Conveners
(DTP/DNP) W3-1 Computational Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology II | Avancées informatiques en astrophysique et en cosmologie II (DPT/DPN)
- Nicole Vassh (TRIUMF)
Twenty years ago, I co-authored a review of computational astrophysics with Jon Hakkila and Derek Busazi. At the time, we were asked to speculate on where the field would go, from data analysis to simulation work, and what progress would be possible with increased computational power. Having been tasked with presenting a brief review of the current state-of-the-art in computational...
The formation and evolution of galaxies is inherently a multi-physics and multi-scale problem, involving dark matter, star formation and feedback, collisional relaxation-driven N-body dynamics, stellar and binary evolution, and supermassive black-holes (and much more!). Numerical simulations are an extremely powerful tool to incorporate these physical processes and explore their interplay, but...
Nuclear astrophysics combines astronomical observations, computational astrophysics simulations and nuclear physics experiments to reveal how the elements formed in stars and stellar explosions. One of the key problems at the centre of nuclear astrophysics is to understand why the most metal-poor stars that formed in the early universe show enigmatic anomalies, such as two-order magnitude...
