MODEST-5 WORKSHOP
Schedule

Wednesday August 11 – McMaster University Student Centre Room 311/313

9:00 – 1:00 Introductions (Coffee at 10:30-11:00) Every participant will have 5 minutes and one overhead to introduce themselves and their research.

2:30 – 5:00 Observations

2:30 Bob Mathieu (Wisconsin) – Observations of Open Clusters

3:00 Giampaolo Piotto (Padua) – Observations of Globular Clusters

3:30 coffee break

4:00 open discussion -- what kinds of observations do we want to do; what kinds should we aim to do?

Thursday August 12 – McMaster University Student Centre Room 311/313

9:30 – 12:30 Modelling

9:30 Simon Portegies Zwart (Amsterdam) – N-body simulations

10:00 John Fregeau (Northwestern) – Monte Carlo simulations

10:30 Onno Pols (Utrecht) and Attay Kovetz (Tel Aviv) – Stellar Evolution in the MODEST context

11:00 coffee break

11:30-12:30 open discussion – what kinds of modeling can we do; what kinds should we aim to do?

2:00 – 3:30 Parallel sessions to discuss potential clusters and questions

Outlining the goal of the workshop

Discussion 1

Discussion 2

Discussion 3

Discussion 4

Discussion 5

3:30-4:00 Coffee break

4:00 – 5:00 Regroup and discuss results of each group.

Friday August 13 – McMaster University Student Centre Room 311/313

9:30-5:00 Parallel sessions to flesh out questions, perhaps run preliminary models, write code, outline proposals….

Steve McMillan – An overview of relevant N-body dynamics papers to date

Group outlines

Douglas Heggie's summary slide 1

Douglas Heggie's summary slide 2

Douglas Heggie's summary slide 3

(Coffee at 10:30, Lunch at 12:30-2:00, Coffee at 3:30)

Saturday August 14 – McMaster University Student Centre Room 311/313

9:30-12:00 Full session to finalize cluster, questions, collaborations, etc. (coffee at 10:30)

Simon Portegies Zwart – Initial conditions for the M67 simulation project

Jamie Lombardi – Web interface to Tycho

Hans Zinnecker – A very young dense star cluster (NGC 3603)

Bill Paxton – EZ to Evolve ZAMS Stars