Annual AGORA Workshops

   □ 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). 

   □ 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.

   □ 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) 09:00AM -  Rm 221, ISB  (face covering is highly recommended inside the building)

• 09:00AM - 09:25AM : Breakfast (Rm 221)

• 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 Papers "HighresRun", "Clumps", "DM-Highres", "IGM-Tomography", "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, new proposals for AGORA in general (0.5 hr) 

    • Narayanan/Ceverino/Roca-Fabrega: yt+Powderday to produce JWST/HST mock images

    • Abel: high-z/JWST comparison?

    • Chia-Yu Hu: possible extension of the dwarf galaxy comparison that was carried out for SMAUG (https://www.simonsfoundation.org/flatiron/center-for-computational-astrophysics/galaxy-formation/smaug/), 10-min remote talk on the comparison so far

    • Roca-Fabrega/(Genina): AREPO/AREPO-TNG in AGORA CosmoRun comparison?

    • (Feldmann): GIZMO-FIRE  in AGORA CosmoRun comparison?

    • (Hennebelle): Galactica project (http://www.galactica-simulations.eu/db/), provide mirroring service for the AGORA DB?   

• 10:45AM - 11:00AM : Break

• 11:00AM - 12:15PM : Joint Working/Writing Session for Papers "CosmoRun2", "CGM", "Satellites", "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 Santi Roca-Fabrega and Clayton Strawn, respectively — ending with the Papers partially or totally written, and clear ideas on each Paper’s future timeline (2 hr)

• [Topic 6]  Other ongoing sub-projects to discuss — such as Paper "CosmoTechnical", Paper "AGN-Isolated", Paper "Satellites" — ending with clear ideas on each Paper’s future timeline (2 hr)

• 12:15PM - 13:30PM : Lunch (Rm 221 & patio outside)

• 13:30PM - 15:00PM : Joint Working/Writing Session continues

• 15:00PM - 15:30PM : Break

• 15:30PM - 16:45PM : Joint Working/Writing Session continues

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

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

   □ 08/20 (Sat) 17:30PM - Workshop Dinner (Joel and Nancy's house; face covering is mandatory inside the house, but not on the outdoor deck)

   □ 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.  

   □ On-site Participants

• Tom Abel (Stanford University)

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

• Daniel Ceverino (Universidad Autonoma Madrid)

• Colin DeGraf (Truman State 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)

• Benjamin Tufeld (University of California at Santa Cruz)

• Joanna Woo (Simon Fraser University)

• [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)

• Avishai Dekel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

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

• Chia-Yu Hu (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

• Yongseok Jo (Flatiron Institute/Columbia University & Seoul National University)

• Minyong Jung (Seoul National University)

• Ji-hoon Kim (Seoul National University)

• Joohyun Lee (University of Texas at Austin)

• Seungjae Lee (Seoul National University)

• Alessandro Lupi (University of Milano Bicocca) 

• Desika Narayanan (University of Florida)

• 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]

   □ 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 (Instituto de Astronomia de la UNAM)

• Benjamin Tufeld (University of California at Santa Cruz)

• Laura Bakken (University of California at Santa Cruz, administrative support)