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MUSE

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(City of Split)

PROGRAM

Most of the workshop will actually be dedicated to work: we plan to use 3/4 of the total time for writing and testing bits and pieces of software, needed to build up the MUSE framework for simulating dense stellar systems.

A significant fraction of the participants will be senior researchers, each one of them with years of experience in developing astrophysical simulation software. They include experts from most of the major centers in this area worldwide.

The majority of the participants will be junior researchers, graduate students as well as postdocs. The senior researchers will play the role of mentors for the junior researchers.

As far as the transfer of information and experience is concerned, the workshop will play the role of a summer school. However, unlike a traditional summer school format, our program will expose the students and postdocs to direct hands-on experience with an actual cutting-edge research project. Immediately after the workshop, the junior participants will be in a position to continue their research in the directions that they have picked up during the week in Split.

We expect that the workshop will lead to new international collaborations, with a lasting inpact on the astrophysics of dense stellar systems.

Preliminary Meeting Programme

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1st day (25.Aug):
9:30-10:00 Piet Hut
Welcome and introduction: overview of the workshop goals
10:00-11:00 Steve McMillan
History of MUSE
11:00-12:00 Breanndán Ó Nualláin
Overview of the MUSE project
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Peter Teuben
Introduction to MUSE ingredients: python, cvs/svn, fortran, c/c++ binding
15:00 - Discussion and formation of working groups

2nd day (26 Aug):
9:00-10:00 Simon Portegies Zwart
Introduction to the MUSE software environment
10:00 and after - Discussion and work in groups
15:00-15:30 Breanndán Ó Nualláin
Python programming for Astrophysicists

3rd day (27 Aug):
9:00 - Stephen Justham
Overview of a MUSE component: Stellar evolution
10:00 and after - Discussion and work in groups
15:00-15:30 Breanndán Ó Nualláin
Python programming for Astrophysicists

4th day (28 Aug):
9:00 - Douglas Heggie
Overview of a MUSE component: Stellar dynamics
12:00 - Free afternoon

5th day (29 Aug):
9:00 - Jamie Lombardi
Overview of a MUSE component: Hydrodynamics
10:00 and after - Discussion and work in groups
15:00-15:30 Breanndán Ó Nualláin
Python programming for Astrophysicists

6th day (30 Aug):
9:00 - Dejan Vinkovic
Overview of a MUSE component: Radiative transfer
10:00 and after - Discussion and work in groups
15:00-15:30 Breanndán Ó Nualláin
Python programming for Astrophysicists

7th day (31 Aug):
9:00 - Presentations of results of working groups Lunch
14:00 and after - Discussion and closing arguments
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