[MODEST] Cefalu2014: Second Circular

Thu Feb 20 08:40:01 EST 2014

PLEASE CIRCULATE!
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                             SECOND CIRCULAR
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                   |      INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMY MEETING            |
                   |             The Unquiet Universe:               |
                   |    celebrating the 10th Anniversary             |
                   |    of Astronomy Workshops in Cefalu'            |
                   |    Week One: The Distant Universe               |
                   |    Week Two: The Local Universe                 |
                   |              June 2 - 14, 2014                  |
                   |            Cefalu', Sicily (Italy)              |
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Topics:
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The leitmotiv of the workshop is represented by the physics of compact  
objects,
mainly Neutron Stars and Black Holes in this case, and their environments
both in the Distant and in the Local Universe.
The structure of the meeting and the scientific topics will be the following:

The Distant Universe (2 - 7 June, 2014)
 From Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei to Gamma-ray Bursts

- Stellar, Dust and Gas Content in high-z Galaxies
- Deep and Wide-field Multi-wavelength Extragalactic Surveys
- AGN and Galaxy co-evolution across cosmic time
- Positive/Negative AGN Feedback: Observations of AGN Outflows
- Physical Processes of Galaxy Formation
- Ionizing Sources at high redshifts
- Galactic Nuclei and Super Massive Black Holes
- Nuclear Star Clusters formation and evolution
- Resolved Stellar Nuclei in early Type Galaxies
- Stellar Dynamics in Dense Stellar Environments
- Probing high redshift universe with GRBs
- GRBs' host galaxies

The Local Universe (9 - 14 June, 2014)
Interacting Binaries and Isolated Neutron Stars:
accretion, evolution and outcomes

- GRB Prompt and Afterglow: Observations vs theory
- Very High Energy Emission from GRBs
- GRBs: Central Engine Physics and Progenitors of GRBs
- Thermonuclear Supernovae
- Type Ia SNe: progenitor models
- Observational properties of type Ia SNe at low and hight z
- Observations constraining Type Ia SNe pre-explosive history
- Binary and isolated Radio Pulsar
- Observed properties of Millisecond pulsars and evolutive paths
- Temporal variability and spectral properties of Low Mass X-ray Binaries
   and High Mass X-ray Binaries containing black holes and neutron stars
- Neutron stars with the highest magnetic fields
- Future X-ray missions and perspectives for X-ray astronomy

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PLEASE NOTE:
A special session devoted to 2014J is planned during the second week
of the Meeting.
A list of Invited Speakers will be available online in the next few weeks.

REGISTRATION
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You can now proceed to formal registration to the workshop. Pre-registered
participants have a priority, but we ask them to register again: in the new
form it is possible to ask for an oral presentation or a poster giving
a title and an abstract. From now it is also possible to pay the registration
fee. You can pay the registration fee via bank transfer (bank expenses
excluded), or using any credit card via the Paypal system.
We prefer to avoid cash payments at the desk.
Please remember that the deadline for the early registration fee is
MARCH 31, 2014.
We recommend early registration, since the total number of participants
per week cannot exceed 100-120 people.
Note: we shall close the registration as soon as this limit number
will be reached. This may happen before March 31.

Registration fees:

ONE WEEK:   early  320 euros    late   370 euros
TWO WEEKS:  early  400 euros    late   450 euros

For undergraduate and PhD students we have envisaged a discount of
about 40% on the registration fees:

ONE WEEK:   early  200 euros    late   230 euros
TWO WEEKS:  early  250 euros    late   280 euros

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PLEASE NOTE:
Undergraduate and PhD students are eligible for a discounted
fee only if they submit a certificate of their status as
PhD student, or as undergraduate student. In the latter case,
the title and the supervisor of their thesis should also be specified.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
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In case you do not have a title and/or abstract ready at the time of
registration, you can send it by email, preferably before March 31,
to the Meeting Secretariat:

giuliana.giobbi at oa-roma.inaf.it

HOTEL BOOKING
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Info about Accommodation and traveling is available on the web page of  
the meeting:
http://www.oa-roma.inaf.it/meetings/cefalu/2014/
We recommend that you book your room before the end of April 2014,
since Cefalu is a tourist resort and June is already considered
high season.

