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24-28 July
Day/Lecture Title Comment
Monday, 24 July PM code:

review of N-body codes and methods

PM code: important building block of the modern codes - ART, TreePM - to calculate large-scale potential and long-range forces

PM code blueprint description

basic optimization techniques

parallelization with OpenMP

Kravtsov
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Tuesday, 25 July AMR techniques in cosmology:

overview of the idea and the codes and techniques currently in use.

description of the ART code (N-body+hydro).

description of the AMIGA package and techniques (lecture by Alexander Knebe)MPI

Kravtsov, Knebe
*
Wednesday, 26 July Halos and their substructure:

brief intro on assembly of halos, and origin and properties of substructure in config. and phase space.

traditional halofinders (FOF, SO, DenMax)

substructure savvy halo finders

methods of identifying substructure in phase space

Kravtsov
*
Thursday, 27 July Merger histories of halos and Extended Press-Schecter formalism:

the formalism

blueprint for building a Monte Carlo EPS code to generate MAHs of the main progenitor.

Parallelization of EPS code.

Andrew Zentner
*
Friday, 28 July General issues of scientific codes:

code testing and validation

comparisons of cosmological codes

computer simulations as theoretical experiments

Kravtsov
* Lectures and Code