Important Dates and Contact
IMPORTANT DATES AND CONTACT
15 August 2013: First Announcement
15 October 2013: Second Announcement
1 November 2013: Deadline for student registration
15 November 2013: Announcement of selected students
13 January 2014: School begins
23 January 2014: School ends (at noon)
Participants who have to pay the Participation Fee will do it at the beginning of the school, is US$ or its equivalent in Mexican Pesos of Euros.
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RATIONALE
RATIONALE
The processes leading to the formation, and various stages in the evolution of compact objects, are powerful sources of electromagnetic emission. They are also the strongest emitters of gravitational waves, as yet undetected directly but manifested in the decay of double pulsar systems at rates consistent with the predictions of General Relativity. In the coming years, two fundamental changes in astronomy will lead for the first time to the possibility of coupling this knowledge in such sources, allowing us to both look and listen for some of the most extreme objects in the Universe: the systematic development of time-domain astronomy, and the observational search for gravitational waves. The synergies between the two, at the crossroads of strong gravity, nuclear physics, stellar evolution and high energy astronomy are the topic of this school, aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students seeking to develop these topics in their research.
The school will last for two weeks, giving ample time for interaction between lecturers and students. The first week will be in principle devoted to general introductions on each topic, and in the second we will go in-depth along more defined lines.
PROGRAM
PROGRAM
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FIRST WEEK (Jan. 13-17): Compact Objects: 1) Observations of isolated neutron stars. Lecturer: Vicky Kaspi 2) Observations of binary systems. Lecturer: Rudy Wijnands 3) Structure of Neutron Stars. Lecturer: Sanjay Reddy Massive Stars: 4) Observations of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. Lecturer: Alicia Soderberg 5) Theory of evolution and death of massive stars. Lecturer: Matteo Cantiello Gravitational Waves: 6) Theory of gravitational waves and methods of detection. Lecturer: Cole Miller ________________________________________________________ SECOND WEEK (Jan. 20-23): Neutron stars: 1) From magnetars to anti-magnetars. Lecturer: José Pons 2) Accreting neutron stars. Lecturer: Andrew Cumming Gamma-Ray Bursts: 3) Emission processes, progenitors. Lecturer: Pawan Kumar 4) Progenitors theory. Lecturer: Enrico Ramírez-Ruiz Gravitational Waves: 5) Theoretical modelling of sources of gravitational waves. Lecturer: Luciano Rezzolla 6) Source modelling and data analysis, equation of state. Lecturer: Jocelyn Read Ultra-high energies 7) HAWC, HESS; Veritas, Magic. Lecturer: Magda González |
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WELCOME
Look & Listen
We are happy to announce the Mexican Astrophysics School Look & Listen: Electromagnetic and Gravitational Wave Signals from Compact Objects. The School will be held in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on the Mayan Riviera, from January 13 to 23, 2014, and it is aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
PDFs of the talks are available at:
http://geminga.astroscu.unam.mx/wiki/projects/lookandlisten/
