Orion HST

Agenda 2012

Before the meeting

Do your homework!


During the workshop

We will meet from 9AM to 5:30PM on each of the class days. The meetings will be in Room B108a of the Young Library basement while breakfast and breaks will be in rooms on the ground floor.

You can use this print service to print documents in the library.

Day 0 Monday May 28

7PM no host reception, dinner at Pazzo's, a popular local pub and frequent astro hangout. A Google map showing how to walk from the dorms to Pazzo's is on the Transportation and Lodging page. We will start meeting in front of Pazzo's at 6:45PM and start seating at 7PM.

Homework for Day 1: Review Appendix 1, Chapters 1&2, of AGN3, and the Cloudy Quick Start Guide


Day 1 Tuesday May 29

A light breakfast and two coffee breaks are provided in rooms on the ground floor of the Library.

9:00 - 9:30 breakfast, Library Gallery

9:30 - 11:00 Foundations of photoionization equilibrium, AGN3 Chapters 1&2

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Gallery

11:30 - 12:30 Cloudy on the web, setting up a simulation. The input parameters, and main output

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

14:00-15:30 The helium ionization balance, the heavy elements stromgren length

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Gallery

16:00 - 17:15 Running Cloudy in simple cases. Plotting and analyzing the results

17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).

17:30 class ends

Homework for Day 2: AGN3 Chapter3, 4, &5, Appendix 4


Day 2 Wednesday May 30

Thermal equilibrium, the Stoy and Zanstra methods of determining the SED shape, measuring the abundances of the elements, cooling functions, & thermal stability

Running grids of simulations. Output options for grids of models. Running grids on parallel computers with MPI. Thermal equilibrium.

9:00 - 9:30 breakfast, Library Keeneland Room

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room

17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).

17:30 class ends

Homework for Day 3: AGN3 Chapter 7, 8, Appendix 6


Day 3 Thursday May 31

Beyond the hydrogen ionization front: atomic and molecular regions and associated dust and IR emission

Predictions of dust and molecular emission.

9:00 - 9:30 breakfast in Library, Library Gallery

9:30-10:30 Peter van Hoof, (Royal Observatory of Belgium), grain physics in Cloudy

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Gallery

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Gallery

17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).

17:30 class ends

Homework for Day 4: AGN3 Chapter 11


Day 4 Friday June 1

Active Galactic Nuclei, Starbursts, and the IGM, complex geometries, Cloudy 3D

Other Cloudy options and output

9:00 - 9:30 breakfast, Library Keeneland Room

10:00 - 11:00 Christophe Morisset, (UNAM, Mexico), Cloudy 3D discusion

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room

17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).

17:30 class ends