Time |
Event |
Presenter |
Thursday, 15 October |
7:00 - 9:00 pm |
Reception and Registration at the Lord Nelson Hotel |
Friday, 16October |
9:00 - 9:15 |
WELCOME |
Robert Deupree, ICA Director
Colin Dodds, SMU President |
Galaxy Formation & Dynamics |
9:15 - 10:00 |
Galaxy Formation Ain’t Like Dusting Crops, Boy! |
Invited Speaker: Fabio Governato,
University of Washington |
10:00 - 10:25 |
Tidal Interactions in the Local Group: M33 flies by M31 |
John Dubinski,
University of Toronto |
10:25 – 10:50 |
BREAK and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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10:50 – 11:15 |
Modelling Merging Galaxies Using MINGA |
Hanns Petsch,
University of Vienna |
11:15 – 11:40 |
Galaxy Formation – A Detailed Examination of Cloud-Cloud Interactions |
David Williamson,
Saint Mary’s University |
11:40 – 12:05 |
Star Formation in Cosmological SPH Simulations of Galaxy Formation |
Greg Stinson,
McMaster University |
12:05 – 1:20 |
LUNCH and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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1:20 – 1:45 |
Group Photo |
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1:45 – 2:10 |
IGM Enrichment with Feedback and Turbulent Diffusion |
Sijing Shen,
McMaster University |
2:10 – 2:35 |
Surface Brightness Profiles of Simulated Galaxies: Comparison to Stacked HUDF Images at z=6 |
Jenna Hurry,
Saint Mary’s University |
ISM/Star Formation |
2:35 – 3:20 |
Feedback Effects in the Formation of High Mass and Low Mass Star Formation |
Invited Speaker:
Richard Klein, LLNL |
3:20 – 3:45 |
BREAK and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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3:45 – 4:10 |
AstroBEAR: The Opportunities, Costs and Challenges of Multi-Physics AMR |
Adam Frank,
University of Rochester |
4:10 – 4:35 |
Clumpy Flows: Quasi-Ballistic Model of HH Objects |
Kristopher Yirak,
University of Rochester |
4:35 – 5:00 |
Simulations of Protostellar Jets Extended to Observational Length Scales |
Jon Ramsey,
Saint Mary’s University |
5:00 – 5:25 |
Radiative Transfer in 3D Simulations of Star And Planet Formation |
Patrick D Rogers,
McMaster University |
7:30 – 10:00 pm |
Banquet at St. Mary's Boat Club |
Saturday, 17 October |
9:00 – 9:25 |
Numerical Hydrodynamics Modeling of Protostellar Disk Formation and Long-term Evolution |
Eduard Vorobyov,
Saint Mary’s University |
9:25 – 9:50 |
RMHD Simulations of Massive Star Cluster Feedback |
Elizabeth Harper-Clark,
University of Toronto |
9:50 – 10:15 |
Astrochemical Evolution of Turbulent Giant Molecular Clouds |
Robert Fisher,
University of Massachusetts |
10:15 – 10:40 |
The Effect of Gas-Dust Energetics on the Star Formation Process |
Hugo Martel,
Université Laval |
10:40 – 11:05 |
BREAK and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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Solar System Dynamics |
11:05 – 11:50 |
From Gas Disks to Gas Giants: Simulating the Birth of Planetary Systems |
Invited Speaker:
Edward Thommes,
University of Guelph |
11:50 – 12:15 |
Interstellar Meteoroids and the Gravitational Slingshot |
Paul Wiegert,
The University of Western Ontario |
12:15 – 12:40 |
Searching for Meteoroid Images in Sky Surveys |
David L. Clark,
University of Western Ontario |
12:40 – 1:55 |
LUNCH and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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Stellar Astrophysics |
1:55 – 2:40 |
Structure, Evolution, and Oscillations of Rotating Stars |
Invited Speaker:
Robert Deupree,
Saint Mary’s University |
2:40 – 3:05 |
Magnetic effects on Stellar Oscillations |
Hideyuki Saio,
Tohoku University |
3:05 – 3:30 |
Asteroseismic Tuning of the Magnetic Ap Star HR 1217 |
Chris Cameron,
Saint Mary’s University |
3:30 – 3:55 |
BREAK and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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3:55 – 4:20 |
3D Solar Model Using the Djehuty Code |
Joyce Ann Guzik,
LANL and LLNL |
4:20 – 4:45 |
Neutrino Powered Explosions: Computing the Death of Massive Stars |
Eric J. Lentz
University of Tennessee |
4:45 – 5:10 |
Interior Mass as the Radial Independent Variable in 3D Nonlinear Stellar Pulsation Calculations |
Chris Geroux
Saint Mary’s University |
5:10 – 5:35 |
APEMoST - A Software Package for Bayesian Astronomical Data Analysis |
Michael Gruberbauer
Saint Mary’s University |
Sunday, 18 October |
Cosmology & Relativity |
8:30 – 9:15 |
The Challenge of Turbulent Mixing in Computational Structure Formation |
Invited Speaker:
Evan Scannapieco,
Arizona State University |
9:15 – 9:40 |
Where Can We Push the Envelope of Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks? |
P. Chris Fragile,
College of Charleston |
9:40 – 10:05 |
Computing Gravitational Waves from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binary Black Hole Inspirals |
Jonathan Thornburg,
Indiana University |
10:05 – 10:30 |
BREAK and Poster Viewing in Loyola Conference Hall |
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10:30 – 10:55 |
AGN Interactions with Cluster Media: MHD Simulations with Relativistic Electron Transport |
Tom Jones,
University of Minnesota |
10:55 – 11:20 |
AMR Simulations of Protogalactic Clumps |
Alex Razoumov,
SHARCNET |
11:20 – 11:45 |
Using Scale-Free Cosmologies to Explore the Small-Scale Universe |
Pascal Elahi,
Queen’s University |
11:45 – 12:10 |
CMB Weak Lensing at High
ℓ
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Rob Thacker,
Saint Mary’s University |
12:10 – 12:15 |
CLOSING REMARKS |
CONFERENCE CONCLUDES |
