Subaru Telescope International Partnership
~ Workshop support program (FY2018) ~

日本語/Japanese

Objectives:

Subaru Telescope / NAOJ is working toward international partnership for joint operation of the Subaru Telescope. In order to keep the competitiveness of Subaru (and also by considering the recent budget situation), it is an urgent issue for the Subaru Telescope to find partners for joint operation. In March 2017, we had Subaru Telescope International Partnership Science and Instrumentation Workshop (https://www.naoj.org/Projects/partnership/SubaruWS2017/), where we concluded that having small-scale, science oriented workshops is important to promote science and instrumentation collaboration between potential Subaru partner countries. Following FY2017, this program aims to support such workshops.

Goals:

• Share future perspective and strategy to use Subaru Telescope in a specific research field.
• Promote collaboration between researchers in Japan and potential partner countries.
  • Identify new science collaboration which can be started immediately or extend existing collaboration.
  • Identify future science collaboration programs after establishment of Subaru international partnership.
• Give suggestions and requests on future plans of the Subaru Telescope:
  • Telescope operations (e.g. open-use categories, scheduling, observing modes, archive)
  • Instrumentation (e.g. suggestions from scientific demands, joint instrument development plan)

Expected support and budget size:

• Travel support for invited speakers and other participants, especially young researchers/students and cost for venue (if necessary)
• The total budget of this programs is 4 million JPY (approx. 36,000 USD).
• Maximum 1 million JPY for each workshop
• Budget will be handled by Subaru - we will not transfer the budget to other institutes.

Applicant eligibility and prerequisites:

• Researcher(s) belonging to institutes in Japan or potential partner countries (Australia, Canada, China, Korea, Taiwan, India) can apply for this support.
  • In the case of non-Japanese PI, please assign a person who can communicate in Japanese to take care of the travel support.
• The workshop participants should include researchers from multiple potential partner countries (Japan + at least 2 countries).
  • Participants are not limited to researchers in the countries listed above.
• The workshop should be held sometime between July 1, 2018 and March 16, 2019.
• At least one session should be devoted for discussion on science or development in the era of Subaru international partnership.
• At least one researchers from potential partner countries should be included in the organizing committee.
• At least one Subaru Telescope staff should join as a member of organizing committee (or as a participant).
• Workshop venue can be either in Japan, Hilo, or in partner countries.
  • Note: Please contact intl_ws_support [at] naoj.org in advance if you plan to have a workshop outside Japan. There are some restrictions that will affect our support.
• The successful applicant must submit a report to Subaru Telescope within 14 days after the workshop.
• The successful applicant is also expected to give a report on their workshop in Subaru Users’ Meeting.

Application and selection process:

• Applicants should submit a form to intl_ws_support [at] naoj.org with necessary information.
  • form - MS word format
• Deadline: May 11, 2018
• A committee nominated by Subaru Telescope director will review the proposals and the director will make a decision.
• Higher priority will be given to programs which will be more beneficial for the Subaru Telescope partnership.
• It is possible that we will allocate budget smaller than the request.

Contact:

Please feel free to contact intl_ws_support [at] naoj.org if you have any questions regarding the application.

Subaru international partnership web page