We are pleased to announce the 5th installment and the 10th anniversary of Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics, MICRA 2019. MICRA 2019 will take place at the Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut at the University of Jena from August 12-16, 2019.

MICRA is a workshop that heavily focuses the microphysics needs of computational simulations of relativistic astrophysical systems: neutrinos, nucleosynthesis, and nuclear density equations of state. To intention is to bring together active nuclear and neutrino theorists and astrophysicists with computational modelers to achieve improvements in the modeling relativistic systems: stellar collapse, core-collapse supernovae, compact object mergers, and gamma-ray bursts.

Further updates, a preliminary program, and critical dates will be available at the conference website at http://www.micra2019.org . Inquiries are welcomed at micra2019[AT]micra2019.org. We are looking forward to a productive workshop in Jena, see you there!

MICRA2019 organizers

Workshop on Microphysics In Computational Relativistic Astrophysics

MIRCA 2015 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 17 – 21, 2015.
http://compact-merger.astro.su.se/MICRA2015/

Please mark your calendars!

MICRA is an interdisciplinary workshop that will bring together researchers in nuclear and neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, and in numerical modeling of relativistic astrophysical phenomena such as the mergers of neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae. The overarching goal of the MICRA workshop is to improve the interaction and collaboration between different communities towards astrophysical simulations that combine state-of-the-art microscopic (neutrino-matter interactions, equations of state, thermonuclear reaction rates) and macroscopic physics/methods (e.g. hydrodynamics, radiative transfer and relativity). Multi-messenger signal predictions from simulations will be crucial to interpret future observations by the international network of advanced gravitational wave detectors (to come online around 2015), by current and future neutrino detectors, by classical astronomical observatories and by high-energy satellite missions. Major goals are therefore to establish a clear strategy to close the gap between simulation results and observations (gravitational wave, neutrino and electromagnetic).

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Almudena Arcones
Axel Brandenburg
Carla Frohlich
Christian Ott
Christopher Pethick
Jocelyn Read
Stephan Rosswog
Laura Tolos