Programme

A series of meetings will take place at ISSI, Bern headquarters ; these will have the scope of workshops regrouped around thematic discussions with keynote presentations and work sessions.

Meeting Number 2: Monday 9 July to Thursday, 12 July 2018 

Core Members in Attendance / [ dates in brackets; whole meeting if not stated ]

 Baumgardt, Berczik, Boily, Giersz,  Kouwenhoven, Mapelli, Portegies Zwart

(Excused: Renaud ➟ subs. Abbas Askar (Lund); Charbonnel, Goodwin, Krause)

External Experts in Attendance / [ dates ]

Mario Spera, R. Spurzem ➟ subs. Long Wang (Bonn)

Sponsored Young Researchers

Manuel Arca Sedda (Heidelberg), Long Wang (Bonn), Nicola Giacobbo (Padova)

Detailed programme [version 07.07.18]

Monday 9 July

11h00-12h00  Travel, registration, paper work

– required: bank account details [IBAN, ..] 

lunch break

14h00-14h15 Christian Boily ++

Welcome, review of global objectives, work plan

14h15-15h00  Topical discussion no 1: stellar formation and gas fragementation, B-fields

:: Forming tight-binaries vs mergers, discussion of recent ALMA data

:: (CMF), ..   :::

Coffee break / pause

15h30-18h00 Splinter work session: IMF, Initial conditions / binary pops

[top floor, rooms 1,2 & 3]

Tuesday 10 July

9h00-10h00   TD no 2: Stellar evolution – updates, strategy for progress

:: SSE codes, BSE codes / libraries; pre-MS tracks, libraries (e.g., S[e]ven)

Coffee break / pause

10h30-12h00  Splinter work session: Stellar tracks, nbody codes / embedding: nb6,  MOCCA

Lunch break

14h00-16h00 Splinter work session: as before, continued

Coffee break / pause

16h30-18h00  TD no 3:  Stellar libraries, coding / progress report .. [group discussion]

Wednesday 11 July

9h00-10h00  TD no 4: Cluster formation context, galaxy merger: IMF, exotic remnants in Nuclei

:: Embedding stellar pops, merger rates of SMBH’s ..

 

Coffee break

10h30-12h00 Splinter work sessions: Galaxy modelling -> ICs, SMBH’s, libraries / coding

Lunch break

14h00-16h00  Splinter work sessions (cont’d)

Coffee break / pause

16h30-18h00 TD no 5 on-line data and models, how to share

:: data bases, GITHUB et al., other model data e.g. stellar tracks, ..

 

Thursday 12 July

09h00-10h30  Topical discussion no 6: The formation of massive stars / remnants at high-z

:: Discussion of multiple stellar populations, most-extreme massive stars (mems) ..

Coffee break

11h00-12h00 Splinter session

Lunch break

14h00-16h00  Work group : all participants, round up and strategy for results-harvesting

End of the meeting, ISSI premises remain open for further work etc


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Kick-off meeting, 13 – 17 November 2017  :

Detailed programme [version 12.11.17] 

Monday 13  November

10h00-12h00  Travel, registration, paper work – required: bank account details

lunch break

14h00-14h30 Christian Boily ++  Welcome, review of global objectives, work plan

14h30-16h00  TD no 1: Sources of gravitational waves, review /  prospects

Key participants: Boily, Berczik, Charbonnel,  Giersz, Portegies Zwart et al.

The origin of gravitational waves from stellar evolution,  stellar evolution in SSE, BSE ; Ligo / Virgo vs Lisa ; galaxy mergers / assembly ; dynamics.

Coffee break / pause

16h30-18h00 TD no 2: Computational tools, survey of: software, data

Key participants: Portegies Zwart, Berczik, Mapelli, Giersz, ..

SSE codes, BSE codes / libraries, integrators for gravity, hydro, radiation ;  on-line data bases, other model data e.g. stellar tracks, ..

Tuesday 14 November

9h00-10h00    TD no 3: Stellar dynamics, dense, isolated systems , w/ stellar evolution

Key participants: Baumgardt, Giersz, Berczik, Boily, Portegies Zwart, Goodwin, Mapelli, …

Coffee break / pause

10h30-12h00  TD no 4: Stellar evolution, IMF, residual gas, self-enrichment, ..

Key participants:  Charbonnel, Krause, Goodwin, Mapelli

Lunch break

14h00-16h00  TD no 5: Stellar evolution (SSE), yields / environment, stellar remnants

Key participants: Charbonnel, Krause, Portegies Zwart, Giersz

Coffee break / pause

16h30-18h00  TD no 6: Binary stars, mass transfer ..

Key participants: Mapelli, Krause, SPZ, Goodwin, [Kouwenhoven] ..

Wednesday 15 November

9h00-10h00  TD no 7: Galaxy nuclei, embedding, possible mass in- out-flow, mergers, ..

Key participants: Berczik, Baumgardt,  ..

Coffee break

10h30-12h00  TD no 8:  Dynamics with IMBH, with SMBH, methods & performances

Key participants: all, requires coordination

Lunch break

14h00-16h00  Work session no 1: splinter groups

Coffee break / pause

16h30-18h00 Work session no 1: continued / end

Thursday 16 November

9h00-10h00   Topical discussion no 9: First set of problems, problem solving / strategy

Key participants: all, based on previous day’s afternoon session

Coffee break / pause

10h30-12h00  Topical discussion no 10: SMBH binaries, merger, natal kicks, stellar pops, ..

Key participants: L. Mayer, P. Berczik, [F. Renaud]

Lunch break

14h00-16h00  Topical discussion no 11: Second set of problems, problem solving

Key participants: all, requires coordination

Coffee break / pause

16h30-18h00 Work session no 2: splinter groups

Friday 17 November

9h00-10h00    Reports on Work sessions from day before, discussions

Key participants: all

Coffee break / pause

10h30-12h00  Summary of discussions, work plan & expectations

Key participants: all

End of Workshop no 1. ISSI premises remain open for further work etc.