Meeting Contents

     This meeting will be devoted to a consideration of Ashra, All-sky Survey High Resolution Air-shower Detector, the R&D status, future plan, and concretely forming international collaboration. Physicists from Univ.Hawaii, Taiwan Institutes, and Japanese Institutes are expected to participate and discuss the critical issues for this next step in the study of Particle Astronomy with Ashra, its detector design, and how to proceed the plan as well as the collaborator governance issues.

     This meeting will be held at the Hawaii IMIN Conference Center on campus in the "Pacific" room during January 8-9, 2004. Also we are planning to visit Haleakala, a test site for Ashra on Maui Island, and Mauna Loa Observatory, an observation site candidate on Big Island on January 7 and 10, respectively.

Program

Jan.6 Arrive at Honolulu
Jan.7 Visit Haleakala if he likes
Jan.8 Meeting and Banquet
Jan.9 Meeting and Executive Comittee Meeting
Jan.10 Visit Hilo and Mauna Loa Observatory if he likes
Jan.11 Leave Honolulu if you are busy

Meeting Agenda

For the pre and post meeting tours, please purchase airline tickets to satisfy the following conditions if you join the tours.

1) Pre-meeting Tour in Maui:
Meet together, Jan.7 10:00 at Luggage Claim of Kahului airport
Stay at Kula lodge to have an experience of night there.

2) Ashra meeting:
Start, Jan.8 10:30 at the Hawaii IMIN Conference Center in
Univ.Hawaii after flight from Kahului to Honolulu.

3) Post-meeting Tour in Hawaii:
Meet together, Jan.10 10:00 at Luggage Claim of Hilo airport
Stay at a hotel (to be fixed later) to have an experience of night there.

For questions about the program, contact

Makoto Sasaki sasakim@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Misc.

• Local Support

  •   The High Energy Physics Group is cenetered in the nearby Watanabe Hall. The common room, 217 has terminals, fax, coffee. Ask group secretarial help accross the hall if you need assistance, such as an office, phone, etc. Also, local collaborators Tom Browder, Gene Guillian, John Learned and Steve Olsen may be able to help you. Other information about the UH Department of Physics and Astronomy is at http://www.phys.hawaii.edu
    
  
  

• Registration Fee

  •   We would like to collect a fee of $30 per person to cover coffee and snacks for the meetings.
    
  
  

• Copies of Talk Material

  •   If possible please make talks available for electronic download so we can post proceedings of the meeting.
    
  
  

• Hotel reservations

  •   Participants can either request dorm reservations or hotel reservations at Maile Sky Court ($50 & $60 rooms). Or you can ask to find other hotels if needed. Anyone wishing reservations other than at Maile Sky Court or dorm will need to submit credit card information. Please contact Jan Bruce for details.
    
    
  •   We strongly recommend that room reservations be made early as January is the high season and hotels fill up fast.
  
  

• Transportation from Hotels to UH(University of Hawaii)

  •   Public bus service is available from the hotels to the campus at $2.00 each way and they run every 15 minutes.
    
    
  •   Parking shouldn't be a problem if participants prefer to drive.
  
  

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