Workshop I: Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Part of the Long Program Grand Challenge Problems in Computational Astrophysics
April 4 - 9, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 4, 2005

Methodology

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Light 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.
PDF Presentation
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
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 5, 2005

Methodolgy Cont; Cosmology; Clusters

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Michael Norman (University of California at San Diego)

Cosmological Fluid Dynamics with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

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

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
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 6, 2005

AGN; Disks; Black Holes; Dynamos

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:30
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
4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 7, 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
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
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion

Friday, April 8, 2005

Disks; Turbulence; Supernovae

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
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 9, 2005

Supernovae;Weno Schemes; Space Wheather

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