and
Applied Physics (IPAP) as IPAP Books 2. Paper edition
(charged) of the book is also available via the above website.
The IPAP is a non-profit-organization operated jointly by the
Japan Society of Applied Physics and the Physical Society of
Japan, which publishes 4 periodicals (Japanese Journal of
Applied Physics, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan,
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Optical Review) and various
non-periodical publications in English including IPAP Books
and Conference Series.
On behalf of members of
the Joint Research Project of Photonics Based on
Wavelength Integration and Manipulation
Kunio TADA (Head Investigator)
March 2005
Osaka
University-Asia Pacific-Vietnam National University,
Hanoi Forum 2005 on Frontiers of Basic Science:
Towards New Physics - Earthand Space Science - Mathematics
September 27-29, 2005
International Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam
Call for Papers
The AAPPS agreed to endorse Osaka University-Asia
Pacific-Vietnam National University, Hanoi Forum 2005 on Frontiers
of Basic Science: Towards New Physics - Earth and Space
Science - Mathematics as an important conference to activate
collaboration among the physicists in AAPPS member societies
at the 14th Council Meeting at Kao Shiung (see
http://www.aapps.org/activities.html) in January 2005.
AAPPS encourages many to attend the forum.
The present Forum covers the following topics relating tophysics
and mathematics:
1. particle and nuclear physics, astrophysics,
2. solid state physics, applied physics, earth-planetary
science,
3. mathematics.
The Forum will begin in the morning of Tuesday, Sept.
27th,2005, and conclude on Thursday, Sept. 29th, 2005, at
noon. The Forum will start from a
plenary session with seven invited speakers, together with the keynote addresses of the
Presidents of both Osaka University and Vietnam National
University, Hanoi. The second and third days are
organized with three parallel sessions having both invited and
selected talks and poster
presentations. The Proceedings will be published as a special issue from Osaka University Press
Click the website for application and more details at
http://osaka-hanoi-forum.org.
Organization
Co-Chaired by Prof. Yoshichika Ônuki, Osaka University and
Prof. Nguyen Hoang Luong, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Contact
If you have any question or comment about the Forum
2005, please contact the secretary of the conference, Prof. Hideaki
Takabe:
takabe@ile.osaka-u.ac.jp.
International
Meeting on Frontiers of Physics 2005 (IMFP 2005)
25-29 July
2005
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Jointly organized by Malaysian Institute of Physics
&
Physics Department, University of Malaya
http://fizik.um.edu-my/imfp2005/
The year
2005 is the World Year of Physics. The Malaysian Institute of
Physics is organizing the Second International Meeting on
Frontiers of Physics (IMFP2005) as one of the series of
activities worldwide. The meeting is organized with the
Physics Department, University of Malaya in conjunction with
its centennial anniversary in 2005. The scientific objective
of the meeting is to provide a forum for interaction involving
world-renowned researchers as well as to explore and review
the scientific status at the frontiers of the various fields
of physics.
The meeting is jointly organized by: Malaysian Institute of
Physics (Institut Fizik Malaysia) and Physics Department,
University of Malaya.
The main sponsors of the meeting include: The Ministry of
Science, Technology and Innovation, University of Malaya, UNESCO,
Academy of Sciences Malaysia, AAAPT, Asia Pacific Center for
Theoretical Physics, Association of Asia Pacific Physical
Societies.
Venue
The venue of the meeting is the Mines Beach Resort and
Spa in Kuala Lumpur. The resort has a beautifully landscaped
swimming lagoon and its location on the shores of a scenic
lake allows various water sports such as sailing, windsurfing,
boating and water-skiing. Next to the hotel is the Mines
Resort & Golf Club, which was the venue of the 1999 World Cup
Championship. The Mines Shopping Mall and the Mines Wonderland
are within walking distance from the hotel, while Downtown
Kuala Lumpur is easily accessible.
