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| Synopsis |
Cosmology
has become a leading science and science of precision in the
21st Century. At the turn of 21st century human beings are
capable of exploring the edge of the Universe or, equivalently,
the moment of the very early universe shortly after the Big
Bang. Cosmology is an arena, where the fundamental physics
together with general relativity plays an important and crucial
role.
Here in the Asia Pacific Region including mainland China,
Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, there emerge a large number
of cosmologists and particle astrophysicists, most of them
in their young ages. It is important that we participate in
this round of competing for this kind of new knowledge.
CosPA (International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics)
is a series of conference, which is intended a world leading
conference in the Asia Pacific region. The 1st Symposium in
2002 was attended by G. Smoot, who won a novel prize for his
discovery of the blackbody distribution and anisotropy observation
of CMB in 2006. CosPA 2002 was followed by CosPA 2003 , CosPA2006
and CosPA2007 in Taiwan. CosPA2008 will be held at APCTP (Asia
Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics) in Pohang, Korea on
October 29-31, 2008. It is agreed that CosPA2009 will be hosted
by Australia and the next ones by Japan and China. |
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| Topics |
The
CosPA2008 is intended to bring together scientists to engage
serious discussions on the following topics, among others:
(1) CMB Physics: SZ Surveys, Polarizations, and Large-Scale
Structures.
(2) Inflation: Inflation Models
(3) Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Dark matter physics, Quintessence
and the Cosmological Constant, etc.
(4) Astroparticle physics: Cosmology of Neutrinos and Ultra
High Energy Cosmic Rays.
(5) New Physics: Non-commutative Geometry, Branes, and Extra
dimensions.
(6) Other Toics |
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| Committees |
| International
Advisory Committee |
John D.
Barrow (Cambridge U, UK)
Francois Bouchet (IAP, France)
Robert Brandenberger (McGill, Canada)
Pisin Chen (NatĄŻl Taiwan U, Taiwan & SLAC, USA)
Tzihong Chiueh ( NatĄŻl Taiwan U, Taiwan)
John R. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland)
Ernest M. Henley (U. Washington, USA)
Paul Ho (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
W-Y. Pauchy Hwang (NatĄŻl Taiwan U, Taiwan)* Chair
Andrew H. Jaffe (Imperial, UK)
Bum Hoon Lee (CQUeST, Korea)
Hyun Kyu Lee (Hanyang U, Korea)
Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex, UK)
Bruce H. J. McKellar (Melbourne, Australia)
Sandip Pakvasa (Hawaii, USA)
Jeffrey Peterson ( CMU, USA)
Paul Richards (UC Berkeley, USA)
Katsuhiko Sato (RESCEU/Tokyo U, Japan)
Frank H. Shu (UCSD, USA)
Joseph Silk (Oxford, UK)
Ronald Taam (NTHU, Taiwan)
Anthony Zee, (UCSB, USA) |
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| International
Organizing Committee |
Kiwoon Choi, KAIST,
Korea
Xiao-Gang He, NTU, Taiwan
W.-Y. Pauchy Hwang, NTU, Taiwan (Chair)
Toshitaka Kajino, AOJ, Japan
Sang Pyo Kim, Kunsan Nat'l U., Korea
Miao Li, ITP, Beijing, China
Bo-Qiang Ma, Peking U., China
Kin-Wang Ng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Raymond Volkas, U. Melbourne, Australia
Bin Wang, Fudan U., China
Jun'ichi Yokoyama, RESCEU, U. Tokyo, Japan |
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| Local
Organizing Committee |
Kiwoon Choi (Co-Chair,
KAIST)
Jaichan Hwang (Kyungbuk Nat'l U.)
Hang Bae Kim (Hanyang U.)
Sang Pyo Kim (Co-Chair, Kunsan Nat'l U. & APCTP)
Seunghwan Kim (POSTECH)
Hyung Won Lee (Inje U.)
Changbom Park (Co-Chair, KIAS)
Il Hung Park (Ewha Womans U.)
Ewan Stewart (KAIST) |
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| Sponsors |
Association of
Asia Pacific Physics Societies (AAPPS)
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)
Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
LeCosPA Center (National Taiwan Univ.)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Center for Quantum Spacetime (CQUeST, Sogang U.)
Kunsan National University
Research Center of MEMS Space Telescope (Ewha Womans U.) |
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| Financial
Support |
Support
of limited amount is available for postdocs and graduate students
upon application. |
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