COST WG1 Milky Way Gaia School

14 Jan 2020, 08:30 → 17 Jan 2020, 18:00 Europe/Madrid

University of Barcelona (Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB-IEEC))

Outline of the school

This is the first school of the WG1 The Milky Way as a Galaxy of the EU COST action  MW-Gaia. The objective of this working group is the exploitation of Gaia data in combination with other survey data to address some of the most important questions in the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. 

Being N-body and hydrodynamic simulations key tools to undertake the structure, star formation history, and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way, the goal of the school is to provide a general view of the current state of the art and challenges in simulating the formation of Milky Way size galaxies.

Currently, High Performance computing and Data Science tools are key to perform and analyze these simulations and to do a fair comparison with observations. With this in mind, it is a key goal of the school to provide to skills the students need to deal with such simulation/real data.

Gaia WG1 School 2020

School Lectures (PDF)

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Tuesday 14 January

1 Nbody simulations: General code structure. Integrators

Speaker: Dr Octavio Valenzuela

2 Approaching a theory of galaxy formation

Speaker: Dr Daniel Ceverino

Ceverino_1.pdf

11:15 Coffee break

3 Introduction to simulations of galaxies and to the SPH method

Speaker: Dr Arianna Di Cintio

13:00 Lunch

4 Hands-on session: Introduction to Globular Clusters

Basic principles

Speakers: M. Gieles, T. Cantat-Gaudin

5 Hands-on session: Students' work (1)

16:30 Coffee break

6 Hands- on session: Students' work (2) and open discussion

Wednesday 15 January

7 Initial conditions. Different code types

Speaker: Dr Octavio Valenzuela

8 Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

Speaker: Dr Daniel Ceverino

11:15 Coffee break

9 Science with MW simulations and Gaia data

Speaker: Dr Arianna Di Cintio

13:00 Lunch

10 Hands-on session. Halo-Galaxy connection in hydro simulations

Speakers: A. Di Cintio, D. Ceverino, O. Valenzuela

11 Hands-on session: Students' work (1)

16:30 Coffee break

12 Hands-on session: Students' work (2) and Open Discussion

Thursday 16 January

13 Results in dynamics and cosmology. Alternative dark matter. Computers

Speaker: Dr Octavio Valenzuela

14 From simulations to mock observations

Speaker: Dr Santi Roca-Fàbrega

11:15 Coffee break

15 Available tools to generate "mock observations"

Speaker: Dr Santi Roca-Fàbrega

13:00 Lunch

16 Hands-on session. Mock catalogues, simulations vs observations

Speakers: F. Anders, S. Roca-Fàbrega, T. Antoja

17 Hands-on session: Students' work (1)

16:30 Coffee break

18 Hands-on session: Students' work (2) and Open Discussion

Friday 17 January

19 The physics of star formation and feedback

Speaker: Dr Daniel Ceverino

20 The internal structure of DM haloes in the presence of baryons: the cusp-core controversy

Speaker: Dr Arianna Di Cintio

11:15 Coffee break

21 High Performance Computing in astrophysics

Speaker: Dr Rosa Badia

13:00 Lunch

22 Hands-on session. HPC/Data tool

Speakers: R. Badia, J. Álvarez

23 Hands-on session: Students' work (1)

16:30 Coffee break

24 Hands-on session: Students' work (2) and Open Discussion