Scientific Rationale

Disk galaxies exhibit a variety of structures on various scales. On large scales, global spiral patters wind out from the central parts to almost the outer edge of an optical disk. Often, the inner ends of spiral arms are connected to a bar that extends to both sides of the nucleus. On small scales, interarm spurs, feathers, arm branchings and segments are in close geometrical association with spiral arms, while inner rings, dust-lane shocks, nuclear rings, and nuclear spirals are associated with bars. While a significant progress has been made over past sixty years in our understanding of these structures, there still remain many unsolved issues regarding the patterns in disks and other related processes, which are important to understand disk dynamics. The main topics to be addressed are

- structures of disks, bulges, and bars
- formation and maintenance of patterns
- secular evolution of galaxies driven by
bars/spiral arms
- substructure formation of bars/spiral arms
- dynamical modeling
- pattern speeds and pitch angle determinations
- gaseous component
- the Milky Way Galaxy

Important Dates

- May 5 : Opening of the Registration
- June 31 : Deadline for Visa Application

- Sep. 2 : Deadline for Registration and Abstract Submission for
Contributed Talks and Posters
- Sep. 23 : Deadline for Abstract Submission for Invited Talks

Registration Fee

The registration fee is 200,000 KRW (or 200 USD) for Drs and 100,000 KRW (or 100 USD) for students, which is to be paid at the on-site registration desk by cash. Participants without any financial support may ask for the waiver of the registration fee.