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24 April 2024

Update on the payment methods of the registration fee: The LOC decided that we only accept cash payment for the registration fee on site. The credit card payment is not allowed, due to technical reasons. We apologize for this inconvenience. Please bring Japanese Yen. There are also a lot of ATM machines in the city with which you can obtain Japanese currency by your credit card cashing.

22 April 2024

Registration is closed

9 April 2024

Update on the registration fee: ~20,000 JPY (~10,000 JPY for students)

9 April 2024

Fifth circular (Click to expand)

            5th Announcement (registration deadline)

            Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024
            Kagoshima Japan, 27-31 May 2024
            
            Dear Colleagues,
            
            The registration of the international conference "Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era" will be closed at the end of 22 April 2024. If you intend to attend the conference, please make sure that you register on the conference website:
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024/registration.html
            Reminder that all invited, oral, and poster presenters are also asked to register through the website above.
            
            The conference program can be found on the same website:
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024/program.html
            
            No remote participation is provided. However, the organizers will accept a small number of Zoom participants who have reasons such as travel restrictions or special circumstances (subject to approval by the LOC). Please contact the LOC (skamagconf2024 _at _ ml.nao.ac.jp) if you need this assistance.
            
            The registration fee is almost fixed. The organizers have already obtained several budgets, so that the fee will be reduced from the initial estimate of 40,000 JPY and will likely be around 20,000 JPY. We will announce the fee after the deadline of registration. Payment will be made on site and accepted by cash in Japanese currency or by credit card (card brand under confirmation).
            
            Finally, the ASKAP POSSUM busy days will be held at Mitaka Tokyo in the following week during the 3rd to 5th of June 2024. The registration form for the POSSUM busy days is here:
            https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI3OGw9v7Dw2v7TDZAqJRN2TUVEdDgalSIKkj8pLbgPBpwSw/viewform?usp=sf_link
            
            Please feel free to forward this announcement to interested colleagues. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at Kagoshima in May 2024.
            
            Best regards,
            
            Scientific Organizing Committee:
            Takuya Akahori (Chair), Aritra Basu, Shane O’Sullivan, Chris Riseley, Keitaro Takahashi, Tessa Vernstrom, Aline Vidotto, Jennifer West
            
            Local Organizing Committee:
            Haruka Sakemi (Chair), Shinsuke Ideguchi, Yuki Kudoh, Kohei Kurahara, Mami Machida, Hiroyuki Nakanishi
          

29 February 2024

Fourth circular (Click to expand)

            4th Announcement (Program Fixed and POSSUM Busy Days)

            Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024
            Kagoshima Japan, 27-31 May 2024
            
            Dear Colleagues,
            
            We are pleased to announce the international conference "Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era" to be held in Kagoshima, Japan during 27-31 May 2024. This is the announcement about the conference program and the POSSUM busy days following the conference.
            
            The organizers would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions (the number of which were beyond our expectations).. The Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC) has selected the oral presentations, after a thorough review of the submitted abstracts, considering the balance of the fields. As a result, there will be 14 invited talks, 52 contributed talks, and 11 poster presentations. The conference program can be found on the conference website:
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024/program.html
            
            As already announced, the conference will be held on-site and in-person only, with some exceptions for special circumstances. The registration is open until 22 April 2024 at the conference website:
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024/registration.html
            
            The registration fee is expected to be around 30,000 JPY which includes a welcome party, excursion, and conference banquet, at the end of the 1st, 3rd, and 4th days of the program, respectively, as well as tea/coffee/snacks at the venue, etc. Discounts will be given to students. Once the fee and the payment method are decided, they will be announced on the conference webpage.
            
            Finally, the ASKAP POSSUM team has decided to organize a meeting at Mitaka Tokyo during the 3rd to 5th of June 2024. The meeting is open to everyone. Therefore, if you are interested in joining the meeting, please consider it in your travel schedule. The meeting will consist of reviews of the project and data products, scientific and technical discussions, and an opportunity to get familiar with the data. Detailed information for the meeting will be available from the same conference webpage. The registration form for the POSSUM busy days is here:
            https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScI3OGw9v7Dw2v7TDZAqJRN2TUVEdDgalSIKkj8pLbgPBpwSw/viewform?usp=sf_link
            
            Please feel free to forward this announcement to interested colleagues. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at Kagoshima in May 2024.
            
