ET Workshop Spring 2011

Welcome to the Einstein Toolkit Spring workshop

This workshop is focussed on improving the hydrodynamics of the ET: GRHydro.

Program

Tue 04/26

14:00 - 17:00 First Session

- Welcome, introductions (lead: Ott)

- Setting goals for the workshop (lead: Ott)

- Status of the EinsteinToolkit and the EinsteinToolkit paper (lead: Loeffler)

- Status of the CIGR project (discussion, lead: Schnetter, Ott)

- Goals for ET and CIGR in the next 3 months

- Status report: MHD (Faber, Mundim)

- Status report: Microphysics and EOS (Ott)

- Status report: Refluxing (Schnetter)

- Status report: BHNS initial data project (Haas, Loeffler, Mundim, Bode)

- Status of other projects within CIGR/ET (anybody doing anything related)

Wed 04/27

09:00 - 12:00 Hands on coding/testing 1 (TBD)

14:00 - 15:00 An overview of the Caltech-Cornell-CITA-WSU code SpEC (Szylagyi)

15:00 - 17:00 Hands on coding/testing 2 (TBD)

19:00 Workshop dinner (TBD)

Thu 04/28

09:00 - 12:00 Hands on coding/testing 3 (TBD)

14:00 - 15:00 2 30 min Science talks (practice for APS? TBD)

15:00 - 17:00 Hands on coding/testing 4 (TBD)

Fri 04/29

09:00 - 11:00 Hands on coding/testing 5 (TBD)

11:00 - 11:30 Closing discussion (lead: Ott)

Location in Space and Time

The ET Spring workshop will be held from Tue, 04/26/11 (morning; official start 2pm afternoon) - Fri, 04/29/11 (morning) at the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Caltech and is organized by TAPIR. The meeting will be in room Cahill 273.

Registration

Please send an email to reisswig@tapir.caltech.edu for registration.

Accommodation

You are responsible for arranging your accommodation. We recommend the Saga Motor Hotel or the Vagabond Inn, which are both within walking distance to Caltech. Please request the special Caltech rate. This cannot be done online and must be booked by calling.

Saga Motor Hotel

1635 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106

Phone: 626-795-0431

Caltech rate: $77+tax (single occupancy)

Vagabond Inn

1203 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106

Phone: 626-449-3170

Caltech rate: $79+tax (1-2 people)

From LAX to Pasadena

There are many possible ways of getting from the airport to Pasadena:

- Taxi (~$100)

- Super Shuttle (~$40)

- FlyAway Bus + Metro Gold Line (~$9 in total)

At any terminal at LAX, you will find departure platforms for all of the above transportation systems just outside the terminals.

The FlyAway Bus + Metro is usually very convenient. To get on it, just wait by the blue sign that says "FlyAway Busses". Wait until a FlyAway Bus with sign "Union Station" arrives (it departs every ~30min). Jump on it and go until Union Station (its only and final destination). You pay $7 upon arrival (they have change if you don't exactly have $7). At Union Station, go to the platform that says "Metro Gold Line". Pay $1.50 at the ticket machine (one way ticket). Take the Metro Gold Line (direction "Sierra Madre Station") and exit at "Lake Station" or "Allen Station" (best for the Saga Motor Hotel). Check out google maps for further info. Here's a link to Metro Gold Line, including a link to this trip planer (it also knows about FlyAway busses).

Additional Information

There will be coffee & pastries in the morning and afternoon. Unfortunately, we will not be able to provide or pay for lunch/dinner.

List of participants

Frank Loeffler

Roland Haas

Jose Manuel Torres Chavez

Maria C. Babiuc-Hamilton

Erik Schnetter

Bruno Coutinho Mundim

Tanja Bode

Joshua Faber

Evan O'Connor

Christian Ott

Peter Kalmus

Christian Reisswig

Ernazar Abdikamalov

Bela Szilagyi

Peter Diener