Workshop IV: Transfer Phenomena

Part of the Long Program Grand Challenge Problems in Computational Astrophysics
May 16 - 20, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

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
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
Irene Gamba (University of Texas, Austin)

Deterministic solvers to Boltzmann-Poisson Dynamics
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
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
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
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
PDF Presentation

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
PDF Presentation
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

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
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
Adalbert Pauldrach (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)

Consistent Models of the Expanding Atmospheres of Hot Star
PDF Presentation
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
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00 Panel Discussion
12:00 - 12:30 Conclusion