2018 MESA Summer School : August 13 - 17

Be ready to interact with your fellow participants, TAs, and Lecturers.

An integral part of a Summer School is MESA oriented Labs designed to generate interactions. This is not a passive, slide  oriented, summer school!


Bring your laptop as we only provide internet access. Be familiar with installing MESA and setting up your own MESA work directories. You must have MESA version 10398 installed.


Some Labs use basic Fortran coding; do loops and if-then structures.

You should be fine if you’ve coded before in almost any language.


Collaboration venues include our Summer School Facebook page

and the mesa-users@lists.mesastar.org email list.


A Google Sheet for use during the Labs.

A Dropbox Space for use during the Labs.

Lecturers:

(placeholder)
(placeholder)
Jennifer van Saders University of Hawaii
Warrick Ball Birminham
Charlie Conroy Harvard
Matteo Cantiello Center for Computational Astrophysics
Lars Bildsten UC Santa Barbara
Josiah Schwab UC Santa Cruz
Frank Timmes Arizona State University

Schedule:

Monday August 13

Bill Wolf Arizona State University
Stephen Ro UC Berkeley
Jared Goldberg UC Santa Barbara
Héctor Martínez-Rodríguez University of Pittsburgh
Evan Bauer UC Santa Barbara
Hannah Klion UC Berkeley
Alina Istrate University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ilaria Caiazzo University of British Columbia
Jakub Ostrowski Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
Kenny Van University of Alberta
Ondrea Clarkson University of Victoria
Sunny Wong UC Santa Cruz
8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast
8:45am - 9:30am Welcome
9:30am - 10:30am Josiah Schwab - Beyond Inlists - Lab
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Josiah Schwab
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm Frank Timmes - pgstar - Lab
3:00pm - 3:15pm Coffee Break
3:15pm - 5:30pm Lars Bildsten - Convective Boundaries - Lab
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm - 9:00pm Open Session

Tuesday  August 14

8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am Discussion of Monday's Labs
9:00am - 10:30am Charlie Conroy - Radius Inflation - Lab
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Charlie Conroy
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:30pm Charlie Conroy
3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45pm - 5:30pm Catch-up Session
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm - 9:00pm Open Session

Wednesday  August 15

8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am Discussion of Tuesday's Labs
9:00am - 10:30am Jennifer van Saders - Gaia & HR Diagram - Lab
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Jennifer van Saders
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:30pm Jennifer van Saders
3:30pm - 5:00pm Free Time
5:00pm - 7:00pm Picnic Dinner at the Beach

Thursday  August 16

8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am Discussion of Wednesday's Labs
9:00am - 10:30am Warrick Ball - The Astereo Module - Lab
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Warrick Ball
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:30pm Warrick Ball
3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45pm - 5:30pm Catch-up Session
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm - 9:00pm Open Session

Friday  August 17

8:00am - 8:45am Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am Discussion of Thursday's Labs
9:00am - 10:30am Matteo Cantiello - Planetary Engulfment - Lab
10:30am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am - 12:00pm Matteo Cantiello
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 3:30pm Matteo Cantiello
3:30pm - 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45pm - 5:00pm Catch-up Session
5:00pm - 5:30pm Graduation Ceremony
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner

TAs: