New Kavli Institutes in China

The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences will be part of a Dozen-Strong Worldwide Network.

    BEIJING—(MARKET WIRE) — 06/18/2006 — In an effort to advance research in theoretical physics and astrophysics, the Kavli Foundation will fund two new scientific institutes in China, it announced here today. The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences will join a network of ten existing Kavli Institutes around the world dedicated to furthering scientific knowledge in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.

    “Through the ages, China has contributed immensely to science and technology,” said industrialist Fred Kavli, founder of the Kavli Foundation. “We are pleased to recognize the dedicated pursuit of excellence in China’s fast growing research enterprise today and participate in its future potential. I am confident that these two institutes will make important contributions to science.”

    The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University will carry out fundamental research on the origin and evolution of astrophysical structures, from planetary systems to the universe as a whole. It will serve as a center of excellence within China and the Pacific Rim region, acting as a role model for promoting basic scientific research in China at the highest international standards, and as a bridge between the scientific communities of the emerging world and those of the developed countries. The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China at the Chinese Academy of Sciences will have important national and international roles. Nationally, it will coordinate basic research on theoretical physics in China and facilitate interaction between theory and experiment, as well as promote research in inter disciplinary areas among physics and other branches of science. Internationally, it will host international conferences, workshops, summer schools, guest scientist and visitor programs, which will promote the interaction of Chinese scientists with their counterparts in other countries.

     “We are extremely pleased to launch these two new institutes as part of the expanding worldwide network of Kavli Research Institutes,” said David Auston, president of the Kavli Foundation. “As new centers of excellence in China’s growing research enterprise, each will contribute in important ways to developments in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics and theoretical physics, both in China and worldwide through their linkages with other Kavli Institutes. ”

About the Kavli Foundation
   Dedicated to the advancement of science for the benefit of humanity, the Kavli Foundation supports scientific research, honors scientific achievement, and promotes public understanding of scientists and their work through an international program of research institutes, prizes, professorships, and symposia in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Established in 2000, its headquarters are in Oxnard, California.

    The other ten Kavli Institutes are the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University; the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago; the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech; the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science; the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology in Holland; the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale University; the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University; and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at  the University of California, San Diego. More information can be found at  www.kavlifoundation.org.

From Strings to LHC
January 2-10, 2007
The International Centre, Dona Paula, Goa, India

    The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, is organising a meeting. In this meeting, we are interested in bringing together string theorists and high-energy pheno-menologists and hope to give this alliance a concrete shape. This alliance is particularly valuable in light of the experimental information that LHC will provide us very soon and which we hope will tell us about physics beyond the Standard Model.

    Tentatively, we have planned a few overview lectures onthe first day, three days of pedagogical mini-courses on various subjects and then three days of working group sessions. For details, please check http://theory.tifr.res.in/~stringslhc.

Asian School of Particles, Strings and Cosmology
September 25-29, 2006
Laforet Nasu, Hotels and Resorts, Nasu, Tochigi, Japan

    We would like to draw your attention to a school on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, which will be held in September, 2006. It aims to survey the present status of particle physics, stringtheory and cosmology which are increasingly interconnected with each other. We plan to have this school once a year in 2006-2010; i.e. the school this year is the first of the series.

    This school is sponsored by Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai) and its host institutions: High En-ergy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and NationalAstronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). A number of Ph.D. students and PD fellows from inside/outside of Japan can be supported for travel (inside Asia) andliving expenses, and we encourage their applications. Lectures will be given on (a) LHC physics (b) Supersymmetry and its connection to the string theory, and (c) particle cosmology which address young researches of the both theoretical and experimental physics. These lectures are accompanied by discussion sessions which aim to foster each student’s understandings of the subjects.

