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                 Third announcement -  Programme is now open

        The Cosmic Wheel and the Legacy of the AKARI Archive:
           From Galaxies and Stars to Planets and Life

  Ito International Research Center Conference, The University of Tokyo

                to be held from October 17 - 20, 2017
                                  at
            Ito Hall, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

                [http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/akari2017/]
                   e-mail:   [akari2017@ir.isas.jaxa.jp]

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      Conference Programme is now open at the conference web:

      http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/akari2017/programme.html

      We welcome your participation at the conference (posters only).
      Please visit registration page:

      http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/akari2017/registration.html
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Contents
1. Conference programme (New)
2. Registration (New)
3. Important dates (Revised)
4. Social Events (Revised)
5. Objectives of the conference
6. Proceedings
7. Venue
8. Accommodation
9. Scientific Organizing Committee


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1. Conference programme
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   We are pleased to announce that the conference programme is
   now open at the conference web page:
      http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/akari2017/programme.html

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2. Registration desk is still open
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   We welcome your participation at the conference. Poster
   presentation is welcome by September 20th. Please visit
   registration page:
      http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/akari2017/registration.html


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3. Important dates
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The registration is now open at [http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/akari2017/]

Announcement of program:         This message
Deadline of registration:        September 22 (extended by 3 days)
Conference start:                October 17

* We will accept abstract for poster presentation until September 22.

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4. Social Events
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We will have a poster session with welcome drink in the evening
of the 17th.
A conference dinner is scheduled in the evening of the 19th.
We also plan to arrange a bus tour on October 21.
Please check the conference web page for detail.

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5. Objectives
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From its launch in 2006, until 2011, AKARI made all-sky surveys in
six bands from 9-160 microns together with nearly 20,000 pointed
observations, which provide near- to far-infrared imaging and
spectroscopic data of great significance across astronomy, from
planetary systems to distant galaxies.

The aim of this conference is twofold; first to highlight the most
important AKARI contributions to our understanding of astronomical
processes; and second to expose the astronomical community to the
potential of the AKARI legacy, so that the archive can be fully
exploited in the following decades.

Now all the AKARI observations, both the all-sky surveys and the
pointed observations, have been reprocessed, producing high-quality
final data-products, most of which have been made public at
 [http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/AKARI/Archive/] . As such, AKARI data
can be directly combined with observations from other world-class
facilities, as well as aiding future observations with upcoming
missions and telescopes.

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6. Proceedings and special volume in PASJ
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We will publish the conference proceedings as a volume of the
( [https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/jaxapress?select=jaxapress&genre=type&target=type3&locale=en] )
Details will be announced later.

In addition, we plan to publish a special volume in Publications
of the Astronomical Society of Japan ( [https://academic.oup.com/pasj] ).
This is a fully peer reviewed journal and you can publish your
results in a full paper.  We strongly encourage you to contribute
to this volume. For those who wish to publish their results in
this PASJ volume please inform us your intention at the registration.
 
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7. Venue
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The conference will be held at the Ito hall, part of the Ito
International Research Center
 [http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ext01/iirc/en/hall.html]
on the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
The Hongo campus is located in the center of Tokyo and you can easily
find hotels and restaurants in close proximity as well as many places
for entertainment. You can access the campus from the major airports
in Tokyo (Narita or Haneda). The access to the Hongo campus can
be found at:  [http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/access.html]

The weather in October is usually mild in Tokyo and if you are lucky,
you might be able to see colored autumnal leaves of the ginkgo trees
on the campus.

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8. Accommodation
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The conference webpage provides links to hotels in the area of the
University of Tokyo at Visitor information.  The conference place
is located near the 'Ueno area', a part of downtown in Tokyo.
It is also close to 'Ochanomizu.'. The University is located in
the middle of Tokyo and it is easy to access by public transportation.

Because of the increase of visitors to Tokyo, hotels in Tokyo
are very quickly booked. We strongly recommend you to book a hotel
well in advance.

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9. Scientific Organizing Committee
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Peter Barthel, University of Groningen, NL
Olivier Berné, IRAP, France
Helen Fraser, Open University, UK
Woong-Seob Jeong, KASI, Korea
Hidehiro Kaneda, Nagoya University, Japan
Hyung Mok Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Margaret Meixner STScI, USA
Thomas Müller, MPE, Germany
Yoko Okada, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Chris Pearson, RAL, UK
Tsutomu Takeuchi, Nagoya University, Japan
Issei Yamamura, ISAS, Japan
Takashi Onaka, University of Tokyo, Japan (Chair)

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