Astronomical Polarimetry 2020 – New Era of Multi-Wavelength Polarimetry

The best poster/presentation awards page is now open.

Submission of Proceedings Papers page is now open. The symposium proceedings will be published in an issue of the official IAU symposium proceedings series by the IAU publisher, the Cambridge University Press (CUP). Editors: H. Shinnaga, B-G Andersson, A.M. Magalhães, E. Falgarone.

Please submit your proceedings papers by April 28th 2021.

Hiroko Shinnaga (Kagoshima University), the SOC Chair of IAU Symposium 360 Astropol2020, on behalf of SOC/LOC

As announced the circular released around 0:00am on March 20 (Sat) UT, the Portal page for participants (password restricted) is available. You may find the information helpful to attend the Symposium there. Also, please refer the updated Symposium Program.

Poster Presentations

Symposium Program (Tentative)

The list of the registered persons is now accessible at the link in the menu on the right side of this web page.

Participants

The deadline of the late registration and abstract submission is again postponed until Feb 15th ,24h UT. The presentation program is now being finalized and is to be announced within a couple of day.

The deadline of the late registration and the abstract submission, which was originally January 25th, has been postponed until February 10th, 2021. Thank you for your cooperation.

Dear colleagues, 　

  First and foremost, we hope you, your family and friends are all well and managing through these tough times.  

 The COVID-19 pandemic is still a big issue worldwide.  Our daily lives has dramatically changed due to the pandemic.  

Considering the fact that it would not end anytime soon, we decided to hold  IAU Symposium 360 Astropol2020 in a hybrid mode, namely at Hiroshima physically along with online (realtime access plus video).  

  For those of you who can participate the symposium this time, we will ask all of you to register with new system when it’s ready.  We expect that the new system will become available in early October (next month) 2020.  

  For those of you who registered and already paid for the registration fee last time, you will be refunded with full amount.  Please give us some time to process it (to be completed by the end of this year).  

 We want to thank *you* in advance for your support and enthusiasm to the field of astronomical polarimetry. We look forward to your submissions and participation.  With your contributions, we will be able to make this symposium a true success, in spite of many difficulties that we need to overcome.

 Please stay in touch.  We will keep you updated.  

Sincerely, 

On behalf of the organizing committee,

IAUS 360 Astropol2020 SOC: Hiroko Shinnaga, 
B-G Andersson, Antonio Mario Magalhães, François Menard  (co-Chair)

LOC: Koji S. Kawabata, Hiroshi Akitaya (co-Chair)

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 This is the pre announcement for _rescheduled_ IAU Symposium 360 “with online”

“Astronomical Polarimetry 2020 — New Era of Multi-Wavelength Polarimetry” 

at Hiroshima, Japan, March 22 — 26, 2021. 

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web site: https://astropol2020-iau.jp/

venue:  Higashi Hiroshima Arts & Culture Hall, Kurara   (Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan)  
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Astronomical Polarimetry 2020 (Astropol 2020) is the next in a series of 
international conferences. The aim of this series of conferences is to bring 
researchers interested in astronomical polarimetry together to share and
discuss recent results and advances in technical and scientific aspects 
in all relevant astronomical fields. This will be the first time that an Astropol symposium will take place in Asia. 

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We will have following five sessions, as planned originally.  We invite your contributions on each topics:

[I.] Instrumentation and Techniques 

[II.] Sun, Solar System, and Exoplanets

[III.] ISM, Molecular clouds, Star formation 

[IV.]  Stars: Circumstellar Matter, Winds and Jets

[V.]  Extragalactic Polarimetry, CMB

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Request for “Travel Grant” will be open until December 10th, 2020. Details for the travel grant will be announced later.  

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Deadlines  (* Registration system is to be activated in early October ’20)

– December 10th 2020 … Early Registration (for oral presentations)  due date

– January 25th 2021 … Abstract Submission due date 

SOC :
Hiroko Shinnaga (chair), B-G Andersson, Antonio Mario Magalhães, 
François Menard  (co-Chair), Edith Falgarone, Jennifer L. Hoffman, 
Masateru Ishiguro, Koji S. Kawabata, Masafumi Matsumura, 
Thushara Pillai, Stephen Potter, Claudia V. Rodrigues, Motohide Tamura

February 27, 2020

Dear participants,
This is an announcement for postponing the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium 360 Astropol2020 that was scheduled to be held from the 23rd until the 27th of March 2020 at Hiroshima, Japan.
The coronavirus outbreak keeps escalating all over the world including East Asia and Japan.
Considering the rapid growth in affected areas as well as in the number of infected individuals, and considering the seriousness of this virus, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the symposium for the sake of everyone’s safety.
IAU has agreed and approved our decision.
We will let you know when the symposium is to be held as soon as we become confident that the coronavirus is contained.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,
Hiroko Shinnaga, The Chair of Science Organization Committee of IAUS 360
Koji Kawabata, The Chair of Local Organization Committee of IAUS 360

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