[ASA] ANITA 2014 Workshop and N-body Summer School - Registration open

[John O'Byrne]

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ANITA 2014 WORKSHOP AND N-BODY SUMMER SCHOOL
17th-21st February 2014
Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney

OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
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ANITA 2014:
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Registration is open for the 8th Annual Theory Workshop of the
Australian National
Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) which will be held on the
17th and 18th of
February 2014 at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy within the School of
Physics,
University of Sydney.

For details and registration information please go to the workshop website:

http://anita.edu.au/workshop2014/

Note that there is no registration fee and registration will close on
the 30th of January 2014.

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N-body Summer School
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Registration is also now open for the 3 day ANITA/ASA N-body Simulations
Summer
School, which will follow the workshop from the 19th-21st of February.
The school with cover techniques and resources for use in astrophysical
N-body
simulations. Topics covered will include:

* A hands-on introduction to setting up and running codes such as
GADGET, NBODY6 and SWIFT;
* Generating initial conditions for planetary, star cluster, galaxy and
cosmology simulations;
* Introduction to publicly available analysis and visualisation tools;
* Hands-on programming classes to analyse data produced by the codes.

The summer school is open to all advanced undergraduate, honours and PhD
students as well as active Astronomy and Astrophysics researchers within
Australia and New Zealand. Be aware that numbers may be limited and so when
allocating spaces priority will be given to students.
Registration and further information can be found at the website:

http://anita.edu.au/workshop2014/

Once again there is no registration fee and registration will close on
the 30th of January 2014.

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Student Travel Grants
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A limited number of travel grants to assist in the attendance of
students will be available.
Students can indicate their interest in applying for a grant when
registering and information
on how to apply will be sent out by email in January.


Looking foward to seeing you there.

On behalf of the SOC
(Geraint Lewis, Chris Power, Orsola De Marco, Krzysztof Bolejko and
Weiguang Cui)
and the ANITA steering committee.

Our thanks to the generous support of the following sponsors:
- Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA);
- Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO);
- International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR);
- Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO);
- Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing (CAS), Swinburne University
of Technology;
- Macquarie University, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics
Research Centre;
- University of Melbourne;
- University of Sydney.