The Center of Space Physics and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and the Laboratory of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe of the French Commissariat of Atomic Energy (CEA/IRFU/Saclay) will organize ASTRONUM-2010, the 5th Annual International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows at the Westin-San Diego, in San Diego, California, U.S.A. The meeting will be held June 13-18, 2010.

The conference will cover the following topics:

(1) Software packages for modeling and analyzing plasma flows

(2) Advanced numerical methods for space, astrophysical and geophysical flows;

(3) Large-scale fluid-based, kinetic, and hybrid simulations;

(4) Turbulence and cosmic ray transport;

(5) Magnetohydrodynamics; with the application to

1. Physics of the Sun-Heliosphere-Magnetosphere;
2. Interstellar medium and star formation;
3. Cosmology and galaxy formation;
4. Dynamo effect;
5. Stellar Physics.

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 keynote 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 or Edouard.Audit@cea.fr.

Program Committee:

Edouard Audit (CEA/IRFU/Saclay, co-chair), Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Michael Norman (UCSD), Nikolai Pogorelov (UAH, chair), James Stone (Princeton University), Gary P. Zank (UAH)