Final Circular

October 3, 2007

Dear EAMA7 participants,

The EAMA7, 7-th symposium of EAMA is coming within a week. All preparation is going well, and we warmly welcome all friends to Fukuoka!
This is the 2nd and final announcement, including detailed information relating the symposium. Please check it and copy it for your travel and meeting reference. Looking forward to seeing you all at Fukuoka, and also to having very exciting discussion!

*** Conference Information ***

Internet Connection

You can hook up your PC on the Internet via wired/wireless LAN in Fukuoka International Congress Center (Oct. 8 ~ Oct. 11). Internet is not available at Fukuoka Science Museum in Kurume city (Oct. 12).

Poster Presentation

The size of poster board is 85cm of width and 205cm of height for each poster. We will provide pins only. You can put posters in the poster session place between Oct. 8 and Oct. 11. You have to remove your posters from the poster session place by the end of sessions at Fukuoka International Congress Center on Oct. 11. No poster board for presentation is prepared on Oct. 12.

Oral Presentation

We prepare a projector with a VGA cable, an over head camera and a PC. It is best to use your own PC that comes with a D-sub 15pin connector. You can use our PC to display your ppt or pdf file. Bring your file in a USB flash memory or CD-R to load the file to our PC. Please keep in mind that this option may cause some display problems if your file tries to use fonts that our PC does not have.

Proceedings

As like the all previous EAMA symposium we like to publish a proceedings for the record and references of cooperation of EA
astronomy. Details will be discussed in the SOC meeting and be announced during the symposium.

IYA cooperation meeting in the 11(Thursday) evening:

Immediately after the end of the session on 11(Thursday), we will hold an informal meeting on the IYA cooperation in the
East Asia region. Place of the meeting is Room 504, a small room next to the poster presentation room. You will find the
announcement on the information board also. All interested people are welcome.

*** Practical & Travel Information ***

*EMERGENCY CALL in Fukuoka: 090-5731-8084 YAMAOKA Hitoshi, LOC chair

Places of the Symposium:

Fukuoka International Congress Center
http://www.marinemesse.or.jp/english/kaigi/index.html

and

Fukuoka Science Museum
http://www.science.pref.fukuoka.jp/

Fukuoka city is located at the western part of Japan. You can reach Fukuoka by ship (from Puzan, Korea) or airplane (directly from many cities in the east Asia. A transit at Taipei or Seoul is also convenient).

General information: http://www.fukuoka-tourism.net/e/outline.html
Flight: http://www.fuk-ab.co.jp/english/frame_index.html
Ship: http://www.port-of-hakata.or.jp/english/activities/index_access.htm
Fukuoka City Subway: http://subway.city.fukuoka.jp/eng/index.html
Nishitetsu Bus (Local bus): http://jik.nnr.co.jp/cgi-bin/Tschedule/menu.exe?pwd=gb/menu.pwd&mod=F&menu=F

Money Exchange

Best place to change your money is the Fukuoka Airport International Terminal (2nd floor, 8:00-21:00, everyday). In Fukuoka city, you can change money at Fukuoka Bank which is one of the major banks in Fukuoka. Fukuoka Bank's business hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on weekdays. Note that Oct. 8 (Monday) is a holiday in Japan and banks in town are closed. You can exchange money only at the airport on Oct. 8.

How to get to your hotel from the airport/seaport

We do not offer private transportation from/to the airport or seaport. Print the PDF file and take it with you. If you have a difficulty in opening a PDF file containing Japanese characters, try the one without Japanese fonts. You can also download a zip file that contains all the instruction pages in JPEG format. All the PDF and ZIP files include instructions to reach the conference dinner venue (Nishitetsu Grand Hotel) from Fukuoka International Congress Center.

Hotel Instructions are available at
http://www.naoj.org/Information/News/EAMA7/travel/index.html.
Get the latest version at this page.

Climate

Temperature in Fukuoka was record high this summer and it continues at this time. For several days in late September, the high temperature was over 30 degrees C. However, night temperature fell down to about 20 degrees C. We do not know yet how the weather will be during the conference. But proper clothing that covers wide range of temperature from 20 to 30 degrees C is suggested.
It may rain during your stay. You can buy a small umbrella at a convenience store near the conference venue by 500 JPY. October is a typhoon season in Japan. Although there is no forecast for imminent strike of typhoon at this moment, you can keep it in mind that a typhoon may affect our conference schedule as well as traffic schedules. Please check weather in Fukuoka before you leave your home.

