TRAO Postdoctoral Positions at the KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) invites applications for one postdoctoral position for the Taedok Radio Astronomy Observatory ing in September 2015. The beginning date is negotiable. The period will be two years with a possible one year extension upon successful performance. The position is expected to spend about 30% of his/her time to work on operations of TRAO including a test observation and a support for an observer. The postdoc will have a full access in a competition basis to all the resources and facilities in KASI. KASI resources and observing facilities include KVN, KaVA, the 14-meter Taeduk radio telescope, the JCMT 15-meter telescope through East Asia Observatory, the Gemini 8.1m telescope, and ALMA through East Asia Region. Interested persons should the following documents: ▶ A curriculum vitae ▶ A statement of past research and development achievements (including a future research plan) ▶ A list of research and development record ▶ More than two letters of recommendation including Ph.D. thesis supervisor’s (Send directly from the recommenders to icapadmin@kasi.re.kr) ▶ A photo of diploma (or certification of the expectant graduation) and tran The successful candidate will be provided with the remuneration (ing from around 35,000,000 Won (?32,000 USD) per annum; the currency conversion rate between US Dollar and Korean Won employed here is 1.00 USD equates 1,100 Korean Won) depending on qualification, research budget and financial supplement for health insurance and national pension, one-way airfare to join KASI (economy class), and dormitory for single person. Applications should be ted by March 31, 2015 (17:00 KST) via e-mail: icapadmin@kasi.re.kr For any enquires please contact: icapadmin@kasi.re.kr

KVN and KJCC Postdoctoral Positions at the KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) invites applications for two postdoctoral positions for the Korean VLBI Network (KVN, http://kvn.kasi.re.kr) and the Korea-Japan Correlation Center (KJCC, http://kjcc.kasi.re.kr) ing from May 2015. The beginning date is negotiable. The period will be two (2) years with one year extension upon successful performance. The position is expected to spend about 30% of his/her time to support operations of KVN and/or KJCC. We are particularly interested in candidates familiar with VLBI observation and data analysis. The postdoc will have full access to all the resources and facilities in the below. KASI resources and observing facilities include KVN, KaVA, the 14-meter Taeduk radio telescope, the 1.8-meter Bohyunsan optical telescope, the 1.0-meter Mt. Lemmon optical telescope, ALMA through East Asia Region and the JCMT 12-meter telescope through East Asia Observatory. Interested persons should the following documents: ▶ A curriculum vitae ▶ A statement of past research and development achievements (including a future research plan) ▶ A list of research and development record ▶ More than two letters of recommendation including Ph.D. thesis supervisor’s (Send directly from the recommenders to icapadmin@kasi.re.kr) ▶ A photo of diploma (or certification of the expectant graduation) and transcript The successful candidate will be provided with the remuneration (ing from around 35,000,000 Won per annum) depending on qualification, research budget and financial supplement for health insurance and national pension, one-way airfare to join KASI (economy class), and dormitory for single person. Applications should be ted by March 31, 2015 (17:00 KST) via e-mail : icapadmin@kasi.re.kr For submission enquires please contact : icapadmin@kasi.re.kr For scientific enquires please contact : Dr. Byun, Do-Young (bdy@kasi.re.kr)

Celebrating the centenary of the publication of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the year 2015 has been proclaimed as the International Year of Light and light-based technologies (IYL 2015) by the UN General Assembly on 20 Dec. 2015. KASI is taking this opportunity to communicate with the institutions involved to the topics of light and to present our research activities to the society. At KASI, light is the collection of informations about the celestial objects and contains profound history about the universe. With theOptical Society of Korea (OSK), the national node of IYL 2015, KASI plans events link to the IYL 2015. For more details, please visit the national node!

