Workshop III: Relativistic Astrophysics - IPAM

Workshop III: Relativistic Astrophysics

Part of the Long Program Grand Challenge Problems in Computational Astrophysics
May 2 - 6, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 2, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
Joan Centrella (NASA)
Gravitational Wave Science: Challenges for Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics
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
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Many directions to a black hole
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00
David Meier (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Trends in Numerical Relativistic Astrophysics
16:00-16:15
Break
16:15-17:15
Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)
Improved simulations of relativistic stellar core collapse
17:15-19:15
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Jerome Novak (Observatoire de Paris)
Fully-constrained formulation of Einstein's field equations using Dirac gauge
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Luciano Rezzolla (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
3D collapse to rotating black holes: dynamics of matter, trapped surfaces and gravitational radiation
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Anthony Mezzacappa (University of Tennessee)
The Computational Challenge of Modeling the Explosion of Massive Stars
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00
Miguel-Angel Aloy (University of Valencia)
General relativistic simulations of post-neutron star mergers as progenitors of short Gamma-ray bursts
16:00-16:15
Break
16:15-17:15
Andrew MacFadyen (Institute for Advanced Study)
Relativistic AMR Simulations of GRBs

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Lee Lindblom (California Institute of Technology)
Optimal Constraint Projection
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00
Harald Pfeiffer (Max Planck Institute für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Binary black hole initial data
16:00-16:15
Break
16:15-17:15
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)
Title not available
17:15-19:15
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, May 5, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Matthew Choptuik (University of British Columbia)
Title not available
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
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Tsvi Piran (Hebrew University)
Numerical Studies of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions.
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00
Masaru Shibata (Kyoto University)
Merger of binary neutron stars with realistic equations of state

Friday, May 6, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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?
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:00
Maria Hamilton (Marshall University)
Gravitational wave extraction using the Cauchy-characteristic method
14:00-14:10
Break
14:10-14:40
Melvin Leok (University of Michigan)
Towards Discrete Exterior Calculus and Discrete Mechanics for Numerical Relativity
14:40-14:50
Break
14:50-15:20
Jian Tao (Washington University in St. Louis)
Binary NS evolution with AMR
15:20-15:30
Break
15:30-16:00
P. Chris Fragile (College of Charleston)
Relativistic MHD on Unstructured Grids with Local Adaptive Refinement
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