[MODEST] International School in Erice (Italy) june 27 - july 5 2008; third circular
Roberto CapuzzoDolcetta
roberto.capuzzodolcetta at uniroma1.it
Fri Feb 1 12:19:30 EST 2008
Dear colleague,
the Course "Frontiers in Numerical Gravitational Astrophysics"
which we are organizing in the frame of the International School
on Astrophysical Relativity <<J.A. Wheeler>> (Erice, Sicily,
june 27-july 5, 2008) is getting a huge number of pre-registrations.
In order to allow a proficuos development of the talks and lessons
and due to the, necessarily, limited hosting possibilities of
the small, nice middleval town of Erice, site of the School,
we cannot enroll more than 60 participants, and we are not far
from this number.
Interested people are so warmly invited to fill in the preliminary
registration form at the Course web site
astro1.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html
within FEBRUARY 22.
After this time it might be difficult to have subscriptions accepted.
Please find in the body text the Third circular of the Course
that you and/or your students may be interested in.
I would appreciate if you may circulate it.
Thank you in advance, sincerely yours,
Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta
Univ. of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy
co-director of the Course together with
Richard Matzner
Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA
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THIRD CIRCULAR FOR FINAL PRE-REGISTRATION
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|FRONTIERS IN NUMERICAL GRAVITATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS|
| 2nd Course of the International School on |
| Astrophysical Relativity <<J.A. Wheeler>> |
|astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html |
| |
| Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center |
| for Scientific Culture |
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| Erice, Sicily (Italy) |
| June 27 - July 5, 2008 |
| |
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IMPORTANT: TO HAVE APPLICATION ACCEPTED PLEASE FILL THE PRE-REGISTRATION
FORM WITHIN FEBRUARY 22. AFTER THAT TIME REGISTRATION IS POSSIBLE
BUT IT CANNOT BE GUARANTEED.
INTRODUCTION
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This is the second Course activated in the frame of the
International School of Relativistic Astrophysics «JOHN A. WHEELER»,
whose Directors are Ignazio Ciufolini and Richard Matzner.
It is dedicated to classic and relativistic dynamics of gravitating
objects and systems in astrophysics.
The web site of the Course, containing all the relevant information is:
http://astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html
The Course will be hosted by the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center
for Scientific Culture (http://www.ccsem.infn.it), in Erice, the
beautiful small middleval town located on a hill 750 m above the
sea level in the north west of Sicily, 15 km from Trapani.
PURPOSE OF THE COURSE
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This second course of the "International School on Astrophysical
Relativity <<John Archibald Wheeler>>" aims to be a formative
event for students who want to get in touch with international
top-level scientists and researchers in the field of Numerical
Astrophysics, providing also a unique chance to exchange opinions
and ideas on the hottest topics in that field.
To this purpose, students will be allowed to PRESENT their
current research activity in form of posters, whose summary
will be PUBLISHED in the School Proceedings.
To attest their proficient participation to the School, a
proper CERTIFICATION will be issued by the scientific organizers.
This Course has the scope to gather some of the best experts
in computational simulations for the study of gravitating
systems in astrophysics, in order to allow them to present
their knowledge and expertise to deeply motivated students at the
graduate level, as well as to young researchers.
The main aim of the Course is that of clarifying whether
and when the classic Newtonian approach fails and General
Relativity is needed to approach reliably the complicated
non-linear aspects of the physics involved. Consequently,
the differences in the numerical and computational schemes
approaches in the classic and relativistic cases will be
illustrated and discussed. A small fraction of time is
dedicated to the handling and visualization of the huge
amount of data output.
Lectures will be on:
Stars: formation, and final evolutionary phases; compact
interacting objects and gravitational waves;
stellar systems: from small to large N-body problems;
simulating large and small scale structure in the universe.
PROVISIONAL LIST OF SPEAKERS
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Sverre Aarseth (Cambridge, UK)
Joshua Barnes (Univ. of Hawaii, USA)
Stefano Borgani (Univ. of Trieste, Italy)
Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Inst. of Technlogy, USA)
Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta (Univ. of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy)
Valeria Ferrari (Univ. of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy)
Jose' Antonio Font (Univ. de Valencia, Spain)
Pablo Laguna (Penn State Univ., USA)
Andrew MacFadyen (New York University, USA)
Richard Matzner (Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA)
Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge Ntl. Lab., USA)
Paolo Miocchi (Univ. of Roma, La Sapienza, Italy)
Ben Moore (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Ewald Mueller (MPI, Garching, Germany)
Jerome Novak (Obs. de Paris, Meudon, France)
Francesco Palla (Oss. Astrof. di Arcetri, INAF, Italy)
Simon Portegies Zwart (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Luciano Rezzolla (Albert Einstein Inst., Potsdam, Germany)
Joachim Stadel (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Amedeo Tornambe' (INAF, Roma, Italy)
PRE-REGISTRATION
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Who is interested to attend the School is asked to fill the
on-line PRE-REGISTRATION FORM available at the Course web site
http://astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html
The registration fee (covering FULL BOARD and LODGING, TRAPANI or PALERMO
AIRPORT to ERICE TRANSPORTATION and the EXCURSION to Selinunte-Segesta) is
900 euros (approx. 1320 US$).
Note that the number of participants is limited, in order to allow at
best the interaction with the speakers and among students themselves,
so you are kindly required to fill the pre-registration form within
FEBRUARY 22.
CONTACT:
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e-mail: paolo.miocchi at uniroma1.it
(P. Miocchi, coordinator of the LOC)
roberto.capuzzodolcetta at uniroma1.it
(R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, co-director of the Course)
matzner2 at physics.utexas.edu
(R. Matzner, co-director of the Course)
Phone: +39-06/49913573
Fax: +39-06/4463158
webpage: http://astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html
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Roberto CAPUZZO DOLCETTA Roberto.Capuzzodolcetta at uniroma1.it
Dep. of Physics, Sapienza, Universita' di Roma
P.le A.Moro 5, I-00185, Roma, Italy
phone: 39-06-49913573 fax: 39-06-4463158
member of CUN board, Astronomy PhD program coordinator
home page http://astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/dolcetta/dolcetta.html
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