    Lecturers/instructors will be Tao Han, Wisconsin U., M.Yamaguchi, Tohoku U. and M. Kawasaki, ICRR, Tokyo. Besides the above pedagogical lectures, there will be topical lectures onstrings, experimental physics (B physics, neutrino experiments, and LHC), CMB observations. Confirmed lecturers are S. Wadia (Tata), S. Iso (KEK) on string theory and black holes, Y. Sakai (KEK) on B physics, T. Nakaya (Kyoto) on neutrino and O. Dore (Princeton) on WMAP. An opening lecture by Y. Kitazawa (KEK) will provide an introduction to string theory and its possible role to unify particle physics and cosmology.

    If you are interested in attending this school, send an application form and, if you are a graduate student or postdoc, a recom-mendation letter from your adviser. These must be sent no later than June 30, 2006 to nasulec@kek.jp. The decision of travel support and admission to the schoolwill be made shortly after the deadline and it will be notifiedto the applicants. The participants without the support on the local expense need to pay their lodging/meal at Nasu (4 nights), which costs less than $100/night.

    Participants are asked to arrive on KEK by the evening of September 24, 2006. In the morning of September 25, there will be a bus from KEK to Laforet Nasu, Hotels and Resorts. Nasu is a part of Nikko National Park and known by its beau-tiful highlands. The bus will take you to KEK again on 29th. The participants can stay at KEK lodgings on 24th and 29th.

    The staying expenses at KEK and the bus transportations between KEK and Nasu will not be charged to the participants.The detail of the program, the transportation to KEK will be available on our web pages http://www-conf.kek.jp/nasulec/shortly.

    Please check whether or not you need a visa to enter Japanor not. Ask your nearest Japanese diplomatic mission. Homepage of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan is foundfrom http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html.

2006 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics
November 15-17, 2006
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.cospa.ntu.edu.tw/cospa2006/ 


    As we human being venture into the 21st Century, it just so happens uniquely that the human race is becoming capable of making use of their hi-tech’s to explore what is going on at the edge of our Universe or, equivalently, what had happened much early on at the early universe, i.e. shortly after the Big Bang. This has stiffened the competitions among astronomers and particle physicists in their vigorous pursuits for the true theory of cosmology, such pursuits being un-imaginable even a decade ago. Here in Taiwan and especially at the Research Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA Center), National Taiwan University, we wish to actively join the crusade of the scientists worldwide in this pursuit of the observation-based cosmology. The CosPA center will organize a series of symposia, the one in question being the 2006 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2006), from November 15 to November 17, 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan.

    The CosPA2006 is the third conference of this nature. In the past, we successfully organized CosPA2002 and CosPA2003.The conferences provided a very important forum for exchanging ideals and learn new techniques. We hope to continue this important activity and hope that it would become an important tradition. There will be invited review lectures, invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations.

    This Conference is one of Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Phyiscs (APCTP) External Activities.

Conference Topics
• CMB Cosmology: Anisotropy, Polarizations, SZ Surveys, and Large-Scale Structures
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Dark matter physics, Quintes-sence, the Cosmological Constant, and Extra Dimension.
• Neutrino Cosmology, including Neutrino Mixings and Oscillations.
• Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays.
• Inflation and New Physics: Inflation, Noncommutative Geormetry, Branes and Extra dimensions.

International Advisory Committee
John D. Barrow, Cambridge, UK.
Francois Bouchet, IAP, France.
Pisin Chen, SLAC, USA.
Tzi-Hong Chiueh, NTU, Taiwan.
John R. Ellis, CERN, Switzerland.
Ernest M. Henley, Seattle, USA.
Paul Ho, ASIAA, Taiwan.
W-Y. Pauchy Hwang, Co-Chair, NTU, Taiwan.
Andrew H. Jaffe, Imperial, UK.
Hyun Kyu Lee, Hanyang, Korea.
Andrew R. Liddle, Sussex, UK.
Bruce H. J. McKellar, Melbourne, AU.
Sandip Pakvasa, Hawaii, USA.
Jeffrey Peterson, CMU, USA.
Paul Richards, Berkeley, USA.
Katsuhiko Sato, RESCEU, Japan.
Frank H. Shu, UCSD, USA.
Joseph Silk, Oxford, UK.
George Smoot, Berkeley, USA.
Ronald Taam, Co-Chair, TIARA & Northwestern.

