From: Pascale Garaud

Dear colleague

As you may know, we are launching this year the International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics (ISIMA). The 2010 ISIMA will be on “Transport processes in Astrophysics”, and will take place at UCSC from Tuesday July 6th to Saturday July 10th.

The first week of our program consists of a workshop with morning pedagogical lectures by invited scientists, and afternoon contributed talks describing state-of-the-art results in the field.

Invited lecturers include:

Pawel Artymowicz (Toronto)
Nicholas Brummell (UCSC)
Patrick Diamond (UCSD)
Douglas Gough (Cambridge)
Louis Howell (LLNL)
Ralf Klessen (Heidelberg)
Mark Krumholz (UCSC)
Francois Lignieres (Toulouse)
Keith MacGregor (CU Boulder)
Mark Rast (CU Boulder)
Michel Rieutord (Toulouse)

Further information and a preliminary program can be found on the workshop website:
http://isima.ucsc.edu
or
http://isima.ucsc.edu/current.html

While the workshop is designed for the ISIMA program participants, we welcome a broader partipation. If you are interested in attending, or sending your graduate students or postdocs to the workshop, please do not hesitate to do so!

Note that:

*** Registration is free but *mandatory* (numbers of participants have to be capped because of seating limitations in our conference room). The registration link will be closed when the upper limit on participants has been reached. Please register as soon as possible to guarantee participation.

*** Donations for coffee/snacks will be appreciated, and payment for the conference dinner will be by cash only.

*** Information on accomodation and transport can be found on the workshop website. Note that it is the responsibility of the participant to organise his/her transport and accomodation.

*** You may submit an abstract for a contributed afternoon talk if you are interested in presenting your work. The deadline for contributed presentations is June 1st. The SOC will inform you if you have
been selected to give an oral presentation. All other presentations will be poster presentations.

*** Please bear in mind that this workshop will be quite informal. Only a limited amount of services will be provided (see website for detail)

Pascale Garaud
Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics
AMS, Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC
Room 131, phone: (831)-459-1055
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