Orion HST

Agenda Warsaw 2015

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

The list of meeting participants is posted here.

Meeting room The workshop will be held at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK), in Warsaw, in the TV room (Room F024), in the second floor of the hotel part of the CAMK Building.

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

Before the meeting

Do your homework!

Class materials are posted in folders below this ftp site.

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


Day 0 Sunday May 3

7PM A no-host opening reception will be held at CAMK on Sunday at 7PM. This is a chance to meet and get to know one another.

Review AGN3 Chapters 1 and 2 for tomorrow


Day 1 Monday May 4, Chap 1, 2; Introduction, Photoionization Equilibrium

8:30 - 9:00 Set up
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome, Prof Piotr Zycki, director, CAMK, Prof Bozena Czerny, host
9:10 - 9:20 Description of projects
9:20 - 11:00 Introductory presentations, posted here
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Cloudy introduction, PDF

12:30 - 14:00 Working lunch - discuss group projects

14:00 - 15:00 Cloudy introdusction continues PDF
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Cloudy introduction continues
16:30 - 17:40 Group activities
17:40 - 18:00 Group summaries

Review AGN3 Chapter 3 for tomorrow


Day 2 Tuesday May 5, Chap 3; Thermal Equilibrium

8:30 - 9:00 Set up
9:00 - 10:15 Heating and cooling PDF
10:15 - 11:00 Group projects
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Computing cooling functions

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

14:00 - 15:00 Heating-cooling examples
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:45 Heating-cooling examples
16:45 - 17:30 Group activities
17:30 - 18:00 Group summaries

Review AGN3 Chapter 4 for tomorrow


Day 3 Wednesday May 6, Chap 4; Calculation of Emitted Spectrum

8:30 - 9:00 Set up
9:00 - 10:00 Emitted spectrum PDF
10:00 - 11:00 Projects
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Lecture PDF

12:30 - 12:45 Group photo
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Lecture
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:30 Group activities
16:30- 17:00 Lecture
17:00 - 17:15 Group summaries

17:34 Ride city bus 167/bus 180 to Warsaw Old Town
18:30 No-host dinner at Restaurant Ceprownia, and their menu

Review AGN3 Chapters 7 and 8 for tomorrow


Day 4 Thursday May 7, grains, stars, parallel processing, pyCloudy

8:30 - 9:00 Set up
9:00 - 9:55 Peter van Hoof, grain physics in Cloudy PDF
9:55 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 11:00 Peter van Hoof, stellar atmospheres, parallel processing
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Group activities

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Group projects
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Christophe Morisset, pyCloudy
17:00 - 17:20 Complexity & Cloudy PDF
17:20 - 18:00 Group summaries

Homework: Please send in any questions or topics to guide the discussion for tomorrow.


Day 5 Friday May 8

8:30 - 9:00 Set up
9:00 - 10:30 Miscellaneous: Stellar atmospheres, Cloudy output & options, Save continuum units, line profiles, velocity fields, fine&coarse continua, speeding up a calculation PDF
10:30 - 11:00 Group activities
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Projects

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Discussion, questions about Cloudy
14:30 - 15:00 Group activities
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Group activities
17:00 - 18:00 Goup conclusions
18:00 Workshop ends