Local Organizing Committee
Je-An Gu, NCTS.
Xaio-Gang He, NTU (Scientific Secretary).
Pei-Ming Ho, NTU.
Chih-Hsin Huang, NTU (Administrative Secretary).
W-Y. Pauchy Hwang, NTU (Co-Chair).
Guey-Lin Lin, NCTU.
Kin-Wang Ng, AS (Co-Chair).
Jiun-Huei Proty Wu, NTU.


The 7th Frontier Science Symposium
23-26 November, 2006
CALL FOR PAPERS

Objectives
In the past few years, the Frontier Science Symposia successfully gathered participants from Nanjing University (NU), National University of Singapore (NUS), National Central University (NCU), and National Taiwan University (NTU) to present their latest research findings and results. All the participants benefited much from the fruitful discussion and learned from each others experiences. Following the 6th Frontier Science Symposium in Singapore, we are happy to announce that the 7th Frontier Science Symposium will be held at National Taiwan University during 23-26 November, 2006. The main themes will be focused on recent research progresses on physics, chemistry and bio-science. Paper topics are proposed within the themes cited below, and may include, but are not limited to, topics contained in each of the synopsis. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to join. Apart from oral presentations, posters are also most welcome.

Proposed Themes
Theme 1
Chemical Biology: the chemical biology section will focus on the development of chemical bioprobes, small molecule microarrays, new analytic method for biomolecules and thesyntheses of new molecules for biomedical research.

Theme 2
Nanotechnology: this section will concentrated on the designand synthesis of nanoscale materials and their potential application in different fields such as optoelectronic, electronic, magnetic, medical imaging, drug delivery, catalytic and functional material research.

Theme 3
The physics session will be focused on the topics of nanoscience, nanotechnolgy, spintronics, and biophysics, in particularincluding:
• Quantum Information
• Nanostructure in Surface Science
• Nanomagnetism
• Spin-Dependent Transport
• Nanophotonics
• Advanced Nanomaterials
• Biophysics
• Others

Theme 4
Systems biology is a new field in biology that focuses on an understanding of functional activity from a systems-wide perspective. Recently, with the advent of high-throughput drug synthesis, proteomics, microarray and bioinformatics technologies, the study of systems biology has become possible. The holistic study of biological transformations will enable more rapid advances in elucidating biochemical path-ways and disease therapies.

Abstract Submission
Please submit abstracts not longer than 2 pages, using our template. Please submit abstracts in WORD or PDF format before August 10 (Thursday). After our friendly review, we will notify you of acceptance of your paper proposals. Please send abstracts to Ms. Huang at: wenchinhuang@ntu.edu.tw.

Organizing Committee
• Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, nora@ntu.edu.tw.
• Minn-Tsong Lin, mtlin@phys.ntu.edu.tw.
• Hsi-Sheng Goan, goan@phys.ntu.edu.tw.
• Chung-Yuan Mou, cymou@ntu.edu.tw.
• Sheng-Hsien Chiu, shchiu@ntu.edu.tw.
• Hsueh-fen Juan, yukijuan@ntu.edu.tw.

Advisory Board
• Ching-Hua Lo, Dean, College of Science, NTU.
• Changde Gong, Dean, Faculty of Science, NU.
• Eng Chye Tan, Dean, Faculty of Science, NUS.
• Kwang-Hwa Lii, Dean, College of Science, NCU.

Secretariat
• Mr. Rui-Peng Dai, rpdai@ntu.edu.tw.
• Miss Wen-Chin Huang, wenchinhuang@ntu.edu.tw.