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(fwd) 5th Microquasar Workshop rescheduled First Announcement of the 5th Microquasar Workshop - Microquasars and Related Astrophysics (Please note that this meeting has been postponed from Oct. 2003 to June 2004, due to the SARS problem.) For future updates, please refer to http://jet.uah.edu/microquasar GENERAL INFORMATION This is the first announcement of The Fifth Microquasar Workshop, to take place between June 7 to June 13, 2004, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, thanks for the support of the SOC of the fourth microquasar workshop. As well as covering the traditional topics of the microquasar workshop, we also plan to expand the scientific program to subjects closely related to microquasar physics, such as AGNs, quasars, extragalactic jets, gamma-ray bursts and intermediate mass black holes. Since this is the first time this workshop will take place in Asia, we welcome and anticipate active participation of students and researchers in Asian and Pacific Rim countries and regions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE The organizing Committee will arrange the details of the program, and will select the attendees in case of overbooking (max. seats 100 persons), consulting the Scientific Advisory Committee. S.N. Zhang (Chair, Tsinghua University and Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, China and USA) T.P. Li (Tsinghua University and IHEP/CAS, China) Y. Zhao (NAOC/CAS, China) Z. Dai (Nanjing University, China) K.S. Cheng (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China) Ph. Durouchoux (Saclay, France) F. Mirabel (Saclay, France) L.C. Ho (Carnegie Observatories, USA) R. D. Blandford (Caltech, USA) M.C. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC, USA) J. Swank (NASA/GSFC, USA) R. Sunyaev (MPA and IKI, Germany and Russia) J. Greiner (MPE, Germany) T. Belloni (Oss. Astr. Di Brera, Italy) Y. Ueda (ISAS, Japan) A.R. Rao (TIFR, India) R.B. Fender (University of Amsterdam) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE C.J. Gao (Chair and Secretary, Tsinghua University) S.N. Zhang (Tsinghua University and Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, China and USA) R. Shang (Tsinghua University) Contact Address Dr. C.J. Gao Physics Department and Center for Astrophysics Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084, P.R. China phone: +86-10 6279-2127 fax: +86-10 6279-2125 email: microquasar@jet.uah.edu or gaocj@tsinghua.edu.cn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PARTIAL LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS Ph. Durouchoux, F. Mirabel, R. Sunyaev, R. Blandford, M. Weisskopf, R. Fender, Josep Maria Paredes, S. N. Zhang, R. Remillard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DURATION OF THE WORKSHOP The scientific program of the workshop will begin in the morning of Monday, June 7th, 2004 and end in the morning of Friday, June 11th, 2004. On Friday afternoon, we will organize a brief (free) tour to Tsinghua Space Center, Institute of High Energy Physics (including Beijing Electron-Positron Collider) and National Astronomical Observatories. On the following Saturday and Sunday (June 12th -13th, 2004), we will organize sightseeing tours to several historical sites in Beijing, tentatively including the Great Walls, Ming Tombs, Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Heaven's Temple. Because there are so many famous historical sites in Beijing and it is impossible to tour through them in two days, we will have to optimize the tour package carefully. The program will be organized with one formal session in the morning and one in the late afternoon, each including 1 or 2 invited talks and several contributed ones, with poster sessions in parallel. Lunch and early afternoon will be dedicated to informal discussions, before the afternoon presentations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION, ACCOMODATION AND TOURS Tsinghua University, about 30 minutes from Beijing Capital Internationa Airport, is located in the Haidian district of Beijing, which harbors several China's top universities, many of the research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, many of China's most advanced high-tech companies (the Zhong-Guang Village, also called China's silicon valley), and some of the most beautiful historical sites, such as Summer Palace and Yuan-Ming-Yuan (Garden of Perfect Splendor). Deadline for hotel reservation is on March 31st, 2004. Methods of reservation and payment will be announced later. A block of rooms in the guest houses of Tsinghua University will be reserved for the workshop. We will negotiate special prices for the workshop participants; the expected price range is between $30-$60 for a room with two single beds, varying between different guest houses. The sightseeing tours on Saturday and Sunday will have to be reserved and paid. Methods of reservation and payment will be announced later. We will negotiate a special price for the workshop. We expect that the conference will sponsor part of the costs and the balance for the participants will be around $50 for each day, including transportation, guides, door tickets, and three meals for the day. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION AND CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Deadline for registration is on March 31st, 2004. The registration fee is $300. Methods of registration and payment will be announced later. The registration fee includes a copy of the workshop proceedings, all meals from Monday morning through Friday evening, coffee breaks, transportation from airport to hotel (for international travellers), and the tour on Friday afternoon to several research institutes in Beijing. The workshop program itself is largely composed of invited review talks and time for discussions, so the number of the contributed talks will be limited. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINANCIAL SUPPORTS Limited financial support will be provided to participants of financially harshed countries in the form of partial or complete coverage of hotel accommodation for up to six nights. Students with a recommendation letter from his/her advisor may apply for a registration fee reduction of $150. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings will be published and available to each registered participant. We are discussing with a chief editor of a newly established and fully refereed English journal Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics for publishing selected and refereed papers in a special issue dedicated to this workshop. If the editorial board is in favor of this, the participants will be encouraged to submit their contributions to this journal. The organizing committee will select referees among the workshop participants to review the submitted papers. There will be no page charge and each contributor will get a copy of the special issue paid by the workshop. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS We appreciate very much the generous offer of financial support from the following organizations: National Natural Science Foundation of China Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- A service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) NASA/GSFC Please do not reply to this message. Questions or comments should go to: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Feedback
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