Visitors and exchange students

Masterclasses in Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From formulation to simulation

The lectures will take place 16-19 July (with anticipated arrivals/departures on 15 July and 20 July, respectively) and will cover a range of topics relevant to the modelling and numerical simulation of fluids in a live spacetime. The material will include the underlying physics (starting from fundamental principles) as well as advanced topics (like superfluidity, dissipation and resistivity) and practical issues relating to numerical simulations (different numerical methods and approached to spacetime evolutions. Lecturers will include Ian Hawke, Carsten Gundlach, Andreas Schmitt and Nils Andersson from Southampton, as well as Greg Comer from St Louis University, Mark Alford from Washington University in St Louis, Lap Ming Lin from Chinese University Hong Kong. We also hope to be joined by Sebastiano Bernuzzi from Jena. A more detailed lecture plan will be circulated in due course. Practical “exercises’ will draw on the extensive material available within the Einstein Toolkit and the Open Astrophysics Bookshelf (https://github.com/Open-Astrophysics-Bookshelf/) and will be selected depending on the interests of the students.

We are hoping to make the event as interactive as possible (as we also want to learn!), so would like to accommodate contributions from as many of the participants as possible. This would involve short (say 15 min) presentations with discussion. If you are interested in providing such a talk, please let us know. We don’t need a title or abstract, as this if quite informal, but some idea of the topic would be useful (so that we end up with a coherent schedule).

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