Lectures on N-body techniques for Astrophysics for the PhD School in Astronomy, University of Padova, November 2018

Preliminary Program

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

Course evaluation









Lectures on Gravitational Wave Progenitors, University of Innsbruck, October 2017 - February 2018

Preliminary Program of the Course

Lecture 1 (Gravitational Waves for Dummies and Observational Facts)

Summary of Star Evolution (part 1)

Summary of Star Evolution (part 2)

Lecture 2 (Massive Star Evolution)

Lecture 3 (Supernovae and Core collapse)

Lecture 4 (Binary evolution processes I)

Lecture 5 (Binary evolution processes II)

Lecture 6 (Dynamics of black holes I)

Lecture 7 (Dynamics of black holes II)

Lecture 8 (Introduction to BSE)

Example of initial conditions







Lectures on Dynamics of Stars and Black Holes in Dense Stellar Systems for the PhD School in Astrophysics, SISSA (Trieste), April 2017

Lecture 1 (Star clusters as collisional systems)

Lecture 2 (Structural evolution of star clusters)

Lecture 3 (Binaries and three-body encounters)

Lecture 4 (Mass segregation, equipartition, Spitzer unstability)

Lecture 5 (Dynamics of stellar and intermediate-mass black holes)

Lecture 6 (Nuclear star clusters and supermassive black holes)





Lectures on N-body techniques for Astrophysics for the PhD School in Astronomy, University of Padova, November 2015

Program

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Notes on starlab (addendum to Lecture 2)

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture on Regularization (Mario Spera)

Course evaluation

Additional material:

• Starlab examples: Initial condition generator, isolated cluster, Run isolated cluster , Initial condition generator, tidal field , Run cluster with tidal field .
• ChaNGa examples: Initial conditions, dark matter sphere, Parameter file, dark matter sphere, Initial conditions, gas sphere, Parameter file, gas sphere.
• PBS script templates: pbs_script.sh.
• RAMSES examples: Initial conditions, gas sphere, Parameter file, gas sphere, Example of pymses script for maps.
• Example to generate initial conditions for collisionless codes: File to generate initial conditions for a Navarro, Frenk & White halo (generates a tipsy ascii file) .
• Link to lecture records on Moodle: link
• Git repository by Mario Spera: link

Lectures on collisional dynamics for the PhD School in Astronomy, University of Padova, November 2014

Program

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Course evaluation



Lecture on `How to be ready for multimessenger astronomy', Binational Heraeus Summer School Series for Teacher Students and Teachers, Jena, Germany, September 2, 2015

Lecture Heraeus 2015, Jena

Lecture on `Gravitational wave sources in the frequency range of Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors', Binational Heraeus Summer School Series for Teacher Students and Teachers, Padova, Italy, June 12, 2015

Lecture Heraeus 2015, Padova

Lecture on `Star formation around super-massive black holes: theory and phenomenology', Binational Heraeus Summer School Series for Teacher Students and Teachers `Space, Time and Gravitation, The case of Active Galactic Nuclei', at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, September 1-6, 2014

Lecture Heraeus



Lecture on `Direct summation N-body codes for astrophysical simulations: from GRAPE to GPU', Summer school `HIGH PERFORMANCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING ' (Strategic Research Project AACSE - Algorithms and Architectures for Computational Science and Engineering , Department of Information Engineering , University of Padova), Padova, Italy, September 16-19, 2013

Lecture AACSE



Lecture on Dynamics and ultraluminous X-ray sources, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, January 2014

Lecture ULXs