Lecturers and topics

Fluid dynamics, conservation laws and waves

Prof. Fernando Moreno-Insertis
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

 

Stellar and planetary formation

Prof. Åke Nordlund
Niels Bohr Institute and the STARPLAN center of excellence, Copenhagen, Denmark

Personal webpage

Dynamics of solar and stellar convection zones

Dr. Maarit Käpylä
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany

Personal webpage

 

Solar atmosphere

Dr. Matthias Rempel
High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, Colorado, USA

​Personal webpage

 

General relativity and compact objects

Prof. Sascha Husa
University of Balearic Islands, Spain

Personal webpage

 

Interstellar medium

Prof. Stefanie Walch-Gassner
I.Physics Institute, Department of Physics, University of Cologne, Germany
Cologne Center for Data and Simulation Science, University of Cologne
, Germany

Personal webpage

 

Galaxy evolution

Prof. Tom Theuns
Institute for Computational Cosmology, Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK

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Seminars and tutorials

  • The European infrastructure for high-performance computing: how to apply for computing time (Dr. Sergi Girona, Operations Director & CIO, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
  • CFD applications outside astrophysics (Prof. Ramon Codina Rovira, International center for numerical methods in engineering, Barcelona, Spain)
  • A numerical simulation framework for the exa-scale era (Prof. Åke Nordlund, integrated in the hands-on exercises)
  • A brief introduction to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library and the HDF5 file format (Dr. Angel de Vicente, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)
  • Hands-on exercises