MODEST: Workshops

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)
MODEST-9 (Santa Barbara [California], USA, January 16 - 17, 2009)
MODEST-10 (Beijing, China, August 30 - September 3, 2010)
MODEST-11 (Leiden, the Netherlands, December 12 - 16, 2011)
MODEST-12 (Kobe, Japan, August 15 - 17, 2012)
MODEST-13 (Almaty, Khazakstan, August 19 - 23, 2013)
MODEST-14 (Bad Honnef, Germany, June 2 - 6, 2014)
MODEST-15 (Concepcion, Chile, March 2 - 6, 2015)
MODEST-16 (Bologna, Italy, April 18 - 22, 2016)
MODEST-17 (Prague, Czech Republic, September 18 - 22, 2017)
MODEST-18 (Santorini, Greece, June 25 - 29, 2018)
MODEST-19 (Bologna, Italy, May 27 - 31, 2019)
MODEST-20 (Mumbai, India, Feb 2 - 7, 2020)
MODEST-23 (Evanston [Illinois], USA, August 28 - September 1, 2023)

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) [summary paper]
MODEST-8a (Heidelberg, Germany, March 12 - 14, 2008)
MODEST-8b (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 15 - 19, 2008)
MODEST-9a (Santa Barbara [California], USA, January 12 - April 10, 2009)
MODEST-9b (Pasadena [California], USA, February 16, 2009)
MODEST-9c (Tokyo, Japan, September 7 - 11, 2009)
MODEST-9d (Leiden, the Netherlands, October 5 - 7, 2009)
MODEST-9e (Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], USA, November 18, 2009)
MODEST-9f (Leiden, the Netherlands, May 3 - 13, 2010)
MODEST-10a (Leiden, the Netherlands, December 13 - 17, 2010)
MODEST-10b (Leiden, the Netherlands, June 27 - July 1, 2011)
MODEST-10c (Kobe, Japan, August 1 - September 17, 2011)
MODEST-10d (Kobe, Japan, August 23 - 24, 2011)
MODEST-11a (Tokyo, Japan, January 16, 2012)
MODEST-12a (Kobe, Japan, July 16 - August 17, 2012)
MODEST-12b (Leiden, the Netherlands, September 10 - 14, 2012)
MODEST-12c (Leiden, the Netherlands, February 4 - 8, 2013)
MODEST 12d Adaptive hydro gravity solvers for simulating young star clusters (University of Surrey, United Kingdom, November 18 - 22, 2013)
MODEST 13a (Leiden, the Netherlands, April 23, 2014)
MODEST-15s (Kobe, Japan, December 7 - 11, 2015)
MODEST-16NYC (New York, New York, September 6 - 9, 2016)

Note that the names reflect the order in which workshops were announced, not necessarily the order in which they were held.

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)
Computational Astrophysics (PiTP 2009 Program, Princeton [New Jersey], USA, July 13 - 24, 2009)

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)
Stellar Mergers (Lorenz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, September 21 - October 2, 2009)
Computational Gravitational Dynamics (Lorenz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, May 3 - 13, 2010)

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