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Welcome to the course material Simulation and Modeling in Astrophysics

Lecture material for MSc student at Leiden University

Instructors:

• Teacher: Simon Portegies Zwart
• Assistants: Erwant Hochart and Gijs Vermariën

Objectives:

This course teaches you how to perform research with existing computational tools and simulation codes. This will be done using the AMUSE software. Students, in small groups, will work on various projects and present their work.

Further information:

• e-Prospectus link
• Brightspace (but we won't be using it much)

Lectures are weekly on Wednesdays from 6 September to 13 December (except 15 November):

• 11:00-12:45 (lectures) BW0.29 (on Sept 4, 18, Oct 2, and Dec 4), and in BW0.18 (on Sept 11, 25, Oct 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 13, 20, 27, and Dec 11)
• 13:15-15:15 (working lecture) BW0.08

A full schedule of the lectures, topics and exercises can be found here

Final evaluation: Report and Presentations

• Presentations: December 18th during the lectures.
• Report and code deadline (no commits to repository after this!): December 22nd 23:59 CET