======================================================================== From Planets to Distant Galaxies: SPICA's New Window on the Cool Universe 18-21 June, 2013 The University of Tokyo, Japan -- 3rd Announcement -- http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/SPICA/spica2013/ ======================================================================== Contents: 1. Science programme 2. Registration and payment 3. Posters 4. Proceedings 5. Important dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Science programme ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for submitting many excellent presentation abstracts. We are pleased to announce that the outline of the science programme is now on the conference web site. http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/SPICA/spica2013/program.html In fact we still need to adjust a few points before giving a concrete time-line. The updated (final) programme will be released in a week. Approx. 20 min including discussion is allocated for a contributed talk. We also apologize to those who have submitted oral presentations but are not given time. The SOC members tried their best to put as many talks as possible, but could only include less than a half of the registered presentations. We kindly ask the participants to present posters. The list of poster presentations is also on the web. Please check your presentations on the list and contact us if you find anything wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Registration and payment ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The deadline for the submission of poster abstracts (including revision*) is May 31th, 15:00 JST = 06:00 GMT. It is a solid limit. Please do not miss it! The submission can be made through the registration form: http://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/SPICA/spica2013/registration.html If you have not yet paid the conference fee, please immediately go to the payment form at the same URL. You are most welcome to attend the conference banquet. * Only minor update is accepted for selected contributed talks (please state so in the comment box). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Posters ------------------------------------------------------------------------ All posters will be presented throughout the conference period. A poster must be smaller than 90 cm in width. There is no solid limit in height, but practically it should be no longer than 150. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Proceedings ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The SOC have decided to publish a proceedings of the conference from Astronomical Society of Pacific (ASP) Conference Series. Anybody who presents a talk/poster is welcome to submit papers. More details such as editors, deadlines, and length of papers will be announced later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Important dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 31 (Fri) 15:00 JST = 06:0 GMT : Deadline for abstract submission and revision. June 3 (Mon) (TBC) : Final program released June 10 (Mon) (TBC) : Final announcement (practical information etc.) June 18 (Tue) : Conference starts Looking forward to seeing you at the conference. Hideo Matsuhara, SPICA2013 SOC Chair Issued and posted by SPICA2013 LOC