From: Pascale Garaud

Dear colleague,

We are delighted to announce that applications to the first International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics (ISIMA) are now open.

ISIMA is a 6-week long program designed to integrate multi-disciplinary research in Astrophysics with graduate student training. The first ISIMA program will be held in Santa Cruz, California, from Juy 5th to August 13th 2010, on the topic of “Transport Processes in Astrophysics”.

For all details, and application forms, see our web-site:
http://isima.ucsc.edu
Please consider forwarding this annoucement to your colleagues and students, as you see appropriate.

The first week of the program (July 5th-9th) is a workshop on the selected topic. The morning sessions are invited lectures by prominent scientists in the field, while the afternoon sessions are short invited talks by young researchers.

Weeks 2-6 are dedicated to research. Invited faculty and postdocs are encouraged to proposed collaborative research projects to the students. Over the course of the program, students are expected to make significant progress on their selected research project, eventually leading to a journal publication. This is intended to be a very intense and condensed research experience for students, while providing an interactive and multi-disciplinary environment for invited faculty and post-docs. Daily seminars will be held during this period.

Selected participants will be fully funded for their stay in Santa Cruz (aside from travel, depending on the country of origin). The venue is one of the Santa Cruz colleges, only minutes walk away from the central part of the campus which hosts the Astronomy & Astrophysics, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Statistics departments. See http://isima.ucsc.edu/current.html for a tentative list of participants to date.

Applications are competitive for all participants. Student applications are due on January 20th, 2010. Applications from senior participants (postdocs and faculty) will remain open until all positions have been filled. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered for full funding.

The SOC: Nic Brummell (UCSC), Patrick Diamond (UCSD), Pascale Garaud (UCSC), Mark Krumholz (UCSC), Michel Rieutord (Obs. Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse).

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International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics
URL: http://isima.ucsc.edu
Email: isima@ucsc.edu
Phone: P. Garaud, +831-419-7769
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