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<div class="">The Subaru Telescope and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) were recently successful in getting 13.5M JPY (~ AU$160k) funding from the <span class="">Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (</span><span class="">JSPS) Core-to-Core
research collaboration program for an</span> “<b class="">International research network toward the era of deep and wide near-infrared survey of the universe with space and ground-based telescopes</b>”. </div>
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<div class="">The network currently includes 113 investigators from Japan (47), France (11), USA (18), Australia (26) and Taiwan (11). The full list is provided in the attached proposal document (written in Japanese, but names and affiliations are listed in
English). A brief overview of the program, including details about telescope time on the
<b class="">Subaru Telescope, </b>the <b class="">ESA Euclid mission</b>, and the<b class=""> NASA Nancy Grace Roman Telescope</b>, is also included in attachment. </div>
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<div class="">Funding from the JSPS core-to-core grant will support travel costs for Japanese researchers travelling to visit non-Japanese collaborators associated with the program.</div>
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<div class="">At this time there is an opportunity for Australia-based researchers who were not listed on the proposal to join the research network, and to be listed in the formal agreement that will be finalised soon. If you would like to be added to the list,
you must be in a position to commit ~$7,500 AUD in travel funding to visit Japanese collaborators in Japan and/or Hawaii over the period April 2021-March 2026.</div>
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<div class="">Should you wish to join the research network at this time, please complete the information requested below <b class="">before Wednesday 10 March, 2021</b> 11:59pm Canberra time.</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
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<span class=""><b class="">Professor Céline d’Orgeville</b></span></div>
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<span class="">Australian National University Translational Fellow</span></div>
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<span class="">Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Group Manager</span></div>
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<span class="">ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics </span></div>
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<span class="">Mount Stromlo Observatory, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia</span></div>
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<div class="">Information required:</div>
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<div class="">(1) Please provide the following details:</div>
<div class="">- First Name and Last Name</div>
<div class="">- Affiliation (Name of university or research organisation)</div>
<div class="">- Job title (Please include only one of the following choices: Professor; Associate/Assistant Professor or equivalent; Postdoc; PhD student; Other)</div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="orphans:2; text-align:center; widows:2">- Research field(s) (short description e.g. </span><span class="" style="orphans:2; text-align:center; widows:2; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap">"high-redshift
galaxies", "galaxy clusters", "adaptive optics", "instrumentation", "time domain astronomy”…)</span></span></div>
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<div class="">(2) You must confirm that you agree and plan to spend on order $7,500 in travel funding to visit Japanese collaborators and/or participate in meetings/workshops/observations in Japan and/or Hawaii over the period April 2021-March 2026:</div>
<div class="">I agree/I do not agree</div>
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<div class="">Notes:</div>
<div class="">(a) The $7,500 amount is indicative only, but needs to come from travel funding that you know you have or will have access to (any source including but not limited to ARC funding is acceptable)</div>
<div class="">(b) The $7,500 amount assumes no COVID-related travel restrictions. It is understood that you may not be able to travel as desired or as planned due to COVID-related travel restrictions, and this is OK. There will be no requirement to spend the
full travel amount in these circumstances.</div>
<div class="">(c) <b class="">There will be a requirement to report on actual travel and travel funding spent in the context of this program on an annual basis</b> (reporting details to JSPS are as yet undefined but they are not expected to take too much of
your time).</div>
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<div class="">Thank you!</div>
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