The Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Laboratory of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe of the French Commissariat of Atomic Energy (CEA/DAPNIA), will organize ASTRONUM-2008 -- the 3rd International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows at Westin Hotels and Resorts, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

The topics of the conference will cover the following subjects:

Software packages for modeling and analyzing plasma flows;
Advanced numerical methods for space, astrophysical, and geophysical flows;
Large-scale fluid-based, kinetic, and hybrid simulations;
Magnetohydrodynamics
Turbulence and cosmic ray transport;
Data handling and visualization
with the application to

Cosmology and galaxy formation;
Dynamo effect;
Physics of the Sun-Heliosphere-Magnetospheres;
Laboratory astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion;
Interstellar medium and star formation;
Stellar Physics and Supernovae
The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading experts in applied mathematics, space physics, astrophysics, and geophysics in order to discuss the application of novel numerical algorithms to computationally challenging problems.

The conference will be structured around invited, 40-minute overview and 25-minute regular talks, and a limited number of contributed talks, with no parallel sessions.

E-mail inquiries about the meeting should be directed to Nikolai.Pogorelov@ucr.edu