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Lecture and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2016 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 9 Lecture 1 The N-body problem and Galaxy Collisions Lab 1: Lab and Unix platform
January 11 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics and its numerical methods  
January 18 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I.  
January 23 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II. Lab 2: Gnuplot, gcc, gfortran
January 25 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation I.  
January 30 Lecture 6 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation II. Lab 3: Assignment II.
February 1 Lecture 7 Plummer's spherical model  
February 6 Lecture 8 Review of Boltzamnn eq. based galaxy collisons
 Lab 4: Aarseth's N-body code
February 8 Lecture 9 Aarseth's Nbody code  
February 13 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models Lab 5: Assignment III.
February 15 Lecture 11 Galaxy modeling II (Midterm and Final preview)  
February 22 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling III (Milky Way)  
February 27 GPU intro GPU computing: CUDA tutorial Lab 6: Galaxy software
March 1 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final project and Tree code  
March 6 Lecture 14 Tree code I. Lab 7: meeting with teams
March 8 Lecture 15 Tree code II. Gyrfalcon algorithm and code  
March 13 Lecture 16 Midterm presentations Lab 8: Presentations continue/gyrfalcON tests
March 15 Lecture 17 Final Project discussion  
March 24 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final projects with team presentations