Meetings
"5th School on High Performance Computing in Astrophysics"
Galway, Ireland - JANUARY 8th - 12th 2008
Stellar jets are complex physical systems. Their study necessitates incorporating nonlinear effects which occur on a wide variety of length and timescales. As a result of this one of the primary methods used to study the physics of jets is numerical simulations. Since the physics is so complex, the problems are large enough to make mandatory the use of high performance computing techniques. Further, modern astrophysical datasets associated with observations are becoming so large that standard analysis methods are no longer efficient.
The School will address the methods used to simulate astrophysical jets and to derive useful information from large datasets, focusing on techniques involving high performance computing.
"HIGH TEMPERATURE ASTROCHEMISTRY Meeting"
Galway, Ireland - JANUARY 7th & 8th 2008
Topics to include high mass star formation, shock chemistry, chemistry of evolved star atmospheres and extragalactic astrochemistry. We invite contributed talks and poster papers of numerical, observational and laboratory results on any aspect of these topics which will be reviewed by several invited speakers.
"MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THE UNIVERSE II: from Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe"
Cozumel, Mexico
January 28th to February 1st, 2008
SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE
The scientific aim of the conference is to provide a natural continuation to the first edition, putting forward the most recent advances of theoretical and numerical studies, as well as new evidence gathered from observations.
The main topics of the meeting will be:-
Space plasmas
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Solar and stellar plasmas
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Magnetic Fields in star formation and stellar structure and evolution
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Magnetized Interstellar Medium
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Magnetic fields in compact objects and accretion disks
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Magnetized jets, outflows and winds
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Galactic magnetic field
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Magnetic field effects in galaxies and active galactic nuclei
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Magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies
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Intergalactic magnetic fields
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Magnetic fields in the early universe
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MHD instabilities in astrophysical sources
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Basic plasma processes
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Turbulence, Magnetic Reconnection, Dynamo Processes
"ERASMUS INTENSIVE PROGRAM on "Supercomputing and Numerical Methods in Astrophysical Fluid Flow Modelling" "
University of Evora, Portugal 4-23 February 2008
This training school brings together, for the first time in Europe, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and experienced European computational physicists and astrophysicists to discuss an integrated overview of the numerical and computational techniques that are most adequate to model different astrophysical fluid flow phenomena by means of supercomputing simulations. The participants will attend theoretical and laboratory courses and a half-day Workshop per week on computational Astrophysics (see details below). On the third week the participants will develop a computational project that will make use of the supercomputer facility at the University of Coimbra.
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