* Japan Weather Association http://www.tenki.jp/lang.html
* wunderground.com http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/47807.html
* www.weather.com http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/JAXX0009?x=0&lswe=fukuoka, japan&lswa=WeatherLocalUndeclared&y=0

Mobile Phone
Some of you may consider to bring your own mobile phone in Fukuoka. Unfortunately, mobile phone network in Japan is so much advanced (!?) that there is no compatibility with mobile phones used in the rest of the world (No GSM, no Korean CDMA). If you need a cell phone in Japan, check with your carrier in your country to see if you can rent a compatible cell phone before you leave your country. You may rent a cell phone at Fukuoka International Airport. Reservation may be
necessary. Please search the Web for further information.

Electricity

100V, 60Hz. "A" type. Many receptacles do not have a hole for the ground (Top round one). You may need an adapter to convert a three-pin A-Type plug to a two-pin A-Type plug + ground wire.

About Kyushu University: History

The history of Kyushu University dates back to 1903 when Fukuoka Medical College was established as the foundation of Kyushu Imperial University. (The college was legally attached to Kyoto Imperial University at that time).　In 1911, Kyushu Imperial University, along with the Colleges of Medicine and Engineering, were established. Since then various reforms have been made to the higher education system in Japan, such as the introduction of a new educational format after World War II and the reorganization of national universities to University Corporations in 2004.

The total number of students currently amounts to 18,393, while the faculty members number 2,331. International exchange programs are also greatly encouraged at Kyushu University. With this in mind, the university accepts many overseas students each year. At present there are more than 1,100 international students from about seventy countries studying here.

Kyushu University webpage http://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/index.php
(This webpage is also available Korea and Chinese)

May 23, 2007

First Announcement
of
7-th EAMA (East Asian Astronomy Meeting) Symposium
“East Asian Network of Astronomy:
Research, Education, and Popularization”
8-12 October, 2007, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to send you all the first circular of the 7-th EAMA Symposium “East Asian Network of Astronomy: Research, Education, and Popularization” which will be held in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan in coming October.

The EAMA, East Asian Astronomy Meeting, has 17 years history of promotion and organization of astronomer’s level cooperation of astronomy in the East Asian region. During the very successful 6-th EAMA Symposium held in Seoul, 2004, numbers of EAMA working groups on VLBI, ALMA, 2-m Telescopes, Asian Journal, and of course, EAYAM (East Asian Young Astronomers Meeting). Importantly the establishment of the EACOA (East Asian Core Observatories Association) to support the EAMA and other astronomer’s level cooperation was signed by directors of national-level astronomical institutes in four regions: NAOC (China), NAOJ (Japan), KASI (Korea), and ASIAA (Taiwan) in 2005. Behind such remarkable progress of cooperation in East Asia we clearly see the rapidly growing astronomy in this region.

Furthermore, IAU and UN declared that the year of 2009 as “International Year of Astronomy (IYA)” celebrating 400 years since Galileo Galilei’s first observation of the Universe through the telescope. His telescope was small, but his discoveries were huge. A variety of activities of astronomy in research, education and outreach would be organized all through the world, globally and locally. The 7-th EAMA Symposium is exactly a suitable occasion to discuss what we can cooperate through the IYA and to organize the East Asian network of astronomy not only in research but also in educational and popularization.

In this connection, we hold the 7-th EAMA Symposium under the title “East Asian Network of Astronomy: Research, Education, and Popularization”. Please join us to make friends and contact, lean the activities of each other, discuss the cooperation, and make the future of East Asian Astronomy.

Please visit our HP, http://eama7.naoj.org for information and registration. We all Japanese community of astronomy very warmly welcome you all to the 7-th EAMA symposium and related activities.

Norio Kaifu, professor

Chair, the 7-th EAMA Symposium Science Organizing Committee

Symposium Program

We present here the tentative program. Other than the invited papers we call contributed papers both in oral and posters for various sessions shown in the program. For details refer to the paragraph “Submission of Papers” followed to the program. The program time table is a matter of change. We plan to send out the detailed program in July based on the response from you all. Please contact with SOC members or contact addresses shown in the last paragraph for more information, and visit our HP, http://eama7.naoj.org for new information!

