[MODEST] Strasbourg School on Gravitational Dynamics

[Christian Boily]

Dear colleague, 

Please find below an announcement for a forthcoming school on computational
astrophysics. I would be thankful if you could circulate this message to 
any one interested, or include it in your news bulletin if appropriate. 

A pdf version of the announcement is attached to this mail.

Many thanks in anticipation, best wishes, 

Christian Boily. 

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   The Board of Graduate Studies of Universite Louis Pasteur and  ASSNA

                     School on NUMERICAL  N-BODY DYNAMICS 

        Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, France, 19-22 March 2004

                 url http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/scyon/School 
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                          * Scope of the school *
 
The board of graduate studies of the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg is 
sponsoring a four-day school on gravitational dynamics to be held at the 
astronomical  observatory. The aim of the school is to provide an introductory,
hands-on approach to the integration of the equations of motion of classical 
Newtonian gravity using computers. 

The school is open to any one interested in the dynamics of self-gravitating
systems, such as star clusters and galaxies, and is well-suited for PhD
students or PDRAs starting up in the field. 

                ** The lecturers, the medium of instruction **

The lecture course will be presented jointly by Piet Hut (IAS, Princeton), 
Junichiro Makino (University of Tokyo) and Douglas Heggie (University of 
Edinburgh). The school will be  conducted in English, though assistance will 
also be available in French. 

                         ** Pedagogical aspects ** 

Lectures notes will be made available to participants well before the start of 
the school. The main material is already publicly available on web site
http://www.ArtCompSci.org in the form of the book  Moving Stars Around  by 
Piet Hut and Jun Makino.  We urge participants to familiarize themselves with 
that book before attending the workshop.

The days will be divided in several modules and will follow a hands-on, 
question/answer approach to the problem sets with the lecturers. 

Dual-processor computers (O/S Linux Red Hat or clone thereof) will be available
throughout. 

A preliminary list of topics includes : 
1) Introduction to self-gravitating stellar systems, 2) Up-stream Eulerian scheme, 3) Leap-frog integrators, 4) The Hermite scheme, 5) Developing an N-body 
code, 6) Modularity and the Hermite scheme, 7) Binary stars \& numerical precision, etc. 

                          ** Registration deadline ** 
 
The registration deadline is set for19 February 2004; the number of 
participants will be of a maximum of thirty. To register, or to show your 
interest in the school, please write to the address given below. 

PhD students will be asked to provide  a letter of support from their
supervisor.  

                     ** Financial assistance & lodging**

There will be no registration fee. The teaching material and peripherals will 
be available on-site.  Participants from outside Strasbourg will lodge at the 
CIARUS in shared rooms (see url http://www.ciarus.com/). Lodging (3 nights 
including breakfast) will be covered through a grant from the French Action 
Specifique pour la Simulation Numerique en Astronomie (ASSNA). Limited funding 
will be available to cover travel expenses. 

                           ** Further details ** 

Those interested should contact Christian Boily (cmb at astro.u-strasbg.fr) 
or write to the following address : 
               Observatoire astronomique, 
               11 rue de l'Universite, 
               Strasbourg 67000, France.  
      Tel.: +33-(0)3.90.24.24.36 / Fax +33-(0)3.90.24.24.17 . 

Updates will be posted at the url shown at the top of this page.  

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Christian Boily                  Tel.:  work: +33-(0)3.90.24.24.36
Observatoire astronomique               home: 
11, rue de l'Universite          FAX :        +33-(0)3.90.24.24.17
Strasbourg F-67000               e-mail cmb at astro.u-strasbg.fr
France                url http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~s17  
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