Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics

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MICA

Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics

MICA is a virtual astronomy institute featuring many activities related to MODEST and other projects in astrophysics. Aimed at harnessing the capabilities of virtual worlds and 3D collaborative environments (such as Second Life, Qwaq, Sun Wonderland), it fosters interaction among astrophysicists with interest in large-scale simulations, including dense stellar systems. Outreach and educational activities are also major MICA goals. MICA weekly events include popular talks, computational astrophysics lectures and Journal Club discussions of recent astro-ph papers.

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News and Events

Upcoming MICA Events in Second Life

General Schedule

We will be having regular events on Fridays according to the following tentative schedule:

A possible fifth Friday is being left open for now as a flex day.

Every Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. SLT (SLT=Pacific Time), 11:00 a.m. EDT we will have the general MICA meeting in SL.
The meeting will start with "coffee time" at 7:30 a.m. SLT but the actual discussion will start at 8:00 a.m. SLT. General MICA meeting will take place in the ISM Workshop: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/153/205/59

Every day at 7:30 am SLT, one of the MICA members will be available for general "coffee time" discussion at the ISM Workshop: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/153/205/59

Note: an older version of our MICA web site was located at http://qwaq-sl.org/QSL/mica.html .


Publications

  • P. Hut, Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds
    in Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 246 Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems E.Vesperini, M.Giersz, A.Sills eds., 2008, in press
  • P. Hut, Virtual Laboratories
    2006, Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 164, 38

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MICA Launch and Management

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