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Lectures and workshops

Lectures are on Wednesdays from 24 September to 11 December (Except 5 November):

  • from 11:00 to 12:45 (lecture)
  • from 13:15 to 16:00 (practicum)
  • Papers for the weekly discussions can be found here.
  • If needed for your project, you can get an ALICE account by sending e-mail.
Date Time Room
Wed 24 Sept 11:00 - 12:45 BE.0.17
Wed 1 Oct 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.31
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Thu 2 Oct 11:00 - 11:45 Colloquium
Wed 8 Oct 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.19
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Thu 9 Oct 11:00 - 11:45 Colloquium
Wed 15 Oct 11:00 - 12:45 EM.1.09
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Thu 16 Oct 11:00 - 11:45 Colloquium
Wed 22 Oct 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.31
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Wed 29 Oct 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.31
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Thu 30 Oct 11:00 - 11:45 Colloquium
Wed 12 Nov 11:00 - 12:45 EM.1.09
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Thu 13 Nov 11:00 - 11:45 Colloquium
Wed 19 Nov 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.07
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Thu 20 Nov 11:00 - 11:45 Colloquium cancelled
Wed 26 Nov CANCELLED CANCELLED
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Wed 3 Dec 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.07
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Wed 10 Dec 11:00 - 12:45 BW.0.07
13:15 - 16:00 DM.1.19
Fri 12 Dec 13:15 - 16:00 BW.0.06
Wed 17 Dec 13:15 - 17:15 BW.0.07
17:15 - 17:30
Wed 28 Jan 17:15 - 17:30

Week 1 (24/09, BE 0.17): Introduction

  • Lecture Goals: Introduction of the course.
  • Homework:
    • Install AMUSE on your local station
    • Apply for an ALICE account.
    • Read chapters 1 of the AMUSE book.
    • Familiarise yourself with the Python coding conventions (PEP-8).

Week 2 (01/10, BW 0.31 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: Discuss the use of LLM in academic learning and research download here:
    • Xavier: For LLM
    • Lucia: Chair
    • Maria: Colloquium J. Gupta
    • Roberto: Against LLM
  • Tutorial Goals:
  • Colloquium: 02/10 Joyeeta Gupta: Sharing Our Earth: Focus on Climate (room)

Week 3 (08/10, BW 0.19 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: Discuss the time reversibility in the laws of physics download here:
    • Dhwanil: For time reversibility in gravity
    • Rik: Against time reversibility in gravity
    • Eirini: Colloquium Enrico di Teodoro
    • Carlotta: Chair
  • Tutorial/Homework:
  • Colloquium: 09/10 Enrico di Teodoro: Unveiling the cold outflow from the nucleus of the Milky Way (room)

Week 4 (15/10, EM 1.09 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: Initial conditions and the interpretation of results download here
  • Tutorial/Homework:
    • Kristen: Oort cloud Capture paper (Levison)
    • Bram: Oort cloud ecology III (Portegies Zwart)
    • Zuzanna: Colloquium Silvia Galli
    • Bora: Chair
    • Tutorial Notebooks:
      • Reach book chapter 3: Initial Conditions
  • Colloquium 16/10 Silvia Galli Cosmology from CMB observations of the South Pole Telescope SPT-3G (room)

Week 5 (22/10, BW 0.31 & DM 1.19):

Week 6 (29/10, BW 0.31 & DM 1.19):

Week 7 (12/11, EM 1.09 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: Discuss the difference between SPH and AMR download here:
    • Marc: Convergence of AMR and SPH simulations I. Hydrodynamical resolution and convergence tests (Hubber et al 2013)
    • Apostolos: Direct collapse to supermassive black hole seeds: comparing the AMR and SPH approaches (Luo et al. 2016)
    • Zoutong: colloquium by Ji Wang wj198414@gmail.com
    • Colby: Chair
  • Lecture Goals:
  • Homework:
  • Colloquium: 13/11 Ji Wang: Collage of Exoplanets on the Mass-Period Diagram (room)

Week 8 (19/11, BW 0.07 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: Computational radiative transfer download here:
    • Matt: Cosmological radiative transfer comparison project – II. The radiation-hydrodynamic tests (Iliev et al 2007)
    • Boyd: Solar atmosphere radiative transfer model comparison based on 3D MHD simulations (Haberreiter et al. 2021)
    • Jasper: Extra paper Three-dimensional unstructured grid generation via incremental insertion and local optimization (Barth et al. 1992).
    • Taotao: Chair
  • Tutorial Goals: Work on projects.
  • Homework:
  • Colloquium 20/11 canecelled

Week 9 (26/11, BW 0.30 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: CANCELLED
  • Tutorial Goals: Work on projects.
  • Homework:

Week 10 (03/12, BW 0.07 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals: Code coupling strategies

    • Chair: Noah
    • Gokdeniz: VENICE: A multi-scale operator-splitting algorithm for multi-physics simulations
    • Lorenzo: Time-dilation methods for extreme multiscale timestepping problems
    • Andrea Accelerating Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Multiple Time Step Integration and a Recalibrated Semiempirical QM/MM Hamiltonian

  • Tutorial Goals: Work on projects.

  • Homework:

Week 11.I (10/12, BW 0.07 & DM 1.19):

  • Lecture Goals:
  • Tutorial Goals: Work on projects.
  • Homework:

Week 12.II (12/12, BW 0.06):

  • Lecture Goals:
  • Tutorial Goals: Work on projects.
  • Homework:

Week 13 (17/12, BW 0.07):

  • Final presentations

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