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Workshop I: Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

April 4 - 9, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, April 04, 2005

Methodology

Morning Session

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

John Castor (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"The Radiation Transport Conundrum in Radiation Hydrodynamics."
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

 
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:30

Joseph Monaghan (Monash University, Australia)

"SPH Lagrangians and consistent gravity smoothing"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Adam Burrows (University of Arizona)

"Multi-Dimensional Simulations and Physics of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions"

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

Markus Wetzstein (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)

"VINE - a new N-body / SPH code"

4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion
5:30 - 7:00 Wine Reception and Poster Session

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Methodolgy Cont; Cosmology; Clusters

Morning Session

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

Greg Howes (UCLA)

"Gradient Particle Magnetohydrodynamics and Adaptive Particle Refinement"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Jose Marti (University of Valencia, Spain)

"Numerical Relativistic Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics, and Extragalactic Jets"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:30

Michael Norman (University of California at San Diego)

"Cosmological Fluid Dynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement"
Presentation File (Zip File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Greg Bryan (Columbia University)

"Simulating the First Stars in the Universe"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

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

Mitchell Begelman (University of Colorado)

"Simulations of the Intracluster Medium"

4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

AGN; Disks; Black Holes; Dynamos

Morning Session

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

John Hawley (University of Virginia)

"General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Charles Gammie (University of Illinois)

"Relativistic Plasmas Near Black Holes: General Relativistic MHD and Force-Free Electrodynamics."

11:30 - 12:30

Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

"Dynamo action in shear flow turbulence"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Juri Toomre (University of Colorado)

"Magnetic Dynamo Action in the Solar Convection Zone"

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

Friedrich Busse (University of Bayreuth)

"Prandtl number dependence of convection driven dynamos in rotating spherical fluid shells"

4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Star Formation; Disk Fragmentation; Cores

Morning Session

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

Chris McKee (University of California at Berkeley)

"STAR FORMATION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Matthew Bate (University of Exeter)

"Star Formation, Fragmentation, and Protoplanets in Discs"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:00

Paolo Padoan (University of California at San Diego)

"Molecular Core Formation in Turbulent Clouds"

12:00 - 12:30

Robert Fisher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"The Formation of Brown Dwarfs : A Comparison of SPH and AMR Disk Fragmentation"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Richard Klein (University of California at Berkeley/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Recent Advances in the Formation of Low Mass and High Mass Stars from Turbulent Cloud Cores Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

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

Sam Falle (University of Leeds)

"Computational Problems in Star Forming Regions"

4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion

Friday, April 08, 2005

Disks; Turbulence; Supernovae

Morning Session

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

Paul Woodward (University of Minnesota)

"Towards an Improved Numerical Treatment of Turbulence in Astrophysical Flows"

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

Jim Stone (Princeton University)

"Studies of the MRI with a New Godunov Scheme for MHD"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:30

Marco Velli (University of Florence)

"MHD turbulence in the Solar Corona and the Solar Wind"

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Philip Marcus (University of California at Berkeley)

"Numerical Simulations of 3D Vortices in Highly-Stratified, Rotating, Shearing Protoplanetary Disks"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Roger Chevalier (University of Virginia)

"Instabilities in the Aftermath of Core Collapse Supernovae "

4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Supernovae;Weno Schemes; Space Wheather

Morning Session

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

Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University)

"High Order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) Schemes and Their Application in Cosmological Simulations"

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

Gabor Toth (University of Michigan)

"The Grand Challenge of Space Weather Prediction"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:00

Alexei Poludnenko (University of Chicago)

"Fluid Flows with High Degree of Expansion and Contraction "

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30 Panel Discussion
2:30 Conclusion

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