・October 8 (Mon) at Fukuoka International Congress Center
Evening Reception & Welcome Cocktail

・October 9 (Tue) Sessions at Fukuoka International Congress Center
   Opening
9:00 Welcome Addresses Norio Kaifu (SOC Chair),
                   Makoto Tosa (SOC, President of ASJ), Hitoshi Yamaoka (LOC Chair)
Session I. Situation and Recent Progress of Regional Astronomical Research
        9:20 Report form Japan (Miyama,Shoken, NAOJ + Inoue, Hajime, ISAS)
        9:45 Report from China (Zhao-Gang, NAOC)
      10:10 Report from Korea (Park, Seok-Jae, KASI)
      10:35 Report from Taiwan (Ho, Paul, ASIAA + Ip, Wing, Central Taiwan U.)
      11:00 Tea Break (20 min.)
      11:20 Reports from other Regions/Countries (10-15 min. each)
      Indonesia (Malasan, Hakim L., Astronomy, FMIPA)
      Thailand (Boonrucksar, Soonthornthum, NARIT)
      Malaysia (Asillam, Mhd Fairos Bin, NSAM)
      Vietnam (Lan,Nguien Quinh, Dep. phys. Hanoi National Univ. Ed.)
      Philippines (Celebre, Cyncia P., AR DS, PAGASA)
      12:30 Lunch
      Session II. Highlights of Astronomical Research and Development
      Invited Papers:
      14:00 LAMOST (Zhao, Young Hen)
      14:20 Current stage of KVN and its Future Works (Kim, Hyo-Ryoung, KVN/KASI)
      14:40 SMA (Nagayoshi Ohashi, ASIAA)
      15:00 Subaru (Hayashi, Masahiko, Subaru/NAOJ)
      15:20 AKARI (Nakagawa, Takao, JAXA)
      15:40 Tea Break & Poster Discussion (40 min.)
      16:20 Contributed Papers: SOC/LOC recommended and other applied papers
     oral papers (10 min. each)
      poster papers (2 min. introduction each)
      18:20 Close of the Session

・October 10 (Wed) Sessions at Fukuoka International Congress Center
    Session III. Research Networks and Future Prospects
       9:00 Two-Meter Class Telescope WG (Yoshida, Michitoshi , OAO/NAOJ)
       9:20 East Asian VLBI Consortium (Inoue, Makoto+Cho, Se-Hyung + TBD, China)
       9:50 ALMA and East Asian Research Center (Kawabe, Ryohei + TBD, Taiwan + Ji, Yang, PMO)
      10:20 Tea Break (20 min.)
      10:40 Space IR (Nakagawa, Takao + Lee, Hyung-Mok + TBD,Taiwan)
      11:10 X-ray (TBD, Japan +Lu, Fangjun(HMXT) + Lee, Hyung-Mok + Chang, Hsiang-Kuang)
      11:40 Solar Physics (TBD, China + Shibata, Kazunari)
      12:10 Theoretical Astrophysics (Chi, Yuan or Ron Taam)
      12:30 Lunch
      14:00 Lunar Exploration (Kawano, Nobuyuki, NAOJ + TBD, China)
      14:20 Contributed Papers (call for papers)
      15:00 ELT (Cui, Xiangqum + TBD, Japan)
      15:20 Contributed Papers (call for papers）
      16:00 Tea Break (20 min)
      16:20 SKA (Nan, Len-Dong + Inoue, Makoto, NAOJ)
      16:40 Contributed Papers (call for papers)
      17:00 Contributed Papers (any subjects):
      SOC/LOC recommended and other applied papers
      oral papers (10 min. each)
      poster papers (2 min. introduction each)
      18:20 Close of the Session
      19:30 Symposium Dinner (Fukuoka downtown area, place will be announced)

