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2023 Participants. Click for high-res version (MB). Credit: Haowen Zhang

Welcome! Bienvenido!

Welcome to the 2023 Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop homepage!

This year's Galaxy Workshop will be held August 7-11, 2023, in the Simularium, room 180 in the Engineering 2 Building. Collaborators are also encouraged to come the week before (July 31-August 4) and/or stay for the week after (August 14-18) for informal, less intense joint work.

Registration:

Note that the registration form is now live, and can be accessed in the Registration tab. If you are planning to attend, please fill out the form as soon as possible, even if you have already been in contact with the organizers about your attendance.


LOC: Colin DeGraf, Avishai Dekel, Joel Primack (chair); Margaret Wuerth, Laura Bakken, Benjamin Tufeld (staff)

SOC: Colin DeGraf, Avishai Dekel (chair), Sandy Faber, David Koo, Joel Primack, Brant Robertson

Click here to visit the 2022 Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop Website.

Program

Parking

If you have ordered a parking permit during registration, it should be picked up at the UCSC entrance kiosk between 8am and 4pm (Monday-Friday). Please make sure you get your permit from this kiosk as you enter campus, as they will not be available at the upper campus (where the workshop itself takes place).

Covid Testing

If you are traveling internationally and you need a Covid test for your return, or would like a covid test for any other reason, you can find information about testing sites and test options at:


Housing and Transportation

Housing

No housing will be available on campus this summer. We recommend that if you plan to attend the conference, you arrange for lodging early. Although hotel policies vary, at the time you make your reservations you should ask if there is a UCSC rate.

Airport shuttles
Shuttle services from the airport to campus or to your lodging are available for a fee:


Public transport
Public transportation options to, from, and around Santa Cruz can be done through the Santa Cruz Metro.

Local Lodging Options

Although hotel policies vary, at the time you make your reservations you should ask if there is a discounted UCSC rate.


If you will be staying an additional week for collaboration, either before or after the workshop, you may want to try the following suggestions for a bit longer term and possibly less expensive housing:

  • Craigslist - Shows housing for rent in many areas


In addition we have a listing from Academic HR, which contains many housing options for extended stays, typically in faculty/UCSC employee houses. This list is available upon request.

Other Useful Information

Contact
Avishai Dekel (avishai.dekel@mail.huji.ac.il)
Joel Primack (joel@ucsc.edu)
Colin DeGraf (cdegraf@truman.edu)

Hello workshop participants,

The Galaxy Workshop is fast approaching! This year's workshop will take place from August 7-11, and will consist of a combination of talks and time for collaborative discussion/interaction. After the workshop, there will be an AGORA project workshop, taking place on Saturday, August 12th, with work continuing through Sunday, August 13th. If you are interested in attending the AGORA workshop or would like further details, please see the AGORA website (www.agorasimulations.org) or contact the AGORA Project Coordinator (santacruzgalaxy@gmail.com).

Registration

The Registration form is now live. Please fill out the registration at https://ucsc.irisregistration.com/Form/galaxy2023 as soon as possible.

To ensure that we have everyone's information, please make sure you have submitted the registration by July 1st. If you have any questions, or if there are any issues, please contact the organizers.



11th AGORA Workshop

AGORA is an international collaboration to run and compare high-resolution hydrodynamic zoom-in galaxy simulations. Visit the AGORA Project website: http://www.agorasimulations.org/.

Following the Galaxy Workshop, on Saturday, August 12th there will be an AGORA project workshop, with work continuing on Sunday August 13th. Information can be found on the AGORA Workshop website.

If you are interested in attending or would like further details, please contact the AGORA Project Coordinator (santacruzgalaxy@gmail.com)

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact the organizers:

Avishai Dekel (avishai.dekel@mail.huji.ac.il)
Joel Primack (joel@ucsc.edu)
Colin DeGraf (cdegraf@truman.edu)

For questions regarding the associated AGORA Project, please contact the AGORA Project Coordinator:
(santacruzgalaxy@gmail.com)

Acknowledgements

We thank the UCSC Foundation Board Opportunity Fund for supporting the 2023 Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop and the AGORA Workshop.

The Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop (SCGW) also acknowledges help from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, the Physics Department, the Environmental Studies Department, University of California Observatories (UCO, headquartered at UCSC), the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), and the UCSC Engineering School. SCIPP provides valuable staff support for the SCGW and AGORA workshop; CITRIS, Engineering, Environmental Studies, SCIPP and UCO provide the meeting rooms; and the Astronomy and Physics Departments and SCIPP provide office space and internet connections for participating astronomers.

AGORA receives extensive computer support from the US Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where the outputs from all the AGORA galaxy simulations are stored and analyzed. The AGORA galaxy simulations are carried out by eight teams of astrophysicists from universities and research institutes around the world. The public AGORA galaxy simulation outputs are hosted at the FlatHUB (https://flathub.flatironinstitute.org/).

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