**************************************************************************** Agenda Third Texas Workshop on 3-dimensional Numerical Relativity The Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Thompson Conference Center room 2.122, The University of Texas at Austin October 30, October 31, November 1, 1995 Supported in part by NSF Phy93-18152, and by the College of Natural Sciences, the Physics Department, and the Center for Relativity, The University of Texas at Austin ***************************************************************************** Monday, 30 October 1995 ***************************************************************************** -- 8:00AM Coffee and pastries -- 8:30AM Welcome: R. Matzner, M.A. Rankin (Dean, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 1: AMR/Computational Infrastructure Chair: T. Haupt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 9:00AM M. Choptuik: BBH AMR Development -- 9:30AM T. Haupt FORTRAN 90 and HPF implementations -- 10:15AM Break -- 10:35AM J. Browne and M. Parashar: DAGH: Status + Applications -- 11:20AM S. Klasky: Interpolator -- 11:50AM Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 2: Hyperbolic Formulations Chair: J. York ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1:15PM J. York: (gr-qc/9506071 and gr-qc/9506072) -- 2:15PM A. Abrahams: Cylindrical wave tests of hyperbolic evolution -- 2:35PM Helmut Friedrich: Hyperbolic reduction of Einsteins equations -- 3:35PM Break -- 3:50PM J. Masso: Hyperbolic Relativity ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 3: Characteristic Evolution, Extraction and the World-tube Problem Chair: J. Winicour ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 4:40PM J. Winicour: 3D Worldtube-Nullcone Evolution -- 5:10PM A. Abrahams: Perturbative approaches to radiation extraction and outer boundary conditions -- 5:30PM Nigel Bishop: Computational efficiency of extraction and matching -- 5:50PM End -- 7:00PM Social meeting at Matzner residence ***************************************************************************** Tuesday 31 October 1995 ***************************************************************************** -- 8:30AM Coffee and pastries -- 9:00AM PI meeting -- 12:00PM Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 4: PPN to Field Theory Data Setting Chair: S. Finn ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1:15PM S. Finn: Interpreting binary black hole coalescence -- 1:40PM J. Pullin: Linearized theory and colliding black holes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 5: Computational Infrastructure and Toolkit Implementation Chair: J. Browne/M. Parashar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 2:00PM Programming Environments for BBH - Browne/Parashar -- 2:15PM Faisel Saied: Problem Solving Environments -- 2:20PM R. Marsa: RNPL -- 2:40PM M. Choptuik: Remarks on BBH I/O -- 2:50PM T. Haupt: Web Tools -- 3:10PM J. Masso: Viz & IO news -- 3:30PM S. Klasky: Toolkit Wish-List -- 3:40PM Break -- 4:00PM R. Matzner: Planning Session -- 7:00PM Parallel Workshops **************************************************************************** Wednesday 1 November 1995 **************************************************************************** -- 8:30AM Coffee and pastries ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 6: Results: Status of Simulations. Chair: E. Seidel ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 8:45AM Ed Seidel: 3D Black Hole Progress -- 9:15AM W.M Suen: 3D Gravitational Waves -- 9:45AM Mijan Huq: Texas Evolution Code Development -- 10:30AM Robert Marsa: Black Hole--Scalar Field Interactions in Spherical Symmetry -- 10:45AM Greg Cook: Quasi-Equilibrium Binary Initial Data (25 mins) -- 11:15AM Tom Baumgarte: Coding GR in Fortran 90 (10 mins) -- 11:25AM Mark Scheel: Evolution of Hyperbolic Einstein Equations using AHBC (15mins) -- 11:45AM Tom Haupt: Library -- 11:50AM Lunch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 7: Cauchy-Characteristic Matching Chair: Laguna ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 1:00PM R. Gomez: 3D Scalar Wave CCM - The Physical Problem -- 1:20PM P. Holvorcem: Numerical implementation of CCM for 3D scalar waves -- 1:45PM P. Papadoupolos: Matched evolution on curved backgrounds -- 2:05PM Break ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session 8: Perturbation Theory and other semianalytical results. Chair: Laguna ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 2:20PM W.M Suen: Semi-Analytic Approaches -- 4:00PM End