・October 11 (Thu) Sessions at Fukuoka International Congress Center
    Session IV. Research Networks in East Asia
       9:00 Asian Astronomical Journal WG (Lee, Hyung Mok)
       9:20 Report of EAYAM—East Asian Young Astronomers Meeting (Kinoshita, Daisuke)
       9:40 Interferometer Winter School (Kawabe, Ryohei, NRO/NAOJ)
      10:00 Report of International School for Young Astronomers 2007 (Asillam, MHD Failos, Malaysia)
      10:20 Subaru East Asia Young Astronomers Seminar (Noumaru Junichi, Subaru/NAOJ)
      10:40 Tea Break (20 min.)
      11:00 Contributed Papers
      SOC/LOC recommended and other applied papers
      oral papers (10 min. each)
      poster papers (2 min. introduction each)
      12:00 General Discussion: Network of EA Astronomy and Future Prospects
      12:30 Lunch
     Session V. Network of Astronomical Education and Popularization
      14:00 2009 International Year of Astronomy (Kaifu, Norio)
      14:20 Review of Education and Popularization of Astronomy in Taiwan
      (Sun, Wei-Hsin + Chang, Kui-Lan)
      14:50 Review of Education and Popularization of Astronomy in Korea
      (Kwon, Suk-Minn + Lee, Kang-Hwan)
      15:20 Review of Education and popularization of Astronomy in Japan ( TBD )
      15:50 Tea Break & Poster Discussion (40 min.)
      16:30 Review of Education and Popularization of Astronomy in China (Xiangdong Li + Fangjun Lu)
      17:00 Review of Education and Popularization of Astronomy in Other EA Regions
      ( TBD )
      17:30 Contributed Papers (SOC/LOC recommended and other applied papers)
      oral papers (10 min. each)
      poster papers (2 min. introduction each)
      18:30 Close of the Session

・October 12 (Fri)
      Tour to the Fukuoka Science Museum and Education and Popularization Sessions
      9:00 Visit to the Fukuoka Science Museum
      9:30 Tour of the Museum
     11:30 General Discussion on Popularization in Astronomy
     12:30 Lunch
    Session VI. Future of Education and Popularization of Astronomy in EA
     14:00 Contributed Papers
   SOC/LOC recommended and other applied papers
     oral papers (10 min. each)
     poster papers (2 min. introduction each)
     15:30 Tea Break (30 min.)
     15:50 Contributed Papers
    SOC/LOC recommended and other applied papers
     oral papers (10 min. each)
     poster papers (2 min. introduction each)
     16:30 Discussion: Education and Popularization in EA---Cooperation, IYA, and Network
     18:20 Closing Remarks (Kozai, Yoshihide)
     18:30 Adjourn

Submission of Papers

Contributed papers (oral and posters) should be submitted with abstract no later than July 25 through the EAMA symposium HP http://eama7.naoj.org or to the following e-mail address:
(Dr. Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, International Research Collaborations, NAOJ)
The abstract should be 50 to 150 words, and a title of the paper, name(s) of author(s), belonging(s), and request of oral or poster should be attached. The allotted time for the oral contributed papers is expected to be 10 minutes, but shorter or bit longer time would be possible due to the time schedule of the program. A 2-minutes oral introduction of poster papers might be allotted in the corresponding sessions.

Fukuoka City and Place of the Symposium

Place of the Symposium:
Fukuoka International Congress Center and Fukuoka Science Museum
Fukuoka city is located at the western part of Japan. You can reach Fukuoka by ship (from Puzan, Korea) or airplane (directly from many cities in the east Asia. A transit at Taipei or Seoul is also convenient).

General information: http://www.fukuoka-tourism.net/e/outline.html
Flight: http://www.fuk-ab.co.jp/english/frame_index.html
Ship http://www.port-of-hakata.or.jp/english/activities/index_access.htm

Fukuoka International Congress Center is situated near the urban area of Fukuoka city.
http://www.marinemesse.or.jp/english/kaigi/index.html

Fukuoka Science Museum is located in Kurume city. We plan to bring you there by Bus with no charge. Details will be announced later.
http://www.science.pref.fukuoka.jp/

Accommodation
The information of accommodation and its reservation form will be prepared at the 7th EAMA HP soon. Many hotels are available near Hakata station or the urban area (Tenjin). You should use a bus from the hotel to reach the Congress center and it takes about 10 minutes.

