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7-11 August
| Day/Lecture | Title | Comment |
| Monday, 7Aug | Visualization of Scientific Data:
openGL, graphic cards, polygonal meshes, volume rendering, IFrIT.
Exercises: visualizing particle distribution and trajectories.
| Gnedin |
| * | | |
| Tuesday, 8 August | Lyman-alpha Forest:
quasars, ionization balance in the IGM, column density, absorption line
formation, observations.
Exercises: generating a synthetic spectrum along a line of sight
| Gnedin |
| * | | |
| Wednesday, 9 August | Flux Power Spectrum:
spectrum as a fluctuating Gunn-Peterson opacity, statistics of the
spectrum, 1D to 3D conversion.
Exercises: computing the flux power spectrum from synthetic spectra
| Gnedin |
| * | | |
| Thursday, 10 August | Lyman-alpha Forest as a Cosmological Tool:
cosmological parameter estimation from the forest data, effective
equation of state in the IGM, radiative transfer, future directions.
Exercises: sensitivity of the flux power spectrum to cosmological
parameters. Afternoon: presentations of projects.
| Gnedin |
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| Friday, 11 August | Presentations of projects
| Students |
| * | Lectures and Code | |
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