Scientific Programme
IMFP 2005 will cover all areas of
physics, under the following broad disciplines:
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Condensed Matter and Material Physics
• High Energy and Particle Physics
• Nuclear, Radiation and Plasma Physics
• Photonics and Laser Physics
• Bioinformatics, Computational Physics and Bio Physics
The scientific programme of the meeting will be held for
4days, from 26 to 29 July, with plenary talks in the morning
and parallel sessions in the afternoon. The plenary and
invited talks in the parallel sessions will be devoted to
topics on the Frontiers of Physics of current interest. Times
allocated for presentations (inclusive of question time) are:
Plenary Papers: 45 minutes
Invited Papers: 30 minutes
Contributed Papers: 15 minutes
List of Plenary Speakers
* C. L. Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* C. Brechignac, Paris-Sud, France
S. L. Chin, Laval, Canada
* P. C. W. Chu, Hong Kong UST, Hong Kong
J. G. Han, Sung Kyon
Kwa, Korea
M. Iwamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
* S. I. Lee, Pohang, Korea
H. A. Lim, D’Trends, USA
W. Namkung,
Pohang, Korea
Z. C. Ouyang, Academy Of science, China
* R. Penrose, Oxford, UK
* H. Shirakawa, Tsukuba, Japan
* W. W. Soon, Harvard, USA
A. Takahashi, Osaka, Japan
* S. C. C. Ting, CERN
T. T. Tsong, Academia
Sinica, Taiwan
* To be confirmed.
Registration
The registration fee is:
RM950 (*USD 250) before or on 15 May 2005.
RM1140 (*USD 300) after 15 May 2005.
*Based on current exchange rate of USD1=RM3.80.
For further details, please go to the website
http://fizik.um.edu-my/imfp2005/.
Workshop on Positron Sources for ILC
11-13 April,
2005, Daresbury Laboratory, UK
The workshop will
discuss all of the possible positron source options for the ILC
that are presently being considered, assessthe outstanding R &
D issues that will need to be addressed for each of them to
become viable and consider how best these issues should be
addressed. The workshop will also consider how the final
selection and design of the ILC positron source should be made.
Further details on the workshop, including how to register, can
be found at www.astec.ac.uk.
Collider Physics and Linear Collider Meetings
in
August 2005
At the end of August
2005, there will be a number of meetings on collider physics
and specifically on the International
Linear Collider that will be held in the Aspen/Snowmass area.
We encourage the community to participate in these
meetings.
Theorists can participate either by joing the
meeting at Snowmass or by joining the
parallel workshop at the Aspen Center
for Physics. They should be aware that the application
deadline for Aspen is January 31—very soon! The
registration deadline for Snowmass will be at the end of May.
August 14-27
• Meeting of the American Linear Collider Physics
Working Group in Snowmass, Colorado.
• Organizers: E.
Berger, J. Brau, U. Naenberg, M. Oreglia.
• Web page:
http://alcpg2005.colorado.edu/.
This meeting
will include discussions of the physics program of the ILC and
will advance the designs for the ILC
detectors.
The meeting will also host the Second
ILC Accelerator Workshop, studying the
accelerator design and machine-detector interface
issues.
August 15-September 11
• Aspen Center for Physics Workshop: Collider Physics
from the Tevatron to the LHC to the Linear
Collider.
• Organizers: T.
Han, J. Hewett, S. Mrenna.
• Web page:
http://www.aspenphys.org/documents/program/summer05.html#10.
August 18-19
• Loopfest 4: Workshop on Precision Calculation for
theLinear Collider will take place at Snowmass.
• Organizers: U.
Baur, S. Dawson, D. Wackeroth.
• Web page:
http://quark.phy.bnl.gov/loopfest4/.
August 23
• A symposium on “Connections between ILC and LHC
Physics and Astrophysics and Cosmology” will
take
place at Snowmass.
• Organizer: M.
Peskin.
• Web page: see the
Snowmass web pages.
SKA News
Please consult the
SKA international website
www.skatelescope.org
for the update about NEWSLETTER-Volume07 (on Homepage and at
News & Meetings under Quick Links for
all categories).
We are kicking off the year with this
Newsletter, containing the items you
are now getting used to:
• Director’s report.
• Committees: updated information from EWG, Outreach,
SESC, SimWG, SWG, SWG.
• Past and upcoming meetings (Penticton, Guiyang and SKA2005
Conference in Pune).
• Various consortia and institutions: Australia, Canada,
China, Europe, India, South Africa, USA.
In “Other News” an
article by Michael Kramer about the
World Year of Physics 2005 (Einstein Year) in which he
mentions the link to the double pulsar discovery (see also the
link from the Home Page). Also, Peter
Hall’s report about the first European
Industry Day.
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