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The Third ALMA Science Working Group Meeting
March 2-3, 2006
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Mitata, Tokyo, Japan
Announcement
This is an
announcement of the 3rd Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Science Working Group Meeting which will be held in Mitaka,
Tokyo on March 2 and 3. The ALMA Science Working Group Meeting
is one of continuous activities of ALMA-J, which aims at
growing up strong science teams toward ALMA and also providing
an opportunity of wide discussions related to the ALMA
science. We have already had the first and second meetings in
November 2004 and July 2005, respectively, and organized
several subgroup meetings. The main topic of the 3rd meeting
is “Collaboration between ALMA and SUBARU,” and we hope to
have fruitful discussions how to use these two big instruments
collaboratively in the era of ALMA.
Since Taiwan joined
to ALMA-J last year, the meeting is now open for the Taiwanese
colleague. So all the presentations and discussions should be
made in English. We hope that the ALMA Science Working Group
Meeting would be a good place for science discussions and
collaborations between Japan and Taiwan.
Science Program
Oral presentations in the various fields related to the above
topic are welcome. The deadline of registration is February
15, 2006. Please provide a title of your suggested oral
contribution to Sachiyo Ueshiba of ALMA-J office. The e-mail
address is
secretary@almasv2.mtk.nao.ac.jp. The final program will be
organized by the expanding JSAC meeting including
representatives from Taiwan.
Additional Information
The existing subgroups and their contact persons are as
follows:
Star Formation: Yasuo Fukui (Nagoya Univ.),
fukui_c@a.phys,
nagoya-u.ac.jp.
Planetary Formation: Munetake Momose (Ibaraki Univ.),
momose@mx.ibaraki.ac.jp.
Extragalaxies: Toru Yamada (NAOJ),
yamada@optik.mtk.nao.ac.jp;
Kotaro Kohno (Univ. of Tokyo),
kkohno@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp;
Naomasa Nakai (Tsukuba Univ.),
nakai@physics.px.tsukuba.ac.jp;
Nario Kuno (NRO),
kuno@nro.nao.ac.jp.
Interstellar Matter: Satoshi Yamamoto (Univ. of Tokyo),
yamamoto@phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Please feel free to make contact with
these persons if you would join the subgroups. Subgroup
meetings will be organized separately.
The meeting is
sponsored by ALMA-J office, ALMA Promotion Committee of NAOJ,
and Executive Committee for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific
Research on Priority Area “Pathfinding in Submillimeter and
THz Astronomy.”
—Satoshi Yamamoto, Toru Yamada,
Jeremy Lim and Sheng-Yuan Liu
Additional Information for Taiwan-based Astronomers
We strongly
encourage presentations on research topics that you would like
to carry out using ALMA, and which would also benefit from
complementary optical observations. And vice versa. Note that
the deadline for registration is 15 Feb 2006. The ALMA-Taiwan
project intends to provide funding for Taiwan-based
astronomers to attend this meeting if needed. Please send any
requests for financial support (airfare, local expense, or
both) to
lshao@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw.
The Third Annual Meeting of
the Science and Technology in Society Forum
September 10-12, 2006
Kyoto International Conference Hall (KICH), Kyoto, Japan
Fundamental Concept
The explosive progress of science and technology up to the
20th century brought prosperity and enriched the quality of
life for much of mankind.
However, the advance
of science and technology raises important ethical, safety and
environmental issues: possible negative applications are
threatening mankind’s own future. Since progress in science
and technology is expected to accelerate and will be necessary
for sustainable human development in the 21st century, wisdom
must be exercised to keep it under proper control.
In that sense, the
most pressing problems we face today include harmonizing
economic development with global warming; preventing
terrorism; controlling infectious diseases; and assessing the
potential health benefits and ethical factors relating to
cloning technology. International efforts to address these
problems are needed now more than ever. This is really what
symbolizes the “lights and shadows of science and technology.”
Opportunities need to be taken, but the risks must also be
controlled. Health, meeting energy needs, and many other
aspects of human welfare are dependent on continued progress
in science and technology.
At the same time,
the benefits of science and technology are not reaching a
major part of the world’s people. The barriers to seizing the
opportunities for using science and technology to solve the
problems of humankind need to be discussed.
Because the problems
we face today are becoming increasingly complex against the
backdrop of globalization and international competition, they
are beyond the control of any single country.
These issues are
also beyond the control of the scientific community alone,
because many of the problems will find solutions through
changes in social systems, international collaboration, global
networks, and the building of common rules.
The time has come
for not only scholars and researchers but also policy makers,
business leaders and media leaders from all over the world to
meet and discuss science and technology issues in the 21st
century.
The Science and
Technology in Society forum aims to provide a new mechanism
for open discussions on an informal basis, and to build a
human network that would, in time, resolve the new types of
problems stemming from the application of science and
technology. The Forum community will also explore the
opportunities arising from science and technology, and address
how to remove the barriers to using science and technology to
solve the problems facing humankind.
Forum members are
expected to participate, not as representatives of their
country or organization, but as individuals expressing their
own views. This forum is not necessarily a platform for
specialists to unilaterally convey their knowledge, but rather
an opportunity for real dialogue among peers. Participants
should also undertake cross-border activities towards the
establishment of shared values and commitment for the future.
Contact
STS Forum Secretariat
Sanno Grand Building 419
2-14-2 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-0014, Japan
Tel: 81-3-3519-3351
Fax: 81-3-3519-3352
information@stsforum.org
Taiwan Participation in “Beyond
Einstein” Live Webcast from around the Globe
The world is celebrating the “2005 International Year of
Physics” this year. This is not only to commemorate the
miraculous 1905 year of Albert Einstein, but also to promote
physics as well as to remind the public of the importance of
physics. On December 1st 2005, National Taiwan Science
Education Center (NTSEC), together with some of the worlds’
leading physics laboratories and science museums were taking
part in a 12 hour worldwide live webcast to show public
audiences the excitement of Einstein’s life, science and
legacy. The program was broadcast from locations including
CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory and birthplace
of the World Wide Web, Imperial College London, the Telecom
Future Lab (Venice), the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(Chicago), the Exploratorium (San Francisco) hosting
scientists from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the
Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem) and the National Science
Education Centre (Taipei). From the seven main platforms,
utilizing the latest Tandberg videoconferencing technology,
internets were taken on a world tour to other physics
laboratories and science museums visiting virtually all the
time zones of the planet, from Europe to America, from Asia to
Tasmania and as far south as Antarctica.
The live webcast in
Taiwan was organized by National Taiwan Science Education
Center, co-organized by National Taiwan University, the
Physical Society of Republic of China and Tatung System
Technologies Inc. NTSEC is dedicated to promoting science
education in Taiwan. The center fulfills its mission through
exhibitions, publishing science books and periodicals,
organizing science fairs, competitions and workshops. Every
February, the center organizes the Taiwan International
Science Fair, where students and teachers from more than 20
countries have participated. On December 1st, over 1,500
students and visitors visited NTSEC, where an opening ceremony
of the Exploratory Physics Exhibition was held in the
afternoon, followed by the live webcast in the evening. Dr.
Jeng-Feng Ke, the Director of NTSEC, Dr. Ching-Ray Chang, the
President of the Physical Society of Republic of China, and
Dr. Gou-Chung Chi, Vice Minster of National Science Council of
Republic of China, made the opening speech to welcome the
worldwide audience to join the historical live webcast around
the globe.
Einstein’s
successful explanation on the photoelectric effect in 1905 not
only led to the discovery of quantum theory but also impacts
our daily life. Technologies such as solar panels, sensor
gates, TV remote control, laser and CCD camera are all based
on the photoelectric effect. Taiwan, the first country on the
live webcast, introduced their high-tech industry that is
related to the photoelectric effect. The program was divided
into two sessions. In the first session, in addition to
showing two short films about NTSEC and Einstein, a solar car
called “Formosun” was launched in the ceremony, a special
guest imitated Einstein drove the car up the stage. Formosun,
the famous solar car in Taiwan, was designed by National
Taiwan University. Furthermore, three thousand photos
contributed by people in Taiwan were combined into a montage
to make a huge portrait of Einstein. In the second session, a
forum was held to discuss physics and high-tech. Dr. Chin Yuan
Lu, President of Ardentec Corporation, was the host of the
forum. The guest speakers were Dr. Gou-Chung Chi, Vice Minster
of National Science Council, Dr. Luo-Chuan Lee, Director of
National Applied Research Laboratories, Dr. Eric G. Lean,
Honorable Chairman of International Union Technology and Mr.
Chee Cun Leung, President of Quanta Computer and President of
Quanta Display of Taiwan. NTSEC ended the live webcast
ceremony in Taiwan by drawing lucky winners for big prizes;
then the Physical Society of Republic of China gave away many
science books to students. The party ended at 9 p.m. Taiwan
time.
The National Science
Council of the Republic of China, together with the Ministry
of Education, sponsor for many events for the 2005 World year
of Physics. Such events are “Launch Conference of the
International Year of Physics— Physics for Tomorrow,” “Physics
Enlightens the World,” “Explorative Physics Exhibition,”
“Summit of Physical Societies in Asia-Pacific Region,” etc.
Over 400,000 scholars and students in Taiwan have participated
in the events of 2005 World Year of Physics.
—Marianna Kwai-Chong Fung
The 6th Rencontres de Moriond
August 6-12, 2006
Hanoi, Vietnam
We would like to
call your attention to the 6th “Rencontres de Moriond” which
will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam on August 6th through 12th,
2006. The conference will focus on “Challenges in Particle
Astrophysics.” The main topics of the meeting will include:
• Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Cosmology
• Neutrinos
• Gravitational Waves
Most of the talks will be plenary
talks, but half a day will be devoted to parallel sessions
with short talks. More detailed information on the conference
can be found on the following Web page:
http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2006/.
Here is some background on the meeting series: Since 1993,
“Rencontres du Vietnam” conferences have been organized in
Vietnam on various scientific topics, ranging from particle
physics to biology and astrophysics.
These are international
conferences and have in the past brought together some of the
world’s leading specialists on the specific subjects
addressed. These conferences have, in fact, two purposes: The
first is, of course, the presentation and analysis of the
latest advances and insights in various disciplines. But
another important motivation is to provide a means for contact
between the Vietnamese and Western scientific communities. One
might note in this context that young Vietnamese students are
very eager to learn and apply science. There is, for example,
an active cosmic ray group in Hanoi, led by a well known,
retired physicist from CERN.
Please note that in
parallel to “Challenges in Particle Astrophysics,” another
conference on mesoscopic physics and nanotechnologies will be
held in the same venue and that the week after, the
International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray
Interactions (ISVHECRI) will be held in Weihai (China).
We apologize in
advance to those of you who might have already received this
invitation.
—For the Program Committee, Jacques Dumarchez
LCWS 2006
March 9-13, 2006
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
The 9th International Conference on Linear Colliders LCWS2006)
takes place at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India, on 9-13 March 2006. This year promises to be an
especially important year for the international linear
collider (ILC). As co-conveners of the Supersymmetry (SUSY)
working group, we are writing to encourage you to attend this
conference and to give a talk.
There are three SUSY parallel sessions
scheduled for March 10 (Friday) and March 11 (Saturday), 2006.
These will include talks on all aspects of SUSY theory and
phenomenology. Topics emphasizing connections to cosmology and
Higgs physics will be scheduled with the corresponding working
groups. Registration for the conference is now available
online at
http://www.tifr.res.in/~lcws06/.
Note, however, that registration does
not automatically imply a talk submission. To submit a talk to
the SUSY session, please submit an abstract online through the
conference website:
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceCFA.py?confId=568
and send a copy to all of us at the e-mail addresses
provided below. The SUSY sessions have been allocated a rather
limited time and may be oversubscribed. Please submit proposed
talks by FEBRUARY 28 for FULL consideration. We will also try
to accommodate all who require confirmation well in advance so
that they can make travel arrangements: in such a case please
send your request until February 15. Anyhow, we encourage talk
submissions well in advance of the February 28 deadline.
We
look forward to seeing you in Bangalore!
