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StarBench: A Workshop For The Benchmarking Of
Star Formation Codes
8th-11th April 2013












Image credit: astroanarchy
Programme

The workshop will be hosted from 8th-11th April 2013 in Reed Hall at the University of Exeter.


Reed Hall is located on Streatham Campus (MAP).
7th April

Informal gathering in the evening for food and/or drink. There will be people at the imperial (MAP) from 6pm.


8th April

Session 1: Welcome and overview of contributing codes
Chair: Thomas Bisbas
    0900 - 0930: Coffee and snacks

    0930 - 0940: Thomas Haworth, Welcome to starbench!

    0940 - 1000: Jeremy Yates, Doing MHD with DiRAC II

    1000 - 1030: Lars Buntemeyer, The hybrid-characteristics method: Radiation Hydrodynamics in the FLASH-Code

    1030 - 1050: Tim Harries, Torus

    1050 - 1115: Coffee and snacks


Session 2: Continued overview of contributing codes

Chair: James Dale

    1115 - 1145: David Hubber, Seren

    1145 - 1215: Jonathan Mackey, Pion

    1215 - 1245: Pascal Tremblin, Heracles


1245 - 1500: lunch and coffee


Session 3: The HII region tests: results and round-table discussion

    Session runs from 1500-1730
  • off-centre expansion
  • WN08 test
  • Radiatively driven implosion
  • Spitzer test
  • Runaway star test


9th April

Session 4: Code overviews and research talks
Chair: Andrew McLeod

    0900 - 0930: Coffee and snacks

    0930 - 0950: Harpreet Dhanoa, Pressure-driven fragmentation of clouds at high redshift as a possible formation route for EMP/HMP stars.

    0950 - 1010: Robin Williams, Aqualung

    1010 - 1030: Thomas Bisbas, 3D-PDR: A new astrochemistry code for treating Photodissociation Regions

    1030 - 1050: Jonathan Mackey, HII regions around runaway stars

    1050 - 1115: Coffee and snacks


Session 5: Code overviews and research talks

Chair: Thomas Haworth

    1115 - 1145: (pending confirmation) Daniel Whalen, Zeus

    1145 - 1215: Troels Haugboelle, Ramses

    1215 - 1245: Simon Glover, Comparing different models for the thermal evolution of gas in GMCs


1245 - 1500: lunch and coffee


Session 6: The instability and shock tube tests: results and round-table discussion

    Session runs from 1500-1730
  • Isothermal shock test
  • Isothermal shock test
  • Planar ionization front test

In the evening we will be booking space at The Rusty Bike


10th April

"Free time". Meetings and informal discussions between attendees are encouraged. This is time to discuss what needs to be done following the workshop. For example re-runs of the tests and publications.

This is also an opportunity to explore or talk to members of the Exeter Astrophysics group who are not attending the workshop.


11th April

Session 7: Research talks
Chair: David Hubber


Session 8: Research talks

Chair: Oliver Lomax


1245 - 1500: lunch and coffee


Session 9: Fluid mixture and contact discontinuity: results and round-table discussion

Workshop ends



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