Yanqihu Campus,
the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,
380 Huaibeizhuang, Huairou District,
Beijing, China
The Simulating Stars Summer School will take place in Beijing from the 25th to the 29th of June 2018.
Participants will learn about various aspects of stellar astrophysics while learning the basics of MESA evolution code. MESA (or Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics) is a powerful and flexible stellar evolution code, which allows to study several astrophysical objects, from low to high mass stars, from white dwarfs to neutron stars, to novae and supernovae, and much more.
Each day of the school focuses on a topic in stellar astrophysics and is led by one of the lecturers with the help of the teaching assistants. The topics can be found on the page Program, while a schedule is available on the page Schedule. Every day will be a mixture of theory lectures and hands on MESA laboratories. The material needed for the labs can be found on the page Material.
We invite all the students to get ready for the school by installing the required software on their laptops (see Getting started).
Ilaria Caiazzo,
University of British Columbia.
Research interests: compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes), X-ray polarization from highly magnetized objects, brown dwarfs & stellar evolution in globular clusters.
Ilaria will teach the lectures Introduction to stellar evolution with MESA and Globular clusters and white dwarfs: from simulations to data.
JEREMY HEYL,
University of British Columbia.
Research interests: Neutron stars; Stellar populations and stellar evolution; Materials and the vacuum in ultrastrong magnetic fields; General relativity; Cosmology, galaxy formation, evolution and mergers
Jeremy will teach the lectures Introduction to stellar evolution with MESA and Globular clusters and white dwarfs: from simulations to data.
PABLo MARCHANT,
Northwestern University
Research interests: Single and binary evolution of massive stars, gravitational wave astrophysics, X-ray binaries, compact objects
Pablo will teach the lecture Orbital evolution and stability of mass transfer in binary stars.
MANOS Chatzopoulos,
Louisiana State University
Research interests: Massive stellar evolution, supernovae (with emphasis on superluminous supernovae), numerical astrophysics, circumstellar interaction, stellar mergers.
Manos will teach the lecture Massive Stars with MESA: Above and beyond.
ANDREW CUmming,
McGill University
Research interests: stellar astrophysics; high energy astrophysics; nuclear astrophysics; neutron stars, including accretion and magnetic field evolution; giant planet formation and evolution
Andrew will teach the lecture White Dwarf Novae.
AMBER Lauer,
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Duke University.
Research interests: stellar nuclear processes (experiments, observations, astronomy and modeling). Nuclear reactions important for type I X-ray bursts, AGB stars, and other stellar environments.
Xianfei Zhang,
Beijing Normal University
Research interests: binary evolution, white dwarf merger, binary population synthesis and stellar nuclear processes.
alejandro vigna,
University of Birmingham.
Research interests: compact object binaries (binary neutron stars, binary black holes or one of each) and pair-instability supernovae (PISNe).
Sarafina nance,
UC Berkeley.
Research interests: massive star evolution; asteroseismology; strongly lensed supernovae; gravitational lensing.
Yong Shao,
Nanjing University.
Research interests: binary evolution and X-ray binaries.
David Aguilera,
Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics.
Research interests: Massive star evolution, binary evolution, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and the circumstellar medium.
Tao Wu,
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research interests: Asteroseismology: solar-like oscillations, red giant oscillations, cluster asteroseismology, SPB, BLAPs.
mathieu renzo,
Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam.
Research interests: massive stars and binary evolution, runaways, supernovae.
EVA Laplace,
Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam.
Research interests: binary evolution, massive stars, supernovae and X-ray binaries.
Kang Liu,
Beijing Normal University.
Research interests: solar-like stars and asteroseismology.
ilka Petermann,
Arizona State University.
Research interests: evolution of massive stars, their pre-supernova properties, nucleosynthesis.
Hailiang Chen,
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research interests: accreting white dwarfs, binary evolution, binary population synthesis.
Walter Van Rossem,
Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam.
Research interests: Stellar evolution, stellar mergers, asteroseismology.
Chunguang Zhang,
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Yaming Wang,
School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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