            Best regards,
            
            Scientific Organizing Committee:
            Takuya Akahori (Chair), Aritra Basu, Shane O’Sullivan, Chris Riseley, Keitaro Takahashi, Tessa Vernstrom, Aline Vidotto, Jennifer West
            
            Local Organizing Committee:
            Haruka Sakemi (Chair), Shinsuke Ideguchi, Yuki Kudoh, Kohei Kurahara, Mami Machida, Hiroyuki Nakanishi
          

29 February 2024

Program is announced

29 February 2024

About ASKAP-POSSUM busyweek following this conference (3-5 June 2024@Tokyo)

12 February 2024

Registration of oral/poster presentation is closed

29 January 2024

Registration of oral presentation is closed

4 December 2023

Registration is open

4 December 2023

Third circular (Click to expand)

            3rd Announcement (Registration open, call for proposal)

            Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024
            Kagoshima Japan, 27-31 May 2024
            
            Dear Colleagues,
            
            We are pleased to announce the international conference "Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era" to be held in Kagoshima, Japan during 27-31 May 2024. This is the third announcement of the conference. The first and second announcements, including the rationale, important dates, and invited speakers, can be seen on our website.
            
            The conference will be a collection of keynote invited talks and focused contributed talks. Research-progress reports from young scientists are very welcomed. The conference topics include:
                • Roles of magnetic fields in astrophysics and cosmology, theory, simulation, and modeling,
                • Continuum, polarimetry, and time-domain observations, from on-going and near future surveys, and
                • Technical development and data reduction/analysis in these research fields.
            The registration is now open at the conference website. The deadline for the registration is 22nd of April 2024. If circumstances do not change, the conference will be held on-site and in-person, mainly for the purpose of encouraging interactions among participants. Please note that the registration fee will be charged at a later date. The maximum registration fee is expected to be up to 40,000 JPY which includes conference banquet, excursion, drinks at the venue, etc. However, depending on the budget situation in the future, the fee may be reduced. Discounts will be given to students. The payment methods will be announced in a later circular and on the website. Due to limitations in the network environment, online participation would not be available.
            
            We invite abstract submission for oral and poster presentations. The deadlines for oral and poster presentations are 29th of January 2024 and 12th of February 2024, respectively. Currently, we expect ~30 oral presentations. If the oral applications exceed the capacity, the SOC will select the talks and then ask the other oral requests to submit for poster presentations instead. The abstract submission should be made from the conference website.
            
            Please feel free to forward this announcement to interested colleagues. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at Kagoshima in May 2024.
            
            Best regards,
            
            Scientific Organizing Committee:
            Takuya Akahori (Chair), Aritra Basu, Shane O’Sullivan, Chris Riseley, Keitaro Takahashi, Tessa Vernstrom, Aline Vidotto, Jennifer West
            
            Local Organizing Committee:
            Haruka Sakemi (Chair), Shinsuke Ideguchi, Yuki Kudoh, Kohei Kurahara, Mami Machida, Hiroyuki Nakanishi            
          

7 November 2023

Second circular (Click to expand)

          2nd Announcement (important dates and invited speakers)
    
          Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era
          http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024
          Kagoshima Japan, 27-31 May 2024
          
          Dear Colleagues,
          
          We are pleased to announce the international conference "Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era" to be held in Kagoshima, Japan during 27-31 May 2024. This is the second announcement of the conference. The first announcement, including the rationale, can be seen on our website.
          
          The organizers have chosen Inamori Hall at Kagoshima University, which is a well-equipped facility, as the venue for the conference. The organizers will open the registration and call for oral and poster presentations on 4th of December 2023. The other important dates are as follows.
          
