MODEST-8a in Heidelberg, Germany
School on Dynamics of Dense Stellar Systems and Gravitational Wave Generation, March 12-14, 2008
Held in connection with
Galactic and Stellar Dynamics in the Era of High Resolution Surveys, Strasbourg, France
The International Spring Meeting of
SF2A and
AG , March 16-20, 2008 (GSD2008)
Registration for MODEST-8a is now open! Other MODEST workshops and schools
Venue of the School:
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics (KIP) , Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120 Heidelberg, Tel.
+49 (0) 6221 549100, Seminar Room No. 2.403.
How to get to the KIP?
Airport Frankfurt - Heidelberg travel info
A Map of Campus (School Venue at KIP and Univ. Guest House)
Comment to map: blue line: bus no. 32: red line, footpath to University Guest House and Physics Institute (KIP),
located right next to 'Mensa'.
List of Registered Participants
Sponsored partly by:
DFG Sonderforschungsbereich
SFB439 Galaxies in the Young Universe
DFG
Priority Programme 1177
Witnesses of Cosmic History: Formation and Evolution of black holes,
galaxies and their environment
LISA Germany project (funded by DLR)
Program of the School on
Dense Stellar Systems and Gravitational Wave Generation :
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Wednesday March 12, 14:00:
David Merritt, Rochester Inst. of Technology, NY, USA
Dynamics of Galaxies with black holes. David Merritt Lecture (pdf File 49 MB) -
Thursday March 13, 9:00:
Matt Benacquista, Univ. of Texas at Brownsville, TX, USA
Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects and Binary Stars in the Galaxy and in Star Clusters.
Matt Benacquista Lecture 1 (pdf File 2MB) ; Lecture 2 (pdf File 5MB)
Useful routines ; Help for RK4
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Thursday March 13, 15:00:
Avetis Sadoyan, Yerevan State Univ., Armenia
Gravitational Waves from isolated superdense celestial bodies, or Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei, the Byurakan Approach.
Lecture Slides (pdf, 2.4 MB) -
Friday March 14, 9:00:
Avetis Sadoyan Continuation of Exercises -
Friday March 14, 10:00:
Sverre Aarseth, Inst. of Astronomy, Cambridge, England, UK
The Art of Direct N-Body Models
Links to Talk Slides (pdf Files): 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 -
Friday March 14, 15:00:
Rainer Spurzem, Astron. Rechen-Inst., ZAH, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany
How to use massively parallel supercomputers, grids and game cards for NBODY6++?
How to deal with black holes, relativistic dynamics, gravitational waves?
How to deal with long-term integrations of planets, planetesimals, planet formation, in NBODY6++?
Lecture Slides (pdf, 7 MB) (including exercises at the end) -
Friday March 14, 20:00 ...
Social Gathering at Building Weberstrasse 13, 69120 Heidelberg, of ARI ( note this is one block away from ARI main building, see Map ). Some drink will be provided and pizza will be ordered.
General Information:
Morning Sessions usually last from 9:00 - 13:00 (Friday 10:00 - 13:00), afternoon sessions 15:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday: 14-18, Friday 15-18). The lecturers are free to divide their time between lecture and exercise. Additional exercise time will be provided according to demand 19-22.
WLAN connection and video projector will be available.
Lectures may be accompanied by some exercise material.
On Friday there will be a social gathering.
LOC and Contact Information:
The MODEST-8a team members at ARI-ZAH Heidelberg are Jonathan M.B. Downing, Andreas Ernst, Jose Fiestas, Miguel Preto and Rainer Spurzem.
Please send inquiries to modest8a@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
For information on accomodation please follow the link to our
list of hotels.
GSD2008
During March 16-21, 2008, there will be a related international spring meeting in Strasbourg, France on 'Galactic and Stellar Dynamics in the Era of High Resolution Surveys' (GSD2008). Strasbourg and Heidelberg are close to each other, and the local organisation of MODEST 8a and GSD2008 are both chaired by Christian Boily (U Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, cmb@newb6.u-strasbg.fr) and Rainer Spurzem (Univ. of Heidelberg, spurzem@ari.uni-heidelberg.de). Please check the link to GSD2008. We want to encourage participants to attend both MODEST 8a and GSD2008.
This school takes place within the RSDN (Rhine Stellar Dynamics Network).
Rainer Spurzem and Christian Boily
Please note that the planned 5th HoLi Workshop in Heidelberg has been postponed so there will be ample time to move to GSD2008 in Strasbourg over the weekend March 15-16.
