International Astrobiology
Workshop 2013
as the 6th Japan Astrobiology Network Workshop (JABN6)
The Workshop Has Concluded Successfully with 157 Participants from 8 Countries. On-line JAXA Repository Archive Will Become Available by the End of the Year 2013.
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| Dates |
Workshop (November 28-30, 2013) |
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Open Lectures (December 1, 2013) |
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| Venues |
Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
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JAXA/ISAS Sagamihara Campus |
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Sagamihara City Museum |
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| Main Sponsor | Japan Astrobiology Network (JABN) |
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| Co-Sponsors | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, |
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| | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA/ISAS) |
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Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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| (ELSI/Tokyo Tech) |
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Astrobiology Division, Center for Novel Science Initiatives, |
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| National Institutes for Natural Sciences (NINS/CNSI) |
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| Sagamihara City Museum |
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Meeting Rationale
"Astrobiology" has been created as a new interdisciplinary academic field that integrates astronomy, solar system science, geochemistry, microbiology, and other disciplines. One of the most profound themes of modern science is to judge if "terrestrial" biology can be "universal" outside the Earth and even outside the Solar System just like physics and chemistry both of which are applicable at anywhere in this Universe. It is expected to derive great contributions for astrobiology from space science, such as space astronomy, Solar System exploration, and planetary science including space environment experiments.
Now, a number of international refereed journals in the astrobiology field have been publishes while NASA has established virtual institutes to invest research grants in this field the most effectively. In Japan, there have been also recent publications of both professional and public books in astrobiology and new organizations to support this research area have been founded.
This workshop is the 6th of the Japan Astrobiology Network (JABN) annual workshop series founded since 2008. It aims to promote interdisciplinary interactions among astrobiology researchers and advancement of this field in Japan. At this time, we will hold this workshop as a 3-days-long international workshop with English as the working language, for the first time of this series; thus we encourage inviting both astrobiology experts from overseas as well as young researchers in Japan. In addition, there will be public lectures in the last day of the event.
Meeting History:
| 1st 2008 : |
Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama Campus |
| 2nd 2009 : |
Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama Campus |
| 3rd 2010 : |
Tama Nagayama Information Education Center |
| 4th 2011 : |
Kobe University |
| 5th 2012 : |
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka Campus |
| 6th 2013 : |
JAXA/ISAS, Sagamihara Campus |
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(and the 1st International Workshop) |
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Program
Latest Program( PDF file ) as of November 27, 2013
Abstract Book by LPI Edition( PDF file ) as of November 15, 2013
Science Session Categories:
| (A) | Exoplanetary Systems and Exoplanets: Theories, Models, Observations |
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| (B) | Molecular Clouds, Planetary Formation Regions |
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| (C) | Meteoritics and Cosmochemistry |
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| (D) | Solar System Exploration and Experiments: Science, Mission Designs, |
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| | Instruments and Enabling Technology |
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| (E) | Early Earth, Geochemistry and Planetary Environment |
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| (F) | Extremephiles: Life in Extreme Environments |
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| (G) | RNA and Molecular Biology |
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Session Organizers:
| | Masaki FUJIMOTO (JAXA/ISAS) (D) |
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| | Hidenori GENDA (ELSI/Tokyo Tech) (E) |
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| | Daiki HORIKAWA (Universite Paris Descartes) (F) |
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| | Shigeru IDA (ELSI/Tokyo Tech) (A) |
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| | Motoo ITO (JAMSTEC) (C) |
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| | Daisuke KIGA (ELSI/Tokyo Tech) (G) |
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| | Kensei KOBAYASHI (Yokohama National University) (A) |
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| | Hitoshi KUNINAKA (JAXA/JSPEC) (D) |
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| | Yutestu KURUMA (ELSI/Tokyo Tech) (G) |
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| | Takano NAKAGAWA (JAXA/ISAS) (A) |
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| | Masatoshi OHISHI (NAOJ) (B) |
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| | Yasuhito SEKINE (University of Tokyo) (E) |
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| | Ken TAKAI (JAMSTEC) (F) |
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| | Yoshinori TAKANO (JAMSTEC) (C) |
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| | Motohide TAMURA (University of Tokyo) (A) |
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| | Yuichiro UENO (ELSI/Tokyo Tech) (F) |
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| | Hikaru YABUTA (Osaka University) (C) |
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| | Hajime YANO (JAXA/ISAS) (D) |
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Example of Invited Speakers:(as of November 13th, 2013)
| (A) | Exoplanets: Theories, Models, Observations |
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| | Piet Hut( ELSI & Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA ) |
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| (B) | Molecular Clouds, Planetary Formation Regions |
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| | Arnaud Belloche ( Max Plank Institute for Radioastronomie, |
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| | Germany ) |
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| (C) | Meteoritics and Cosmochemistry |
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| | Sasha Krot ( University of Hawai'i, USA ) |
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| (D) | Solar System Exploration and Experiments: Science, Mission Designs, |
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| | Instruments and Enabling Technologies |
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| | Peter Tsou ( Sample Exploration Systems, USA ) |
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| | Gerda Horneck ( Institute of Aerospace Medicine/DLR, Germany ) |
