[MODEST] MODEST-19

[Rainer Spurzem]

      Dear Angela, Enrico, and all,

  also first of all congratulations for this successful continuation of the 
series of IAU symposia on dynamics
  of star clusters (hopefully you are ok to be considered as part of that series).

  With regard to MODEST-19 two things come to my mind - first of all MODEST-16 
has just been in Bologna two
  years ago. While Bologna is a wonderful town and I am happy to go there both 
for vacation and conference,
  I cannot help noticing this. There had been no MODEST meeting in Western 
Canada, and the one in
  Canada (MODEST-5 Hamilton) is 14 years ago.  But I wonder what will happen now 
to Harvey's plans given the new
  IAU symposium.

  Second, especially for an IAU symposium, there is very little additional gain 
in being labelled a main MODEST.
  We had for example the IAU 246 in Capri, and other conferences, which are 
listed on the MODEST workshop page
  ( http://manybody.org/modest/workshops.html ) as meetings that "have strong 
overlap with the MODEST program",
  without getting an explicit MODEST number.
  (Steve: why not moving this part of the webpage from the bottom to the top, or 
at least before the satellite meetings?)

  Now, inspired by the current discussion, in particular the message from 
Roberto, and also given the situation that new
  networking schemes come up and we have to face the question what is MODEST 
really good for - why not improving
  the process of defining the next main MODEST with a little more 'democracy'. 
Something practical, such that the
  next MODEST should ba announced at the current year's MODEST and if there are 
several offers, the registered
  participants present at a certain time could make a vote? Just an idea.

  Best wishes
  Rainer




On 05/05/2018 03:01 PM, Mirek Giersz wrote:
> Dear Angela and Enrico,
>
>>     IAU has recently announced that a proposal for  a IAU Symposium on
>>     'Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe' has been
>>     approved. The Symposium will be held in Bologna (Italy) 27-31 May 2019.
>>
>>     We attach below some information about the key topics and the SOC.
>>
>>     We propose that this Symposium be the MODEST-19 meeting.
>>
>>     We will send another message to this list when preliminary registration
>>     is open.
> Great News!!!  Thanks for your hard work.
> I think MODEST-19 in Bologna it is a very good idea.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mirek
>
>
>   
>>     Best regards
>>
>>     Enrico Vesperini and Angela Bragaglia
>>
>>     ---------------------
>>
>>     IAU Symposium 351
>>
>>     Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe
>>
>>     27-31 May 2019 Bologna (Italy)
>>
>>     Key Topics:
>>
>>     * Formation and evolution of globular clusters at high and low-redshift
>>
>>     ∗ Multiple stellar populations in stellar clusters
>>
>>     ∗ Dynamics and evolution stellar content and exotic populations
>>     (BHs,gravitational waves sources, compact remnants and X-ray sources)
>>     of massive clusters
>>
>>     ∗ Links between globular clusters, massive open clusters, young massive
>>     clusters, nuclear star clusters, ultra-faint dwarfs, ultra-compact
>>     dwarfs, and dwarf galaxies
>>
>>     ∗ Globular clusters and satellite systems in the Local Group and beyond
>>
>>     ∗ Extragalactic globular clusters: constraints on the formation and
>>     evolution from integrated light and integrated spectroscopy
>>
>>     ∗ Star clusters and dwarfs as building blocks of galactic halos
>>
>>     ∗ The Gaia revolution for star clusters
>>
>>     ∗ Galactic archeology with ongoing and future large surveys
>>
>>     ∗ The future instrumentation from the ground and space
>>
>>     SOC:
>>
>>     Angela Bragaglia (co-chair)
>>
>>     Enrico Vesperini (co-chair)
>>
>>     Gary Da Costa
>>
>>     Melvyn Davies
>>
>>     Michiko Fujii
>>
>>     Mirek Giersz
>>
>>     Young-Wook Lee
>>
>>     Michela Mapelli
>>
>>     Nadine Neumayer
>>
>>     Genevieve Parmentier
>>
>>     Eric Peng
>>
>>     Giampaolo Piotto
>>
>>     Thomas Puzia
>>
>>     Maurizio Salaris
>>
>>     Alison Sills
>>
>>     Eline Tolstoy
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