The Pencil Code
a high-order finite-difference code for compressible MHD
19th Pencil Code User Meeting 2023
DATE & VENUE:
4th to 8th September 2023
The meeting was held in Graz (Austria) at the University of Graz.
DETAILED SCHEDULE & TALKS:
| Monday, 4 | 9-12 | Meet & Greet |
| 13:30 | Opening remarks, Axel: code updates & statistics | |
| 14:00 | PC Steering Committee: Status Report (Nils) | |
| 14:30 | Meeting Agenda | |
| 15:00 | Introduction round for new users | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Pencil Code 101: General Concepts & Dicussion | |
| 18:00 | Welcome Reception | |
| Tuesday, 5 | 09:00 | Matthias Reinhardt: GPU acceleration of Pencil Code by Astaroth |
| 09:30 | Jörn Warnecke: Studying small-scale dynamos at low magnetic Prandtl numbers using GPUs and smart initial conditions | |
| 10:00 | Discussion on large-scale models & GPU | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Hongzhe Zhou: Helical and nonhelical dynamos in thin accretion disks | |
| 11:30 | Ramkishor Sharma: Gravitational waves from a first-oder phase transition | |
| 12:00 | Yaoyu Li: Primodial Magnetic Field as a common solution of nanohertz gravitational waves and Hubble tension | |
| 12:15 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Alberto Roper Pol: Cosmology and gravitational waves with the Pencil Code and CosmoGW | |
| 14:00 | Daniel Teubenbacher: Hermean magnetospheric boundary in AIKEF hybrid simulations | |
| 14:30 | Philippe Bourdin: Diffusion in solar HD convection & Technical advancements of PC | |
| 15:00 | Discussion on existing and future Code Interfaces | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Tour in the Institute (Tower Library & Observation Platform) | |
| 16:30 | Social Activity & Guided Tour (Landeszeughaus, City) | |
| Wednesday, 6 | 09:00 | Johannes Tschernitz: Ohmic heating of a hot loop above an active region |
| 09:30 | Vartika Pandey: Finding an equilibrium stratification for solar atmospheric models | |
| 10:00 | Isabella Kraus: Coronal bright point simulation driven with Hinode observations | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Ask-Me-Anything, general Q&A Session | |
| 12:15 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Excursion (Köflach - Piber) & Dinner at Heurigenschänke "Sattler" | |
| Thursday, 7 | 09:00 | Hands-on tutorial for beginners: Running an example and data reading in IDL, Python, Mathematica Break-out rooms: Coding Session |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Discussion of Agenda Items & Work Distribution | |
| 12:15 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Coding Session | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Coding Session | |
| 18:00 | Barbeque at the Lustbühel Observatory | |
| Friday, 8 | 09:00 | Coding Session |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Session reports | |
| 11:30 | Agenda wrap-up | |
| 12:00 | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:15 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Individual Coding Sessions | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Individual Coding Sessions |
PARTICIPANTS:
- LOC: Vartika Pandey, IGAM/Graz
- LOC: Johannes Tschernitz, IGAM/Graz
- LOC: Isabella Kraus, IGAM/Graz
- LOC&SOC: Philippe-A. Bourdin, IGAM/Graz
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- Axel Brandenburg, NORDITA/Stockholm
- Simon Candelaresi (online), University of Stuttgart
- Piyali Chatterjee (online), Indian Institute of Astrophysics
- Ming-Yang Cui, Purple Mountain Observatory/Nanjing
- Mayusree Das (online), Indian Institute of Science/Bengaluru
- Fabio Del Sordo (online), Institute of Space Sciences - CSIC/Barcelona
- Frederick Gent, Aalto University/Espoo
- Oksana Iarygina (online), NORDITA/Stockholm
- Yutong He (online), NORDITA/Stockholm
- Nils Haugen (online), SINTEF Energy Research
- Maarit Korpi-Lagg (online), Aalto University/Espoo
- Yao-Yu Li, Purple Mountain Observatory/Nanjing
- Antonino Salvino Midiri, Université de Genève
- Dhrubaditya Mitra (online), NORDITA/Stockholm
- Yasuhito Narita, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Nousaba Nasrin Protiti (online), NORDITA/Stockholm
- Touko Puro (online), Aalto University/Espoo
- Matthias Reinhardt, Aalto University/Espoo
- Alberto Roper Pol, Université de Genève
- Sovan Sau (online), Indian Institute of Technology/Guwahati
- Ramkishor Sharma, NORDITA/Stockholm
- Sankalp Srivastava (online), Indian Institute of Astrophysics/Bengaluru
- Daniel Teubenbacher, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Jörn Warnecke (online), MPS/Göttingen
- Hongzhe Zhou, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
GROUP PHOTO:
The next meeting will be in Barcelona (2024).