Original Announcement:

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the GALPROP workshop to be run at Stanford University on December 5-6, 2011. The aim of the workshop is to discuss future developments of the code, optimizations, tests, formats, along with related astrophysical data and theory and presentations of GALPROP applications as well as other related issues. The program for the workshop is very flexible and will be finalized closer to the date.

Yours Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee
Igor Moskalenko (HEPL/Stanford)
Troy Porter (HEPL/Stanford)
Seth Digel (SLAC)

Agenda:

9:00 am	Troy Porter (Stanford/HEPL)	Logistics, goals of the meeting	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
9:10 am	Roger Blandford (Stanford/KIPAC)	State of the field, pressing questions	Speakers, please submit slides to (...)@galprop.stanford.edu Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
9:40 am	Seth Digel (KIPAC/SLAC)	Diffuse emission from local clouds	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
10:40-11:10 am	Coffee break
11:10 am	Gulli Jóhannesson (University of Iceland)	Diffuse Galactic Emission and the Interstellar Medium	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
12:10-1:20 pm	Lunch break
1:20 pm	Mikhail Malkov (UC San Diego)	Separating cosmic ray acceleration imprints from propagation effects using the Pamela p/He anomaly	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
2:20 pm	Andrey Vladimirov (Stanford/HEPL)	Batch calculations in GALPROP WebRun	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
3:10-3:40 pm	Coffee break
3:40 pm	Free discussion
6:00 pm	Dinner

10:00 am	Troy Porter (Stanford/HEPL)	Interstellar radiation field, heliospheric propagation	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
11:00-11:30 am	Coffee break
11:30 am	Antje Putze (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)	Analytic propagation models, Markov chain Monte Carlo	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
12:30-2:00 pm	Lunch break
2:00 pm	Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London)	Recent advances in Bayesian inference for cosmic ray propagation models	Online Discussion
3:00 pm	Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin–Madison)	Cosmic Ray Anisotropy in IceCube and Propagation Properties in the Interstellar Medium	Online Discussion
4:00 pm	Coffee break
4:30 pm	Igor Moskalenko (Stanford/HEPL)	Cosmic rays in the local interstellar medium	Speakers can post at the Forum to allow online discussion
5:00 pm	Free discussion
6:00 pm	Dinner

Registration:
If you are planning to attend the Workshop, please register. This will help us to estimate the number of participants and make appropriate arrangements. More detailed information closer to the workshop date will be sent to registered participants only. To register, add yourself to the group 2011 GALPROP Workshop Participants on the GALPROP Forum. If you have previously added yourself to this group, nothing new needs to be done. If you need to cancel your registration, remove yourself from the group.

Fee:
There is no registration fee for the workshop.

Abstract/Title:
Please, send us your title and abstract at your earliest convenience, but not later than November 20, 2011, via info@galprop.stanford.edu by posting it at the GALPROP Forum 2011 GALPROP Workshop: abstracts and discussion.

Accommodation:
Rooms at Stanford Guest House (on SLAC campus) are currently available at a discount internet rate. This comfortable and convenient housing structure is located on the SLAC campus and is just a quick ride away from the Stanford Campus. The Marguerite Shuttle provides free shuttle rides to and from the Stanford Campus. Guests will have access to in-room, high-speed Internet, a fitness center, a 24-hour reception desk, laundry facilities, free parking, complimentary tea and coffee, and a 24-hour gift shop. The Stanford Guest House offers single as well as shared rooms, but all rooms have their own bathroom, and at very reasonable rates. All rooms are non-smoking only. The rooms can be booked online.
The Stanford Guest House online-reservation form: https://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/guesthouse/. To obtain the discount internet rate, go to "Reservations" and check affiliation "Stanford University". In the list of Stanford affiliations, check "Stanford Conferee". Please book rooms sooner rather than later: rooms are taken quickly. If you change your mind, you can cancel your reservation free of charge (at least one day before your scheduled arrival).

More information:
For more housing options, travel, and other local information, please, visit the pages of TeVPA-2009 workshop: https://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/tevpa09

Communication:
Information and updates about the workshop will be reflected at this page. If you wish to receive further email notifications about the workshop, please register. Only registered participants will receive further notifications in email. General inquiries can be directed to info@galprop.stanford.edu

List of Participants:

• Roger Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford University)
• Elliott Bloom (KIPAC, Stanford University)
• Eugenio Bottacini (HEPL, Stanford University)
• Francesco de Palma (INFN – BARI)
• Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Seth Digel (KIPAC, Stanford University)
• Anna Franckowiak (KIPAC, Stanford University)
• Guðlaugur Jóhannesson (Science Institute, University of Iceland)
• Deepak Khurana (New York University)
• Dmitry Malyshev (KIPAC, Stanford University)
• Mikhail Malkov (University of California San Diego)
• Igor Moskalenko (HEPL, Stanford University)
• Nicola Omodei (Stanford University)
• Elena Orlando (HEPL, Stanford University)
• Troy Porter (HEPL, Stanford University)
• Dmitry Prokhorov (HEPL, Stanford University)
• Antje Putze (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
• Louis Strigari (KIPAC, Stanford Univerity)
• Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London)
• Andrey Vladimirov (HEPL, Stanford University)

Local Information:
The meeting venue is room 102 on the ground floor of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) at Stanford University. Directions can be found using the online Stanford campus map and typing `Physics and Astrophysics' into the search box. Click here for a close up of the location of HEPL obtained using this service.

For those participants staying at the SLAC guesthouse, there is a free shuttle service to and from campus via the Marguerite buses. The schedule is linked here. The shuttle frequency is approximately 20 minutes with a convenient pickup/drop-off in front of the SLAC guesthouse. The most convenient stops on campus to get to HEPL are the Gates building and Lagunita Court (please refer to the online map for directions from each of these). Walking time to HEPL from either stop is approximately 2-3 minutes.

Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided mid-morning and early afternoon both days (there is no charge for the meeting). Lunch is at your own expense with convenient eateries on campus. There are many restaurants nearby in Palo Alto for dinner.