[Stellar-discuss] 4th circular: International School "Frontiers in Numerical Gravitational Astrophysics", Erice (Italy), june 27-july 5, 2008

Fri Apr 18 11:33:52 BST 2008

     Dear colleague,

this is the pre-final advice of 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).
    It is still possible to apply to the School. Interested people are
so warmly invited to fill in the registration form at the Course web site

astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html

We will proceed in accepting people until the maximum number
of participants that may be hosted in the small, magnificent
pre-medieval town of Erice (see
astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/location.html)

is reached. So please proceed as fast
as possible.

Please find in the following the Fourth 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

=============================================================================
                 FOURTH CIRCULAR FOR FINAL REGISTRATION
                 =========================================

         +-------------------------------------------------+
         |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                 |
         |                                                 |
         |           Erice, Sicily (Italy)                 |
         |           June 27 - July 5, 2008                |
         |                                                 |
         +-------------------------------------------------+

IMPORTANT: TO HAVE APPLICATION ACCEPTED PLEASE FILL THE REGISTRATION
FORM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. AT THIS FINAL STAGE OF THE ORGANIZATION,
WE MAY ACCEPT PARTICIPANTS JUST ON THE APPLICATION DATE AND TIME, UNTIL
MAX NUMBER OF PEOPLE IS REACHED.

INTRODUCTION
------------
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 pre-medieval town located on a hill 750 m above the
sea level in the north west of Sicily, 15 km from Trapani.
See astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/location.html
for something more about the School location.

PURPOSE OF THE COURSE
---------------------
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: 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;
Supercomputing methods and tools.

LIST OF SPEAKERS
----------------------------
Sverre Aarseth           (Cambridge, UK)
Joshua Barnes            (Univ. of Hawaii, USA)
Stefano Borgani          (Univ. of Trieste, Italy)
Manuela Campanelli       (Rochester Inst. of Technlogy, USA)
Valeria Ferrari          (Sapienza, Univ. of Roma, Italy)
Jose' Antonio Font       (Univ. de Valencia, Spain)
Claudio Gheller          (CINECA, Bologna, Italy)
Pablo Laguna             (Penn State Univ., USA)
Andrew MacFadyen         (New York University, USA)
Anthony Mezzacappa       (Oak Ridge Ntl. Lab., USA)
Ben Moore                (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Ewald Mueller            (MPI, Garching, Germany)
Jerome Novak             (Obs. de Paris, Meudon, France)
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)

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THE TALK SCHEDULE AT:

http://astrowww.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/program.html

REGISTRATION
----------------
Who is interested in attending the School and has not yet registered,
is kindly asked to fill in the on-line 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,
as well as other initiatives) is 900 euros per participant.
The fee for accompanying persons is reduced to 400 euros, each.

CONTACT:
--------
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

-- 
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