[message from Rolf Walder, Ecole Normale Superieure @Lyon]

Dear colleagues

I would like to announce an International School of Computational Astrophysics at Les Houches, France, May 16-27 2016.

I would also like to distribute this information on your web-pages, bulletins, within your community and, in particular, among your PhD-students and young post-docs.

OBJECTIVES OF THE SCHOOL ======================== Contemporary astrophysics is unthinkable without numerical simulations. Applications range from in-depth studies of individual physical processes, like particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection, to scrutinizing the multi-physics nature of an object class, for example the relative role of gravity, hydrodynamics, radiation, chemistry, and magnetic fields for molecular clouds and star formation. This wide physical interest, together with ever advancing compute architectures, entails an equally wide range of numerical and computational techniques.

The school aims at promoting this broad, multi-physics, multi-technique perspective. It will survey numerical techniques for different physics, illustrate their combination, address their implementation on high performance compute platforms, and exemplify strengths and limitations of individual and combined approaches. The goal of the school is to broaden the participants' knowledge on multi-physics modeling in astrophysics and to sharpen their awareness of pitfalls when physically interpretation corresponding simulation data.

Please find more information at http://comp-phys-2016.sciencesconf.org/

Alternatively you may contact me directly at Rolf.Walder ens-lyon.fr

Yours sincerely Rolf Walder