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Dear Colleague
We are happy to announce IAU Symposium 312 “Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time”,
which will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from August 25-29, 2014, hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences
(National Astronomical Observatories and National Science Library).
<b>PLEASE NOTICE BELOW THE URGENT DEADLINE (Mar 31) FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT APPLICATION, INCLUDING YOUNG RESEARCHERS
AND DOCTORAL STUDENTS!! </b><b>
Pre-Registration is now open at </b><font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://silkroad.bao.ac.cn/iaus312/"><b>http://silkroad.bao.ac.cn/iaus312/</b></a></u></span></font><b> </b>
<b>Full registration, visa forms and a first draft programme will appear soon.
Note that China requires a visa from visitors and we need to provide prospective participants
with an official invitation.
<u>Rationale:</u></b> Black Holes, dense star clusters, and galactic nuclei move into the focus of cosmological galaxy
formation and evolution. High-resolution observations as well as simulations, in our local
environment as well as in the distant universe approach the central engine and its co-evolution with
stars and gas around. Black Holes formed in astrophysical environments are expected gravitational
wave sources. China, and the National Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC/CAS) as well
as Peking university are at the forefront of these endeavors and seek to increase international cooperation.
Topics that will be addressed are:</pre>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Black Holes in
Galactic Nuclei </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Galaxy Mergers and
AGN Feedback </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dynamics of Stars
and Gas around Black Holes </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Accretion Disks </p>
</li>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Galactic and
Extragalactic Globular Clusters </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Nuclear Star
Clusters </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dwarf Galaxies</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Gravitational Wave
Emission from Star Clusters and Galactic Nuclei </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Gravitational Wave
Instruments </p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Electromagnetic
Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Emission </p>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="western"><u>Currently confirmed invited speakers (note
that this list is still growing and not complete...):</u></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: -0.01in; line-height: 100%">
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt Univ., USA), Tal Alexander
(Weizmann Inst., Israel), <br>
Lucio Mayer (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland), Luis
Ho (KIAA, China), <br>
Omer Blaes (UCSB, USA),
Jorge Cuadra (PUC, Chile), <br>
Feng Yuan (SHAO, China),
Rainer Spurzem (NAOC, China),<br>
Pau Amaro-Seoane (AEI, Germany), Eric
Peng (Peking Univ., China), <br>
Mark Gieles (IoA Cambridge Univ., UK), Duncan
Forbes (Swinburne Univ., Australia), <br>
Giampaolo Piotto (Padova Univ., Italy),
Enrico Vesperini (Indiana Univ., USA),<br>
Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech Univ., USA), Eva
Grebel (Heidelberg Univ., Germany),<br>
Mirek Giersz (CAMK, Poland),
Natalia Ivanova (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), <br>
Alister Graham (Swinburne Univ., Australia), Ken
Freeman (Mount Stromlo Obs., Australia),<br>
Pavel Kroupa (Univ. Bonn, Germany), Dana
Casetti (S.Conn. State Univ., USA),<br>
Joan Centrella (NASA, USA),
Alberto Sesana (AEI, Germany), <br>
Matthew Benacquista (UTB, USA),
Luciano Rezzolla (Univ. Frankfurt, Germany), <br>
Kazuaki Kuroda (KAGRA, Japan),
Yun-Kau Lau (AMSS, China), <br>
Stefanie Komossa (MPIfR, Germany),
Diederik Kruijssen (MPAGarching, Germany), <br>
Fukun Liu (Peking Univ., China),
Jeffrey McClintock (Harvard CfA, USA), <br>
Jay Strader (Univ. of Michigan, USA),
Thorsten Naab (MPA, Germany), <br>
Sera Markoff (Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands)</p>
<pre class="western" style="line-height: 100%">Please note that the deadline to apply for an IAU grant is approaching soon;
please URGENTLY submit a title and abstract to our conference website if you are interested;
from there you can download the form for IAU support (it MUST reach us by <b>March 31, 2014,</b>
by the latest!!).
Or get the form from <font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.iau.org/static/meetings/GrantSymposium.pdf">http://www.iau.org/static/meetings/GrantSymposium.pdf</a></u></span></font> ;
send the filled from to <font color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:iaus312@nao.cas.cn">iaus312@nao.cas.cn</a></u></span></font> .
(And please do not forget to complete the pre-registration and abstract submission
procedure on our website, if not done already).
<u>Deadlines:</u></pre>
<ul>
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<pre class="western">March 31 Submit IAU grant application form to SOC (with abstract)</pre>
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<pre class="western">April 15 (approximately) Opening of Full Registration, Accommodation Service</pre>
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<pre class="western">June 1 Early Bird Registration Deadline</pre>
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<pre class="western">June 1 Abstract Submission Deadline</pre>
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</ul>
<pre class="western"><u>Registration Fees: </u></pre>
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<pre class="western">2500 Yuan RMB (300 EUR) Early Bird </pre>
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<pre class="western">3000 Yuan RMB (350 EUR) Normal</pre>
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<pre class="western">3500 Yuan RMB (Only RMB) On-Site</pre>
</li>
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<pre class="western">1250 Yuan RMB (150 EUR) Students with Certificate
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</ul>
<pre class="western">Thank you very much and best wishes,
Rainer SPURZEM and LIU Fukun on behalf of LOC and SOC
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding:
0in; line-height: 0.16in"> <strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Local
Organising Commitee</font></font></strong></p>
<p class="western" style="border: none; padding: 0in; line-height:
0.16in"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Liu Fukun (KIAA/DoA/PKU,
co-chair), Rainer Spurzem (NAOC/KIAA/PKU, co-chair), Licai
Deng (NAOC), Eric Peng (KIAA/DoA), Thijs Kouwenhoven (KIAA),
Lijun Gou (NAOC), Qingjuan Yu (KIAA), Youjun Lu (NAOC), Lixin
Li (KIAA), Peter Berczik (NAOC), Gareth Kennedy (NAOC),
Luca Naso (NAOC), Jifeng Liu (NAOC), Shuo Li (NAOC), Yohai
Meiron (KIAA), Maxwell Xu Tsai (NAOC/KIAA)</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding:
0in; line-height: 0.16in"> <strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Scientific
Organising Committee</font></font></strong></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; border: none; padding:
0in; line-height: 0.16in"> <strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Liu Fukun, Rainer Spurzem
(co-chairs, China), </span></font></font></strong><strong><font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span
style="font-weight: normal">Joan Centrella (USA),
Stefanie Komossa (Germany, China), Jufu Lu (Xiamen,
China), Steve McMillan (Philadelphia, USA), Douglas
Heggie (Edinburgh, UK), Giampaolo Piotto (Padova,
Italy), Alison Sills (Canada), Joss Bland-Hawthorn
(Australia), Hyung-Mok Lee (Korea), Ron Ekers
(Australia), Martin Gaskell (Chile), Kim Venn (Canada)</span></span></font></font></font></strong></p>
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0in; line-height: 0.16in"> <br>
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Rainer Spurzem, Professor, State Specially Recruited Expert, Office A121
National Astronomical Observatories of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences
NAOC/CAS, 20A Datun Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing 100012, China
Office Phones: Direct: +86 10 6480 7215 Mrs. Hazel Wei: +86 10 6480 6001
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Zentrum für Astronomie Univ. Heidelberg (ZAH), Germany
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