The Third Cosmological Radiative Transfer Comparison Project Workshop

Program

Monday, December 8, 2008

SESSION I - ACES 2.402

9:00 a.m.  Paul Shapiro
                 Welcome

9:05 a.m.    Ilian Iliev
                  "Cosmological Radiative Transfer Comparison Project"

10:00 a.m.   Discussion

10:30 a.m.    Coffee Break

SESSION II

11:00 a.m.  Discussion

11:30 a.m.   Garrelt Mellema
                   "All H II Regions Great and Small - An Overview of C₂-Ray"

12:00 p.m.   Paul Shapiro
                   "Self-Regulated Reionization and the Fluctuating H₂ Dissociating UV Background"


12:30 p.m.   Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby

SESSION III

2:00 p.m.   Hy Trac
                 "Imprint of Inhomogeneous Hydrogen Reionization on the Temperature Distribution of the Intergalactic Medium "

2:30 p.m.    Kristian Finlator
                  "A New Moment Method for Continuum Ratiative Transfer in Cosmological Reionization"

3:00 p.m.   Gabriel Altay
                 "Radiative Treatment of a Quasar Proximity Zone"

3:30 p.m.   Coffee Break

Colloquium - Avaya Auditorium ACES 2.302

4:00 p.m.   Masayuki Umemura
                 "Computational Astrophysics with a Hybrid Simulator "FIRST"


7:00 p.m.  Conference Dinner - The Clay Pit Restaurant

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

SESSION I - ACES 2.402

9:00 a.m.   Discussion

10:30 a.m.    Coffee Break

SESSION II

11:00 a.m.   Jan-Pieter Paardekooper
                    "SimpleX: Radiative Transfer on an Unstructured, Dynamic Grid"

11:30 a.m.   Milan Raicevic
                   "Coupling SimpleX and GALFORM for Reionization Simulations"

12:00 p.m.    Dominique Aubert
                   "ATON, a Moment-based RT Code Accelerated by Graphical Processor Units (GPUs)"

12:30 p.m.   Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby

SESSION III
2:00 p.m.   Sunghye Baek
                 "The Simulated 21-cm Signal During the EoR: Ly-alpha and X-ray Fluctuations"

2:30 p.m.   Hajime Susa
                 "Star Formation in Forming Disk Galaxies Under UVB by RSPH"

3:00 p.m.   Hidenobu Yajima
                 "3D RT Calculation on Escape of Ionizing Photons from Forming Galaxies"

4:00 p.m.  Holiday Party - San Jacinto Residence Hall

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

SESSION I - ACES 2.402

9:00 a.m.   Discussion

10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

SESSION II

11:00 a.m.   Discussion

11:30 a.m.    Kenji Hasegawa
                   "Application of 3D-RSPH Scheme to the Radiative Feedback by ;Population III Stars "

12:00 p.m.   Daisuke Sato
                   "The Effect of Partial Redistribution on Ly alpha Photons Escaping From a Primordial Galaxy"

12:30 p.m.   Lunch - ACES Connector Lobby

SESSION III

2:00 p.m.   Chizuru Akizuki
                 "Three-dimensional Radiation Transfer Calculation for Magnetic Jets"

2:30 p.m.   Pascal Paschos
                 "Implicit Radiation and Chemical Ionization FLD Solver in Enzo"

3:00 p.m.   Marcelo Alvarez
                 "Radiative Feedback from Accretion onto the First Black Holes"

3:30 p.m.   Coffee Break

SESSION IV

4:00 p.m.   Andreas Pawlik
                  "Thermal Feedback from Reionization"

4:30 p.m.   Discussion