Name	E_mail_Address	Scientific_Session	Contribution_type	Title	Authors_affiliations	Abstract	
Spurzem, Rainer	spurzem@ari.uni-heidelberg.de	EAS Symp.6:Dynamics of Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei.	oral	Presentation of the MODEST initiative	Rainer Spurzem, Astron. Rechen-Inst., Center for Astronomy (ZAH), Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany	MODEST is a loosely knit world-wide consortium of various groups working in stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and stellar hydrodynamics. Our aim is to provide a software framework for large-scale simulations of dense stellar systems, within which existing codes for dynamics, stellar evolution, and hydrodynamics can be easily coupled. While many of us have talked for years about combining `live\' stellar evolution codes directly with N-body simulations, we have now reached a consensus between various groups about standards and interfaces, what is needed, and what is doable. Its web site is http://www.manybody.org/modest and in this contribution I will explain and present MODEST.