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About Program Participants Accomodation Travel
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ABOUT The workshop will focus on the development of a software framework for simulations of dense stellar systems, such as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. For decades, legacy codes in stellar evolution, stellar dynamics and stellar hydrodynamics have been used to model these three areas of physics separately. So far, little has been done to integrate these three in concrete ways. In 2002, we launched an initiative, MODEST (for MOdeling DEnse STellar systems, see www.manybody.org/modest.html), which so far has led to the organization of twenty workshops, directly or indirectly concerned with the question of how to set up a truly multi-scale multi-physics environment for modeling dense stellar systems. In 2006, a first attempt was made at constructing such an environment, MUSE (for MUltiscale MUltiphysics Scientific Environment, see http://muse.li), in the form of a software framework that will allow us to couple together existing codes, to develop new codes, and to integrate intercomparisons between codes, as well as comparisons with observations. The Split workshop will be the first comprehensive attempt to gather a signifcant group of researchers to work on the construction of a dense stellar systems framework as a team. Scientific Organizing Committee: Local Organizing Committee: |
