Asia Pacific School/Workshop on
Gravitation and Cosmology 2013
   (APCTP-NCTS-YITP Joint Program) 
 February 19 -22, 2013  Jeju Island, Korea
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     Excursion Information (Feb. 15, 2013)
              Excursion_Binder1.pdf
     
    Third Circular (Feb. 06, 2013)
    Circular_3f_Binder.pdf 
    Program_Binder_3f.pdf
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    Venue
      The Ocean Suites Jeju Hotel (2F, Canola Hall), Jeju City
     
    Period
      February 19- 22, 2013
     
    Overview

    This series of school/workshops held in the Asia-Pacific region aims at the frontier issues in gravitation and cosmology, to put forth new ideas, to discuss current issues and finally to propose challenging problems for young physicists. In the past the school/workshops have been held in Kyoto (2012), Shanghai (2011), Taitung (2010), Pohang (2009), Taitung (2008) and Tainan (2007).

     

    The school/workshop consists of a school and a workshop. In the school invited speakers deliver series of lectures from introductory to research level to help students and junior fellows to grasp the essences of the cutting edge developments in gravitation and cosmology. In the workshop participants are expected to give talks on the recent developments in the above issues and are encouraged to discuss the talks and establish research collaborations.

     

    Invited Lecturers
    Martin Bucher (Univ. of Paris), "Overview of CMB physics: from COBE to Planck and beyond"
    Chul Hoon Lee (Hanyang Univ.), "Einstein-Maxwell theory in astrophysics" 
    Hong Lu (Beijing Normal Univ.), "Rotating black holes in (gauged) supergravities"
    Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Munich Univ.), "Quantum origin of universe structure"
    James M. Nester (National Central Univ.), "Covariant Hamiltonian formalism for geometric gravity theories"
    Takahiro Tanaka (YITP/Kyoto Univ), "Infrared phenomena of field theory in de Sitter space"
     
    Topics for Workshop*
      ∙ Black hole physics 
      ∙ Cosmic microwave backgrounds
      ∙ Dark matter and dark energy
      ∙ General relativity and modified gravity
      ∙ Gravitational waves
      ∙ Hamiltonian formalism  
      ∙ Inflationary universe and cosmological models
      ∙ Numerical relativity 
      ∙ Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes   
      ∙ Quantum gravity and quantum cosmology
      ∙ String cosmology, etc.
     *There will be EPL (Europhysics Letters)  awards for excellent presentations by students and postdocs, as in the YITP/Kyoto (2012) meeting.
      
    School/Workshop World Line
      ∙ 2007 NCKU Mini-workshop on Cosmology and Gravitation, Tainan

       ∙ 2008 Taitung International School/Workshop on Cosmology and Gravitation

       ∙ 2009 APCTP-NCTS International School/Workshop on Gravitation and Cosmology,

                 Pohang http://old.apctp.org/conferences/2009/IWGC2009/

       ∙ 2010 Taitung International School/Workshop on Gravitation

                    http://grqc.ncts.ncku.edu.tw/Taitung2010/

       ∙ 2011 Shanghai Asia-Pacific School and Workshop on Gravitation          

                    http://www.worldscientific.com/toc/ijmpcs/07/01

       ∙ 2012 Asia Pacific School/Workshop on Cosmology and Gravitation, Kyoto

                    http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ws/2011/aps2012/

       ∙ 2013 Asia Pacific School/Workshop on Cosmology and Gravitation, Pohang  

                      

    Important Dates
     ∙ Nov. 21 - Opening of the registration 
     ∙ Dec. 11 - Deadline for financial support application  
     ∙ Dec. 31 - Deadline for registration and abstract submission for workshop talks
      ∙ Jan. 31 - Deadline for abstract submission for invited school lecture
     
    Registration Fee
    The registration fee is 100,000 KRW (Korean Won) (30,000 KRW for students and post-doc),  which is to be paid at the on-site registration desk. The fee will include banquet,  excursion, and coffee break. But, this does not cover accommodations nor breakfast. Participants without any financial support may ask for the waiver of the registration fee.

     

    Financial Support
    A limited amount of financial support covering accommodations will be available for graduate students and young postdocs who do not have any financial resources. Those who need financial support should send an email describing their financial situations to muinpark@gmail.com or sangkim@kunsan.ac.kr.

     
     International Advisory Committee 

        Rong-Gen Cai (ITP), Sean Hayward (Shanghai Normal Univ.), Gungwon Kang (KISTI),  Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan National Univ.), Kei-ichi Maeda (Waseda Univ.), James M.Nester (National Central Univ.), Misao Sasaki (YITP/Kyoto Univ.), Hoi-Lai Yu (Academia Sinica)

     Local Organizing Committee 

        Inyong Cho (SeoulTech), Jinn-Ouk Gong (APCTP), Gungwon Kang (KISTI), Sang Pyo Kim (Kunsan National Univ., Chair), Seoktae Koh (Jeju National Univ.), Mu-In Park (Kunsan National Univ., Secretary)

     Contact
    APCTP:sec@apctp.org,
    Mu-In Park:muinpark@gmail.com,
    Sang Pyo Kim: sangkim@kunsan.ac.kr
     
    Sponsors
    Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics  (APCTP)
    National Center for Theoretical Science (NCTS)
    Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP)
       (mainly from MEXT Grant-in-Aid Nos.21244033 and 24103006) 
    Kunsan National University