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| (E) | Early Earth, Geochemistry, Planetary Environment |
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| | Feng Tian ( NAOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ) |
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| | Christophe Thomazo ( CNRS, University of Burgundy, France ) |
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| (F) | Extremephiles: Life in Extreme Environments |
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| | Wayne L. Nicholson( University of Florida, USA ) |
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| (G) | RNA and Molecular Biology |
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| | Arturo Becerra ( Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Mexico ) |
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Examples of Special Talks by Distinguished Speakers:(as of November 13th, 2013)
| | Kei HIROSE( Director, ELSI/Tokyo Tech ) |
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| | Norio KAIFU ( President, International Astronomical Union ) |
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| | Chris McKAY ( NASA Ames Research Center, USA ) |
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| | Shigenori MARUYAMA( Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology ) |
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| | Tairo OHSHIMA ( President, Institute of Environmental Microbiology) |
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Panel Discussion: "Astrobiology vs. Space Experiments and Exploration"
- Panelists - (as of November 27th, 2013)
| | Gerda HORNECK ( Honorary President, European Astrobiology |
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| | Network Association, also at DLR ) |
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| | Hitoshi KUNINAKA( Professor and Program Director, JAXA/JSPEC, |
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| | also Chair, JAXA Space Exploration Steering Committee, Japan ) |
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| | Chris McKAY( Chief Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, |
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| | also NASA Astrobiology Institute, USA (via teleconference) ) |
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| | Ken TAKAI( Program Director, Extremobiosphere Research Program |
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| | at Institute of Biogeosciences, JAMSTEC ) |
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| | Akihiko YAMAGISHI( President, Japan Astrobiology Network, also |
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| | Professor, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences ) |
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| | Hiroshi YAMAKAWA( Professor, Kyoto University, also Chair, |
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| | JAXA/ISAS Space Engineering Steering Committee, Japan ) |
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Final Schedule (as of November 27th, 2013):
| Day-1 | Thursday, November 28, 2013 |
| 8:00-8:30 | Preparation |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 | ON-SITE REGISTRATION |
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| 9:15 - 9:45 | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION |
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| 9:45 - 12:00 | METEORITICS AND COSMOCHEMISTRY |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | LUNCH TIME & POSTER VIEWING-: DAY-1 |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 | SPECIAL LECTURES-1 |
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| 14:30 - 16:00 | MOLECULAR CLOUDS AND PLANETARY FORMATION REGIONS |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | GROUP PHOTO DAY-1 & COFFEE BREAK |
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| 16:30 - 18:30 | EARLY EARTH, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND PLANETARY ENVIRONMENT |
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| Day-2: | Friday, November 29, 2013 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | ON-SITE REGISTRATION |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | WEBCAST PRESENTATION-1(TBD) |
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| 9:30 - 11:55 | SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION AND EXPERIMENTS |
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| 11:55 - 13:30 | LUNCH TIME & POSTER VIEWING-: DAY-2 |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 | SPECIAL LECTURES-2 |
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| 14:30 - 17:00 | EXOPLANETARY SYSTEMS AND EXOPLANETS |
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| 17:00 - 17:30 | GROUP PHOTO DAY-2 & COFFEE BREAK |
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| 17:30 - 18:30 | POSTER SESSION-CORE TIME |
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| 18:30 - 20:30 | RECEPTION AT THE ISAS DINING HALL |
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| Day-3: | Saturday, November 30, 2013 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | ON-SITE REGISTRATION |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | WEBCAST PRESENTATION-2 |
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| 9:30 - 11:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION:"ASTROBIOLOGY VS. SPACE EXPERIMENTS AND EXPLORATION" |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | SHORT COFFEE BREAK |
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| 11:15 - 12:30 | LIFE IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS (1/2) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH TIME & POSTER VIEWING-: DAY-3 |
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| 14:00 - 14:50 | LIFE IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS (2/2) |
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| 14:50 - 15:20 | GROUP PHOTO DAY-3 & COFFEE BREAK |
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| 15:20 - 17:50 | RNA AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
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| 17:50 - 18:10 | FINDINGS AND CLOSING REMARKS |
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| 18:10 | ADJOURN |
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| Open Lecture Day: | Sunday, December 1st, 2013 |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Registration at the Lecture Hall |
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| [Part-1: Mini-Lecture Series] |
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| 14:00 - 14:05 | Introduction: H. Yano (JAXA/ISAS) |
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| 14:05 - 14:25 | Talk-1: T. Naganuma (Hiroshima University) |
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| 14:25 - 14:45 | Talk-2: D. Horikawa (University of Paris 5) |
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| 14:45 - 15:05 | Talk-3: A. Yamagishi (Tokyo Univ. of Pharmacy & Life Sci.) |
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| 15:05 - 15:25 | Talk-4: M. Tamura (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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| 15:25 - 15:45 | Talk-5: S. Narusawa (Nishi-Harima Observatory) |
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| 15:45 - 16:35 | Panel Discussion |
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| 16:35 - 16:50 | Break |
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| [Part-2: Dome Movie Teach-In] |
