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Workshop IV: Transfer Phenomena

May 16 - 20, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, May 16, 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

Christian Ringhofer (Arizona State University)

"Entropy Based Discretization Methods for the Boltzmann Equations and Quantum Mechanical Corrections"

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

Irene Gamba (University of Texas, Austin)

"Deterministic solvers to Boltzmann-Poisson Dynamics"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Jim Morel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Non-Relativistic Stellar Regime"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Edward Larsen (University of Michigan)

"Particle Transport in 1-D Stochastic Diffusive Media"

4:30 - 5:30

James Warsa (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Krylov Methods for Transport Applications"

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

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Morning Session

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

Donald Batchelor (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"Mechanisms of transport in fusion plasmas and approaches to fusion simulation "

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

Randy Jokipii (University of Arizona)

"Transport of Cosmic Rays in Turbulent Astrophysical Plasmas"

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Marvin Adams (Texas A&M University)

"Modern Methods for Nuclear Reactor Analysis"

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

Matthias Liebendorfer (University of Toronto/CITA)

"Neutrino transport near compact objects"
Presentation (PDF File)


Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Morning Session

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

David Levermore (University of Maryland)

"Transition Regime Models for Radiative Transport"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Louis Howell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Radiation Transport and Diffusion"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Juergen Steinacker (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

"The Challenge of Radiative Transfer in Star Formation Regions"

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

Sebastian Wolf (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

""Polarization and Self-Consistent Radiative Transfer in Dusty Media:The Monte-Carlo Approach""


Thursday, May 19, 2005

Morning Session

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

William Watson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Astrophysical Maser Radiation"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Adalbert Pauldrach (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)

"Consistent Models of the Expanding Atmospheres of Hot Star "
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Peter Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

"1-D Spectrum Synthesis and Supernovae"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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

Roberto Casini (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

"Scattering polarization in the solar atmosphere"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Friday, May 20, 2005

Morning Session

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

Tom Abel (Stanford University)

"Radiative Transfer in Early Structure Formation"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Peter Hoeflich (University of Texas)

"Methods of Radiation Hydrodynamics for Rapidly Expanding Atmospheres and their 3D Signatures"

11:30 - 12:00 Open Discussion
12:00 - 12:30 Conclusion

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