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Lecture and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2019 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 7 Lecture 1 Course overview; Galaxy Collision: Final projects Lab 1: Lab overview; workflow of Assignments
January 9 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics and its numerical methods  
January 14 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential Lab 2: software: unix (OS X), Python, gcc, gnuplot
January 16 Lecture 4 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation I.
January 21 no lecture MKL holiday
January 23 Lecture 5 Boltzmann Equation II. and Plummer's model
January 28 Lecture 6 Plummer's spherical model II. Lab 3: guidelines and discussion for Assigment II
Januar 30 Lecture 7 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models
February 4 Lecture 8 Galaxy modeling II: Isothermal models contd. Lab 4: Aarseth's N-body code
February 6 Lecture 9 Orbits in sherical potential and virial theorem
February 11 Lecture 10 Monte Carlo realization of f(r,v) Lab 5: Assignment III
February 13 Lecture 11 Aarseth and GPU; Midterm/Final team projects  
February 18 no lecture President's day
February 20 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling and Milky Way I.
February 25 Lecture 13Galaxy modeling and Milky Way II. Lab 6:GPU computing; Midterm projects; Galactics software
February 27 Lecture 14 Treecode with particle-cell interactions I.
March 4 Lecture 15 Treecode with particle-cell interactions II. Lab 7: Galactics/Treecode packages
March 6 Lecture 16 Treecode with cell-cell interactions: GyrfalcON
March 11 Lecture 17 Midterm team presentations Lab 8: Midterm presentations; Galactics and GyrfalcON
March 13 Lecture 18 Final project discussion and consulting with the teams
March 22 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Team presentations of Final projects