[Cosmo-pl] astro (sub-cosmo) computing school 16-27.05.2016 @Les Houches, France

[Boud Roukema]

[message from Rolf Walder, Ecole Normale Superieure @Lyon]

Dear colleagues

I would like to announce an International School of Computational Astrophysics
at Les Houches, France, May 16-27 2016.

I would also like to distribute this information on your web-pages, bulletins,
within your community and, in particular, among your PhD-students and
young post-docs.

OBJECTIVES OF THE SCHOOL
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Contemporary astrophysics is unthinkable without numerical
simulations. Applications range from in-depth studies of individual
physical processes, like particle acceleration in magnetic
reconnection, to scrutinizing the multi-physics nature of an object
class, for example the relative role of gravity, hydrodynamics,
radiation, chemistry, and magnetic fields for molecular clouds and
star formation. This wide physical interest, together with ever
advancing compute architectures, entails an equally wide range of
numerical and computational techniques.

The school aims at promoting this broad, multi-physics,
multi-technique perspective. It will survey numerical techniques for
different physics, illustrate their combination, address their
implementation on high performance compute platforms, and exemplify
strengths and limitations of individual and combined approaches. The
goal of the school is to broaden the participants' knowledge on
multi-physics modeling in astrophysics and to sharpen their awareness
of pitfalls when physically interpretation corresponding simulation
data.

Please find more information at
http://comp-phys-2016.sciencesconf.org/

Alternatively you may contact me directly at
Rolf.Walder ens-lyon.fr

Yours sincerely
Rolf Walder