*Please note that this schedule is tentative and is subject to change.
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Meals, Breaks and Evening Activities |
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Science Talks |
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Computational Talks |
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Homework/Tutorial Sessions |
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Optional Focus Sessions |
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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 |
"Numerical Methods for Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamics" by Stone |
"#MCF: The physics of magnetic confinement in 180 minutes (part 1)" by Barnes |
"Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics II" by Quataert |
"Numerical relativity: magnetohydrodynamics" by Lehner |
| 10:45 - 11:15 am | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 11:15 am - 12:45 pm |
"Visualization Analysis and Design I " by Munzner |
"Introduction to Plasma Physics II: Kinetics" by Kunz |
"Numerical relativity: dynamical spacetimes and matter dynamics" by Lehner |
"Kinetic plasma simulations with the Particle-in-Cell Method I" by Spitkovsky |
"#MCF: The physics of magnetic confinement in 180 minutes (part 2)" by Barnes |
| 12:45 - 2:15 pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:15 - 3:45 pm |
"Visualization Analysis and Design II" by Munzner |
"Introduction to Plasma Astrophysics I" by Quataert |
"Visualization in the News" |
"Black hole magnetospheres" by Tchekhovskoy |
Tutorial/Homework Session with Barnes |
| 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 |
Tutorial/Homework Session with Stone |
Exercise Activity with Ericson |
"Optimizing for Intel's Knights Landing and Other HPC Architectures" by Finkel |
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 |
"Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyerbolic PDEs: 1" by Zanotti |
"Numerical Methods for Radiation Hydrodynamics" by Stone |
"Applications of the PIC methods to astrophysical plasmas" by Spitkovsky |
"Cosmic Rays 2" by Zweibel |
| 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 |
"Cosmic Rays 1" by Zweibel |
"Relativistic Magnetohydrodyamics" by Gammie |
"Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Hyperbolic PDEs: 2" by Zanotti |
"Software engineering 2" by Lupton |
| 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 |
"The disk-jet connection" by Tchekhovskoy |
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 |
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 |


