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  Japan Geoscience Union Mail News No.112　May 10, 2011
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1.

Important information of
JpGU Meeting 2011

Recent
schedule

May 13
: Program and abstracts are released on the web

May 22
to 27: JpGU Meeting 2011

  
May 23 : Union Science Board Meeting, Regular board of directors

  
May 25 : Society Council Meeting and Party

  
May 26 : General Staff Meeting

(1)Service
available on-site

Screening for free by Discovery Channel
Travel Agency "Jusvel Corporation" by AEON

Drinking and Eating

Information corner by scientific societies
Exhibition by private companies, institutions and universities

Publishers and related products booth

Electric outlets on the 3rd floor and wireless LAN
For further details, please see the following URL:

https://www.jpgu.org/meeting/services.html
(only
Japanese is available)

(2)Pre-registered participants [Important]

Name
cards and programs are NOT sent beforehand this time.

Abstracts are ONLY released on the web.

Invitation mail is sent to you after May 10 is the certificate to have

completed pre-registration.

Please
be sure to bring the PDF file attached to the invitation mail.

With
this PDF file, you can easily come in the exhibition hall.

Without
this, it may take time to check your registration.

Reception on the day

At the
reception of Makuhari Messe, your registration is confirmed by

the
bar-code on the PDF file.

After
your registration is confirmed, name card and receipts are issued and

programs are handed to you.

(3)Participants to make on-site registration

There
are 3 kinds of counters.

1) JpGU
members: Those who receive this mailnews

2) Non
member with JpGU ID: Those who are not JpGU member but receive this
mailnews

3) Non
member without JpGU ID

Please
be sure to access the following URL and check your registration and
payment status.

https://secure.jtbcom.co.jp/jpgu_e/

[On-site registration fee]
Full conference ticket

Member
Regular: 13,000 JPY  

          
Elementary, junior and high school teacher: 5,500 JPY

          
Graduate student: 5,500 JPY

Non-member Regular: 20,000 JPY

          
Elementary, junior and high school teacher: 13,000 JPY

          
Graduate student: 13,000 JPY

One day
ticket

Member
Regular: 7,000 JPY  

          
Elementary, junior and high school teacher: 4,000 JPY

          
Graduate student: 4,000 JPY

Non-member Regular: 13,000 JPY

          
Elementary, junior and high school teacher: 10,000 JPY

          
Graduate student: 10,000 JPY

*If you
become a member by paying annual due of 2,000 JPY or 1,000 JPY, you can
buy the ticket by a member rate.

*Undergraduate students and the aged 70 and over are free of charge.

(4)Accomodation around
Makuhari Messe

You can reserve a hotel
room from the following email address.

For further details,
please directly email to Mr. Kato.

jus-kato@aeon.biz

 *Please email the
name, contact email address and the day you want to stay.

(5)Special lectures

World class researchers
are to give lectures during lunch time at International Conference Hall

from Monday to Friday.

Lunch boxes are sold in
front of the International Conference Hall.
　

May 23, Monday:
Atmospheric, Ocean, and Environmental Sciences
  Dr. Mark Pelling (King’s College London)
 "Resilience theory and its internal contradiction"
May 24, Tuesday: Biogeosciences
  Dr. Naohiko Okouchi (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology)
 "Principles of Geobiology"
May 25, Wednesday : Human Geosciences
  Dr. Yoshinori Yasuda (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
 "An Age of the Civilization of Life
May 26, Thursday : Solid Earth Sciences
  Dr. Kei Hirose (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
 "Earth’s deep interior: insight from ultrahigh-pressure experiments"
May 27, Friday : Space and Planetary Sciences

  Dr. Takashi Tanaka
(Emeritus professor of Kyusyu University)
 "Space plasma simulation"

(6) Special session to the
general public

         
"The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku
Earthquake"
3 earthquake and tunami related researchers make up
to date speeches about this earthquake.

Please
feel free to come to International Conference Hall
to listen to these speeches for free.

(7) Part-timers are
wanted!
Please help us organizing JpGU Meeting 2011.

For further details, see
the following URL: (only Japanese is available)

https://www.jpgu.org/meeting/2011part/

(8)Briefing meeting
concerning scientific research fund and fellows by

         
Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences

Date: May 24, Tuesday
18:45 to 20:45

Room : 105

We’re waiting for your
participation.

(9) Introduction of
Exhibitors

■IUGONET project

■Solar observing satellite
"Hinode" project

■Department of Earth and
Planetary Science, University of Tokyo

2. From Committees

(1)Educational
Affairs Committee

On May 21, Sat.
13:00-17:00, the symposium named "How do we make the most of this
earthquake to the scientific education."

are to be held.
No registration is necessary.  Please feel free to come to
International Conference Hall.

(2)Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee
We discussed the possibility of the international earth science Olympiad
planned to be held in Japan in 2012.

As a
result, we decided to give up holding this Olympiad in Japan.

This
plan is still tentative and finally make a judgement at the general
assembly of Japan Earth Science Olympiad Committee on June 12.

We plan
to have Japan Earth Science Olympiad every year, and try to dispatch
delegates to the International Earth Science Olympiad every year.

We also
plan to do our best to hold the International Earth Science Olympiad in
Japan near future.

Your
continuous cooperation would be highly appreciated.

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