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Joint Assembly:
JSPS-DST Asia Academic Seminar
CPS 8th International School of Planetary Sciences
    Challenges in Astronomy: Observational Advances

Detailed Information : See Final Circular
Date : 26 September - 1 October 2011
(1 - 3 October 2011 for a facility tour to Kamioka Observatory)
Venue : Minami-Awaji Royal Hotel, Hyogo, Japan
List of Participants
Photos
Poster Presentations

Program:


Monday,
26 September
1500-1800 Registration
1800-2100 Opening Reception

Tuesday,
27 September
0730-0845 Breakfast
0845-0900 Opening Keynote: Yoshitsugu Nakagawa (CPS, Japan)
[Opening talk PDF]
[Opening talk video]
0900-1015,
1045-1200
(Chair: Yoichi Itoh)
Lecture I
Sebastian Wolf (Univ. of Kiel, Germany)
The Birthplace of Planets : Observations and Modeling of Circumstellar Disks
[Lecture notes]
[Lecture video 1] [Lecture video 2]
1230-1330 Lunch
1400-1515,
1545-1700
(Chair: Takahiro Sumi)
Lecture II
David Bennett (Univ. Notre Dame, USA)
Detection of Extrasolar Planets by Gravitational Microlensing from the Ground and Space
[Lecture notes]
[Lecture video 1] [Lecture video 2]
1800-1900 Dinner
1900-2100 Poster session 1 with short talks
[Poster session PDF]
[Short talk PDF] [Short talk video]

Wednesday,
28 September
0730-0900 Breakfast
0900-1015,
1045-1200
(Chair: Masaki Ishiwatari)
Lecture III
Annapurni Subramaniam (IIA, India)
Probing the Geography, History, and Chemistry of Nearby Galaxies with Future Telescopes
[Lecture notes 1] [Lecture notes 2]
[Lecture video 1] [Lecture video 2]
1230-1330 Lunch
1400-1515,
1545-1700
(Chair: Manabu Yuasa)
Lecture IV-a
Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA, India)
Virtual Observatories: Tools and Applications
[Lecture notes]
[Lecture video]
Lecture IV-b
Masatoshi Ohishi (NAOJ, Japan)
Data Discovery in and Science Results by means of VOs
[Lecture notes]
[Lecture video]
1800-1900 Dinner
1900-2100 Poster session 2 with short talks
[Poster session PDF]
[Short talk PDF] [Short talk video]

Thursday,
29 September
0730-0900 Breakfast
0900-1015,
1045-1200
(Chair: Hiroaki Isobe)
Lecture V
Jayaram Chengalur (NCRA/TIFR, India)
Atomic Hydrogen in the Universe
[Lecture notes 1] [Lecture notes 2]
[Lecture video 1] [Lecture video 2]
1230-1330 Lunch
1400-1800 Excursion
1800-1900 Dinner
1900-2100 Free Discussions

Friday,
30 September
0730-0900 Breakfast
0900-1015,
1045-1200
(Chair: Kiyoshi Kuramoto)
Lecture VI
Hideyo Kunieda (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Violent Universe Explored by Japanese X-ray Satellites
[Lecture notes 1] [Lecture notes 2]
[Lecture video 1] [Lecture video 2]
1230-1330 Lunch
1400-1515,
1545-1700
(Chair: Hideyuki Tagoshi)
Lecture VII
Nobuyuki Kanda (Osaka City Univ., Japan)
Frontier of Gravitational Wave Astronomy - Opening New Window of Astrophysics and Cosmology
  lecture 1 : Fundamentals of Gravitational Wave and its Detection
  lecture 2 : Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves
[Lecture notes]
[Lecture video 1] [Lecture video 2]
1800-2100 Banquet

Saturday,
1 October
0730-0900 Breakfast
Facility Tour to Kamioka Observatory, for a limited number of participants

Organizing Committee:

Scientific Organizing Committee
Hiroshi Shibai, Rajaram Nityananda, Ajit Kembhavi, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi

Local Organizing Committee
Hiroshi Shibai, Misato Fukagawa, Yuki Itoh, Yoshitsugu Nakagawa, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi, Hiroshi Kimura,
Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi, Seiya Nishizawa, Jun Kimura, Ayako Suzuki, Takayuki Tanigawa, Ko Yamada,
Akiyoshi Nouda, Asako M Sato, Mire Murakami, Mariko Hirano, Chieko Shishido, Mizue Odo, Yukiko Tsutsumino

Video Recording and Photographing Staff
Iori Tani, Kazuhiro Kanagawa, Naoya Okazawa, Noriyuki Katoh, Sho Manabe, Shotaro Sakai, Takuhiro Aota,
Tetsuya Matsui, Tomoaki Nakamura, Yasuto Takahashi

Contact us:

E-mail: pschool-info@cps-jp.org
Center for Planetary Science

Funds:

The school is sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST), and Center for Planetary Science (CPS) under the MEXT Global COE Program: "Foundation of International Center for Planetary Science", a joint project between Kobe University and Hokkaido University.

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The PDF and Video files can be used for educational purposes only.

Last Update : December 7, 2011