Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:24:47 +0100
From: Carmen Romano
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First Announcement and Call for Applications
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THIRD HELMHOLTZ-INSTITUTE SUMMER-SCHOOL on
"CHAOS AND STABILITY IN PLANETARY SYSTEMS"
September 1 - September 26, 2003
University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Supercomputers and chaos theory have shaped our sense for the long-term dynamics
of planetary systems. The summer school aims at a better understanding of the
dynamical stability, the role of resonances and the appearance of chaos in the
motion of solar system bodies but also in the recently discovered extrasolar
planetary systems.
Special lectures on supercomputing and also the work with state-of-the-art codes
are offered to study the dynamics of these systems in detail. One interesting
new aspect are the stability studies of Earth-like planets in so-called
habitable zones.
SCIENCE DIRECTOR: RUDOLF DVORAK (UNIVERSITY VIENNA)
LECTURERS: JACK LISSAUER (AMES RESEARCH CENTER, NASA)
THOMAS QUINN (UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON)
JOACHIM STADEL (UNIVERSITY ZURICH)
SYLVIO FERRAZ-MELLO (UNIVERSITY SAO PAULO)
Applications are invited from students, graduate students, post-docs and
researchers working in scientific disciplines related to the content of the
summer school. Deadline for application is May 31 2003.
Grants are available to cover accommodation, travel and living expenses.
Numbers will be limited and those interested are advised to make an early
application.
Information and application form on the web: www.hisp.agnld.uni-potsdam.de
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For more information, please check the web page or contact
M. Carmen Romano,
Universitaet Potsdam,
Am Neuen Palais, Haus 19,
Zentrum fuer die Dynamik komplexer Systeme,
14469 Potsdam,
D-Germany
mail hisp@agnld.uni-potsdam.de
phone +49 (0)331-977-1749
fax +49 (0)331-997-1142