ET Workshop 2017 at NCSA

Agenda

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Schedule

School

3 days

Discussion starter for program

Day 1 (8am-6pm)

• computer setup
• welcome
• lecture and hands-on exercises: numerical methods
• lecture and hands-on exercises: Einstein Toolkit
• dinner (not paid for)

Day 2 (9am-6pm)

• lecture and hands-on exercises: numerical relativity, numerical hydrodynamics
• hands-on exercises: Einstein Toolkit

Day 3 (9am-6pm)

• lecture and hands-on exercise: visualization (likely with VisIt)
• lecture and hands-on exercise: using the Einstein Toolkit in LIGO
• Blue Waters tour

time	lecturer	topic	notes
0:00 – 23:59	Albert Einstein	Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation	electronic version

Workshop

2 days

Contributed talks will be between 30+15 minutes and 15+5 minutes depending on number of submitted talks. Lightning talks will be 5+5 minutes and have to be requested during the workshop. Focused discussion sessions will be moderated by a moderator, have a topic that is announced in advance and should not last longer than 45 minutes.

Discussion starter program

Day 1 (9am-6pm)

• current status of the Einstein Toolkit
• contributed talks
• focused discussion
• lightning talks
• best practises on supercomputers

Day 2 (9am-6pm)

• future of the Einstein Toolkit
• lightning talks
• informal meetings
• less focused discussion

Suggestions

• non-Cactus codes in the Einstein toolkit
• initial data generation
• scalability issues
• engaging new ET users

scientific organization committee (so far)

• Bhavesh Khamesra
• Eloisa Bentivegna
• Erik Schnetter
• Ian Hinder
• Roland Haas
• Vassilios Mewes

• Eliu Huerta
• Frank Löffler
• Gabrielle Allen