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 2025

We are delighted to announce that the 13th Workshop for the AGORA Project will be held 08-09 August 2025 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 20 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 those who are willing to contribute more in the future.   Do talk to us if you are a student or a postdoc who is interested in helping the future AGORA analysis.  If you cannot make it in person, you are most welcomed to join us on Saturday 9 via remote connection (registration required to receive a Zoom link).  [Click to 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. 

VENUE AND TRAVEL (FOR IN-PERSON PARTICIPANTS)

● On Friday 8, 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 9 the Workshop will move to Rm 221 of the Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB; map).   [Click to Read More] 

   □ 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 2025 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, please check out the Santa Cruz Metro bus schedules to and from the UCSC campus.

   □ 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 2025 webpage.

PROGRAM

● On Friday 8, the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop and the AGORA Workshop will hold joint sessions on high-resolution galaxy simulations.  On Saturday 9 , 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.   You are welcomed to stay and work in Rm 221 on Sunday 10 and in the following week, too.  

● The discussion agenda/meeting note is available in the latest Collaboration progress report (membership required).  What follows is a very 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 sessions.   

● 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. 4-8, please talk to Avishai Dekel now.  If you plan to come only for the AGORA Workshop, or to come for only part of the Galaxy Workshop, please inform the Project Coordinator.    [Click to Read More] 


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


   □ 08/09 (Sat) 09:00AM -  Rm 221, ISB


   □ 08/09 (Sat) 17:30PM - Workshop Dinner 


   □ 08/10 (Sun) Rm 221, ISB


   □ All simulation talks will be on Friday 08 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. 4-8 during the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop (joint sessions on Friday 8), talk to the Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop 2025 organizers.  If you are coming only to the AGORA portion of the week, but want to give your talk on Friday 8, please contact the AGORA Project coordinator.  


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 9 (see "Program" above).  [Click to Read More] 

   □ On-site Participants


   □ Remote Participants  [weekend session only]

ORGANIZING COMMITTEES

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

   □ AGORA Steering Committee

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


   □  Local Organizing Committee