Subject: [Depfis] Anuncio de escuela en Mexico

From: Silvina Ponce Dawson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:26:09 -0300 (ART)

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                1st ANNOUNCEMENT
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     Guillermo-Haro International Advanced School:
 "Galactic and Cosmological N-Body simulations"

               INAOE, Tonanzintla-Mexico
                July 23 - August 5, 2006

               http://www.inaoep.mx/gh2006
               [email-masked]
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We are pleased to announce a summer school on N-body
simulations to be held at Tonantzintla, Puebla in Mexico, 
as part of the "Guillermo Haro Program for Advanced Astrophysics"

MOTIVATION

N-body simulations play an ever increasing role in our
understanding of the realm of galaxies and cosmology.
>From the very beginning, the N-body problem has been
a key tool in Galactic Dynamics and Cosmology, going back 
to the pioneering work of Holmberg in 1941. Many important
phenomena like galaxy interactions, the role of galactic bars
and the growth of the large scale structure of the Universe,
to name a few, have been studied by means of N-body simulations.

The enormous advances in computer technology have
made possible nowadays to run simulations in common
desktop computers, that only recently required expensive 
computers. Together with this, new and powerful computer
codes have been developed and made freely available.
These developments make possible to run research-grade
simulations without access to specialized or expensive 
computer resources. This opens up the field of N-body
simulations to a much wider base of researchers and students. 

It is the goal of this school to train students interested in doing
research in Galactic Dynamics and Cosmology using N-body 
simulations, but have no previous experience in this. This will be
a "hands-on" school, where lectures will be combined with computer 
labs. In the lectures we will cover the numerical and dynamical facets
of the art of N-body simulations. The labs will be used to develop
proficiency in the use of codes and numerical tools. Given the time
constraint we will concentrate on tree codes and the NEMO 
dynamics toolbox (http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/).

PROGRAMME

The school consists of morning lectures, afternoon computer lab
sessions and conferences at the end of the day.

The lecturers will present their material in a coordinated way, teaching
the basics necessary to generate initial conditions, run simulations and 
analyze results. They will also discuss the physics and numerics behind,
as well as the limitations of the simulations. During the lab sessions, 
students will work on various exercises designed to develop proficiency
at using the lecture material. The conferences will showcase various 
applications in Galactic Dynamics and Cosmology, of the type of simulations
covered in the lectures. They will also suggest interesting problems to be 
pursued by the students.
 
Since this is a "hands-on" school, were the ability to run simulations by the
students is sought, the material covered is necessarily restricted. We will 
concentrate in the use of tree codes to simulate collisionless dynamics.
The topics covered will be: 
    * Introduction to the art of N-body simulations
    * A good beginning: Setting up initial conditions
    * Codes: A fast tree code
    * Making sense of all: Analysis tools 
    * Is this of any use?: Modeling galactic and cosmological phenomena
 
Students that have laptop computers with Linux should bring them.
They will be able to load all the school material and tools directly in
their laptops. Computers will be provided for students without laptops,
on a shared basis. 

LECTURERS

    * Luis Aguilar (UNAM/Mexico)
    * Lia Athanassoula (Marseille/France) 
    * Walter Dehnen (Leicester/UK)
    * Julio Navarro (Victoria/Canada) 
    * Peter Teuben (Maryland/USA)

SPEAKERS
    * Vladimir Avila (UNAM/Mexico) 
    * Albert Bosma (Marseille/France)
    * Pedro Colin (CRyA/Mexico) 
    * Ivanio Puerari (INAOE/Mexico)
    * Octavio Valenzuela (Washington/USA)

VENUE
 
The advanced school is part of the annual international
Guillermo Haro programme, which promotes advanced research
through the organization of lecture series, workshops,
and conferences at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica,
Optica y Electronica in Tonanzintla - Puebla, Mexico.

 REGISTRATION

About ~40 participants will be selected to attend
the school from those that register before the final
deadline of April 30th, 2006.
The final list of accepted participants will be published
in the electronic page of the event by May 22nd.
Registration should be completed on-line via our
web-page: http://www.inaoep.mx/gh2006

 HOTEL INFORMATION

Information regarding the accomodation during the school will
appear shortly in our web-page and in our next circular. 

 PROCEEDINGS

The lectures will be published before the end of 2006.
The publisher is still to be determined

 SCHOOL FEE
  
The registration fee of 200? US dollars covers the cost of
the published proceedings, lecture material, breakfast,
lunch and coffee-breaks.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT 

Some financial support is available that ranges from a school
fee waiver to help with lodging costs. Please indicate in the
registration form if you need assistance.

 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Luis Aguilar, Peter Teuben, Lia Athanassoula and Walter Dehnen