BIRS WORKSHOP ON NUMERICAL RELATIVITY: APRIL 16-21 2005

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NEWS

April 17, 4:00 PM MDT

All speakers, poster presenters etc. are requested to send electronic versions of their presentations  to Matt Choptuik at any time (the sooner the better!), so that they can be linked into this page.

SCHEDULE

SUNDAY APRIL 17

7:00a-8:45a
Breakfast
8:45a-9:00a
Brenda Shakotko, BIRS, Welcome and Introduction to BIRS
9:00a-9:50a
Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota; Introduction to the Einstein Field Equations [PDF1 & PDF2]
9:50a-10:10a
DIscussion
10:10a-10:30a
Coffee and Discussion
10:30a-11:20a
Matt Choptuik, University of British Columbia; Survey of numerical approximations of black hole spacetimes [PDF | PS]
11:20a-11:40a
Discussion
11:40a-3:00p
Lunch, Free Time, Guided Tour of BIRS: Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30a
1:00-2:00p
GUIDED TOUR OF BIRS!
3:00p-3:30p
Thomas Baumgarte, Bowdoin College; Survey of neutron star simulations in NR [PDF]
3:30p-3:45p
Coffee and Discussion
3:45p-4:15p
Eric Hirschmann, Brigham Young University; Black hole "no-hair" theorems and numerical relativity [PDF | PS]
4:15p-4:30p
Discussion
4:30p-4:45p
Break
4:45p-5:15p
David Garfinkle, Oakland University; Numerical simulations of gravitational singularities [PPT | PDF]
5:15p-5:30p
Discussion
5:30p-7:30p
Buffet Dinner (5:30-7:30) and Free Time

MONDAY APRIL 18

7:00a-9:00a
Breakfast
9:00a-9:30a
Oscar Reula, University of Cordoba; On strong hyperbolicity of Einstein's equations [PDF]
9:30a-9:45a
Discussion
9:45a-10:15a
Olivier Sarbach, Caltech; Boundary conditions for Einstein's equations [PDF]
10:15a-10:30a
Discussion
10:30a-10:45a
Coffee Break
10:45a-11:15a
Carsten Gundlach, University of Southampton; Hyperbolicity of second order systems [PDF]
11:15a-11:30a
Discussio
11:30a-11:45a
GROUP PHOTO!
11:45a-2:45p
Break; Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30p
2:45p-3:00p
Coffee Break
3:00p-3:50p
Heinz Kreiss, KTH; Difference approximations for second order hyperbolic systems [PDF]
3:50p-4:10p
Discussion
4:10p-5:00p
Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland; Detection, reconstruction and approximate evolution of piecewise smooth solutions [PDF]
5:00p-5:20p
Discussion
5:20p-7:30p
Buffet Dinner (5:30-7:30) and Free Time
7:30p-9:00p
Poster Session

TUESDAY APRIL 19

7:00a-9:00a
Breakfast
9:00a-9:30a
Jeff Winicour, University of Pittsburgh; A model black hole excision problem [PDF]
9:30a-9:45a
Discussion
9:45a-10:15a
Frans Pretorius, Caltech; Toward binary black hole simulations in numerical relativity [PPT | PDF | PDF/MPEGs]
10:15a-10:30a
Discussion
10:30a-10:45a
Coffee Break
10:45a-11:15a
Manuel Tiglio, Louisiana State University; High order methods for multi-block evolutions in numerical relativity [PPT | PDF | PDF/MPEGs]
11:15a-11:30a
Discussion
11:30a-3:45p
Break; Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30pm
3:45p-4:00p
Coffee Break
4:00p-4:30p
Michael Holst, UC San Diego; Finite element methods in numerical relativity [PDF]
4:30p-4:45p
Discussion
4:45p-5:15p
Richard Falk, Rutgers University; Finite element methods for hyperbolic systems [PDF]
5:15p-5:30p
Discussion
5:30p-7:30p
Break; Buffet Dinner from 5:30p-7:30p

WEDNESDAY APRIL 20


7:00a-9:00a
Breakfast
9:00a-9:30a
Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University - Caulmet; Constraint preserving boundary conditions in NR [PDF]
9:30a-9:45a
Discussion
9:45a-10:15a
Alexander Alekseenko, Cal State Northridge; Constrained evolution and differential boundary conditions [PDF]
10:15a-10:30a
Discussion
10:30a-10:45a
Break
10:45a-11:15a
Helmut Friedrich, AEI, Potsdam; Problems of calculating wave signals which characterize isolated systems [PDF]
11:15a-11:30a
Discussion
11:30a-1:30p
Buffet Lunch from 11:30a-1:30p
1:30p-5:30p
FREE AFTERNOON!! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT!!
5:30p-7:30p
Buffet DInner
7:30p-8:00p
Ralf Hiptmair, ETH Zurich; Conservative discretization of Einstein-Dirac equations in spherical symmetry [PDF]
8:00p-8:15p
Discussion
8:15p-8:45p
Snorre Chistiansen, University of Oslo; On constraint preservation in numerical simulations of Yang-Mills equations [PDF]

THURSDAY APRIL 21

7:00a-9:00a
Breakfast
10:15a-10:30a
Coffee Break
12:00 NOON
CHECK OUT (i.e. please be checked out by 12:00 Noon)
11:30a-1:30p
Buffet Lunch

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL