Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to the First Brazilian CTA Collaboration Meeting that will be held in August 20-21st, 2015 at Universidade de Sao Paulo – Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas (IAG-USP).
If you are interested in participating, you may contact us informing your Institute, position and research interests.
Viagens interestelares são possíveis? O que há dentro de um buraco negro? Dá pra viajar no tempo? Existem outras dimensões? O filme Interestelar nos leva ao longo de uma fantástica viagem muito além dos confins do nosso sistema solar. Nesta palestra, o Prof. Nemmen revelará que os incríveis eventos fictícios do filme, assim como os efeitos especiais inéditos, são baseados em áreas fascinantes da ciência. O Prof. Nemmen falará sobre buracos negros, viagens interestelares, planetas fora do sistema solar, buracos de minhoca e mais, descrevendo as leis que governam o nosso universo e os fenômenos assombrosos que estas leis tornam possíveis.
Rodrigo Nemmen é professor de astrofísica na USP, membro afiliado da Academia Brasileira de Ciências e foi pesquisador na NASA. Suas pesquisas têm buscado desvendar os segredos dos fenômenos mais violentos do universo — em particular os buracos negros. Interestelar e todos os seus personagens e elementos são marca registrada de ©Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 
I will attend the 42th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Moscow, Russia. I am excited to visit Russia for the first time!
I will give two talks: one review talk about the role of relativistic jets in unified models of active galactic nuclei and current challenges, at the “challenges in unified models of AGN” meeting; the second talk is about this recently submitted paper at the “outflows and accretion from white dwarfs to supermassive black holes” event. I am also excited to hear news about the possible G2 object accretion by our Galactic Center at the “new broadband perspectives on the Galactic Center black hole and its environment” meeting. Here is the list of astrophysics meetings.
For those attending the conference: see you in Mother Russia!
I am attending this week a workshop on scientific computing hosted by the Núcleo de Astrofísica Teórica at Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, São Paulo. Very nice event and I am learning a lot. Some of the highlights so far:
Helio Rocha-Pinto (Observatório do Valongo, UFRJ) gave us a very nice summary of astrostatistics, i.e. application of different statistical methods to astronomical data. It is always good to hear somebody very knowledgeable on the subject talking about things you used in the past. He focused on using R and I am increasingly convinced I should learn to be fluent in R for astronomical purposes.
Paulo Penteado (Northern Arizona University) has been telling us about parallelization methods beginning with vectorization, then moving on to OpenMP (memory shared) and ending in MPI (distributed memory). Paulo is extremely knowledgeable on the subject. He began describing the basics of the subject and will give us practical details on implementing openmp and mpi in your own code.
Reinaldo Rosa (INPE) spoke about numerical methods for cosmological simulations, starting with methods for solving hydrodynamics. He even used, at some point, an old-fashioned — some would call vintage — slide projector to describe how diffusion arises from the Navier-Stokes equation.
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