2015 3rd meeting

The third AstroTwinCoLO meeting will take place between August 10th and August 21th.

University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia)

August 10-21, 2015

The AstroTwinCoLO 2015 3rd Meeting is the third event celebrated as part of the Astronomy Twinning Program between the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and Leiden Observatory (Leiden). The meeting will be held in Medellin (Colombia) between August 10 and August 21, 2015. Participants from Colombia and in general from all the Andean region are welcome to come and participate in the Courses that will be offered during the meeting. Courses will also be streamed online.

Summary of the Meeting

• 2 full courses (equivalent to 30 hours each) offered by two invited Professor of Leiden Observatory (Netherlands).
• 2 mini courses offered by special invited speakers.
• 2 public lectures intefor general public.
• No registration fee.
• Topics in theoretical and observational astrophysics: Computational Astrophysics and Galaxy Formation.
• Invited speakers are international leading experts in the field.
• Courses will be given in English.
• All courses will be held at the Institute of Physics of the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia).
• Most of the course sessions will be broadcast via Live Stream and recorded for its release in You Tube.
• The event is offering a limited financial support for students coming from cities different than Medellín.
• Full courses include an academic approval certificate equivalent to 3 credits in the ETCS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System)
• Virtual Participation will be allowed and could be also conducive to full certification.

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Registration - Activities - Schedule

Invited Lecturers

Prof. Simon Portegies-Zwart

Since 2009 Simon Portegies Zwart leads an interdisciplinary research team on Computational As-

trophysics at the Sterrewacht Leiden (CAstLe). The aim of this team is to study the universe by means of simulation. The specific areas of research in astrophysics include 1 the evolution of exotic planetary systems, the evolution of binary (and higher order multiple) stars, and the dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems such as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. From a computational point of view the research group aims at the development of simulation environments for solving the equations for gravitational dynamics, stellar structure and evolution, hydrodynamics and radiative transfer. His most important activity over the last 5 years has been the initiation, development and building of the Astronomical Multi-purpose Software Environment (AMUSE). The source code of AMUSE is free to the community and can be downloaded from the project website http://amusecode.org. At the moment AMUSE is producing new scientific results.

Dr. Jarle Brinchmann

Dr. Jarle Brinchmann is an associate professor at Leiden University. His main area of research is the evolution of galaxies and the estimation of their physical parameters. He has been in charge of the most widely used set of physical parameter estimates for low redshift galaxies from the SDSS survey and is one of two legacy science coordinators for the upcoming Euclid space mission. He is also strongly involved with the MUSE instrument for the VLT and the study of the spatially resolved properties of galaxies through cosmic time. He is also quite interested in integral field spectroscopy and how this can be used both today and in the future to build up a more complete overview of the dynamical state of galaxies through time. He has taught several courses in galaxy formation and is experienced in the use of programming languages such as IDL and Pearl.