Orion HST

Agenda Belfast 2015

The list of meeting participants is posted here.

Meeting room The workshop will be held at the Queen's University Belfast, Computer Suite (Room F024), Second Floor, Main Physics Building, School of Mathematics and Physics.

As we go along I will post material in folders below this ftp site. You should bookmark it for easy access.

A social agenda has been arranged by nice QUB people!

Before the meeting

Do your homework!

Each day will concentrate on a chapter of AGN3. Please review that chapter before the class.


Day 0 Sunday Jan 11

7PM no host reception, dinner at the Botanic Inn. This is one of the most famous of the local Queen's University student pubs.

Review AGN3 Chapters 1 and 2 for tomorrow


Day 1 Monday Jan 12, Chap 1, 2; Introduction, Photoionization Equilibrium

Class materials are posted in folders below this ftp site.

8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building

9:00 - 9:20 Welcome by Prof Francis Keenan, discussion of social agenda, Janet Chen, visitation by Ted of School

9:20 - 9:45 Introduction to Cloudy

9:45 - 11:00 Introductory presentations

11:00 - 11:30 Break, top floor IRCEP area

11:30 - 12:30 Cloudy continues

12:30 - 14:00 lunch - excursion to Botanic Road area

14:00 - 15:00 Foundations continued, Cloudy on the web, setting up a simulation. 

15:00 - 15:30 Break top floor IRCEP area

15:30- 16:30 An H II region simulation. 

16:30 - 17:40 group activities

17:40 - 18:00 group summaries

Review AGN3 Chapter 3 for tomorrow


Day 2 Tuesday Jan 13, Chap 3; Thermal Equilibrium

8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building
Can you Spot Ted?

9:00 - 10:15 Heating and cooling

10:15 - 11:00 projects

11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area

11:30 - 12:30 AGN3

12:30 - 14:00 lunch (and projects)

14:00 - 15:00 computing cooling functions

15:00 - 15:30 break

15:30 - 16:45 computing cooling functions

16:45 - 17:30 group activities

17:30 - 18:00 group summaries

Review AGN3 Chapter 4 for tomorrow


Day 3 Wednesday Jan 14, Chap 4; Calculation of Emitted Spectrum

8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building

9:00 - 10:15 Emitted spectrum

10:15 - 11:00 projects

11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area

11:30 - 12:30 lecture

12:30 - 12:45 Group photo - Paul Woods

12:45 - 14:00 lunch

14:00 - 15:15 lecture

15:15 - 15:45 Break top floor IRCEP area

15:45- 16:45 lecture

16:45 - 17:40 group activities

17:40 - 18:00 group summaries

Review AGN3 Chapters 7 and 8 for tomorrow


Day 4 Thursday Jan 15, grains, stars, parallel processing, pyCloudy

The Seasons of Ireland

8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building

9:00 - 11:00 Peter van Hoof, grain physics in Cloudy

11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area

11:30 - 12:30 group activities

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

14:00 - 15:15 Christophe Morisset pyCloudy, (PDF)

15:15 - 15:45 Break top floor IRCEP area

15:45 - 16:45 Complexity & Cloudy

16:15 - 17:45 group summaries

18:30 - Dinner at Scalini's restaurant

Please send in any questions or topics for discussion for tomorrow.


Day 5 Friday Jan 16

8:30 - 9:00 set up in Room F024, Main Physics Building

9:00 - 10:30 Miscellaneous: Stellar atmospheres, Cloudy output & options, Save continuum units, line profiles, velocity fields, fine&coarse continua, speeding up a calculation

10:30 - 11:00 projects

11:00 - 11:30 Break top floor IRCEP area

11:30 - 12:30 projects

12:30 - 14:00 lunch

14:00 - 14:15 Summary from group leaving early

15:00 - 15:30 Break top floor IRCEP area

15:30- 16:30 group activities

16:30 - 17:00 summary of group activities

18:00 Workshop ends