Dear all, We are pleased to announce more details on "The 10th Japan-Korea Joint Seminar on Physical Oceanography dedicated to Prof. Jong-Hwan Yoon on his retirement" for January 30-31, 2012. [Scope] Target of the seminar slightly changes each time. In this memorial 10th event, we will celebrate Prof. Yoon with his life-time achievements. It means that this seminar covers widely the physical oceanography and beyond. Most presentations in this semi-open meeting may be related to the latest topics of individual research work. This series of seminar have actually provided more chances to experience English oral presentation for Ph.D students and young scientists. We keep a certain time range for such young ages. At the same time, we welcome informal senior talks on some episodes with Prof. Yoon. [Venue] The seminar will take place at the room W601 in RIAM, Kyushu University. (http://www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/english/center/access-e.html) A banquet (retirement party) will be held at Daikanso (ϑ) of Futsukaichi hot spring (s). (http://www.crossroadfukuoka.jp/en/event/?mode=detail&isSpot=1&id=400000006509) We can reserve your room at Daikanso with special discount. Please send a request to by middle of December. Otherwise you are recommended to find your accommodation at or near Daikanso in Futsukaichi area. FYI: We will organize one more party after the final lecture of Prof. Yoon in March, 2012. You can also attend these final events (in Japanese), especially if you miss the first party. [Registration] Please send us title, author(s), and abstract (100-400 words in plain text) of your presentation to by the end of November. If we should receive too many offers, we will ask some withdraws unfortunately. (This selection may depend on abstract content, generation balance, relevance to Prof. Yoon's achievements, etc.) At early December, we will quickly assemble the meeting program. The following important date is December 21st, which is the deadline of your meeting and hotel registrations. If your financial situation is not so good, there are small chances to support your visit to our institute. [Proceeding] RIAM will publish an anniversary issue of "Reports of RIAM" dedicated to the retirement of Prof. Yoon. This issue will collect many contributions from the attendees of this seminar partly as a proceeding. Each paper length may be around 5-10 pages. We will announce more detailed information on this publication at the time of seminar. [Schedule] Year: 2011 -November 30th (Wed): abstract deadline -December 7th (Wed): program announcement -December 21st (Wed): hotel registration deadline Year: 2012 -January 29th (Sun): --any time: your arrival to Fukuoka --evening: small welcome party (?) -January 30th (Mon): --morning-afternoon: J-K joint seminar at W601 --evening: retirement party at Futsukaichi hot spring -January 31st (Tue): --morning (and early afternoon?): J-K joint seminar at W601 --evening: your departure from Fukuoka -March: final lecture of Prof. Yoon and celebration party Sincerely yours, Tetsuo YANAGI (chairman) Naoki HIROSE (secretary) Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University mailto: joint@riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp p.s. You can re-distribute this meeting announcement to anyone who knows/known to Prof. Yoon.