Kazakhstan-China-Korea meeting becomes
Silk Road Conference
13th Silk Road Conference: Dali, China, June 23-27, 2025 (just after the IAU Symposium 398 Compact Objects and Binaries in Dense Star Clusters to be held in Seoul, Korea, June 16-20, 2025)
14th Silk Road Conference: Samarkand, Uzbekistan, May/June 2026 (exact date will be determined later)
Exploring the Frontiers of Dynamical Astronomy with High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Leading-Edge Observational Techniques.
We continue the numbering of these conferences, which started as Korea-China meeting in 2009; later it became Kazakhstan-China-Korea meeting, and due to increasing interest and participation of colleagues from all over central and east Asia we decided now to rename it to Silk Road Conference.
Last Conference: 12th Kazakhstan-China-Korea meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, May 20-24, 2024
Scientific Organizing Committee*:
Rainer Spurzem (ARI/ZAH, NAOC/CAS, KIAA/PKU)
Bobomurat Ahmedov (IFAR, UBAI)
Chingis Omarov (FAI)
Hyung Mok Lee (SNU)
Thijs (M.B.N.) Kouwenhoven (XJTLU)
Zhongmu Li (Dali U)
plus local SOC members to be determined.
*Abbreviations of affiliations:
ARI/ZAH - Astronomisches Rechen-Institut at Zentrum fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
IFAR - Institute of Fundamental and Applied Research, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
UBAI - Ulugh Begh Astronomical Institute, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
NAOC/CAS - National Astronomical Observatories of China/ Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
KIAA/PKU - Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, Beijing, China
FAI – Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan
SNU – Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
XJTLU – Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Dali U – Dali University, Dali, China
Visa information
From Dec 2024 to Dec 2025, citizens from 38 countries can enter China and stay for up to 30 days without Visa, where the purpose of academic exchange is included.
See http://kr.china-embassy.gov.cn/lsfw/hzlxzyw/zgqz/202412/t20241202_11536235.htm (announcement taken from Chinese Embassy in Korea, but applies globally)
Teeminar (= German for Tea Seminar) is the group seminar of Silk Road Project at NAOC/KIAA, sometimes extended by visitors or talks from nearby institutes or disciplines.
- The Teeminar Beijing usually is part of the general Teeminar program (Teeminar Heidelberg, via zoom), but if listed here (sometimes) it takes place as hybrid event (in person in NAOC and via zoom). Watch here for schedule.
Time and Place : weekly, day to be confirmed, partly at NAOC, partly at KIAA/PKU. (How to find KIAA on PKU campus) (Location Map of NAOC) . For more information please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
HYBRID: December 6, 2024, Friday , 16:00 - 17:30 (China Standard Time CST = UTC+8), Central Europe: 09:00 - 10:30, Seminar Room A208 NAOC, František Dinnbier: From gas embedded phase to dissolution in the galactic field: Several topics from evolution of open star clusters (seminar room NAOC and zoom online)
HYBRID: November 28, 2023, Tuesday 09:00 - 11:30 (CET = UTC+1), China: 16:00 - 17:30: Rainer Spurzem: triples and multiples in star cluster simulations, inspirations from MSE and the Kunming / Yunnan observatory team (in person in Beijing, online elsewhere).
HYBRID: November 21, 2023, Tuesday 09:00 - 11:30 (CET = UTC+1), China: 16:00 - 17:30: Shiyan Zhong: Light curves of repeated partial tidal disruption events (in person in Beijing, online elsewhere).