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A Two-week School for «Computational Methods in Astrophysics»
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From: Horst Fichtner
Postgraduate School «COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN ASTROPHYSICS» within the
European Research Training Network «Solaire» (www.solairenetwork.eu) at the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (www.rub.de/index_en.htm), Germany, March 3-14, 2008
The two-week school is part of the European Research Training Network Solaire
and will be held at the Ruhr-University Bochum, March 3-14, 2008. Modern
computational methods, particularly the techniques of finite differences and
volumes, particle-in-cell, multigrids and parallel computing will be
explained in detail followed by hands-on exercises (first week) and
applications to astrophysics, with an emphasis on solar physics (second week:
lectures and demos). The second week concentrates on state-of-the-art
computations in solar physics context. Its emphasis will be on recent
applications as well as on algorithmic advances (grid adaptivity, multi-scale
and multi-physics). This will be complemented by two plenary talks from
world-leading experts.