Program Schedule

*Please note that this schedule is tentative and is subject to change.

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Meals, Breaks and Evening Activities

 

Science Talks

 

Computational Talks

 

Homework/Tutorial Sessions

 

Optional Focus Sessions

 

Lightning Talks 

Week #1 - July 18th - 22nd

  Monday, July 18th Tuesday, July 19th Wednesday, July 20th Thursday, July 21st Friday, July 22nd
8:00 -  9:00 am Registration/Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9:00 -  9:15 am Welcome
9:15 - 10:45 am

"Introduction to Plasma Physics I: Magnetohydrodynamics" by Kunz

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"Numerical Methods for Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamics" by Stone

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"#MCF: The physics of magnetic confinement in 180 minutes (part 1)" by Barnes

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"Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics II" by Quataert

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"Numerical relativity: magnetohydrodynamics" by Lehner

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10:45 - 11:15 am Break Break Break Break Break
11:15 am - 12:45 pm

"Visualization Analysis and Design I " by Munzner

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"Introduction to Plasma Physics II: Kinetics" by Kunz

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"Numerical relativity: dynamical spacetimes and matter dynamics" by Lehner

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Video

"Kinetic plasma simulations with the Particle-in-Cell Method I" by Spitkovsky

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"#MCF: The physics of magnetic confinement in 180 minutes (part 2)" by Barnes

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12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:15 - 3:45 pm

"Visualization Analysis and Design II" by Munzner

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"Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics I" by Quataert

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"Visualization in the News"
by Ericson

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"Black hole magnetospheres" by Tchekhovskoy

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Tutorial/Homework Session with Barnes

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3:45 -  4:15 pm Break Break Break Break Break
4:15 -  5:45 pm

"yt: A Python-based Framework for Visualization and Analysis of Physical Simulations" by ZuHone

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Tutorial/Homework Session with Stone

Exercise Activity with Ericson

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"Optimizing for Intel's Knights Landing and Other HPC Architectures" by Finkel

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Tutorial/Homework Session with Lehner
Evening Events Welcome Dinner

Optional Focus Session (8:00 - 9:30 pm) 

Peyton Hall Auditorium, Princeton University

Optional Focus Session       (8:00 - 9:30 pm) 

Peyton Hall Auditorium, Princeton University

Optional Focus Session        (8:00 - 9:30 pm) 

Peyton Hall Auditorium, Princeton University

Optional Focus Session  (8:00 - 9:30 pm) 

Peyton Hall Auditorium, Princeton University

 

Week #2 - July 25th - 29th

 

  Monday, July 25th Tuesday, July 26th Wednesday, July 27th Thursday, July 28th Friday, July 29th
8:00 -   9:15 am Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
 
9:15 - 10:45 am

"Astrophysics of accretion disks" by Gammie

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"Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyerbolic PDEs: 1" by Zanotti

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"Numerical Methods for Radiation Hydrodynamics" by Stone

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"Applications of the PIC methods to astrophysical plasmas" by Spitkovsky

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"Cosmic Rays 2" by Zweibel

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10:45 - 11:15 am Break Break Break Break Break
11:15 am - 12:45 pm

"Kinetic plasma simulations with the Particle-in-Cell methods II" by Spitkovsky

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"Cosmic Rays 1" by Zweibel

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Video

"Relativistic Magnetohydrodyamics" by Gammie

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Video

"Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Hyperbolic PDEs: 2" by Zanotti

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"Software engineering 2" by Lupton

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Video

12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:15 -   3:45 pm Tutorial/Homework Session with Spitkovsky

"Software enginyeering 1" by Lupton

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"The disk-jet connection" by Tchekhovskoy

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Tutorial/Homework Session with Zanotti (PROGRAM ENDS WITH LUNCH)
3:45 -   4:15 pm Break Break Break Break
4:15 -   5:45 pm Tutorial/Homework Session with Gammie Tutorial/Homework  Session with Tchekhovskoy

"Star formation and 'feedback'" by Ostriker

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Lightning Talks by Participants

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Evening Events

Optional Focus Session  (8:00 - 9:30 pm) 

Peyton Hall Auditorium, Princeton University

Pool Party

Optional Focus Session  (8:00 - 9:30 pm) 

Peyton Hall Auditorium, Princeton University

Trenton Thunder Baseball Game  

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Participating Institutions