          Important dates:
          4 December: Registration and call for oral/poster open.
          29 January: Deadline of oral presentation.
          12 February: Deadline of poster presentation.
          26 February: Program and timetable are fixed and announced.
          22 April: Deadline for registration.
          13 May: Logistics.
          25-31 May: Conference days
          
          The conference will be a 5-day program with sufficient breaks for refreshment and discussion. As options, we will have a conference banquet and a half-day break for excursions during the period. A list of confirmed invited speakers are as follows.
          
          Invited speakers:
          Alec Thomson, CSIRO, Australia
          Anna Ordog, DRAO, Canada
          Bryan Gaensler, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
          Dongsu Ryu, UNIST, South Korea
          Francesca Loi, INAF, Italy
          Harish Vedantham, ASTRON, the Netherlands
          Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Kagoshima Univeristy, Japan
          Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Nagoya University, Japan
          Lerato Baidoo, University of Toronto, Canada
          Marijke Haverkorn, Radboud University, the Netherlands
          Naomi MacClure-Griffiths, Australian National University, Australia
          Simona Vegetti, MPA, Germany
          Thushara Pilai, MIT, USA
          
          Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. We are very much looking forward to seeing you at Kagoshima in May 2024.
          
          Best regards,
          
          Scientific Organizing Committee:
          Takuya Akahori (Chair), Aritra Basu, Shane O’Sullivan, Chris Riseley, Keitaro Takahashi, Tessa Vernstrom, Aline Vidotto, Jennifar West
          
          Local Organizing Committee:
          Haruka Sakemi (Chair), Shinsuke Ideguchi, Yuki Kudoh, Kohei Kurahara, Mami Machida, Hiroyuki Nakanishi
          

1 August 2023

First circular (Click to expand)

            1st Announcement (save the date)
    
            Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era
            http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2024
            Japan, 27-31 May 2024
            
            Dear Colleagues,
            
            We are pleased to announce the international conference "Cosmic Magnetism in the Pre-SKA Era" to be held in Japan during 27-31 May 2024. Please share this announcement with anyone interested.
            
            Magnetic fields play crucial roles in astrophysics and cosmology, yet their origin and evolution are largely unknown. The pathfinder and precursor radio interferometers of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) have seen a glimpse of their origin and evolution of magnetic fields by revealing a variety of magnetic-field features in and around stars, the interstellar medium, the Milky Way, galaxies, AGN, galaxy clusters, and even beyond. Single-dish, VLBI, and space-based surveys provide complementary observations of not only persistent radio sources but also fast and slow radio transients. Meanwhile, more work needs to be done to solve the technical and algorithmic challenges, such as polarization calibration for wide-field imaging, Faraday tomography for wide-band spectro-polarimetry, and maximise the use of the SKA regional centre (SRC) for SKA-scale big data.
            
            Here, we hold a conference to review the current status and future prospects of cosmic magnetism. The conference topics includes:
            • Roles of magnetic fields in astrophysics and cosmology, theory, simulation, and modeling,
            • Continuum, polarimetry, and time-domain observations, from on-going and near future surveys, and
            • Technical development and data reduction/analysis in these research fields.
            The conference will be a collection of keynote invited talks and focused contributed talks. Research-progress reports from young scientists are very welcomed. The conference dates are fixed for 27-31 May 2024. If circumstances do not change, the conference will be held on-site and in-person, mainly for the purpose of encouraging interactions among participants (limited online participation options are also being considered). We plan to announce the registration open and important dates as soon as possible once we confirm the venue and the registration system.
            
            We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Japan in 2024.
            
            Best regards,
            
            Scientific Organizing Committee:
            Takuya Akahori (Chair)
            Aritra Basu
            Shane O’Sullivan
            Chris Riseley
            Keitaro Takahashi
            Tessa Vernstrom
            Aline Vidotto
            Jennifer West
            
            Local Organizing Committee:
            Haruka Sakemi (Chair)
            Shinsuke Ideguchi
            Yuki Kudoh
            Kohei Kurahara
            Mami Machida
            Hiroyuki Nakanishi