The Be Star Newsletter, Volume 40 - January 2012

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Workshop
Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, February 27 – March 02, 2012
ESO - Univ. of São Paulo
http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2012/csdyn.html

Alex Carciofi

Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciéncias Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, Cidade Universitária, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, BRAZIL
email:  carciofi@usp.br
Received: 19 Dec 2011

The deadline for late registration is approaching fast: Jan 13th.

Financial support:

Support is available to partially cover hotel expenses for a few students and post-docs. Applications can be submitted by via the registration form.

Sessions will be held on:

  1. Circumstellar Disks & Outflows: Theory
  2. Circumstellar Disks & Outflows: Observations
  3. Delta Sco and Be stars as laboratories for CS disk physics
  4. Dynamics of Circumstellar Material and tidal interactions in hot binaries
  5. Massive star formation out of a dynamic environment
  6. Magnetospheres of Hot Stars

Confirmed invited speakers:

  • E. Alecian (Observatoire de Paris, France)
  • J. Bjorkman (Univ. of Toledo, US)
  • D. Cohen (Swarthmore College)
  • W. Dent (ALMA)
  • W.-J. de Wit (ESO)
  • J. Groh (Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Germany)
  • C. Jones (Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada)
  • M. Krumholz (Univ. of California, US)
  • A. M. Magalhães (Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil)
  • F. Millour (Univ. of Nice, France)
  • A. Miroshnichenko (Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro, US)
  • A. Okazaki (Hokkai-Gakuen Univ., Japan)
  • R. Oudmaijer (Univ. of Leeds, UK)
  • S. Owocki (Univ. of Delaware, US)
  • R. Townsend (Univ. of Wisconsin, US)
  • A. ud-Doula (Penn State W. Scranton, US)

SOC:

  • D. Baade
  • A. C. Carciofi (co-chair)
  • J. E. Bjorkman
  • A. Daminelli
  • W. Dent
  • A. Domiciano de Souza
  • Th. Rivinius (co-chair)
  • S. Stefl
  • J. Vink
  • G. Wade

Venue:

The workshop will take place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, close to the magnificent Iguaçu Waterfalls, a network of 275 waterfalls in the Iguaçu River that lies in the border of Brazil and Argentina.

Tours:

Two visits to the waterfalls are planned during the workshop. For more details, see http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2012/csdyn/local.html#par_title

We look forward to see you in Brazil next February!

. . . Alex Carciofi, for the SOC


Last modified: January 10, 2012

David McDavid
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