The MIRIS Observationa Data Workshop will be held to report and the current status and to promote its IR Data Use. For the details please visit the MIRIS website http://miris.kasi.re.kr/miris ! Date : 14:00 H, 28 January, 2015 Place : Eunhasoo Hall, KASI Program :  MIRIS Workshop 2015 time, title, speaker을 나타내고 있습니다. Time Title Speaker 14:00-14:10 Introduction W.Han 14:10-14:30 MIRIS System Introduction and Specification, Observation Plan D.H.Lee 14:30-14:50 Overall On-Orbit Status of MIRIS J.Pyo 14:50-15:10 Observation Status of Paα Galactic Plane Survey I.J.Kim 15:10-15:30 Observation Status for Cosmic Infrared Background J.Pyo 15:30-15:50 Infrared Observations of the Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) Y.J.Choi 15:50-16:10 Break 16:10-16:40 User Observation and Proposal Submission Plan W.S.Jeong 16:40-17:30 Advisory Committee, Discussion and Comments W.Han 18:00 The first Korean IR space telescope MIRIS (Multi-purpose Infra-Red Imaging System) developed by Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) was successfully launched as the primary payload onboard the Science and Technology Satellite-3 of Korea (STSAT-3) in November 2013. The main mission of MIRIS is the Paschen-alpha emission line survey along the Galactic plane and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) observation, particularly around the north pole region, with a wide field of view (3.67x3.67 degree) with a resolution of 51.6' and wavelength coverage of 0.9~2.0 micro-m. Optical components of MIRIS consist of a 80mm main lens and four other lenses with 2/F forcal ratio optics and the telescope was designed to use a passive cooling technique (~200 K) in order to reduce the thermal noise. A micro Stirling cooler was used to cool down the Teledyne PICNIC IR array to 90 K, equipped in a dewar with 4 filters for IR passbands of I, H, and Paschen-alpha and a dual-band continuum line fileter. For the Inquiry, please contact Dr. W. Han (whan@kasi.re.kr) ! MIRIS team, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

IGRINS (Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph) is a high-resolution (R~40,000), near-IR (H and K simultaneously) spectrograph develophed by Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and the University of Texas at Austin. It is being operated at the 2.7m telescope of the McDonald Observatory. Here we solicit proposals for the 2015 Trimester 2. A normal user can apply for the McDonald Open Time. For more details can be found at the CfP website If you have any inquiry, please feel free to contact us at kgmtscience@kasi.re.kr ! Telescope/Instrument : McDonald 2.7m / IGRINS Deadlines : 8am (CST) Feb. 2, 2015 for the McDonald Open Time Program Period of Observations : Apr.- July 2015 Author Policy Principal investigator of a proposed program must be a Korean citizen or a resident in Korea who is officially affiliated with a Korean research institution or university. IGRINS is a PI instrument. A member or members of the IGRINS team must be on each proposal. IGRINS Newsletter for 2015Tri1 is now available. Please visit the CfP page ! K-GMT Science Group, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

We are pleased to announce the first meeting of Korea Numerical Astrophysics Group (KNAP) will be held on January 23, 2015 in KASI. The KNAG meeting will be regularly held in KASI every month. Research topics are mainly numerical and theoretical astrophysics, but contributions of the researchers in other reseach fields such as observational or historical astronomy, data science, cosmology, solar physics, and space science are very welcome.  Date : 14:00-17:00 H Jan. 23, 2015 Place : JangYongSil Hall 329, KASI Aims and Scope The purpose of this meeting is to exchange research interests and results among numerical and theoretical astrophysicists in Korea and also to give to the students, postDods, and researchers opportuinties to present their works. Program 14:00-14:10   Donsu Ryu (UNIST)          Opening  Remarks 14:10-15:00   Jihyun Kim (UNIST)          Overview on the astrophysics of ultra-high Energy cosmic rays 15:10-16:00   Jeong-Gyu Kim (SNU)       Instability of ionization fronts surrounding HII regions 16:10-17:00   Kimitake Hayasaki (KASI)  Tidal disruption flares from stars on bound orbits SOCKyungjin Ahn (Chosun Univ.), Jungyeon Cho (Chungnam Nat. Univ.), Jongsoo Kim (KASI), Kimitake Hayasaki (KASI), Hyesung Kang (Busan Nat. Univ.), Woong-Tae Kim (Seoul Nat. Univ.), Dongsu Ryu (UNIST), Kyujin Kwak (UNIST) 

