Monday, April 18, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 8:50
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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8:50 - 9:00
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 10:00
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Ben Moore (University of Zurich)
"N-Body simulations in cosmology"
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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John Dubinski (University of Toronto)
"A Universe in Motion: Testing the Cosmological Paradigm with Galaxy Dynamics "
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 12:00
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To Be Announced
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Wes Petersen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Numerical Methods for Langevin’s Equation in Gravitational Systems"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Jerrold Marsden (California Institute of Technology)
"Transport in Celestial and Molecular Systems "
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4:30 - 5:00
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Katrin Heitmann (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Robustness of Cosmological Simulations"
Presentation (PDF File)
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5:00 - 7:00
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Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Ben Leimkuhler (University of Leicester,UK)
"Time-Reversible Integrators for the N-Body Problem"
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Joachim Stadel (University of Zurich)
"Timestepping and Parallel Computing in Highly Dynamic N-body Systems"
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11:30 - 12:00
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Wayne Hayes (ICS)
"On Simulation Reliability: A Shadowing-Based Timestep Criterion for Collisionless N-Body Simulations"
Presentation (PDF File)
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Walter Dehnen (University of Leicester,UK)
"Force approximation issues: softening and tree codes"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Seppo Mikkola (University of Turku)
"A Comparison of Regularization Methods for few-body interactions "
Presentation (PDF File)
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4:30 - 5:00
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To Be Announced
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Joseph Monaghan (Monash University, Australia)
" SPH as a Dynamical N-body System"
Presentation File (Zip File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Andrey Kravtsov (Center for Cosmological Physics)
"Cosmological Simulations with Adaptive Mesh Refinement"
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11:30 - 12:00
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To Be Announced
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Ralf Klessen (Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam)
"Modeling Star Formation with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Matthew Bate (University of Exeter)
"Modelling Stellar Clusters Embedded in Gas"
Presentation (PDF File)
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4:30 - 5:00
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To Be Announced
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Sverre Aarseth (Cambridge University)
"Direct N-Body Implementations"
Presentation (PDF File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Simon Portegies-Zwart (Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek")
"The gravitational trillion body problem"
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11:30 - 12:00
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Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc.)
"Denoising Particle-In-Cell Codes Passively and Actively Using Wavelet Techniques: Steps Which May Lead to the Accuracy Found in Discrete Phase Space Grid Vlasov-Poisson Solvers"
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Jun Makino (University of Tokyo)
"Current Status of GRAPE Project"
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Rosemary Mardling (Monash University, Australia)
"Gravitational Chemistry"
Presentation (PDF File)
Additional Presentation Files (Zip Archive)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
Additional Presentation Files (Zip Archive)
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4:30 - 5:00
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Marc Freitag (Northwestern University)
"The Monte Carlo approach: Fast simulations of collisional self-gravitating systems"
Presentation (PDF File)
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Friday, April 22, 2005
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Morning Session
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8:30 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Derek Richardson (University of Maryland)
"Collisions in N-body Problems: Techniques and Applications"
Presentation File (Zip File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Volker Springel (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
"The universe in a supercomputer: From the first quasars to the large-scale galaxy distribution"
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11:30 - 12:00
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To Be Announced
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12:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Shane Ross (University of Southern California)
"Astrophysical transport calculations inspired by chemistry"
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Piet Hut (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)
"Probing the N-Body Problem for Fun and Profit"
Presentation (PDF File)
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4:30
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Conclusion
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