Tamura Symposium on Particle and Astrophysical Cosmology

Taro Tamura, Tamura Memorial Fund and Tamura Symposium

Taro Tamura was a Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, a distinquished theoretical nuclear physicist who made important contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions and nuclear structure. He was also passionately interested in close scientific cooperation between scientists in Texas and Japan. To honor his memory, shortly after his death in 1988, Tamura's family, friends and colleagues established the Taro Tamura Memorial Fund for UT-Japanese Scientific Collaboration.

The Fund has so far been used to organize international symposia, held approximately every two years alternately in Japan and Austin. The title of the symposia, the date and place held, and the number of the participants are summarized below. We have so far had 7 meetings and thus the next will be the 8th.

	Title	Date	Place	No of Parti.
1.	Nuclear Collective Motion and Nuclear Reaction Dynamics	12/18-20, 1989	Riken, Japan	120
2.	Nuclear Reaction Dynamics	11/15/-17, 1990	UT	57
3.	Riken International Workshop on Delta Excitation in Nuclei	5/27-29, 1993	Riken, Japan	78
4.	The Future of Accelerator Physics	11/14-16, 1994	UT	63
5.	Exciting Physics with New Accelerator Facilities	3/11-13, 1997	Harima, Japan	80
6.	The Next Generation of B-Physics	11/12-14, 1998	UT	55
7.	Tamura International School on Neutrino Physics	11/23-25, 2001	SUT* Noda, Japan	55

* SUT=Science University of Tokyo

The organizer of the Japanese delegation of the 6th symposium was Professor Sakuei Yamada at KEK
The organizer of the 7th Tamura International School on Neutrino Physics was Professor Kozi Nakai at The Science University of Tokyo.

In Memorium - Dr. Taro Tamura