From harfst at science.uva.nl  Thu Jul 10 06:30:08 2008
From: harfst at science.uva.nl (Stefan Harfst)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:30:08 +0200
Subject: [MODEST] Modest-8b - Second Announcement
Message-ID: <4875E4B0.3060105@science.uva.nl>


               ***  Second Announcement  ***


                          MODEST-8b
                          =========

             * Amsterdam, September 15th to 19th *

         Multiscale Multiphysics Scientific Environment
  Towards realistic modeling of dense stellar systems in MUSE
  -----------------------------------------------------------


This is the second announcement for our 5-day workshop in order to
continue the development and discuss the future of MUSE - a
Multi-scale Multi-physics Software Environment (see http://muse.li).

More information about the workshop can be found at the website:

        http://modesta.science.uva.nl/modest/modest8b/

The meeting will be held from September 15th to 19th at the

        Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek'
        and Section Computational Science
        University of Amsterdam
        Kruislaan 403
        1098SJ Amsterdam


If you have not done so, you are invited to register for the meeting

   http://modesta.science.uva.nl/modest/modest8b/register.html

The dead-line for registration is July 31th and we kindly ask you to
register as early as possible. There is no registration fee due for
this workshop.


********* BEGIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION **********

If you plan to attend the meeting we recommend that you make your
hotel reservation as soon as possible. Our workshop takes place the
same week a big business conference is held in Amsterdam and the city
has blocked a lot of hotel rooms for this event.

Hotels in Amsterdam can best be found via the usual on-line booking
services. The meeting venue can be easily reached by public transport
from hotels in/near the city centre. A possible low-budget alternative
is the StayOkay Hostel Amsterdam-Zeeburg (http://www.stayokay.com/).
Some more information can be found on the MODEST-8b web site

     http://modesta.science.uva.nl/modest/modest8b/


********* END IMPORTANT INFORMATION ************

The scientific programme is focused on continuing the development of
MUSE and most of the time during the workshop the participants will
work in small groups on writing MUSE code. A few talks on MUSE-related
topics and an introduction to GRID computing with MUSE will round off
the programme. Further details of the programme will be announced at a
later time. We kindly ask the participants to bring their own laptops.

A workshop dinner and a sightseeing-tour of Amsterdam are also planned
in addition to the scientific programme. We will have an informal
welcome reception on the Sunday before the meeting. Details will be
announced at a later time.


Best wishes
the organisers