11–14 Aug 2015
AlbaNova
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Scope

This workshop is centered around the new developments in open source infrastructure in numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics. It aims to be an opportunity for current users and developers to report on recent progress in the Einstein Toolkit (including, but not limited to, new components), to express interests in future development, and to draw up a plan (collaborative as well as financial) to make sure this development takes place. The workshop will also feature an introductory session for new users, which will help to familiarize attendees with the Einstein Toolkit. We would also like to invite the local students from physics and computer science departments to participate.

Notice that this meeting will involve a few talks and status reports but will focus primarily on open discussions and planning.

Workshop page on the einsteintoolkit.org: https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/ET_Workshop_2015.

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Venue

NORDITA - Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (www.nordita.org)
AlbaNova University Center (www.albanova.se), Stockholm

Nordita, main building AlbaNova: observatory
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Schedule

Tue, 11
Time Presenter Title
13:30 - 14:00 Introduction and Welcome
14:00 - 18:00 Oleg Korobkin Tutorial: introduction to the Einstein Toolkit
Wed, 12
GRMHD
9:00 - 9:30 Wolfgang Kastaun New frameworks for equation of state and postprocessing
9:40 - 10:10 David Radice The WhiskyTHC code
10:20 - 10:50 Zachariah Etienne Overview of the IllinoisGRMHD code (*)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Hardware & Software
11:30 - 12:00 Steven R. Brandt,
David M. Koppelman
Overview of Chemora: high-level framework for hierarchical code generation and optimization
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
AMR
13:30 - 14:00 Zhoujian Cao Solving punctured multi black hole initial data with finite element method (*)
14:10 - 14:40 Bishop Mongwane High Order Mesh Refinement for Dynamical Space Times
14:50 - 15:20 Saran Tunyasuvunakool GRChombo: automatic mesh refinement for numerical relativity
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
Various
16:00 - 16:30 Erik Schnetter Plans for fine-grained multi-threading in Cactus to improve efficiency and scalability (*)
16:40 - 17:00 Peter Diener New McLachlan code
17:10 - 17:30 Jonah Miller Visualizing Einstein Toolkit Data with yt (*)
Thu, 13
9:00 - 10:00 Lightning talks (speakers register on the spot, 5+5 each)
10:00 - 11:00 New developments for the Einstein Toolkit
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 New developments for the Einstein Toolkit (contd.)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 18:00 Open discussion on building a European ET network Parallel session (FB51)
Fri, 14
9:00 - 12:30 Open discussion on building a European ET network (including an ET School and Workshop in Europe for 2016)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 18:00 Steven R. Brandt Hands-on session on Chemora, a code generation and optimization framework
18:00 - 19:30 BBQ

(*) Talks marked with an asterisk will be given remotely.



Accommodation

The following hotels are located close to the venue and are offering special discounts for the participants of this workshop (all prices include breakfast and tax):

All prices above include breakfast and taxes.

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Workshop organizers:

Eloisa Bentivegna Università di Catania, Italy eloisa.bentivegna -(at)- ct.infn.it
Axel Brandenburg Nordita brandenb -(at)- nordita.org
Bruno Giacomazzo University of Trento, Italy bruno.giacomazzo -(at)- unitn.it
Ian Hawke University of Southampton, UK I.Hawke -(at)- soton.ac.uk
Oleg Korobkin SU, OKC oleg.korobkin -(at)- astro.su.se
Frank Löffler Louisiana State University, USA knarf -(at)- cct.lsu.edu
Christian D. Ott Caltech, USA cott -(at)- tapir.caltech.edu
Stephan Rosswog SU, OKC stephan.rosswog -(at)- astro.su.se
Erik Schnetter Perimeter Institute, Canada eschnetter -(at)- perimeterinstitute.ca

Sponsored by:

Nordita The Oskar Klein Centre Caltech