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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">Dear (aspiring) numerical relativists,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">Applications are now open for the first
<b>NR community summer school</b>, Aug 8–12, 2022, at ICERM, Brown University, US.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">This one-week summer school brings together early career researchers (graduate students and postdocs) interested in learning the state-of-the-art in numerical relativity,
from the basics to advanced topics. Our preliminary program is:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Intro & advanced NR (Helvi Witek & Katy Clough)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#0E101A;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Relativistic hydrodynamics (Elias Most)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#0E101A;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gravitational waves (Deirdre Shoemaker)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#0E101A;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">High-performance computing (Eloisa Bentivegna)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#0E101A;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hackathon<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#0E101A;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Evening talks, side program, NR community codes hands-on sessions<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">No prior exposure to numerical relativity is required, though basic familiarity with computational physics and general relativity would be desirable.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">The school is planned as an in-person event with streaming options available for the lecture program. ICERM will be able to offer limited funding for some participants.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">Applications are open now on this web page:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://icerm.brown.edu/events/re-22-f20w1<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">Even if you are planning to participate online, please register and indicate so in your application. We particularly encourage applications from participants from
diverse backgrounds and underrepresented communities. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">With warm regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">The organizing committee,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0E101A">Nils Vu, Thomas Helfer, Elias Most, Helvi Witek, Scott Field, and Leo Stein</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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