Annual AGORA Workshops


In addition to online collaboration within smaller groups, Project-wide conferences are organized annually to keep ourselves and the Project as a whole on track.

AGORA WORKSHOP 2022

We are delighted to announce that the 10th Workshop for the AGORA Project will be held 19-20 August 2022 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, at the heels of the annual Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop.


REGISTRATION

● Please fill out the registration form by June 15 if you wish to participate in the AGORA Workshop -- in-person or online.

● In-person participation is encouraged for the Collaboration members who have been actively engaged in the ongoing projects and have been contacted by the Workshop organizers. Do talk to us if you are a student or a postdoc who is interested in helping the future AGORA analysis. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, we may not be able to host too many in-person participants; however, if you cannot make it, participants are definitely welcomed to join us on Saturday 20 via remote connection. [Read more]

□ Please feel free to forward this page to anyone potentially interested, especially to the young numerical astrophysicists who are looking for opportunities to participate in the science comparison in AGORA.

□ If any question, please do not hesitate to contact the AGORA Project Coordinator (Ji-hoon Kim).

VENUE AND TRAVEL (FOR IN-PERSON PARTICIPANTS)

● On Friday 19 the Workshop will be in the Simularium, Rm 180 of the Engineering 2 (E2) Building (map) in the northwest corner of the UCSC campus. This will be a joint session with the annual Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop. On Saturday 20 the Workshop will move to Rm 221 of the Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB; map).

● There will be a nominal registration fee to cover the breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday 20 (note: different from the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop registration fee). You will pay this fee before or during the Workshop. [Read more]

□ If you are coming *only* for the AGORA portion of the week and not registering for the Galaxy Workshop, thus have no way of paying the registration fee, please inform the AGORA Poject coordinator.

□ For a detailed direction to the meeting venue and the parking nearby, please go to the "General Info" tab in the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop 2022 webpage. You may find it useful to visit the link for visitors by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCSC.

□ Parking on campus is free on weekends. However, on weekdays you will need to display a parking permit which you can purchase during the Galaxy or AGORA Workshop registration. If you do not wish to purchase your permit through the Galaxy Workshop registration, please do so at the campus main entrance. If you plan to use public transportation the Santa Cruz Metro schedule to and from the UCSC campus might be helpful.

□ We recommend that if you plan to attend the Workshop, you arrange for lodging early. Although hotel policies vary, ask if there is a special rate for UCSC. You may find information about local lodging options in the "General Information" tab in the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop 2022 webpage.

PROGRAM

● On Friday 19, the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop and the AGORA Workshop will hold joint sessions on high-resolution galaxy simulations. On Saturday 20 , we will have a live discussion on the ongoing and future projects in the Collaboration. To accommodate remote participants, we plan to broadcast the Saturday session via Zoom. Click to see the detailed program.

● If you are joining us in-person, and wish to join any part of the Galaxy Workshop in-person, too, during the main week Aug. 15-19 and/or the preceding and following week Aug. 8-12 and 22-26, please talk to Avishai Dekel now.

● The discussion agenda/meeting note is to be available in our latest Collaboration progress report (membership required). [Read more]

□ All simulation talks will be on Friday 19 during the joint session with the Galaxy Workshop. We do not plan to have any talks on Saturday. If you'd like to give your talk between Aug. 15-19 during the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop (joint sessions on Friday 19), talk to the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop 2022 organizers. If you are coming only to the AGORA portion of the week, but want to give your talk on Friday 19, please contact the AGORA Project coordinator.

□ What follows is a tentative program of the Workshop. Please also feel free to send any suggestion about the Workshop program to the Project Coordinator. Registered online participants will receive Zoom links for the Saturday discussion sessions.

□ 08/19 (Fri) - Rm 180, Engineering 2 Bldg. (a.k.a. Simularium)

  • 09:00AM - 18:00PM : Joint sessions with the Galaxy Workshop (visit the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop 2022 webpage for the latest schedule, slides, and videos)


□ 08/20 (Sat) - Rm 102, ISB

  • 09:00AM - 09:25AM : Breakfast (Rm 102)

  • 09:25AM - 09:30AM : Opening Remarks by Primack, Roca-Fabrega & Kim

  • 09:30AM - 10:45PM (12:30-13:45 EDT, 18:30-19:45 CEST, 01:30-02:45 JST/KST): Collaboration-wide Brainstorming Session

    • In the morning, we will start with a brainstorming session on the present and future of AGORA, to best utilize the science comparison opportunities that opened up with the "CosmoRun". If needed, we will also decide on the projects (and their leaderships) we can newly launch, or relaunch. This will be a great chance for new participants in particular to pitch your idea — feel free to talk to the Project Coordinator in advance about it.

