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Workshop III: Relativistic Astrophysics

May 2 - 6, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, May 02, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

Joan Centrella (NASA GSFC)

"Gravitational Wave Science: Challenges for Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

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

Frans Pretorius (California Institute of Technology)

"On the Simulation of Binary Black Holes in General Relativity"

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Luis Lehner (Louisiana State University)

"Many directions to a black hole"

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

David Meier (California Institute of Technology)

"Trends in Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)

"Improved simulations of relativistic stellar core collapse"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:15 - 7:15 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Morning Session

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

Jerome Novak (Observatoire de Paris)

"Fully-constrained formulation of Einstein's field equations using Dirac gauge"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Luciano Rezzolla (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS))

"3D collapse to rotating black holes: dynamics of matter, trapped surfaces and gravitational radiation"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Tony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"The Computational Challenge of Modeling the Explosion of Massive Stars"

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

Miguel-Angel Aloy (University of Valencia)

"General relativistic simulations of post-neutron star mergers as progenitors of short Gamma-ray bursts"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Andrew MacFadyen (Institute for Advanced Study)

"Relativistic AMR Simulations of GRBs"


Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Morning Session

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

Oscar Reula (FaMAF,Universidad Nacional de Cordoba)

"Implementing high order touching grids in numerical relativity "

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

Mark Scheel (California Institute of Technology)

"Constraint-preserving boundary conditions for the Einstein evolution system"

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Lee Lindblom (California Institute of Technology)

"Optimal Constraint Projection"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Harald Pfeiffer (California Institute of Technology)

"Binary black hole initial data"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)

 
Presentation (PDF File)

5:15 - 7:15 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Morning Session

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

Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)

 
Presentation File (Zip File)

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

Hideaki Kudoh (University of Tokyo)

"Black holes with extra dimensions: the black-hole black- string transition"

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Tsvi Piran (Hebrew University)

"Numerical Studies of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions. "

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

Masaru Shibata (University of Tokyo)

"Merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state"


Friday, May 06, 2005

Morning Session

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

Anatoly Spitkovsky (Stanford University)

"Simulations of force-free relativistic MHD"

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

Saul Teukolsky (Cornell University)

"Why is Numerical Relativity so Important and Yet so Hard?"

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:00

Maria Babiuc (University of Pittsburgh)

"Gravitational wave extraction using the Cauchy-characteristic method"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:00 - 2:10 Break
2:10 - 2:40

Melvin Leok (University of Michigan)

"Towards Discrete Exterior Calculus and Discrete Mechanics for Numerical Relativity"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:40 - 2:50 Break
2:50 - 3:20

Jian Tao (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Binary NS evolution with AMR"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

3:20 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00

P. Chris Fragile (College of Charleston)

"Relativistic MHD on Unstructured Grids with Local Adaptive Refinement"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

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