[MODEST] Our new "Modest" mailing list

[Piet Hut]

Dear Colleagues:

Following our workshop last week in New York City, on
"Integrating Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics,"
we are now starting an email list, to facilitate further
discussions, among the participants of the workshop
as well as others who have shown interest in the topic.

At the end of the workshop, we decided upon "MODEST" as our
name.  MODEST stands for MOdeling DEnse STellar systems.
Though neither we nor our projects can possibly be described
as modest, we use our acronym to point out that we want to
work with only MODEST modifications of existing codes, to
model dense stellar systems.  So we can read the acronym
also as MODifying Existing STellar codes.

We have also started a MODEST web site:

   http://www.manybody.org/modest.html

On that web site you can find additional information about
related sites, and future meetings: MODEST-2 is tentatively
planned for Dec. 16-17, 2002, in Amsterdam, while MODEST-3
is planned for July 8-10, 2003, in Australia.

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      most of your questions.

Piet