[Users] North American Einstein Toolkit School and Workshop at NCSA

[Roland Haas]

Hello all,

the North American Einstein Toolkit School and Workshop will be hosted
this year that NCSA, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
from July 31 to August 4 2017
(http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/ETK17/).

The Einstein Toolkit is a publicly available framework used by several
numerical relativity groups in the world, with applications ranging
from high-energy astrophysics to cosmology.

This meeting is open to anyone interested in numerical relativity and
computational astrophysics and cosmology and in particular to Einstein
toolkit users. 

There will be a 3 day school from July 31 to August 2, 2017 that will
introduce students and postdocs to the Einstein Toolkit and numerical
methods related to it.

After that, on August 3 to August 4, 2017, the Einstein Toolkit
workshop will cover the most recent developments of the toolkit, offer
the possibility for collaboration and discussions about future plans.

Individual registrations for each of the school and workshop are now
open on http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/ETK17. There, you will
also find information on available hotels, hotel sharing and a
tentative program. Information on financial support is available on the
registration page. The initial deadline for applying for support is
June 1, 2017.

Separate registration is required for each of the school and the
workshop. When registering for the school you have the option of
listing topics of interest for the school and your level of expertise.
For the workshop you can suggest discussion topics as well as register
a title and abstract for a 5 minute presentation you would like to give.

The Einstein Toolkit community in Europe will host a two day meeting in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain October 11-13.

For further information please do not hesitate to contact the
organizers at etk2017 at ncsa.illinois.edu.

Yours,
Roland Haas, for the organizers