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Lecture and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Winter 2018 Lectures Topics Laboratory
January 8 Lecture 1 The N-body problem and Galaxy Collisions Lab 1: Lab and Unix platform
January 17 Lecture 2 Review of Newtonian mechanics and its numerical methods  
January 22 Lecture 3 Gravitational potential and N-body equations I. Lab 2: Gnuplot, gcc, gfortran
January 24 Lecture 4 Gravitational potential and N-body equations II.
January 29 Lecture 5 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation Lab 3: Assignment II.
January 31 Lecture 6 Collisionless Boltzmann Equation cont.
February 5 Lecture 7 Plummer's spherical model Lab 4: Aarseth's N-body code
February 7 Lecture 8 Galaxy collisons with spherical potential
February 12 Lecture 9 Lect. 8 contd: Plummer collisions Lab 5: Assignment III.
February 14 Lecture 10 Galaxy modeling I: Isothermal spherical models
February 21 Lecture 11 Galaxy modeling II: Isothermal models contd.  
February 26 Lecture 12 Galaxy modeling III: Midterm and Final preview Lab 6: Assignment III and GPU computing on iMac
February 28 Lecture 13 Midterm and Final team projects
March 5 Lecture 14 Tree code I: particle-cell interaction Lab 7: Galactics/gyrfalcON
March 7 Lecture 15 Tree code II: cell-cell interaction (gyrfalcON)
March 12 Lecture 16 Team Midterm projects Lab 8:Team Midterm projects
March 14 Lecture 17 Final projects discussion
March 23 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final projects with team presentations