[MODEST] MODEST-19
Richard de Grijs (PKU)
grijs at pku.edu.cn
Mon May 7 04:34:44 EDT 2018
Dear Angela and Enrico, dear colleagues,
First, on behalf of IAU Commission H4, my congratulations on having been selected -- after last year's draught of star cluster-related meetings (resulting in virtually no such coverage at the General Assembly!), I am very pleased that you turned this around :-)
As regards Rainer's comments, I have to agree with what he says. I am also aware of the situation sketched by Steve that we aren't very organised as a community, but perhaps fixing the details of the main MODEST meeting through a vote at the previous year's main MODEST meeting is a good first step (not sure what would come next though!).
I will unfortunately be unable to attend the 2018 meeting in lovely Santorini because of another commitment imposed on my by the Dean of my Faculty, so I hope to see many of you at the GA in Vienna this year!
All the best,
Richard
> -----Original Messages-----
> From: "Rainer Spurzem" <spurzem at nao.cas.cn>
> Sent Time: 2018-05-07 15:35:29 (Monday)
> To: modest at listmgr.nrao.edu
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [MODEST] MODEST-19
>
>
>
> 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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