Agenda 2012
Before the meeting
Do your homework!
During the workshop
We will meet from 9AM to 5:30PM on each of the class days. The meetings will be in Room B108a of the Young Library basement while breakfast and breaks will be in rooms on the ground floor.
You can use this print service to print documents in the library.
Day 0 Monday May 28
7PM no host reception, dinner at Pazzo's, a popular local pub and frequent astro hangout. A Google map showing how to walk from the dorms to Pazzo's is on the Transportation and Lodging page. We will start meeting in front of Pazzo's at 6:45PM and start seating at 7PM.
Homework for Day 1: Review Appendix 1, Chapters 1&2, of AGN3, and the Cloudy Quick Start Guide
Day 1 Tuesday May 29
A light breakfast and two coffee breaks are provided in rooms on the ground floor of the Library.
9:00 - 9:30 breakfast, Library Gallery
9:30 - 11:00 Foundations of photoionization equilibrium, AGN3 Chapters 1&2
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Gallery
11:30 - 12:30 Cloudy on the web, setting up a simulation. The input parameters, and main output
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00-15:30 The helium ionization balance, the heavy elements stromgren length
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Gallery
16:00 - 17:15 Running Cloudy in simple cases. Plotting and analyzing the results
17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).
17:30 class ends
Homework for Day 2: AGN3 Chapter3, 4, &5, Appendix 4
Day 2 Wednesday May 30
Thermal equilibrium, the Stoy and Zanstra methods of determining the SED shape, measuring the abundances of the elements, cooling functions, & thermal stability
Running grids of simulations. Output options for grids of models. Running grids on parallel computers with MPI. Thermal equilibrium.
9:00 - 9:30 breakfast, Library Keeneland Room
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room
17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).
17:30 class ends
Homework for Day 3: AGN3 Chapter 7, 8, Appendix 6
Day 3 Thursday May 31
Beyond the hydrogen ionization front: atomic and molecular regions and associated dust and IR emission
Predictions of dust and molecular emission.
9:00 - 9:30 breakfast in Library, Library Gallery
9:30-10:30 Peter van Hoof, (Royal Observatory of Belgium), grain physics in Cloudy
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Gallery
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Gallery
17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).
17:30 class ends
Homework for Day 4: AGN3 Chapter 11
Day 4 Friday June 1
Active Galactic Nuclei, Starbursts, and the IGM, complex geometries, Cloudy 3D
Other Cloudy options and output
9:00 - 9:30 breakfast, Library Keeneland Room
10:00 - 11:00 Christophe Morisset, (UNAM, Mexico), Cloudy 3D discusion
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
15:30 - 16:00 coffee break, Library Keeneland Room
17:15 - 17:30 Questions - how do you do ..... with Cloudy (related to topics covered today).
17:30 class ends