Call for participation and posters

The series of winter schools is designed to introduce mathematical, computational biology and bioinformatics to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and others working in the fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, complex systems analysis, and biological, chemical and medical sciences and engineering.

The talks will be given by lectures, many of whom are national and international authorities, selected for their ability to make their topic accessible to non-specialists, but at the same time exciting to those who already have some previous knowledge.

A session of posters will be held during the Winter School, as an opportunity for the students to show research results and ongoing projects. All proposals will be reviewed and acceptance will be based on quality and relevance. Prizes will be awarded for the best posters.

Important dates:
Poster proposal due: 30 May 2008
Early bird registration due: 20 June 2008

This 3-day long event will consist of invited lectures and contributed talks on mathematical and theoretical aspects of classical general relativity. The topics covered will reflect interests of the Australian GR community. This is likely to cover a broad range of exciting topics such as: computational (numerical and symbolic) relativity, singularity theorems, mass and energy definitions/theorems, classification of solutions, perturbation theory, gravitational collapse and applications of Ricci Flow and other geometric ideas to relativity.

Goals of the workshop are to:

Present recent mathematical and theoretical developments
Facilitate knowledge transfer and inspire the GR community
Promote the discipline

Computational Techniques and Applications Conference 2008

As a special event CTAC08 will also be honouring Professor Ian Sloan on his 70th birthday.

The current list of invited speakers includes:

• Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara)
• David Keyes (Columbia)
• Wolfgang Wendland (Stuttgart)
• Susanne Brenner (Louisiana State)
• Larry Forbes (Tasmania)

Dates

early-bird regⁿ: opens 13 Feb. 2008

abstracts due: 1 March 2008

The GLADE 2008 meeting on Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, and related problems.

Conference:

14–18 July, 2008

Workshop:

21–25 July, 2008

Location:

University of Auckland, NZ