MODEST: Workshops

MODEST meetings
Satellite meetings
Summer schools
Related meetings

MODEST holds regular workshops at locations around the world (for a summary of the first three workshops, see the following short review paper). Here is the current list of recent and planned meetings.

• MODEST-1 (New York, USA, June 17 - 21, 2002)   [summary paper]
• MODEST-2 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands , December 16 - 17, 2002)   [summary paper]
• MODEST-3 (Melbourne, Australia, July 9 - 11, 2003)
• MODEST-4 (Geneva/Lausanne, Switzerland, January 12 - 14, 2004)
• MODEST-5 (Hamilton [Ontario], Canada, August 11 - 14, 2004)
• MODEST-6 (Evanston [Illinois], USA, August 29 - 31, 2005)
• MODEST-7 (Prague, Czech Republic, at the IAU General Assembly, August 2006)
• MODEST-8 (Bonn, Germany, December 5 - 8, 2007)

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• MODEST-9 (Santa Barbara [California], USA, January 16 - 17, 2009)

In addition to these main meetings, we also organize and encourage satellite meetings:

• MODEST-4b (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 7 - 8, 2004)
• MODEST-5b (Prague, Czech Republic, September 20 - 25, 2004)
• MODEST-5a (Edinburgh, UK, December 15 - 17, 2004)
• MODEST-5d (Princeton [New Jersey], USA, April 7, 2005)
• MODEST-6b (Princeton [New Jersey], USA, September 15 - 16, 2005)
• MODEST-6c (Cologne, Germany, September 26 - October 1, 2005)
• MODEST-6a (Lund, Sweden, December 12 - 15, 2005)   [summary paper]
• MODEST-6d (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 27 - 28, 2006)
• MODEST-6e (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 21 - April 15, 2006)
• MODEST-7c (Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], USA, September 15, 2006)
• MODEST-7d (Sheffield, England, November 6 - 8, 2006)
• MODEST-7b (Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], USA, January 18 - 21, 2007)
• MODEST-7f (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 10 - 15, 2007)
• MODEST-7e (Yerevan, Armenia, August 20 - 25, 2007)
• MODEST-7a (Split, Croatia, August 25 - September 1, 2007)
• MODEST-8a (Heidelberg, Germany, March 12 - 14, 2008)

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• MODEST-8b (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 2008, date tbd)

Here is a list of summer schools organized by MODEST and similar initiatives:

• MODEST-4a (Strasbourg, France, March 19 - 22, 2004)
• MODEST-5c (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 24 - 30, 2005)
• Sixth Summer School in Supercomputational Cosmology (Potsdam, Germany, July 17 - August 11, 2006)
• International School on Galactic and Cosmological N-Body Simulations (Puebla, Mexico, July 23 - August 5, 2006)
• Cambody: A Cambridge N-body School (Cambridge, England, July 30 - August 10, 2006)

Finally, the following meetings also have strong overlap with the MODEST program.

• IAU Symposium 246 (Capri, Italy, September 5 - 9, 2007)
• AstroGPU 2007: General Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Princeton [New Jersey], USA, November 9 - 10, 2007)
• Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters (KITP Conference, Santa Barbara [California], USA, January 12 - 16, 2009)
• Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters (KITP Program, Santa Barbara [California], USA, January 12 - April 10, 2009)