AstroSim Open Forum
This open forum is related to the MODEST (MOdeling DEnse STellar systems) series of workshops.
Date: September 9th, 2009
Venue: National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan (http://www.nii.ac.jp). 12th floor, Room 1208
Co-Organizers:
Arturo Nakasone (National Institute of Informatics)
Piet Hut (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Helmut Prendinger (National Institute of Informatics)
Kenichi Miura (National Institute of Informatics)
Local Organizers: Arturo Nakasone and Helmut Prendinger
Program
14:30: Introduction to AstroSim – Objectives and Main Features (Arturo Nakasone)
14:45: NAREGI Version 1 and Cyber-Science Infrastructure (Kenichi Miura)
15:00: Introduction to MICA, a Virtual Astronomy Department (Piet Hut)
15:15: Drinking from a Fire Hose: Using Virtual Worlds to visualize Supercomputer Simulations (Jun Makino)
15:30: MODEST and MUSE: Coordinating Global Collaborations (Steve McMillan)
15:45: Summary of CosmoGrid (Simon Portegies Zwart)
16:00: AstroSim II and beyond: Multi-year Vision (Arturo Nakasone)
16:15: Discussion about Visualization Setup, User Interface, and Data Analysis (moderated by Piet Hut)
17:00: End of Workshop
Speaker Bios:
Kenichi Miura is professor of high-end computing at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics and project leader of the Resources Linkage for e-Science project. His research interests include grid technology and supercomputing and special-purpose processor architecture development. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Piet Hut is professor of astrophysics and interdisciplinary studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Amsterdam, Holland. Apart from large-scale simulations in stellar dynamics, he engages in interdisciplinary research involving collaborations with colleagues in areas ranging from geology and paleontology to cognitive science and philosophy.
Jun Makino is professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. He received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Tokyo, Japan. His interests are in computational astrophysics and computer architecture.
Steve McMillan is professor of physics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University. His principal scientific interests are in stellar dynamics and the astrophysics of dense stellar systems, such as star clusters and galactic nuclei. Currently he is actively involved in the development of high-performance software frameworks for simulating these systems.
Simon Portegies Zwart is professor of astrophysics at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Amsterdam, also in The Netherlands. He works on the interface between astrophysics and computer science, having had a joint position in both fields for many years. He is currently heading the largest astrophysical simulations task force in The Netherlands.
Arturo Nakasone is a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. He received his PhD in information science from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include 3D visualization, virtual storytelling, and virtual world and game interactivity.
