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Monday, June 20, 2011
Nuclear Equation of State

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
8:30 amRegistration Atrium
9:00 am Welcome
Opening Remarks
Theatre
9:05 amJames Lattimer
Stony Brook University		Neutron Star Mass and Radius Constraints for the Dense Matter Equation of State
Theatre
9:35 am
Hong Shen
Nankai University
Relativistic EOS for Supernovae SimulationsTheatre
9:55 amNuclear Equation of State Discussion 1
 Theatre
10:30 amCoffee Break

Black Hole Bistro
11:00 amGang Shen
Los Alamos National Lab
Equation of State and Neutrino Opacity in Core Collapse SupernovaTheatre
11:20 amKai Hebeler
Ohio State University		Three-nucleon Forces: From Neutron Matter to Neutron StarsTheatre
11:40 am
Alexandros Gezerlis
University of Washington		Spin-polarized Low-density Neutron matterTheatre
12:00 pmNuclear Equation of State Discussion 2
 Theatre
12:30 pmLunch

Black Hole Bistro
3:00 pmNuclear EOS practicalities
Theatre
4:00 pmCoffee Break Black Hole Bistro
4:30 pmRishi Sharma
TRIUMF		An effective Theory for the Neutron Star Inner CrustTheatre
4:50 pmDavid Tsang
California Institute of Technology		Excitation of Neutron Star Modes During Binary
Inspirals		Theatre
5:10 pmNuclear Equation of State Discussion 3

Theatre
5:30 pmWine and Cheese Black Hole Bistro

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Core Collapse and Friends

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 amMatthias Liebendrfer
University of Basel
3D Supernova ModelsTheatre
9:30 amBronson Messer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Tennessee
Weak interaction Physics in Large-Scale Core-Collapse Supernova SimulationsTheatre
9:50 amCore Collapse and Friends
Discussion 1		 Theatre
10:30 amCoffee Break

Black Hole Bistro
11:00 am
Kei Kotake
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Recipes to Energize Core-collapse Supernova ExplosionsTheatre
11:20 am
Jason Nordhaus
Princeton University		Recent Advances in Core-collapse Supernova TheoryTheatre
11:40 am
Core Collapse and Friends
Discussion 2
Theatre
12:30 pmLunch Black Hole Bistro
3:00 pmKohsuke Sumiyoshi
Numazu National College of Technology
Progress of EOS Tables for Neutrino-radiation Hydrodynamics of Core-collapse
Supernovae		Theatre
3:20 pm
Evan O'Connor
California Institute of Technology		Neutrino Oscillations and the CCSN Mechanism
Theatre
3:40 pm
Core Collapse and Friends
Discussion 3		 Theatre
4:00 pmCoffee Break
 Black Hole Bistro
4:30 pmErnazar Abdikamalov
California Institute of Technology		A Monte Carlo Method for Radiation TransportTheatre
4:50 pm
Rodrigo Fernandez
Institute for Advanced Study
Understanding the SASI with Simple MicrophysicsTheatre
5:10 pmCore Collapse and Friends
Discussion 4		 Theatre

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Neutrino Microphysics and Nucleosynthesis

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 amAlmudena Arcones
Univesity of Basel
Nucleosynthesis of Heavy Elements in Neutrino-Driven Winds and Neutron-Star MergersTheatre
9:30 amGabriel Martnez-Pinedo
Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
Neutrinos in Supernova Evolution and NucleosynthesisTheatre
9:50 am
Neutrino Microphysics and Nucleosynthesis Discussion 1
 Theatre
10:30 am
Coffee Break
 Black Hole Bistro
11:00 amBrian Metzger
Princeton University
Nucleosynthesis and Short Gamma-Ray Burst Central EnginesTheatre
11:20 am
Neutrino Microphysics and Nucleosynthesis Discussion 2

Theatre
12:30 pm
Lunch Black Hole Bistro
2:30 pm
Charles Horowitz
Indiana Univesity
Neutron Star Crust Microphsyics
Theatre
3:00 pmErik Schnetter
Perimeter Institute
The Einstein Toolkit
Theatre
5:00 pmBBQ Black Hole Bistro

Thursday, June 23, 2011
Binary Mergers

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 amMatthew Duez
Washington State University
Unsolved Problems in Modeling Neutron Star-Neutron Star and Black Hole Neutron Star Binary MergersTheatre
9:30 am
David Neilsen
Brigham Young Univesity
Compact Binaries, Disks, and Magnetic Fields
Theatre
9:50 am
Binary Mergers Discussion 1
 Theatre
10:30 am
Coffee Break
 Black Hole Bistro
11:00 amCarlos Palenzuela
CITA
Electromagnetic Interaction of Binary Neutron Star MagnetospheresTheatre
11:20 am
Richard O'Shaughnessy
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Microphysics to Macrophysics: Astrophysics and Gravitational Wave Science Opportunities in the Advanced Detector Era and BeyondTheatre
11:40 amBinary Mergers
Discussion 2		 Theatre
12:30 pmLunch
 Black Hole Bistro
3:00 pmJocelyn Read
University of Mississippi
Choosing Equations of State for Neutron Star InspiralTheatre
3:20 pm
Binary Mergers
Discussion 3		 Theatre
4:00 pm
Coffee Break
 Black Hole Bistro
4:30 pm
David Radice
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for General Relativistic HydrodynamicsTheatre
4:50 pmJoseph Hughto
Indiana University
Using GPUs to Accelerate Molecular Dynamics SimulationsTheatre
5:10 pmBinary Mergers
Discussion 4		 Theatre

Friday, June 24, 2011
Other Topics

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00 amJoshua Faber
Rochester Institute of Technology
Combining MHD and MicrophysicsTheatre
9:20 am
Pablo Cerda-Duran
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Modeling QPOs in Magnetar Giant FlaresTheatre
9:40 am
Jason Penner
University of Southampton		Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Bondi--Hoyle AccretionTheatre
10:00 amOther Topics Discussion 1
 Theatre
10:30 am
Coffee Break
 Black Hole Bistro
11:00 amIan Hawke
University of Southampton
NumrelasticityTheatre
11:20 amCarsten Gundlach
University of Southampton
A Formalism for Weak Solutions of GR ElasticityTheatre
11:40 amOther Topics Discussion 2
 Theatre
12:30 pm
Lunch Black Hole Bistro
1:30 pmClose out
 Theatre

 

 
 
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