Computing Our Universe
A NASA Funded Student Summer School on
Origins of Large Scale Structure
Date: June 22 - July 14, 1998
Place: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Participants: 12 students and 5 faculty from 11 institutions
WWW: http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/summer/
TOPICS
- Cosmology - expansion, measuring the energy density
of the universe, nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave background
- Dynamics - galactic structure, Hamiltonian mechanics,
potential theory, orbits
- Structure Formation and Observations - gravitational
growth of perturbations, radiative processes, space and
ground based data
- Computational Techniques - integration, Monte Carlo,
solving differential equations, parallel programming, simulations
STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Numerical Simulations of the Lyman Alpha Forest
- Angular Momentum in N-body Simulations
- Dwarf Galaxy Perturbations of Spiral Galaxy Disks
- Simulating Collisions of Galaxies
RESULTS AND PRODUCTS
Computational Laboratory Modules
- The Age of the Universe with a Cosmological Constant
Techniques of Integration and Interpolation
- Dynamics in Galactic Potentials
Numerical solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
- Radiative Transfer
Monte Carlo techniques
- Gravitational Forces of N-bodies
Techniques of Parallel Programming
- Simulations of Structure Dynamics
Development of N-body codes and data structures
Selected Graphics (2Mb)
STUDENT FEEDBACK
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