City of Cefalu Prize for Astrophysics
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The 2014 edition of the Cefalu' Prize will be awarded to a young scientist
who has already obtained a PhD in Astrophysics, but not a tenure track, nor
a permanent position, who will be selected by a designed committee among
the applicants. The prize amounts to 4,000 Euro and the selected young
scientist will receive the prize during the workshop.
The announcement for the International competition can be found
in the web page of the meeting.

Social Events
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Details about the social events in program will be provided
in our next circular, which will be circulated among registered
participants in the month of April.

General Information
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The Meeting will take place in the rooms of the Historical building
Ottagono Santa Caterina (poster session and coffee breaks), and in a
large room, the Sala delle Capriate, of the Cefalu' Municipal Palace.
Both buildings are located in the centre of Cefalu and are 1 min walk
from each other.

For more general information on Cefalu' workshops, please consult the  
links of our
WWW page:

  http://www.oa-roma.inaf.it/meetings/cefalu/2014/

Scientific Advisory Committee
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L.A. Antonelli - INAF-OAR/ASI-ASDC Rome, Italy
Fabio Antonini - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,  
Toronto, Canada
Angela Bazzano - INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy
Luciano Burderi - Univ. Cagliari, Italy
Denis Burgarella - LAM Marseille, France
Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta - Dep. of Physics, University La Sapienza,  
Roma, Italy
Deepto Chakrabarty - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Francoise Combes - Observatoire de Paris, France
Stefano Covino - INAF-OAB Brera, Italy
Francesca D'Antona - INAF-OAR, Rome, Italy
Richard Davies  -  MPE, Germany
Tiziana Di Salvo (co-chair) - Univ. Palermo, Italy
James Dunlop -   Univ. of Edinburgh, ROE, UK
Martin Elvis - CFA Harvard, USA
Andrew Fabian - Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
Fabrizio Fiore (co-chair) - INAF-OAR Rome, Italy
Emanuele Giallongo (co-chair) - INAF-OAR, Rome, Italy
Stefan Gillessen - MPE, Garching, Germany
Andrea Grazian - INAF-OAR Rome, Italy
Martin Haehnelt - IoA, Cambridge, UK
Jordi Isern - Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Andrew King - Univ. Leicester, UK
Piero Madau - Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Maria Teresa Menna - INAF-OAR, Rome, Italy
Marco Merafina - Dep. of Physics, University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
David Merritt - Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA
Peter Meszaros - Penn State Univ., USA
Ewald Mueller - Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching, Germany
Enrico Piconcelli - INAF-OAR, Roma, Italy
Luciano Piersanti - INAF-OA Teramo, Italy
Luigi Piro - INAF-IAPS Rome, Italy
Thomas Tauris - Argelander Inst., Univ. Bonn, Germany
Amedeo Tornambe' (co-chair) - INAF-OAR Roma Italy
Pietro Ubertini - INAF-IAPS Roma, Italy
Ed van den Heuvel - Astr. Inst. A. Pannekoek, Amsterdam, NL
Eli Waxman - Weizmann Inst., Rehovot, Israel
Yi-Zhong Fan - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lev Yungelson - Institute of Astronomy of the RAS, Moscow, Russia

Local Organizing Committee
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L. Burderi (Chair LOC, Univ. Cagliari), T. Di Salvo (co-Chair, Univ. Palermo),
G. Giobbi (INAF-OAR),  F. Gugliuzza (Univ. Palermo),
F. Lupinacci (Univ. La Sapienza, Roma) M.T. Menna (INAF-OAR)

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Contact:
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Giuliana Giobbi
e-mail: giuliana.giobbi at oa-roma.inaf.it
Phone: +39-06/942-864-27
Fax:  +39-06/942-864-06
webpage:  http://www.oa-roma.inaf.it/meetings/cefalu/2014/
The Cefalu2014 LOC
INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Rome
Italy

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