RSDN
The Rhine Stellar Dynamics Network

Logo by Claudia Bruens

RSDN - The Rhine Stellar Dynamics Network is a regional cooperation across three countries to foster teaching and research in the field of stellar dynamics, to enhance support by common efforts to acquire funding and reach synergies by frequent meetings, schools, and workshops.

The RSDN was proposed in 2004 with the coming of Pavel Kroupa to Bonn, and it was inaugurated at the start of the 1st RSDN meeting at the Hoher List (HoLi) Mountain Observatory. For more information on meetings and organisation see also the RSDN page hosted in Bonn .

Upcoming :
4th RSDN/MODEST8 meeting at the physics centre in Bad Honnef near Bonn, 4th -- 8th December 2007.
5th RSDN/MODEST8a meeting in Heidelberg, March 14 -- 16, 2008.
Previous RSDN meetings:
  • 1st RSDN meeting at HoLi Mountain on 15/16 October 2004.
  • 2nd RSDN meeting at HoLi Mountain on 25th-27th November 2005.
  • 3rd RSDN meeting at HoLi Mountain on 1st-3rd December 2006.
    Map of the Rhine River

    The Member's

    1. Simon Portegies Zwart
      Universiteit van Amsterdam
    2. Susanne Pfalzner
      Universität Köln
    3. Pavel Kroupa , Holger Baumgardt
      Universität Bonn
    4. Eva Grebel , Ralf Klessen , Rainer Spurzem
      Zentrum für Astronomie, Universität Heidelberg
    5. Christian Boily
      Université de Strasbourg

    Some Links and Projects

    Stellar Dynamical Simulation
    1. MODEST - Modelling Dense Stellar Systems
    2. The DEISA Project "Einstein" (AMS/HD)
    3. The SCYON Newsletter
    4. The GRAPE project
    5. The GRACE project
    6. The GRAPE Cluster in Rochester (David Merritt)
    7. The Gaseous Model

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    Updated: May 2005    spurzem@ari.uni-heidelberg.de