THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT --- DECEMBER 2009
Location and Date:
CPS 6th International School of Planetary Sciences will be held in 4-9 January, 2010 at Seapal Suma, a casual seaside resort located west to the central part of Kobe, Japan.
Purpose and Scope:
The CPS International School of Planetary Sciences aims at promoting education and research in planetary science for highly motivated graduate students and young researchers worldwide. It will offer them an opportunity to interact with leading scientists in a specific field of the year.
This year's topic of the school is
"Planetary Atmospheres --- Sisters, relatives and ancestors of our own ---"
The main part of the school is a series of lectures on various aspects of planetary atmospheres, surface environments, and their interaction with planetary interiors including the following topics: (1) cutting-edge reviews of the atmospheres of Mars and Venus and their exploration, (2) a perspective on the dynamics of the planetary atmospheres including the Earth's as an example, (3) in-depth discussion on the origin and evolution of the coupled system of planetary atmospheres and interiors, with the search for the definition of habitable worlds in mind.
Program:
download abstracts as one file (1.7 MB, Dec. 25 updated)
Monday, January 4, 2010
15:00 Registration Open
19:00 - 20:00 Welcome Drink Service at Lecture Hall
20:00 - 21:00 <Dinner>
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
7:30 - 9:00 <Breakfast>
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Keynote Speech: Yushitsugu Nakagawa, Director of CPS
9:15 - 10:30 Lecture 1-1: Peter L Read
Climate and atmospheric circulation of the Mars (1)
10:30 - 10:50 <Coffee/Tea Break>
10:50 - 12:10 Lecture 1-2: Peter L Read
Climate and atmospheric circulation of the Mars (2)
12:30 - 13:30 <Lunch> <Coffee>
14:00 - 15:15 Lecture 2-1: Francois Forget
Martian Climate: from the Past to the Present (1)
15:15 - 15:45 <Coffee/Tea Break>
15:45 - 17:00 Lecture 2-2: Francois Forget
Martian Climate: from the Past to the Present (2)
18:00 - 19:00 <Dinner>
19:00 - 21:00 Poster 1
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
7:30 - 9:00 <Breakfast>
9:00 - 10:10 Lecture 3-1: Yoshihisa Matsuda
Dynamics of the super-rotation of Venus atmosphere (1)
10:10 - 10:30 <Coffee/Tea Break>
10:30 - 11:30 Lecture 3-2: Yoshihisa Matsuda
Dynamics of the super-rotation of Venus atmosphere (2)
11:30 - 11:50 <Coffee/Tea Break>
11:50 - 12:30 Lecture 4: Takeshi Imamura
Planned Observation by Venus Climate Orbiter
12:30 - 13:30 <Lunch>
13:30 <Photo>
14:00 - <Excursion>
Thursday, January 7, 2010
7:30 - 9:00 <Breakfast>
9:00 - 10:15 Lecture 5-1: Dimitri Titov
Past, present and future of the Venus exploration (1)
10:15 - 10:45 <Coffee/Tea Break>
10:45 - 12:00 Lecture 5-2: Dimitri Titov
Past, present and future of the Venus exploration (2)
12:30 - 13:30 <Lunch> <Coffee>
13:30 - 14:45 Lecture 6: Kensuke Nakajima
Structure of Moist Convection in Planetary Atmosphere
14:45 - 15:15 <Coffee/Tea Break>
15:15 - 16:30 Lecture 7-1: Tapio Schneider
Principles of planetary circulations, from Earth to Neptune (1)
16:30 - 16:45 <Coffee/Tea Break>
16:45 - 18:00 Lecture 7-2: Tapio Schneider
Principles of planetary circulations, from Earth to Neptune (2)
18:30 - 19:30 <Dinner>
19:30 - 21:00 Poster 2
Friday, January 8, 2010
7:30 - 9:00 <Breakfast>
9:00 - 10:15 Lecture 8-1: Yutaka Abe
How to make a Habitable Planet (1)
10:15 - 10:45 <Coffee/Tea Break>
10:45 - 12:00 Lecture 8-2: Yutaka Abe
How to make a Habitable Planet (2)
12:30 - 13:30 <Lunch> <Coffee>
13:30 - 14:45 Lecture 9-1: Kevin Zahnle
Origin and Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres (1)
14:45 - 15:15 <Coffee/Tea Break>
15:15 - 16:30 Lecture 9-2: Kevin Zahnle
Origin and Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres (2)
19:30 - 21:30 <Banquet>
Saturday, January 9, 2010
7:30 - 9:00 <Breakfast>
9:00 <Adjourn>
Poster Presentation:
We will allot one minute to each poster presenter at the beginning of poster presentation so that s/he could introduce briefly themselves and hopefully their posters. Poster presenters may send us (pschool-info@cps-jp.org) a PDF file for their short presentation (limited to a single page) before registration (the subject of the email should be "short_talk_for_poster") or hand it over to us at the hotel Seapal Suma.
