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Winter 2020 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 7 Lecture 1 Course overview; Galaxy Collision: Final projects Lab 1: Programmin toolkit for HW and Midterm/Final
January 9 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics and its numerical methods  
January 14 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential Lab 2: Programmin toolkit cont. and Assignment I
January 16 Lecture 4 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation I.
January 21 Lecture 5 Boltzmann Equation II. Lab 3: CBE tutorial and Assignment II discussion
January 23 Lecture 6 Plummer's spherical model I.
January 28 Lecture 7 Plummer's spherical model II. Lab 4: Assignment II Aarseth's N-body code
Januar 30 Lecture 8 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models
February 4 Lecture 9 Galaxy modeling II: Isothermal models contd. Lab 5: Assignment III
February 6 Lecture 10 Jeans equations and virial theorem I.
February 11 Lecture 11 Jeans equations and virial theorem II. Lab 6: Assign. III cont.; CBE Monte Carlo
February 13 Lecture 12 Monte Carlo realization of f(r,v,t) based galaxy collisons (Plummer model example)  
February 18 Lecture 13 Midterm/Final team projects Lab 7 : Midterm/Final cont.
February 20 Lecture 14

Midterm/Final cont.

Galaxy modeling I.
February 25 Lecture 15 Galaxy modeling II. Lab 8 :Midterm projects; Galactics software; Treecode
February 27 Lecture 16 Treecode with particle-cell interactions I.
March 3 Lecture 17 Treecode with particle-cell interactions II. Lab 9: Galactics, Treecode, GyrfalcON; Team discussions
March 5 Lecture 18 Treecode with cell-cell interactions: GyrfalcON
March 10 Lecture 19 Midterm team presentations Lab 10: Team presentations cont.
March 12 Lecture 20 Final project discussion and consulting with the teams
March 20 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Team presentations of Final projects