Workshop IV: Transfer Phenomena - IPAM

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

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
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 at Austin)
Deterministic solvers to Boltzmann-Poisson Dynamics
11:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00
Jim Morel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Non-Relativistic Stellar Regime
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Edward Larsen (University of Michigan)
Particle Transport in 1-D Stochastic Diffusive Media
16:30-17:30
James Warsa (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Krylov Methods for Transport Applications
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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
11:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00
Marvin Adams (Texas A&M University - College Station)
Modern Methods for Nuclear Reactor Analysis
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Matthias Liebendorfer (University of Toronto/CITA)
Neutrino transport near compact objects

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
David Levermore (University of Maryland)
Transition Regime Models for Radiative Transport
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Louis Howell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Radiation Transport and Diffusion
11:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00
Juergen Steinacker (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie)
The Challenge of Radiative Transfer in Star Formation Regions
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Sebastian Wolf (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Polarization and Self-Consistent Radiative Transfer in Dusty Media:The Monte-Carlo Approach

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
William Watson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Astrophysical Maser Radiation
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Adalbert Pauldrach (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)
Consistent Models of the Expanding Atmospheres of Hot Star
11:30-14:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00
Peter Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
1-D Spectrum Synthesis and Supernovae
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Roberto Casini (National Center for Atmospheric Research/High Altitude Observatory)
Scattering polarization in the solar atmosphere
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