ET Workshop Summer 2013 (New Users Workshop)
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Summer Einstein Toolkit Workshop 2013
The users workshop is part of the CGWAS and will be held on the last day of the summer school (Friday). Currently the programme lists introduction to numerical relativity, an introduction to the ET and two hands-on sessions. The big hands-on session from last year was too technical and should be reworked if used at all. Instead we could consider running a very short head-on nsns run and analysing the data. The runs takes ~20min at a ridiculously low resolution, but might be sufficient to shows how it's done.
Spacetime Coordinates and Contact Information
The new users workshop is part of CGWAS and is held on the last day of the school (Friday).
Workshop email list: workshop@einsteintoolkit.org, emergencies: Frank Löffler (knarf@cct.lsu.edu, +1-225-202-1752) or Roland Haas (rhaas@tapir.caltech.edu, +1-404-386-3657)
List of Lecturers
Below are the ET volunteers who will be presenting or heading parts of the sessions.
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Roland Haas | Caltech | Introduction to the ET |
| Erik Schnetter | Perimeter Institute | Introduction to numerical relativity |
| Frank Löffler | LSU | Introduction to the ET |
| Joshua Faber | RIT | hands-on session |
| Steve Brandt | LSU | hands-on session |
Schedule
| Day | Time | Activity | Presenter / Responsible |
| Fri | 9:00-10:30 | Introduction to Numerical Relativity | Erik Schnetter |
| Fri | 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| Fri | 11:00-11:40 | Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit, Overview | Frank Löffler |
| Fri | 11:40-12:30 | Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit, Details | Roland Haas |
| Fri | 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| Fri | 14:00-14:20 | Introduction to hands-on environment: simfactory and installing VisIt | Steven Brandt |
| Fri | 14:20-14:40 | Introduction to hands-on Cactus thorn-writing | Roland Haas |
| Fri | 14:40-15:00 | Introduction to hands-on visualization within the Einstein Toolkit | Roland Haas |
| Fri | 15:00-15:30 | Break | |
| Fri | 15:30-17:30 | Hands-on, center of mass for analysis purposes (simple way) | everyone helping |
| Fri | 17:30-18:00 | Examples of ET production usage | Christian Reisswig |
Setup
- The virtual machine appliance for the workshop is available here and will run in virtualbox.
- A section of zwicky is reserved for the use of workshop participants.
- A public svn repo for any workshop material is available here: https://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/documents/Workshop_Summer_2013
Hands on exercises
| Activity |
| Running and extending (par-file) of two provided examples: perturbed, single BH, and perturbed, single TOV star |
| Hands-on: Using visualization tools to look at meaningful quantities ( TOV profile evolutions ) (slides) |
| Create movie of either BH+GW or TOV oscillations using VisIt (slides, TOV session file, TOV data file, Psi4 session file, Psi4 data file) |
| Hands-on: Implement your own thorn (neutron star tracking), and visualize it, in teams of about 5 people (http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~pmoesta/handson_analysis.pdf), more information at end of wiki |