—Seong Youl Choi,
sychoi@chonbuk.ac.kr
Yasuhiro Okada,
yasuhiro.okada@kek.jp
Abdelhak Djouadi,
abdelhak.djouadi@cern.ch
Konstantin Matchev,
matchev@phys.ufl.edu
First Circular for CIPANP06
Please plan to join
us for the 9th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and
Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2006), which will be held at the
Westin Rio Mar Beach Resort and Country Club in Rio Grande,
Puerto Rico, approximately 45 minutes from San Juan, on May 30
through June 3, 2006. See:
http://cipanp.physics.uiuc.edu.
We plan a broad
scientific program comprising 20 plenary talks to provide
comprehensive and pedagogical overviews and 10 parallel
strands to explore topics in depth. We will explore the
“intersections” between particle and nuclear physics in an
environment where both communities can meet and share. The
topics include:
• Fundamental Symmetries and CKM
• Neutrino Masses and Mixings
• Nuclear and
Particle Astrophysics
• Electroweak
Physics and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Hadron Spectroscopy and Exotics
• Quark Matter and Heavy Ion Collisions
• Nucleon Structures
• Low-Energy Hadron Physics
• High-Energy Hadron Physics
• New Facilities and Instrumentation
In keeping with
CIPANP traditions, the last day of the conference will feature
plenary sessions devoted to brief summaries from the parallel
sessions.
Parallel-session
coordinators have been established and a call for papers will
be made soon. We especially encourage the participation of
young scientists, and limited “scholarships” are available for
graduate students and postdocs.
A few notes on the
venue: The meeting site is completely self-contained; all
sessions will be held in the conference center on the
property. The resort, which comprises nearly 500 acres (200
hectares) and features a 1-mile (1.6-km) secluded beach
adjacent to the Caribbean National Forest “El Yunque,”
provides a superb family environment and plenty of activities
for spouses and children. Mark the date. It is a splendid
location and we promise a vigorous scientific discussion.
Questions or
suggestions for invited plenary speakers can be sent to
cipanp2006@uiuc.edu.
We look forward to welcoming you to sunny Puerto Rico.
—David W. Hertzog, Conference Chair
Doug Beck
Tony Liss
Jen-Chieh Peng
Mats Selen
Scott Willenbrock, Local Chair
COSPAR 2006 Call for Abstracts
The 36th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space
Research (COSPAR), Beijing, China, 16-23 July 2006 will bring
together approximately 2,000 scientists and engineers from all
over the world to present their latest results in 82 symposia
and special events covering all areas of space science.
As you may know we
are having a special COSPAR symposium (F3.2) on Interstellar/Protostellar
Organic Chemistry.
This session is about extraterrestrial
organic molecules relevant to the rise, survival, or search
for life. We are soliciting presentations of work in the
following areas:
• The identification or quantification
of organic molecules in space, or the characterization of such
compounds to facilitate their
identification or quantification in space.
• Studies of the physical or chemical
processes that form, modify, or destroy organic molecules in a
wide
range of extraterrestrial
environments. These processes may be either gas-phase, solid
state, or liquid
phase reactions relevant to an
extraterrestrial environment.
• Studies of extraterrestrial samples
and/or how they relate to the first two areas, or how they put
constraints on relevant
astrophysical conditions.
These may include
observational, theoretical, or experimental studies of
circumstellar, interstellar, nebular, parent body, ejection,
and delivery processes as they relate to organic compounds.
The emphasis may be on exogenous organics either as a source
of specific compounds or reduced carbon that may be of
pre-biotic importance, or the distribution of non-biological
molecules in extraterrestrial environments that may be
observed during the search for chemical biomarkers in space.
I encourage
early-career scientists (graduate students, postdocs) who are
active in research to submit an abstract. When selecting
speakers, we will consider the ability to present clearly and
speak comfortably in English. There will also be a poster
session. This is a special opportunity for post-doctoral
fellows, graduate students and perhaps even undergraduates to
present their work to an international audience, and to
publish in an international peer-reviewed journal.
• Abstract submission:
http://tinyurl.com/cslom.
• Abstract deadline: 17 February 2006.
• Scientific program and abstract
instructions: http://meetings. copernicus.org/cospar2006/.
• Registration and hotel reservations:
http://www.cospar2006. org/.
• Early registration deadline: 15 May
2006.
We look forward to
your participation in the Assembly.
—Max Bernstein & Monika Kress
Message from SLUO Chair
I would like to
introduce to you the new SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center) Users Organization Executive Committee and
subcommittees, and let you know of two upcoming SLUO
activities.
Subcommittees
The first post-election meeting of the Executive Committee
took place on January 13. An important part of that meeting
was deciding on subcommittee memberships. I list below the
membership of each of the subcommittees along with a short
description of the subcommittee’s tasks, so you know who to
contact in various matters. All the Executive Committee and
subcommittee members are interested in your suggestions and
want to serve you better, so please don’t hesitate to contact
us. Our email addresses and additional information can be
found at http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/sluo/SLUO_Exec.html.
The subcommittees are as follows.
DC Trip Subcommittee:
Greg Madejski (co-chair), Steve Sekula (co-chair), Gregory
Dubois-Felsmann, Sasha Telnov. This subcommittee is charged
with organizing the annual trip to Washington, DC and other
government communications. For the first time this year, the
subcommittee has two co-chairs. This is done in order to share
the heavy organizational load and ensure continuity of
expertise in running the trip from year to year. Steve Sekula,
who is not an executive committee member, has been chosen as
co-chair due to his extensive experience with previous DC
trips.
Quality of Life Subcommittee:
Eric Torrence (chair), Berrie Giebels, Bruce Schumm, Chris
Hearty. This subcommittee works toward improving the quality
of life of SLAC users and visitors. Notable contributions in
the past have been work on the guest house and health
insurance for visitors. Finalizing the health insurance
details, and easing and improving transportation to and from
the lab are expected to be main areas of work for this year.
Outreach Subcommittee:
Lance Dixon (chair), Bruce Schumm, David Kirkby. The
Outreach Subcommittee is charged with managing SLUO’s outreach
projects. Its main effort goes toward working with the SLAC
Communication Office on organizing the SLAC public lectures.
Public meetings:
David Lange (chair), Lance Dixon, Frank Porter, Mike
Sokoloff. The Public Meetings Subcommittee plans and executes
the SLUO annual meeting, as well as lecture series and
seminars internal to the SLUO and SLAC community. This year
the subcommittee is also reviewing the goals of the annual
meeting and exploring ways to attain them more successfully.
Mike Sokoloff, who is not an executive committee member, has
been asked to join the committee and contribute his experience
from previous work in these areas.
Charter Review Subcommittee:
Gregory Dubois-Felsmann chair), Greg Madejski, Frank Porter,
Chris Hearty, David Kirkby. This is a new subcommittee,
created at the January 13 meeting. Its charge is to propose to
the full Executive Committee changes to the SLUO charter, and
thus help the Committee identify and optimally address the
needs of the membership, especially as the lab’s focus shifts
from high energy physics to particle astrophysics and fast
x-ray physics.
Computing Subcommittee:
Berrie Giebels, David Lange, Sasha Telnov. The Computing
Subcommittee works to ensure that the computing resources
available for users at SLAC are adequate and convenient,
mostly through participation of its members in SLAC
computing-related committees.
Next Executive Committee Meeting
The next meeting of the executive committee will take place on
Friday, February 17, at 2:00-4:00 pm, in the SLUO conference
room (building 84). This will be a relatively short phone
meeting, to select the Coordinator of Committees, hear
progress reports from the subcommittees, and plan the meeting
of the institutional representatives on February 21 (more on
that below). All SLUO members are welcome to attend Executive
Committee meetings. In order to ensure a large enough venue
and a sufficient number of phone lines, please inform SLUO
administrator Olga Iakovleva (olga@slac.stanfrod.edu) if you
plan to physically attend or call in. To connect to the
meeting by phone, call 510-665-5437 and use the meeting ID
2864.
Meeting of the Institutional Representatives
The Executive Committee will seek input from the SLUO
institutional representatives on February 21 at 1:00-2:00, in
the SLAC auditorium. The IR’s have already been invited in a
separate message. For the second half of this meeting,
starting at 1:30, we invite all other interested member to
join us and provide further input.
Again, I would like
to encourage you to contact members of the Executive Committee
with your concerns and suggestions. It can only help us serve
you better.
—Abi Soffer, SLUO chair
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