N-Body 2008
N-body problem: numerical methods and applications
Turku, Finland, 10-14 August 2008
Supported by:
- ESF (via ASTROSIM)
- Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation (Magnus Ehrnroothin säätiö)
- University of Turku Foundation (Turun yliopistosäätiö)
Slides of most conference talks are available on the
PROGRAMME page. Click on the PDF link
after the talk title to download.
The N-body technique is a powerful tool for investigating a diverse
range of astrophysical phenomena from the formation and evolution of
planetary systems to the origin of galaxies and large-scale structure
of the universe. We invite astrophysicists and mathematicians working
on N-body problem to attend to the meeting.
The meeting will combine a workshop and a school for young researchers.
It will consist of invited lectures and a limited number of oral
presentations.
Topics to be discussed are:
- Numerical methods; symplectic methods; regularisation
- New techniques and methods in the three-body problem; triple black holes; post-Newtonian terms
- Stellar clusters
- Small bodies in the Solar system
- Galactic nuclei
Invited talks
- Regularisation of Motion in the N-Body Problem by S. Mikkola
- Relativistic terms by A. Gopakumar
- Special-purpose hardware / Parallel computing by S. Portegies Zwart
- The three-body problem by K. Tanikawa
- Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters by H. Baumgardt
- Galactic nuclei (including MW) by D. Merritt
- N-Body Algorithms by S. Aarseth
Please, follow links on the right to see further information.
This page was created on
25th March 2008 and last modified on
28th August 2008 by Rami T. F. Rekola.