NUMERICAL
ASTROPHYSICS AND ITS ROLE IN STAR FORMATION
Cardiff, 19-23
January 2009
Programme
| MONDAY |
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| 11:30-13.45 |
Registration opens (outside the
Prince Philip Lecture Theater, School of Physics & Astronomy, 4th
floor) |
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| 13.45-14:00 |
Welcome and organisational
announcements |
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| N-BODY SIMULATIONS | ||
| 14.00-14.45 | A star cluster on a desktop (I) |
Evghenii
Gaburov
(Leiden) |
| 14.45-15.30 | A
star cluster
on a desktop (II) |
Thijs Kouwenhoven (Sheffield) |
| 15.30-16.00 |
COFFEE | |
| 16.00-16.30 |
The collapse of cold fractal star
clusters |
Simon Goodwin (Sheffield) |
| 16.30-17.00 |
The Initial Binary Population in Star
Clusters |
Richard Parker (Sheffield) |
| 17.00-17.30 |
The effect of Poisson noise on the
accuracy of
SPH calculations: does increasing particle numbers help? |
Annabel Cartwright (Cardiff) |
| TUESDAY |
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| RADIATION TRANSPORT | ||
| 09.00-10.00 | Geometry Independent Radiative Transfer through Gas and Dust using the Monte Carlo method | Barbara Ercolano (Cambridge) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Radiative transfer using the Moment Method, and its application to radiative shocks | Edouard Audit (Saclay) |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | |
| 11.00-12.00 | The simulation of line emission from protostars and discs | Tim Harries (Exeter) |
| 12.00-12.30 | Emission from water in protoplanetary disks | Dieter Poelman (St Andrews) |
| 12.30-14.00 |
LUNCH |
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| ENERGY EQUATION & CHEMISTRY | ||
| 14.00-14.45 | Introducing
a Hybrid Method of Radiative Transfer for SPH |
Duncan Forgan (ROE) |
| 14.45-15.30 | Simulating chemically reactive flows in astrophysics | Simon Glover (Heidelberg) |
| 15.30-16.00 |
COFFEE | |
| 16.00-17.00 | Pedagogical Talk on Diagnostic Chemistry | Paola Caselli (Leeds) |
| 17.00-17.30 | Determining molecular abundances in starless cores | Mario Tafalla (Madrid) |
| 17.30-18.00 |
The competition between depletion and collapse | Malcolm Walmsley (Arcetri) |
| WEDNESDAY |
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| SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS | ||
| 09.00-10.00 | "SPH in 60 mins" - Pedagogical talk on SPH | David Hubber (Oslo) |
| 10.00-10.30 | The formation of brown dwarfs in discs: physics and numerics | Dimitris Stamatellos (Cardiff) |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Prestellar
core collapse and
protostellar disk formation in 3D SPH simulations |
Stefanie Walch (Cardiff) |
| 11.30-12.00 | Angular momentum transport in protostellar discs: clues from SPH simulations of self-gravitating discs | Giussepe Lodato (Leicester/Milan) |
| 12.00-12.30 |
Using
SPH, with realistic thermodynamics, for simulations of star and planet
formation |
Ken Rice (ROE) |
| 12.30-14.00 | LUNCH |
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| 14.00-14.30 | Testing binary formation scenarios with SPH | Nick Moeckel (St Andrews) |
| 14.30-15.00 | Feedback from massive stars: modelling HII regions, stellar winds and fragmenting shells in SPH | Jim Dale (Prague) |
| 15.00-15.30 | Influence of thermal properties on star formation | Katharina Jappsen (Cardiff) |
| 15.30-16.00 |
COFFEE | |
| 16.00-16.30 | The formation of discs in clusters | Paul Clark (Heidelberg) |
| 16.30-17.00 | Cluster
and distributed modes and the efficiency of star formation |
Ian Bonnell (St Andrews) |
| 17.30-18.00 |
The
role of turbulence and thermodynamics on star formation in molecular
cloud cores |
Rhianne
Attwood (Cardiff) |
| 19.00-22.00 |
WORKSHOP
DINNER |
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| THURSDAY |
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| FINITE DIFFERENCE HYDRODYNAMICS | ||
| 09.00-10.00 | Pedagogical talk on Finite Difference Hydrodynamics | Patrick Hennebelle (Paris) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Numerical dissipation in MHD turbulence simulations performed with ZEUS | Sebastian Fromang(Saclay) |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | |
| 11.00-11.45 | Magnetic
field amplification in turbulent flows |
Oliver Gressel (Potsdam) |
| 11.45-12.30 | Gravitational fragmentation of the expanding shell | Richard Wunsch (Cardiff) |
| 12.30-14.00 | LUNCH |
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| 14.00-14.45 | Contemporary Star Formation with the FLASH code | Robi Banerjee (Heidelberg) |
| 14.45-15.30 | Protostellar collapse: numerical methods comparison and development | Benoit Commercon (Saclay) |
| 15.30-16.00 | COFFEE | |
| EARLY STELLAR EVOLUTION | ||
| 16.00-17.00 | The basics of the early evolution of young objects: from the proto-star/BD to the PMS phase | Gilles Chabrier (Lyon) |
| 17.00-17.30 | Tests
of Early Stellar Evolution Models |
Rob Jeffries (Keele) |
| FRIDAY |
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| SIMULATING FEEDBACK FROM MASSIVE STARS |
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| 09.00-09.30 |
Expanding shells, massive star clusters and gas stripping of galaxies | Jan Palous (Prague) |
| 09.30-10.00 | SPH
simulations of expanding HII regions |
Thomas Bisbas
(Cardiff) |
| 10.00-10.30 | Ionization in SPH Simulations: iVINE and VINERY | Matthias Gritschneder (Munich) |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | |
| 11.00-12.00 | School Summary |
Matthew Bate (Exeter) |
| 12.00 | DEPART |
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