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Tutorials

March 8 - 11, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

Harold Yorke (California Institute of Technology)

"Introductory Remarks to Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations in Astrophysics"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Harold Yorke (California Institute of Technology)

"Introductory Remarks to Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations in Astrophysics"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30 Open Discussion
2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00

Joseph Monaghan (Monash University, Australia)

"Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (Part I)"
Lecture Notes (PDF File)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Problems (PDF File)
Presentation (PDF File)

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Joseph Monaghan (Monash University, Australia)

"Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (Part II)"
Lecture Notes (PDF File)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Problems (PDF File)
Presentation (ZIP File)

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

John Bally (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"Star Formation (Part I)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

John Bally (University of Colorado, Boulder)

"Star Formation (Part II)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)

"Introduction to Finite Difference, Discontinuous Galerkin, Finite Element and Spectral Methods for PDEs in Astrophysics (Part I)"
Related Article 1 (PDF File)
Related Article 2 (PDF file)
Related Article 3 (PDF file)

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00

Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)

"Introduction to Finite Difference, Discontinuous Galerkin, Finite Element and Spectral Methods for PDEs in Astrophysics (Part II)"
Related Article 1 (PDF File)
Related Article 2 (PDF file)
Related Article 3 (PDF file)


Thursday, March 10, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

"Adaptive Mesh Refinement Algorithms and Software Short Course"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

"Adaptive Mesh Refinement Algorithms and Software Short Course"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Michael Norman (University of California at San Diego)

"Structure Formation ( Part I)"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00

Michael Norman (University of California at San Diego)

"Structure Formation ( Part II)"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:15

Roger Chevalier (University of Virginia)

"Stellar Endpoints (Part I)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
Lecture Notes (PDF File)


Friday, March 11, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Neal Turner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

"Processes in Galactic Nuclei (Part I)"
Presentation (ZIP File)
Lecture Notes (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Neal Turner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

"Processes in Galactic Nuclei (Part II)"
Presentation (ZIP File)
Lecture Notes (PDF File)

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Roger Chevalier (University of Virginia)

"Stellar Endpoints (Part II)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
Lecture Notes (PDF File)

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00

David Meier (California Institute of Technology)

"Relativistic Astrophysics (Part I)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:15

David Meier (California Institute of Technology)

"Relativistic Astrophysics (Part II)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:15 - 5:30 Conclusion

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