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| 16:50 - 17:00 | Entry at the Planetarium (Limited to 200 seats, 500 JPY/adult) |
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| 17:00 - 17:20 | Teach-In: K. Takai (JAMSTEC) |
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| 17:20 - 17:55 | Dome Movie: "Eternal Return" |
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| 17:55 - 18:15 | Q&A Session: K. Takai (JAMSTEC) |
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| 18:15 | Adjourn |
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| Open Lecture HP | at Sagamihara City Museum (Japanese Only) |
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Registrations & Travel Grant
All the procedures are managed on-line by the "USRA Meeting Portal" system. Please follow the instructions below carefully.
Registration
| | Thanks to our generous co-sponsors, the registration fee is free, |
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| | quantity of the participant packages. |
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| | To register, please visit the "USRA Meeting Portal". |
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| | There, on-line registration is open until November 21 in JST. |
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| | After this date, only on-site registration is permitted but |
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| | the participant packages will be provided by the first come first serve |
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| | basis and they may run out. |
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| | USRA Meeting Portal Registration Site: ( Create Account ) |
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| | * Important Note: If this is your first time to use the "Meeting |
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| | Portal" system, you must create your personal account before starting
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| | registration and submission processes. |
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| | On-line Registration (Closed on November 21, 2013) ( USRA Meeting Portal ) |
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Travel Grants
| | [Last updated on November 13th, 2013] |
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| | International Travel Grants: |
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| | All international travel grants have been allocated to qualified |
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| | applicants and invited speakers, to whom the respective grant |
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| | administration staff have already contacted. No further grants are available. |
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| | Domestic Travel Grants: |
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| | All qualified applicants for domestic travel grants have been identified |
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| | by the LOC and session organizers. Amount of supports and administrative |
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| | [Original Message] |
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| | The travel grant can be awarded to any participants of this |
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| | workshop who both apply for the grant and submit an abstract |
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| | through the "USRA Meeting portal" system, by October 1st in JST. |
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| | Priorities will be given to invited speakers from overseas and |
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| | young speakers from Japan recommended by session organizers, |
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| | but all the rest of scientific the applicants will be evaluated |
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| | by the LOC for merit of the presentation, economical needs, and other factors. |
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| | A total amount of awarded grants is determined by the LOC and it |
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| | is not guaranteed to meet the estimated travel cost claimed above. |
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Meeting Reception
| | [Last updated on November 13th, 2013] |
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| | A casual meeting reception will be held at 18:30-20:30 on November |
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| | 29th Friday in the ISAS Dining Hall, right next to the meeting venue inside the Sagamihara Campus.This is a perfect time to |
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| | get to know new colleagues from different astrobiology disciplines, cultures,generations, and regions of the globe. |
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| | The ticket will cost 4,000 Japanese Yen per person which covers |
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| | foods and soft/hard drinks and it will only be sold at the registration |
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| | desk by cash (i.e., no credit cards nor cheques). You will be asked if |
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| | you attend the reception when you first visit the registration desk upon your arrival. |
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Abstract Submission
| | [Last updated on October 14th, 2013] |
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| | Abstract Submission Page at the USRA Meeting Portal Is Now Closed. |
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| | [Original Message] |
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| | Abstracts must be submitted through the "USRA Meeting Portal " |
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| | system. Please use the template below. |
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Publications
Abstract Volume:
| | All accepted presentations are included their extended abstracts |
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| | (USRA format of Letter Size x2 pages maximum) in the Abstract |
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| | Volume and open at the workshop website. They will be included |
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| | in theJAXA Repository system, after signing the upload permission |
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| | document on site. |
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Presentation Archive:
| | Also all presenters are kindly requested to provide their Power |
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| | Point presentation materials (PPT or PDF files) to the LOC for |
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| | academic archives. Given the presenter's permission, the |
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| | presentation materials may also be posted on the workshop |
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| | homepage for future references. Thus please edit confidential, |
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| | copyright sensitive and other concerned materials in the |
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| | presentation materials accordingly, before submitting them to |
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Special Issue of an International Refereed Journal:
