[ASA] First announcement: MESA Down Under

[May Gade Pedersen]

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the next MESA school “MESA Down Under” which will take place at the University of Sydney in Australia from 17-21 June 2024.

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) is a 1-D stellar structure and evolution code which has seen a wide range of applications in stellar astrophysics, exoplanet science, gravitational wave astronomy and galactic and extra-galactic astrophysics (please find specific examples in the attached poster). It is the only completely open-source stellar evolution code and most widely used code worldwide. For 11 years annual MESA schools were held in Santa Barbara (California, USA), but this year the school went international and was hosted for the first time outside of the USA in Budapest (Hungary). In 2024 we are bringing the school to Australia for the first time. The format of the school is optimized for knowledge exchange and networking. We are bringing in MESA developers to teach the participants the basics of the code, as well as experts in a variety of fields of astrophysics to provide lectures on example science applications of the code including hands-on exercises. We will have a high teaching assistant to student ratio (1:3), ensuring that students can easily get help and ask questions if they encounter any issues as well as do so in a safe environment.

Applications to attend the school will open up in December with an expected application deadline mid-January.

More information will follow soon.

Kind regards,
May G. Pedersen
On behalf of the organising committee


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