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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: Erwan Hochart and Gijs Vermariën

Objectives:

This course teaches you how to perform research and evaluate results using 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.

Focus of the course

• Discuss and evaluate scientific problems.
• To learn how to set up and perform a simulation and analyzing the results.

Further information:

• e-Prospectus link
• Brightspace

Lectures are weekly on Wednesdays (from 11:00 to 12:45 and from 13:15 to 16:00)

• Wednesdays: from 24 September to 11 December (except 5 November)
• lectures location: First three weeks: BE0.17 / BW0.31 / BM0.19. See MyTimetable for full schedule or this git page.
• Practicum: DM1.19

presentations

17 December at 13:15

Level

500

Credits

6 EC

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