Workshop III: Relativistic Astrophysics

May 2 - 6, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 2, 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
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 3, 2005

Morning Session

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

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

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30
Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

The Computational Challenge of Modeling the Explosion of Massive Stars

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:15
Andrew MacFadyen (Institute for Advanced Study)

Relativistic AMR Simulations of GRBs


Wednesday, May 4, 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
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30
Lee Lindblom (California Institute of Technology)

Optimal Constraint Projection
PDF Presentation

2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00
Harald Pfeiffer (California Institute of Technology)

Binary black hole initial data
PDF Presentation

4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:15
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)

 
PDF Presentation

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

Thursday, May 5, 2005

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)

 

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

Friday, May 6, 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
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:00
Maria Hamilton (University of Pittsburgh)

Gravitational wave extraction using the Cauchy-characteristic method
PDF Presentation

2:00 - 2:10 Break
2:10 - 2:40
Melvin Leok (University of Michigan)

Towards Discrete Exterior Calculus and Discrete Mechanics for Numerical Relativity
PDF Presentation

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)