2nd circular (2004-12-24 revised)

MR2005 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, 
Plasma Merging, and Magnetic Jets 
- "Astrophysical Reconnection and Particle Acceleration"

Awajishima island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
8-10 March 2005


We will send you 2nd circular of the meeting.
Please return the attached registration form to 
T. Miyagoshi (LOC) <miyagosi@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
by December 31, 2004.


SOC: 
    K. Shibata (Kyoto Univ.; chair), T. Terasawa (Univ. Tokyo), 
    M. Hoshino (Univ. Tokyo),  Y. Ono (Univ. Tokyo), 
    M. Yamada (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab),
    T. Forbes (Univ. New Hampshire), S. Prager (Univ, Wisconsin)

LOC : K. Shibata (chair), T. Miyagoshi, S. Tanuma, H. Isobe, 
      D. Shiota (Kyoto Univ), T. Yokoyama (Univ. Tokyo)
                  
Invited Speakers (confirmed, non-Japanese):
     P. Bellan, S. C. Prager, M. Yamada, H. Ji(*), M. Brown, H. Park,  
     M. Hesse, G. Vekstein, P. Browning, F. Cheng, J. Lin,
     A. Lazarian, E. Zweibel, M. Lyutikov, J. Drake, T. Forbes,
     A. Bhattacharjee
     (*: to be confirmed)

Location: Minami Awaji Royal Hotel, Awajishima, near Kobe,
    about 2-3 hours from Kansai airport by car
    (about 1-2 hours from Kobe)
    this is a famous place as Naruto-no-Uzushio (vortices on the sea)
    16000 yen per night for single use including breakfast and dinner
    http://www.daiwaresort.co.jp/awaji/fact.html

Web page:
    http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mr2005/


Schedule:
Dec 31: deadline of abstract
Dec 31: deadline of registration
Jan 31: program, final circular
March 8-10 : meeting

Registration fee:
Registration fee is 10000 Japanese yen.

Contact address:
If you have a question, please send an email to:

Kazunari Shibata (chair) 
Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University, 
Phone: +81-75-581-1235, Fax: +81-75-593-9617
E-mail: shibata@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp 

and

Takehiro Miyagoshi (LOC)
Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University, 
Phone: +81-75-581-1235, Fax: +81-75-593-9617
E-mail: miyagosi@kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp 



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Registration form


Please complete this form including abstract of your paper 
by December 31, 2004.

    Name:
            Family name   Given name   Title

    Institute:
    Postal Address:
    Country:
    E-mail:
    Fax:

   Check-in  date at Minami Awaji Royal Hotel : 
   Check-out date from Minami Awaji Royal Hotel : 

   Hotel room type (please choose "single" or "sharing") :  

   # Note: sharing room (two or several persons)
                        : 12000 Japanese yen per day 
           single room  : 16000 Japanese yen per day 

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Title of your paper:

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Short abstract (200 words, maximum; text file only):


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