General Information:

The 2023 North American Einstein Toolkit School and Workshop will be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology on July 17 through July  21. This will be a hybrid conference with talks and participants both  in-person and over zoom. Please scroll down for registration and and other logistics for both in-person and online participants.

The Einstein Toolkit is a community-driven software platform of core  computational tools to advance and support research in relativistic  astrophysics and gravitational physics. The conference consist of a  mixture of tutorials for new users and talks about the latest  developments both in the toolkit and the larger scientific community.

Local Organizing Committee:

Manuela Campanelli, Wenli Chen, Yosef Zlochower 

Schedule

Location: Golisano Hall - Rm. 2400; 20 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, NY 14623.

https://maps.rit.edu/?details=Golisano+Hall

Monday (July 17)  (chair: Steven Brandt)

9:00am - 9:40am: Numerical Relativity, Alexandru Dima (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

9:40am - 10:20am: Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit, Roland Haas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

10:20am - 11:00am: CarpetX and the Future of the Einstein Toolkit, Erik Schnetter (Perimeter Institute) CarpetX and the Future of the Einstein Toolkit

11:00am - 11:20am: Break

11:20am - 12:00pm: Initial Data for Numerical Evolutions of Compact Binaries  Michal Pirog (Florida Atlantic University)

2:00pm - 12:40pm: Introduction to GRMHD/AsterX  Jay Kalinani (Rochester Institute of Technology)

12:40 pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Tutorial 1: Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit, Roland Haas

3:30pm-4pm: Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Tutorial 2: Writing your own thorn, Yosef Zlochower (RIT)

 

Tuesday (July 18) (chair: Roland Haas)

9:00am - 9:40am: FUKA initial data, Samuel Tootle (Goethe University Frankfurt)

9:40am - 10:20am: Nuclear Equation of State and Multimessenger Astronomy, Sebastiano Bernuzzi (Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)

10:20am - 11:00am: GramX, Philipp Moesta (University of Amsterdam) 

11:00am - 11:20am: Break

11:20am - 12:00pm: Multipatch Methods with CarpetX, Lucas Timotheo Sanches (Universidade Federal do ABC)

12:00pm - 12:40pm: Jets from Binary Neutron Star Mergers, Luciano Combi (Perimeter Institute) 

12:40 pm - 1:45 pm: Lunch

1:45 pm - 2:00pm Tabulated EOSs, Liam Brodie (Washington University in St Louis)

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Tutorial 3: Automated code generation with NRPY+, Steven Brandt (LSU)

3:30pm - 5:00pm: Tutorial 4: Simulation visualization using Kuibit

 

Wednesday (July 19) (chair: Michail Chabanov)

9:00am - 9:40am: Subgrid Modeling, Carlos Palenzuela (Carlos Palenzuela)

9:40am - 10:20am: Radiation Transport in Athena++, Christopher White (Flatiron Institute, Princeton University) 

10:20am - 11:00am: The Spectre Code, Lawrence Kidder (Cornell University) 

11:00am - 11:20am: Break

11:20am - 12:00pm: Neutrino Transport in Binary Neutron Star Simulation, Francois Foucart (University of New Hampshire) 

12:00pm - 12:40pm: Neutrino Transport on Core-Collapse Simulation, Vassilios Mewes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 

12:40 pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:30pm: Tutorial 5: Compact binary initial data, Samuel Tootle (Goethe University Frankfurt)

3:30pm - 4:00pm : Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Tutorial 6: Simulation Analysis, Leonardo Werneck (U Idaho)
 

Thursday (July 20) (chair: David Neilsen)

9:00am - 9:40am:  The Spritz Code, Bruno Giacomazzo (University of Milano-Bicocca)

9:40am - 10:20am: Microphysics in Binary Neutron Star Simulations, Elias Most (Princeton University) 

10:20am - 11:00am: Modeling the Kelvin Helmholtz Instability in BNS mergers, Michail Chabanov (Goethe University Frankfurt) 

11:00am - 11:20am: Break

11:20 am - 12:00pm: The Harm3D Code, Scott Noble (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) 

12:00pm - 12:40pm: Harm3D+NUC and BNS postmergers, Ariadna Murguia Berthier (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics) 

12:40 pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:30pm: Tutorial 7: Canuda, Giuseppe Ficarra (RIT)

3:30 - 4:00pm: Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Tutorial 8: AsterX and GPU simulations, Jay Kalinani, Lorenzo Ennoggi, Liwei Ji (RIT)

 

Friday (July 21) (chair: Scott Noble)

9:00am - 9:40am: BlackHoles@Home, the Einstein Toolkit, and Beyond, Zachariah Etienne (University of Idaho) 

9:40am - 10:20am: Numerical Relativity in Spherical Coordinates with SphericalNR, Liwei Ji (Rochester Institute of Technology) 

10:20am - 11:00am: Task-Based Parallelization, Steven Brandt (Louisiana State University) 

11:00am - 11:20am: Break

11:20 am - 12:00pm: The DendroGR code, David Neilsen (Brigham Young University) 

12:00 pm - 12:40 pm:  Waveform Accuracy Requirements for the Next Generation, Deirdre Shoemaker (The University of Texas at Austin)

12:40 pm - 1:40 pm: Lunch

1:40pm - 3:30pm: Roundtable discussion on the future of the Einstein Toolkit

 

Logistics

Registration for in-Person Attendees

To sign up for this conference, please register. A registration fee of $40 for students, $80 for postdocs, and $100 for faculty will be charged to in-person participants (this fee is automatically waived for all attendees that are awarded travel support).

The registration website can be found here. In order to register, you will first need to create an account. To do this, follow the "Community Login" link and select "Create a New Account".  You will then be able to login to the actual registration page. You can request travel support as part of the registration process (there is a text box there). Please note that payments of registration fees is handled separately. 

Travel: To plan your trip to this conference, please click here. Attendees can apply for partial travel support, as part of their registration, prior to June 1. Support will be awarded based on merit and available funding. Notifications of these awards will be given by June 8, 2023.

Lodging: The official hotel for the workshop is the RIT INN and Conference center, 5257 West Henrietta Road, Henrietta, NY 14467; (585) 359-1800. which is adjacent to the RIT campus. To reserve a room, follow this https://www.rit.edu/ritinn/.
 

Zoom Registration:

Please register with zoom here https://rit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsd-GorzsiGdEv5NNTV1orQ35sxs6Mqnhz  You will need to login to zoom to participate.

Dining:

https://www.rit.edu/fa/diningservices/

We suggest either Café & Market at Crossroads or Cantina and Grille at Global Village both are very close to the conference venue.

Parking:

Please stop by the RIT welcome center to get a parking pass. https://maps.rit.edu/?details=Welcome+Center

Slack Link:

https://northamerican-lbb1859.slack.com/

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a respectful and inclusive community environment that invites participation from everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality, or religion.

Our community is based on mutual respect, tolerance, and encouragement, and we are working to help each other live up to these principles. We want our community to be more diverse: whoever you are, and whatever your background, we welcome you.

Additionally, we aim to always be respectful of our environment and strive to be environmentally friendly in all of our events.