    • [Topic 1] Summary and status of the Project overall (0.1 hr)

    • [Topic 2] Logistics/present/future of the Project (e.g., Project direction, data sharing infrastructure, winter workshop, funding opportunities) (0.2 hr)

    • [Topic 3] Sub-projects we considered to revive/relaunch — such as Paper "HighresRun", Paper "Clumps", Paper "DM-Highres", Paper "IGM-Tomography", Paper "Satellites", Paper "SFR-PSD", Paper "Chaos" — ending with clear ideas on each Paper’s leadership if needed, and future timeline (0.5 hr)

    • [Topic 4] New sub-project ideas that can harness the power of CosmoRun (0.5 hr)


  • 10:45AM - 11:00AM : Break

  • 11:00AM - 12:15PM : Joint Working/Writing Session for Paper Groups "CosmoRun2"+"CGM"+"CosmoTechnical"+"AGN-Isolated"+etc

    • We will then have more technical discussions on the ongoing Papers in the Project. Many of the Paper Group leaders and code leaders will join us. The discussion agenda/meeting notes in the latest Collaboration progress report could be useful for the session participants (membership required).

    • [Topic 5] Presentation of the latest draft/progress update for Paper "CosmoRun2" and Paper "CGM", by Roca-Fabrega and Strawn, respectively (+ more Papers?) (1 hr)

  • [Topic 6] Ongoing sub-projects to discuss — such as Paper "CosmoRun2", Paper "CGM", Paper "CosmoTechnical", Paper "AGN-Isolated" — ending with one/two/three Papers partially of totally written, and clear ideas on each Paper’s future timeline (3 hr)


  • 12:15PM - 13:30PM : Lunch (Rm 102 & patio outside)

  • 13:30PM - 15:00PM : Joint Working Session for Paper Groups "CosmoRun2"+"CGM"+"CosmoTechnical"+"AGN-Isolated"+etc. continues

  • 15:00PM - 15:30PM : Break

  • 15:30PM - 16:45PM : Joint Working Session for Paper Groups "CosmoRun2"+"CGM"+"CosmoTechnical"+"AGN-Isolated"+etc. continues

  • 16:45PM - 16:50PM : Closing Remarks by Primack, Roca-Fabrega & Kim

  • 16:50PM - 17:30PM : Break / Carpool to Dinner

  • 17:30PM - 20:00PM : Workshop Dinner (TBD)


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

● Participants can join the workshop in person or online. Remote participants should also register (see "Registration" above) in order to receive a Zoom link so they can participate in our live discussion on Saturday 20 (see "Program" above). [Read more]

□ On-site Participants

  • Kirk Barrow (Harvard University & University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)**

  • Daniel Ceverino (Universidad Autonoma Madrid)

  • Colin DeGraf (Truman State University)*

  • Avishai Dekel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

  • Ji-hoon Kim (Seoul National University)

  • Nir Mandelker (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

  • Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University)

  • Boon Kiat Oh (Seoul National University)

  • Yuri Oku (Osaka University)

  • Johnny Powell (Reed College)

  • Joel Primack (University of California at Santa Cruz)

  • Yves Revaz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

  • Santi Roca-Fabrega (Instituto de Astronomia de la UNAM)

  • Eun-jin Shin (Seoul National University)

  • Clayton Strawn (University of California at Santa Cruz)

  • [TO BE ADDED]

  • * indicates people attending only the Friday session of the meeting

  • ** indicates people attending only the weekend sessions of the meeting


□ Remote Participants [weekend session only]

  • Anna Genina (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

  • Maria Emilia De Rossi (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina)

  • Yongseok Jo (Seoul National University)

  • Minyong Jung (Seoul National University)

  • Joohyun Lee (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Seungjae Lee (Seoul National University)

  • Alessandro Lupi (University of Milano Bicocca)

  • Tom Quinn (University of Washington)

  • Nick Samaras (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)

  • Claudio Soriano de Souza Brandao (Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz)

  • Hector Velazquez (Instituto de Astronomia de la UNAM)

  • Shengqi Yang (Carnegie Observatories)

  • [TO BE ADDED]

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES

● The annual Workshop is organized by the AGORA Steering Committee and the Local Organizing Committee. [Read more]

□ AGORA Steering Committee

  • Tom Abel (Stanford University)

  • Piero Madau (University of California at Santa Cruz)

  • Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)

  • Joel Primack (University of California at Santa Cruz)

  • Romain Teyssier (Princeton University)

  • James Wadsley (McMaster University)

+ Ji-hoon Kim (Seoul National University, Project Coordinator)


□ Local Organizing Committee

  • Ji-hoon Kim (Seoul National University, Project Coordinator)

  • Joel Primack (University of California at Santa Cruz)

  • Santi Roca-Fabrega (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico / Universidad Complutense Madrid)

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS (2012-2021)

● Here is the list of AGORA Workshops, annually organized since the Project's launch in 2012. [Read more]

□ AGORA Workshop 2022: [webpage]

□ AGORA Workshop 2021: [webpage]

□ AGORA Workshop 2020: cancelled due to COVID-19

□ AGORA Workshop 2019: [webpage] [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2018: [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2017: [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2016: [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2015: [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2014: [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2013: [archived]

□ AGORA Workshop 2012: [archived]