Agenda Belfast 2015
The list of meeting participants is posted here.
Meeting room The workshop will be held at the Queen's University Belfast, Computer Suite (Room F024), Second Floor, Main Physics Building, School of Mathematics and Physics.
As we go along I will post material in folders below this ftp site. You should bookmark it for easy access.
A social agenda has been arranged by nice QUB people!
Before the meeting
Do your homework!
Each day will concentrate on a chapter of AGN3. Please review that chapter before the class.
Day 0 Sunday Jan 11
7PM no host reception, dinner at the Botanic Inn. This is one of the most famous of the local Queen's University student pubs.
Review AGN3 Chapters 1 and 2 for tomorrow
Day 1 Monday Jan 12, Chap 1, 2; Introduction, Photoionization Equilibrium
Class materials are posted in folders below this ftp site.
8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome by Prof Francis Keenan, discussion of social agenda, Janet Chen, visitation by Ted of School
9:20 - 9:45 Introduction to Cloudy
9:45 - 11:00 Introductory presentations
11:00 - 11:30 Break, top floor IRCEP area
11:30 - 12:30 Cloudy continues
12:30 - 14:00 lunch - excursion to Botanic Road area
14:00 - 15:00 Foundations continued, Cloudy on the web, setting up a simulation.
15:00 - 15:30 Break top floor IRCEP area
15:30- 16:30 An H II region simulation.
16:30 - 17:40 group activities
17:40 - 18:00 group summaries
Review AGN3 Chapter 3 for tomorrow
Day 2 Tuesday Jan 13, Chap 3; Thermal Equilibrium
8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building
Can you Spot Ted?
9:00 - 10:15 Heating and cooling
10:15 - 11:00 projects
11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area
11:30 - 12:30 AGN3
12:30 - 14:00 lunch (and projects)
14:00 - 15:00 computing cooling functions
15:00 - 15:30 break
15:30 - 16:45 computing cooling functions
16:45 - 17:30 group activities
17:30 - 18:00 group summaries
Review AGN3 Chapter 4 for tomorrow
Day 3 Wednesday Jan 14, Chap 4; Calculation of Emitted Spectrum
8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building
9:00 - 10:15 Emitted spectrum
10:15 - 11:00 projects
11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area
11:30 - 12:30 lecture
12:30 - 12:45 Group photo - Paul Woods
12:45 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 15:15 lecture
15:15 - 15:45 Break top floor IRCEP area
15:45- 16:45 lecture
16:45 - 17:40 group activities
17:40 - 18:00 group summaries
Review AGN3 Chapters 7 and 8 for tomorrow
Day 4 Thursday Jan 15, grains, stars, parallel processing, pyCloudy
8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building
9:00 - 11:00 Peter van Hoof, grain physics in Cloudy
11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area
11:30 - 12:30 group activities
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 15:15 Christophe Morisset pyCloudy, (PDF)
15:15 - 15:45 Break top floor IRCEP area
15:45 - 16:45 Complexity & Cloudy
16:15 - 17:45 group summaries
18:30 - Dinner at Scalini's restaurant
Please send in any questions or topics for discussion for tomorrow.
Day 5 Friday Jan 16
8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building
9:00 - 10:30 Miscellaneous: Stellar atmospheres, Cloudy output & options, Save continuum units, line profiles, velocity fields, fine&coarse continua, speeding up a calculation
10:30 - 11:00 projects
11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area
11:30 - 12:30 projects
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Summary from group leaving early
15:00 - 15:30 Break top floor IRCEP area
15:30- 16:30 group activities
16:30 - 17:00 summary of group activities
18:00 Workshop ends