Payments:
The registration fee of 10,000 Japanese Yen (JPY) should be paid by cash at the registration desk. Participants will be requested to pay the lodging charge to Seapal Suma immediately after registration.
Seapal Suma will accept the following credit cards: VISA, JCB, Master, and AMEX.
***** An award winner of CPS Travel Grants needs to provide the boarding pass of all coming flights at the registration desk if traveling by air.
Excursion:
We will organize a half-day excursion, by choice, either to World Heritage Himeji Castle, called "Himeji-jo", or to Yasaka Shinto shrine in Kyoto on Wednesday. If you wish to participate in one of the excursions, please sign in at the registration desk. The registration fee of the school does not cover any expenses during the excursion, including the dinner on that day. Both the tours will be guided by at least one Japanese student who will also organize a restaurant for dinner (approximately 3,000-5,000 JPY) and take you to Seapal Suma in the evening.
About a tour of Himeji-jo
* the round-trip railroad fare: 1,640 JPY
* the castle's admission: 600 JPY
For more information, please visit the following websites:
http://www.himeji-kanko.jp/en/spot/ss001.html
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/661
http://www.himeji-castle.gr.jp/index/English/index.html
http://www.city.himeji.lg.jp/foreigner/en/_10735/_10770/_10806.html
About a tour of Yasaka Shinto shrine
* the round-trip railroad fare: 3,200 JPY (over one and a half hours for each direction)
* the admission: charge-free
For more information, please visit the following websites:
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/yasaka/english/index.html
http://kaiwai.city.kyoto.jp/raku/modules/english/index.php
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/aikankou/kyoto/ekyotomap.pdf
Hotel and Meals:
All participants are expected to stay in Seapal Suma by sharing a room with 3 other participants (4 in 1) except for lecturers. The room is a Japanese style, namely, a large room floored with tatami mats and equipped with a toilet.
* a Japanese-style room w/o tub/shower: 44,090 JPY for five nights
* a Japanese-style room w/ tub/shower: 46,590 JPY for five nights
Unless notified, all the participants will be allocated a preferred type of a room indicated in the application form. Western-style rooms with toilet and shower are available only for lecturers.
The hotel has an ocean-view public bath for each gender equipped with a huge tub at the top floor.
Seapal Suma |
Except for the buffet-style banquet on Friday, you will have a meal in a Japanese-style dining room at Seapal Suma. Here "Japanese style" means that you have to take off your shoes every time you enter the dining room. You will be served with Japanese cuisine, Western cuisine, and more! We regret that the dining room at Seapal Suma will not be available for your evening meal on Wednesday as mentioned above. Have a good time enjoying your Wednesday's dinner in Kobe's downtown area of Sannomiya instead.
Transportation:
| The venue is located about 100 min. from Kansai International Airport (KIX) (65 min. by shuttle bus to Kobe Sannomiya, 5 min. walk from the bus stop to JR Sannomiya railway station, 12-13 min. by train to JR Suma Kaihinkoen railway station, plus 8 min. walk from the station). The bus fare from the airport is 1,800 JPY and the train ticket costs 170 JPY. The nearest airport to the venue is Kobe Airport (UKB), from which Port Liner, an urban fully automated guideway transit (AGT) system, will take you to JR Sannomiya railway station in 16-18 min. (320 JPY). Osaka International Airport, another name, Itami Airport (ITM), is also convenient to JR Sannomiya station. It takes approximately 40 min. by bus and costs 1,020 JPY. For details about directions to Seapal Suma, see a guide in PDF format. |
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Important Dates:
| 25 September 2009 | Deadline for application |
| 5 October 2009 | Notification of our decision to the applications including the financial support |
| 27 November 2009 | Abstract deadline for poster presentation |
| 4-9 January 2010 | The CPS International School of Planetary Sciences |
Organizing Committee:
| Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi | Kobe University |
| Peter L. Read | University of Oxford |
| Kiyoshi Kuramoto | Hokkaido University |
| George Hashimoto | Okayama University |
| Kensuke Nakajima | Kyushu University |
| Akiko M. Nakamura | Kobe University |
| Hiroshi Kimura | CPS |
| Yoshiyuki Takahashi | CPS |
| Ayako Suzuki | CPS |
| Jun Kimura | CPS |
| Kimiko Utsumi | CPS |
| Tomoko Tsuji | CPS |
| Kana Matsumoto | CPS |
| Chika Kobayashi | CPS |
Contact Information:
E-mail: pschool-info@cps-jp.org
Post-mail:
Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi
Center for Planetary Science
Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
Fax: +81-(0)78-803-5731
Funds:
The school is sponsored by Center for Planetary Science (CPS) under the Global COE Program: "Foundation of International Center for Planetary Science", a joint project between Kobe University and Hokkaido University.