Climate
October is the best season in Fukuoka. In October, average temperature at Fukuoka is about 20C. On sunny daytime, some people wear T-shirts or short sleeves. But at night, you should wear a long-sleeve one and a jacket. Total precipitation in October is around 30mm, which is lowest through the year. However, a typhoon may come close to Fukuoka in Autumn.

Funds and Supports for Attendants

The Symposium is supported by the EACOA (leading observatories in the four regions). In addition to EACOA fund and the registration fee (TBD), we are seeking for some other funds in Japan, like the Foundation of Promotion of Astronomy (FPA), and the Astronomical Society of Japan (ASJ).

The basic idea is that those core observatories in China (NAOC), Japan (NAOJ), Korea (KASI) and Taiwan (ASIAA) support travel and accommodations of attendants from each region. The similar idea is applied to the attendants from other countries, however, for those attendants from regions/countries without adequate governmental nor institutional supports we try to provide limited amount of funding to support travel and/or accommodation expense. When you feel that you need support to attend the symposium please send your funding support request to:
Dr. Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, International Research Collaborations, NAOJ

together with your submission of the contributed paper. (Deadline is also 25 July)

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Xiangdong Li (Co-Chair, CAS / Nanjing University, China), Xiangqun Cui (NIAOT, China), Ji Yang (MPO, China), Yipeng Jing (SHAO, China),

Se-Hyung Cho (Co-Chair, KASI, Korea), Bon-Chul Koo (Seoul National University, Korea), Hyung Mok Lee (Seoul National University, Korea), Hong Bae Ann (Pusan National University, Korea),

Jeremy Lim (Co-Chair, ASIAA, Taiwan), Wen-Ping Chen (National Central University, Taiwan), Shih-Ping Lai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Yi-Jehng Kuan (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan),

Norio Kaifu (Chair, SCJ / University of the Air, Japan), Makoto Tosa (Tohoku University/ Astronomcal Society of Japan, Japan), Toshio Fukushima (NAOJ, Japan), Masafumi Matsumura (Kagawa University, Japan)

Advisors:

Yoshihide Kozai ( Gunma Observatory), Cai-pin Liu and Shuji Sato (Nagoya University)

Local Organizing Committee

Hidehiko Agata (NAOJ), Kazuya Ayani (Bisei Astronomical Observatory), Mamoru Doi (University of Tokyo), Kenta Fujisawa (Yamaguchi University), Tetsuharu Fuse (NAOJ), Tetsuo Hasegawa (NAOJ), Osamu Hashimoto (Gunma Observatory), Makoto Inoue (NAOJ), Shoichi Itoh (Suginami Science Center), Osamu Kanamitsu (Fukuoka University of Education), Ryuji Koga (Fukuoka Science Museum), Eiichiro Kokubo (NAOJ), Takehiko Kuroda (University of Hyogo), Atsushi Matsuo (Yamaguchi Museum), Shin Mineshige (Kyoto University), Junichi Noumaru (NAOJ), Kazuhiro Sekiguchi (NAOJ), Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University), Hitoshi Yamaoka (LOC Chair, Kyushu University), Makoto Yoshikawa (JAXA-ISAS), Fumi Yoshida (NAOJ), Michitoshi Yoshida (NAOJ), Junnichi Watanabe (NAOJ)

Important Dates

1^st Announcement May 21 (Mon)
Pre-Registration Deadline June 30 (Wed)
2^nd Announcement July 06 (Fri)
Registration Deadline July 25 (Wed)
      Abstract Submission Deadline July 25 (Wed)
      Financial Support Request Deadline July 25 (Wed)
      Notification of Financial Support Decision August 06 (Mon) Final Announcement (detailed
      program) August 31 (Fri.)
     Symposium Reception October 08 (Mon)
     Symposium Session October 09 (Tue) to 12 (Fri)

Contact Addresses

Website: http://eama7.naoj.org: Pre-registration, registration, submission of abstract, travel support requests can be made through the Web pages. Information on hotels/accommodations will be available soon.
General matter, question, request, visa, etc:: Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro (International Relation Center, NAOJ)
Please add the keyword "EAMA" to the subject when you e-mail this address.
SOC and scientific matter:: Kaifu, Norio (SOC Chair, University of the Air)
LOC and local matter:: Yamaoka, Hitoshi (LOC Chair, Kyushu University)