The first announcement to the Conference: Magnetic Fields in the Universe II: from Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe has been published. (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/congresos/mfu2)

In view of the success of the meeting "Magnetic Fields in the Universe: from Laboratory and Stars to Primordial Structures", held in Angra dos Reis (Brazil) in December 2004, a second edition is being organized, this time on the Mexican Caribbean, in the island of Cozumel, from January 28th to February 1st, 2008.

This is the second Course activated in the frame of the International School of Relativstic Astrophysics «JOHN A. WHEELER», whose 1st Director was John A. Wheeler, now Ignazio Ciufolini and Richard Matzner.

It is dedicated to classic and relativistic dynamics of gravitating objects and systems in astrophysics.

The web site of the Course, containing all the relevant information is: http://astro1.phys.uniroma1.it/ericeschool/index.html

The Course will be hosted by the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture (http://www.ccsem.infn.it) , in Erice, the beautiful small middleval town located on a hill 750 m above the sea level in the north west of Sicily, 15 km from Trapani, June 27 - July 5, 2008.

The autumn program for the excellent programming workshops organised by the HLRS (High-Performance Computing Centre, Stuttgart, Germany) is now available online. Courses are held in English and German in Germany and Switzerland and cover a number of interesting subjects, such as iterative solvers, parallelisation with openMP ans MPI and fluid dynamics.