4th circular
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4th Circular: LTD17
17th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors
Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, July 17-21, 2017
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Dear Colleagues,
(A) Abstract submission
The deadline for the abstract submission is coming soon. Please do not forget to submit your abstract(s) by 15 April 2017 from the submission page linked from [http://www-x.phys.se.tmu.ac.jp/ltd17/wp/?page_id=17].
(B) Student support
We plan to support a limited number of students using donations from industries. If you would like to apply, please follow the instruction shown in [9] of this message, or in the web page.
For other pieces of information, please also visit the website,
[http://www-x.phys.se.tmu.ac.jp/ltd17/wp/]
and read below.
[1] Workshop venue
Kurume city plaza in Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan
[2] Important dates
End of abstract submission: 15 April, 2017
Notification of acceptance: 15 May, 2017
End of early registration: 22 May, 2017
End of student-support application: 25 May, 2017
Announcement of final program: 1 June, 2017
Workshop dates: 17 – 21 July, 2017
(We will have a welcome reception in the evening of 16 July)
[3] Workshop formats:
The workshop will consist of plenary oral sessions and poster sessions. Oral sessions will contain three keynote talks, 11 invited talks, and about 75 contributed talks. About 200 posters can be presented in the poster session room throughout the workshop period. We plan to gather “poster promote videos” from authors and display them during the workshop.
[3.1] Keynote talks (35+5 min)
Richard L. Kelley (NASA/GSFC), John E. Carlstrom (U Chicago, to be confirmed), Franz von Feilitzsch (TU Munich)
[3.2] Invited talks (25+5 min)
Jochem Baselmais (SRON), Carlo Bucci (INFN/LNGS), Toru Hara (NIMS), Johannes Hubmahr (NIST), Kunihiro Inomata (AIST/RIKEN), Sebastian Kempf (Heidelberg U), Yong-Ham Kim (IBS/KRISS), John (Ben) Mates (U Colorado), Raymond Strauss (MPI Munich), Masahiro Ukibe (AIST), Qing-Yuan Zhao (MIT)
[3.3] Contributed talks
We will allocate about 75 talks whose length will be either 16+4 or 12+3 min.
[3.4] Poster promotion videos
We will ask authors of posters to create a 1 minute Poster Promotion video for each poster. We plan to display those videos at multiple places in the workshop venue.
[4] Accommodations
We strongly recommend staying in a hotel in downtown Kurume city. Hotel reservations can be made from the registration page linked from [http://www-x.phys.se.tmu.ac.jp/ltd17/wp/?page_id=17].
[5] Welcome reception, lunch, and Banquet
We will have a welcome reception in the evening of 16 July (Sunday) and workshop banquet in the evening of 20 July (Thursday). Lunch will be served 17 to 21 July except on 19 July. Those are included in the registration fee.
[6] Excursion
We plan to have excursions in the afternoon of 19 July (Wednesday) to interesting places in and near Kurume. We prepare several choices, which are shown in [http://www-x.phys.se.tmu.ac.jp/ltd17/wp/?page_id=17]. More details will be posted in the workshop web pages soon. The fee is not included in registration fee.
[7] Papers
Special issues of Journal of Low Temperature Physics are planed for this workshop. All authors are asked to submit papers to the journal just after the workshop. All papers will be made open access during a limited time interval.
[8] Registration fee
Early registration: 60000 yen for usual participants, and 40000 yen for students.
After deadline: 70000 yen for usual participants, and 46000 yen for students.
[9] Student support
We plan to support a limited number of students using donations from industries. The amount of support for one student will be equivalent to or a little smaller than the early registration fee of students. If you would like to apply, please access the following query form;[https://fs4.formsite.com/astrohqueryfrom/ltd17students/index.html].
You will be asked to enter your registration number, your abstract number, and the title of your paper, and to upload a certification letter written by your supervisor which confirms that you are a graduate student. We will make decision around the time of final program announcement.
[10] Visas
If you need visas, please follow the instructions on the workshop web page.
We are looking forward to your registrations and abstract submissions,
Best wishes,
The local organizing committee,
K. Maehata (co chair), K. Empuku, N. Iyomoto, A. Kushino, T. Ishida,
H. Shishido, K. Mitsuda (chair), N.Y. Yamasaki, Y. Ishisaki,
Y. Ezoe, S. Yamada, H. Matsuo, Y. Sekimoto, H. Takahashi,
M. Ohno, M. Ohkubo, M. Ukibe, S. Kohjiro, M. Hidaka,
D. Fukuda, C. Otani, Y.-H. Kim. (co chair)
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The workshop will be partly supported by
Kurume University, Inoue Foundation for Science, Institute for Basic Science (in Korea), JSPS #186 Committee, Society for Promotion of Space Science.
Student support will become possible with donations from, incl. TBC companies,
Niki Glass co.ltd, STAR Cryoelectronics, Hitachi High-Tech Science Corporation, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation, High Precision Devices Inc., and more..