RINS (Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph) is a high-resolution (R~40,000), near-infrared (H and K simultaneously) spectrograph develophed by Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute  (KASI) and the University of Texas at Austin. It is being operated at the 2.7m telescope of the McDonald Observatory. Here we solicit poposals for the 2015 Trimester 2. Users can apply for the Guaranteed Time (GT) that KASI manages or for the open time of the McDonald Observatory. Note that the awardable GT is quite limited for 2015 Tri 2 and would not exceed 2 nights. More details can be found at the K-GMT IGRINS CfP page If you have any other inquiry, please feel free to contact us at kgmtscience@kasi.re.kr Telescope/Instrument : McDonald 2.7m / IGRINS Deadlines : 18th Jan, 2015 for Korean Guaranteed Time Program                      31st Jan, 2015 for McDonald Open Time Program  (Not exact date is announced yet) Period of Observations : April - July 2015 Author Policy Principal Investigator of a proposed program must be a korean citizen or a resident in Korea who is officially affiliated with a Korean research institution or university. IGRINS is a PI instrument. A member or members of the IGRINS team must be on each proposal. For more details please visit the CfP page Telecon : We are planning to host a telecon on Jan 13th to coordinate Korean IGRINS proposals for Trimester 2. If you are willing to propose for Trimester 2, please notify us and we will send you more details.  IGRINS Newsletter : IGRINS Newsletter for 2015Tri1 is now available. Please check the CfP page K-GMT Science Group, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute Deadlines : 18th Jan, 2015 for Korean Guaranteed Time Program 31st Jan, 2015 for McDonald Open Time Program  (Not exact date is announced yet) Period of Observations : April - July 2015 Author Policy Principal Investigator of a proposed program must be a korean citizen or a resident in Korea who is officially affiliated with a Korean research institution or university. IGRINS is a PI instrument. A member or members of the IGRINS team must be on each proposal. For more details please visit the CfP page http://kgmtscience.kasi.re.kr/kgmt_igrins/contact/team.html Telecon : We are planning to host a telecon on Jan 13th to coordinate Korean IGRINS proposals for Trimester 2. If you are willing to propose for Trimester 2, please notify us and we will send you more details.  IGRINS Newsletter : IGRINS Newsletter for 2015Tri1 is now available. Please check the CfP page http://kgmtscience.kasi.re.kr/kgmt_igrins/contact/team.html K-GMT Science Group, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute

KASI announces a proposal call for the tentative use of Korean time of EAO (East Asian Observatory, previously JCMT) before its main operation (possibly on June 1st, 2015) as follows. 1. Proposer qualification : Any researcher affiliated at Universities or institutes in Korea can his/her proposal 2. Dead line : Jan. 15, 17:30 KST, 2015 3. Submission to : eao_jcmt@kasi.re.kr 4. Proposal form : Please use a word file for your cover page as attached. But parts for Science & Technical Justification can be written with any editor. Maximum pages for the proposal are 2 pages (with additional 1 page for figures). Please your proposal including the cover page in a single PDF file. 5. Observing period : Feb. 1st - May 31st, 2015 6. Maximum request time : Within 12h - 24h per one proposal. In case that total request time exceeds our allocated one for Korea, the request time in each proposal can be reduced through an evaluation process of the proposals. 7. Useful site for the proposal : http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/observing/ Radio Astronomy Division Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute

The Cosmic Dust meeting ed in 2006 as a session called “Cosmic Dust” of the 3rd AOGS (Asia-Oceania Geoscience Society) annual meeting in Singapore. Dust freaks have kept on organizing the session at subsequent AOGS meetings in Korea (2008), India (2010), and Taiwan (2011). The Cosmic Dust series has been recognized as the most successful session of the AOGS Planetary Sciences Section. In 2012, the time was ripe to be free from organizing restrictions on the AOGS meeting. From that time on, the Cosmic Dust meeting is totally independent of any international conference. The past meetings on Cosmic Dust have been held in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere. So will be the coming one!   Date : August 17(Mon.) -  August 21 (Fri.), 2015 Venue : Tokyo Skytree Town Campus of Chiba Institute of Technology 8F                 solamachi, Tokyo Skytree Town(R) 1-1-2 Oshiage, Sumida-ku,                 Tokyo 131-0045, JAPAN                 (http://www.it-chiba.ac.jp/skytree/index_en.html) Official Website : https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/ Objectives This series of Cosmic Dust meetings aims at finding a consensus among experts on the formation and evolution of cosmic dust: where it comes from and where it goes. The meeting is organized by dust freaks who are very enthusiastic not only to make the goal achievable but also to establish a dust community across every scientifically relevant discipline for the development of cosmic dust research. For this reason, the primary objective of the meeting is to bring together professionals who deal with cosmic dust as well as provide an opportunity for participants to develop human relations and interactions among themselves. SCOPE  All kinds of cosmic dust such as  intergalactic dust, circumnuclear dust, interstellar dust, protoplanetary disk dust, debris disk dust, cometary dust, interplanetary dust, circumplanetary dust, stellar nebular condensates, presolar grains, micrometeorites, meteoroids, meteors, regolith particles, and planetary aerosols are the subject of discussion. The meeting is open for any aspects of dust research by means of different methods of studies (in-situ and laboratory measurements, astronomical observations, laboratory and numerical simulations, theoretical modeling, data analyses, etc.). All dust-related topics, for example, the formation of molecules and their reactions on and their desorption from the surface of dust particles, are also welcome. Publishing the proceedings of this meeting is currently planned as a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal, while paper submission to the proceedings is not obligatory. ADMISSIONS APPLICATION Please complete online meeting application at the CPS website in order to attend the meeting. The deadline for the application is May 13, 2015, 11:59 p.m. Japan Standard Time (GMT+09:00). Because the number of participants is limited to a maximum of 50, the online application does not guarantee admission to the meeting. Participants will be determined at the discretion of the SOC and all applicants will be notified of the admissions decision by May 31, 2015. Priority will be given to those who contribute to oral or poster sessions and retain enthusiasm for discussions throughout the meeting. For further details, please visit the Cosmic Dust website. https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/Application.html REGISTRATION FEE The early bird rate of 10,000 JPY is available for those who complete both admissions application and abstract submission by April 30, 2015. The registration fee for those who complete admissions application on and after May 1, 2015 is 15,000 JPY. While no payment is required at the time of admissions application and abstract submission, the registration fee should be paid by cash on arrival at the venue. No matter what circumstances are specified, the registration fee will not be waived. IMPORTANT DATES  - Deadline for Early-Bird Application : 30 April 2015  - Deadline for Admissions Application : 13 May 2015  - Notification of Admissions Decision : 31 May 2015  - Cosmic Dust : 17-21 August 2015 SOC Jean-Charles Augereau (IPAG, France), Cornelia Jager (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya University, Japan) Hiroshi Kimura (Kobe University, Japan) [Chair] Ludmilla Kolokolova (University of Maryland, USA) Aigen Li (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA) LOC Hiroki Chihara (Osaka Sangyo University), Takayuki Hirai (ISAS/JAXA), Akio Inoue (Osaka Sangyo University), Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya University), Hiroshi Kimura (Kobe University), Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya University), Takaya Nozawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Hiroki Senshu (Chitec/PERC), Takashi Shimonishi (Kobe University), Ryo Tazaki (Kyoto University), Koji Wada (Chitec/PERC, Chair) CONTACT INFORMATION Hiroshi Kimura dust-inquiries@cps-jp.org Graduate School of Science, Kobe University c/o Center for Planetary Science (CPS) Chuo-ku Minatojima Minamimachi 7-1-48 Kobe 650-0047, Japan Fax: +81 78 599 6735 [BRIEF HISTORY] The Cosmic Dust meeting ed in 2006 as a session called “Cosmic Dust” of the 3rd AOGS (Asia-Oceania Geoscience Society) annual meeting in Singapore. Dust freaks have kept on organizing the session at subsequent AOGS meetings in Korea (2008), India (2010), and Taiwan (2011). The Cosmic Dust series has been recognized as the most successful session of the AOGS Planetary Sciences Section. In 2012, the time was ripe to be free from organizing restrictions on the AOGS meeting. From that time on, the Cosmic Dust meeting is totally independent of any international conference. The past meetings on Cosmic Dust have been held in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere. So will be the coming one!  

The East Asian Young Astronomers Meeting (EAYAM) was first organized in 2003 to promote interaction and collaboration between young astronomers in East Asia. The success of the initial meeting in Taiwan was followed by EAYAM 2006 in Japan, EAYAM 2008 in China, and EAYAM 2011 in Korea. We are pleased to announce that EAYAM 2015 will once again be held in Taiwan, between Feb. 9-12, 2015, at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA). Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to participate,  especially those who are either originally from, or currently work in the East Asia region. All participants are expected to give either an oral or a poster presentation to stimulate discussion and interaction. There is no conference registration fee, and attendance will be limited to approximately 100 people. Date : Feb. 9-12, 2015 Location : ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan To register and an abstract, please visit following website: http://www.eacoa.net/event/20150209 The abstract submission deadline is November 15, 2014. If you have any questions on EAYAM 2015, please contact eayam2015loc@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw EAYAM 2015 is supported by ASIAA and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. SOC Albert KONG (NTHU, Taiwan; Chair), Hideaki FUJIWARA  (NAOJ, Japan), Kohei ICHIKAWA (Kyoto University, Japan), Hyosun KIM (KASI, Korea), Shuo  LI (NAOC, China), Youjun LU (NAOC, China), Aran  LYO (KASI Korea), Meg SCHWAMB  (ASIAA, Taiwan), Ya-Wen TANG (ASIAA, Taiwan), Kenneth WONG (ASIAA, Taiwan), HongXin ZHANG (Peking University, China) LOC Hung-Yi Pu (ASIAA, Taiwan; Chair), Wei CHANG (ASIAA, Taiwan), Cindy CHIU (ASIAA, Taiwan), Nicole CZAKON (ASIAA, Taiwan), Shirley HUANG  (ASIAA, Taiwan), Wing Kit LEE (ASIAA, Taiwan), Suh-Lian LIN (ASIAA, Taiwan), Hauyu Baobab Liu (ASIAA, Taiwan)