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| | a special issue of an international refereed journal on astrobiology. |
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| | Preliminary negotiations with some editorial board members are |
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| | now in progress, together with some financial supports. |
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| | The submission will be voluntary basis and the guideline and referee |
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| | process will be consistent with normal papers in the same journal. |
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| | In order to help the LOC for this negotiation, please kindly |
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| | indicate your interests for the journal submission in the comment |
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| | session of your registration page of the USRA Meeting Portal System, |
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| | or email to the LOC secretariat. Even if you do not express your wish |
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| | in the registration process, you still have a chance to submit until |
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| | the due date, which will be announced at the workshop. |
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Access & Accommodation
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science(ISAS)
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| | 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, |
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| | Kanagawa 252-5210 JAPAN |
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Sagamihara City Museum ( Right next to ISAS )
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| | 3-1-15 Takane, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, |
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| | Kanagawa 252-0221 JAPAN |
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Accommodation
| | JR Fuchinobe station is the nearest station to ISAS. |
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| | The following is a short list of nearby hotels and all |
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| | participants must reserve their accommodations by themselves. |
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| - | Toyoko INN ( Open web site ) |
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Hotel LiVE MAX ( Open web site ) Japanese only |
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| - | Hotel The Ellcy Machida ( Open web site ) |
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| | A very limited number of the ISAS Lodge guest rooms are available |
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| | for accommodation on November 27th to December 1st. |
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| | Priorities of the ISAS Lodge reservation are given to presenters |
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| | who need financial supports, who apply for the travel grants. |
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| - | ISAS lodge ( ISAS web page ) |
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Important Dates
All the schedule is written in Japan Standard Time.
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| August 19 | The First Announcement |
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| August 26 | Registration Starts |
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| | Travel Grant Application Starts |
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| | Abstract Submission Starts |
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| October 01 | (23:59 in Japan Standard Time) |
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| | Abstract and Registration Deadline for |
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| | Grant Applicants |
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| October 14 | (23:59 in Japan Standard Time) |
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| | Abstract Deadline for the Rest |
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| November 13 | Semi-Final Program Plan Announcement |
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| November 21 | (23:59 in Japan Standard Time) |
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| | Final Program Announcement and |
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| | Close On-line Registration for the Rest (After this |
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| | date, only on-site registration is available.) |
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Contact Us
JABN6 Local Organizing Committee(LOC)
| Chair: |
Akihiko YAMAGISHI |
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(JABN Chair,Guest Professor of Dept. of Interdisciplinary |
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Space Science, JAXA/ISAS, Professor of Tokyo University of |
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Pharmacy and Life Sciences) |
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| Vice Chair: |
Ken TAKAI |
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(JABN Executive, Guest Professor of Dept. of Interdisciplinary |
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Space Science, JAXA/ISAS, ELSI Principal Investigator, |
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Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and |
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Technology) |
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| Members: |
Hirofumi HASHIMOTO |
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(JABN Executive, Associate Professor of Dept. of |
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Interdisciplinary Space Science, JAXA/ISAS) |
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Hajime YANO |
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(Assistant Professor of Dept. of Interdisciplinary Space Science, |
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JAXA/ISAS) |
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Masaki FUJIMOTO |
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(Professor of Dept. of Solar System Science, JAXA/ISAS, |
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ELSI Principal Investigator) |
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Hitoshi KUNINAKA |
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(Program Director of JAXA/JSPEC, ELSI Principal Investigator) |
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Takao NAKAGAWA |
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(Professor of Dept. of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, |
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JAXA/ISAS) |
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Satoshi SASAKI |
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(Professor, Tokyo University of Technology) |
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Yuko KAWAGUCHI |
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(Guest Researcher, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences) |
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Makoto TABATA |
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(Guest Researcher, JAXA/ISAS and Chiba University) |
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| Secretariat: |
Hajime YANO |
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[E-mail] yano.hajime_at_jaxa.jp |
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