Annual AGORA Workshops

□ What follows is a tentative program of the Workshop, to be changed per the needs of the registered participants. Please also feel free to send any suggestion about the Workshop program to the Project Coordinator. Registered participants will receive Zoom links for the discussion sessions. Other than posting the recorded video talks, we do not plan to have any talks during our live sessions.

□ 08/12 (Thu) - 07:00AM - 09:00AM (PDT) via Zoom

• We will have a Collaboration-wide brainstorming session with both existing and new members on the future of the Project, to best utilize the science comparison opportunities that just opened up with our Paper III. 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 — you are welcome to submit a short elevator pitch as a video clip, or talk to the Project Coordinator.

  • [Topic 1] Summary and status of the Project (0.3 hr)

  • [Topic 2] Collaboration-wide discussion on the logistics/present/future of the Project (e.g., project direction, science ideas, task force to establish a user-friendly data sharing interface) (0.3 hr)

  • [Topic 3] Projects we can revive/relaunch, such as Paper “DM-Highres”, Paper “Satellites”, Paper “Outflows” — ending with clear ideas on each Paper’s leadership, and future timeline (1 hr)

  • [Topic 4] New project ideas that can harness the power of multi-platform numerical investigation (0.3 hr)

□ 08/13 (Fri) - 07:00AM - 09:00AM (PDT) via Zoom

• We will have more technical discussions primarily with the existing members already deep in the Project. Many of the Paper Group leaders and code leaders will join us. The latest Collaboration progress report on the ongoing Papers could be useful for the session participants (membership required).

• [Topic 5] Ongoing, usual projects to discuss, such as Paper “CGM”, Paper “Technical”, Paper “Clumps” — ending with clear ideas on each Paper’s leadership, and future timeline (2 hr)

□ Despite the months of hardship during the pandemic, many resilient researchers have kept doing amazing work. However, without many conferences to travel to for 2 years in a row, researchers — junior postdocs and students in particular — had harder time promoting their work than in typical years. Simulators did not have a lot of places to showcase their beautiful movies and images, either.

□ In the past years, the AGORA Workshop has held joint sessions with the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop on numerical simulations. Following the tradition, we are soliciting contributed, recorded 15 to 20-min talks on numerical simulations of galaxies and Universe. While the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop is on its hiatus, we hope the AGORA Workshop would be the place where simulators can present their work and share their ideas with a broader numerical cosmology/galaxy formation community.

□ If interested, please follow the simple guideline below:

• First, fill out the registration form (by July 23), and indicate that you want to submit a talk.

• Think of the usual simulation talks you have seen in the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop (e.g., 2019 Workshop).

• Create a < 20-min YouTube clip using the softwares like Zoom, Powerpoint, Keynote, or OBS (example by Roca-Fabrega).

• Simply email the link to the Project Coordinator (by August 6).

□ We will then curate your contributions on the Workshop webpage, and expose them publicly for months starting August 9. The launching of our "talk collection" will be widely announced to the AGORA mailing list, and to the usual Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop participants. With a fraction of the time and risk you may take in a physical trip, you will be able to present your latest work to the very focused audience with deep interests in the topic.

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

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

□ Registered Participants

• Tom Abel (Stanford University)

• Kirk Barrow (Stanford University & University of Tokyo)*

• Daniel Ceverino (Universidad Autonoma Madrid)

• Avishai Dekel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• Maria Emilia De Rossi (Institute for Astronomy and Space Science, Argentina)

• Begona Garcia-Conde (Universidad Complutense Madrid)

• Anna Genina (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

• Cameron Hummels (California Institute of Technology)

• Yongseok Jo (Seoul National University)*

• HyeonYong Kim (Seoul National University)

• Ji-hoon Kim (Seoul National University)

• Ahram Lee (Seoul National University)

• Joohyun Lee (University of Texas at Austin & Seoul National University)*

• Seungjae Lee (Seoul National University)

• Alessandro Lupi (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

• Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University & University of Nevada at Las Vegas & Kavli IPMU)*

• Boon Kiat Oh (Seoul National University)*

• Yuri Oku (Osaka University)*

• Songyoun Park (Seoul National University)

• Johnny Powell (Reed College)

• Joel Primack (University of California at Santa Cruz)*

• Tom Quinn (University of Washington at Seattle)

• Yves Revaz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)*

• Santi Roca-Fabrega (Universidad Complutense Madrid)*

• Eun-jin Shin (Seoul National University)*

• Clayton Strawn (University of California at Santa Cruz)

• Sandro Tacchella (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

• Hector Velazquez (Institute of Astronomy, Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico)

• John Wise (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• [TO BE ADDED]

• * indicates those who plan to submit video talks

□ 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 (University of Zurich)

• 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 Complutense Madrid)