Cloudy: EMISSION LINES IN ASTROPHYSICS, FROM GASEOUS NEBULAE TO QUASARS

Cloudy: EMISSION LINES IN ASTROPHYSICS, FROM GASEOUS NEBULAE TO QUASARS

The purpose of this symposium is to celebrate the scientific career of Gary Ferland. A substantial fraction of his research career has been devoted to the development of the code CLOUDY and its applications to the study of the interstellar medium. 

CLOUDY has been applied to a wide variety of astronomical environments including: photodissociation regions, molecular clouds, H II regions, planetary nebulae, novae and supernovae remnants, active galactic nuclei, and starburst galaxies.

During five days we will review those areas of astrophysics where the impact of CLOUDY has been important and we will try to glance into the future of interstellar medium research.

The proposed program is aimed at the most important issues related to the modeling of emission line interpretation under different astrophysical regimes. In particular the topics to cover would be:

  • Modeling Gaseous Nebulae
  • Atomic Data for Astrophysics
  • Active Galactic Nuclei Emission
  • Interstellar and circumstellar matter
  • Novae and Supernovae Remnants
  • H II Regions
  • Planetary Nebulae
  • Intergalactic Medium
  • Photodissociation Regions
  • Extending modelling capabilities

VENUE

Hotel Radisson Paraíso with a special rate for participants of this conference.

HOW TO REGISTER

We invite interested colleagues to pre-register through our webpage. The pre-registration is open until 15 of February 2016. 

Notice that the number of participants is limited. The SOC will decide which type of presentation you will be able to give, and will communicate the result in early March 2016.

SOC & LOC

The Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC):  Bozena Czerny, Andrew Fabian, William Henney, Frances Keenan, Ajit K. Kembhav, C. Robert O'Dell (co-chair), Manuel Peimbert (co-chair), Grazyna Stasinska, Thomas Troland, Tiangu Wang, and Martin Ward

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC):  Rafael Costero, Gloria Delgado Inglada, Christophe Morisset, Antonio Peimbert, Miriam Peña, and Silvia Torres-Peimbert

When

8 – 12 August 2016

Where

Mexico City, Mexico