Topic: Symposia & Conferences

The biennial International Pulsation Meeting will take place from 23 to 27 July 2007 at the Campus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. More information on the venue, accommodation, programme, registration, etc. will follow shortly.

Jaymie Matthews, SOC chairman. matthews@astro.ubc.ca

The Second HELAS International Conference "Helioseismology, Asteroseismology
and MHD Connections" will be held in Goettingen, Germany during the week of
August 20-24, 2007. The conference will cover all current topics in helio-
and asteroseismology. For further information and registration, visit
http://www.mps.mpg.de/meetings/seismo/helas2/location.html

Scientific Organizing Commitee: Conny Aerts, Annie Baglin, Joergen
Christensen-Dalsgaard, Thierry Corbard, Jadwiga Daszynska, Stefan Dreizler,
Yvonne Elsworth, Laurent Gizon (Chair), Wolfgang Glatzel, Frank Hill, Donald
Kurtz, Oskar von der Lühe, Maria Pia Di Mauro, Mario Monteiro, Pere Palle,
Markus Roth, Philip Scherrer, Manfred Schuessler, Michael Thompson.

HELAS, the European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network, is funded by the
European Union for the period 2006-2009.

A tenure-track technical position is open at the Institute of Astronomy of Leuven University. The main emphasis of the job is on Variable Stars Studies to be done with the Gaia cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency.

Joint HELAS and CoRoT/ESTA Workshop
20-23 November 2006, CAUP, Porto - Portugal

http://www.astro.up.pt/investigacao/conferencias/hce2006/

or

http://www.astro.up.pt/corot/welcome/meetings/m7/

* Scientific Rational:

Stars are the primary visual constituents of the Universe and are also the source of chemical enrichment with important implications for galactic evolution including our Milky Way. Ground- and space-based missions for detecting the seismic signals of stars are becoming increasingly important tools to advance our understanding of the physics, structure and evolution of stars. With more and more accurate seismic data, stellar models are playing a key role for inferring a more detailed picture of the physical processes ongoing in real stars of
varying types. This meeting is part of a larger effort to join forces among the stellar model builder community to take full advantage of current and future seismic data. The primary focus of this meeting will be on element diffusion in stars.

The aim of the meeting is to extend the model and frequency comparisons taking place under the CoRoT/ESTA work towards the development and optimisation of evolution and seismic codes. This workshop follows on previous efforts of the CoRoT/ESTA Team. Its primary objectives are to advance the comparisons of frequencies and models with diffusion as proposed under Task 2 (frequency comparisons) and Task 3 (model comparisons including diffusion).

The format of the workshop is chosen to maximise the interaction between the attendants and to foster an atmosphere conductive to discussion. Therefore, contributed talks on open issues are especially encouraged. In addition to the oral contributions (and maybe also posters) ample time will be reserved for actual working sessions. Consequently it is expected to be limited to a maximum number of participants. The workshop starts on Monday, November 20th at 9 o'clock in the morning and ends on Thursday, November 23rd at noon.

Registration is now open to all colleagues and financial support may be available from the European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network (HELAS). Further details on the programme will be released soon.

* Important dates:

October, 30th - Financial support request deadline
November, 6th - Registration deadline
November, 13th - Contributed talks/posters abstract submission deadline

* Contact : helas2006@astro.up.pt

* Organisers

Mario J.P.F.G. Monteiro, Christian W. Straka, Yveline Lebreton
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Vienna Workshop on the Future of Asteroseismology
September 20-22, 2006

Held under the auspices of the European Network of Excellence in AsteroSeismology.

The link to the Conference site can be found here.