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SIMBA Collaboration Workshop

Conference

Computational Astrophysics

When

  • All Day

  • All Day

  • All Day

Where

Math for America, 915 Broadway, 17th Floor

915 Broadway

New York City, NY 10010, United States

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Join co-organizers Daniel Anglés-Alcázar and Romeel Davé in the first annual SIMBA Collaboration Workshop held at the Flatiron Institute in New York City on February 18th – 20th, 2020.

The SIMBA large volume cosmological simulations represent a significant step forward in modeling statistical populations of galaxies with state-of-the-art hydrodynamics and realistic sub-grid baryonic physics based on higher resolution calculations. The goal of the workshop is to discuss ongoing work with the SIMBA simulations, coordinate existing projects, and make plans for future work. We would like to promote the exchange of ideas, tools, and knowledge between subgroups working on different aspects of galaxy formation and cosmology. We anticipate that the workshop will include a mix of talks and ample discussion time, along with breakout sessions for more in-depth collaborations.

Please register for the workshop and indicate your planned dates of attendance and any dietary restrictions. There is no workshop registration fee and breakfast/lunch/breaks are generously provided by the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), Flatiron Institute, which is hosting the workshop. Workshop participants are welcome to stay at the CCA on Friday February 21st for free collaboration time.

Further information regarding the workshop program and logistics will follow soon. Meanwhile, please feel free to send us any questions regarding the workshop.

Organized by:

Daniel Anglés-Alcázar
Associate Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute CCA
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut

Romeel Davé
Chair of Physics, The University of Edinburgh

Agenda

Tuesday, February 18th

Math for America Building
8:30 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00am Welcome & Simba status report – Romeel Davé
10:00 – 10:20am Black hole growth modes and feedback in Simba – Daniel Anglés-Alcázar
10:20 – 10:40am Radio AGN in SIMBA – Nicole Thomas
10:40 – 11:00am Simba: on the scatter of galaxy formation – Weiguang Cui
11:00 – 11:30am Coffee break
11:30 – 11:50am Galaxy evolution in the metric of the cosmic web – Katarina Kraljic
11:50 – 12:10pm Galaxy profiles in green valley galaxies – Sarah Appleby
12:10 – 12:30pm Star formation histories in SIMBA and MUFASA – Kartheik Iyer
12:30 – 12:50pm Angular momentum in MANGA and hydro simulations – Chris Duckworth
12:50 – 1:10pm Mergers and quenching in Simba – Francisco Rodriguez Montero
1:10 – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00 – 2:15pm Ground truthing SED fitting methods in galaxy observations – Sidney Lower
2:15 – 2:30pm Modeling nebular line emission (using BPT diagrams as a test case) – Prerak Garg
2:30 – 2:45pm Dust content in the SIMBA simulations – Qi Li
2:45 – 3:00pm Lyman alpha blobs in cosmological simulations – Benjamin Kimock
Move to CCA
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30 – 4:00pm Analysis tools overview
4:00 – 4:30pm Group discussion on tools, repositories
4:30 – 5:30pm Hack time
5:30pm Reception and group dinner

Wednesday, February 19th

Math for America Building
8:30 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 – 9:50am SIMBA in far-infrared emission with SIGAME – Karen Pardos Olsen
9:50 – 10:10am FIR fine-structure lines in the first galaxies – Daisy Leung
10:10 – 10:30am Photometric properties of EoR galaxies in Simba – Xiaohan Wu
10:30 – 10:50am Rapid early coeval SF and assembly of massive galaxies- Douglas Rennehan
10:50 – 11:10am SMG Predictions from SIMBA – Christopher Lovell
11:10 – 11:40am Coffee break
11:40am – 12:00pm Cold gas properties in Simba vs Eagle vs TNG – Romeel Davé
12:00 – 12:20pm The effect of AGN feedback on the properties of z~2-3 CGM – Daniele Sorini
12:20 – 12:40pm What can DLAs tell us about galaxy formation? – Sultan Hassan
12:40 – 1:00pm Circumgalactic medium in Simba – Sarah Appleby
1:00 – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00 – 3:00pm Project discussion/organization and wiki update (Romeel Davé)
Move to CCA
3:00 – 3:30pm Coffee break
3:30 – 5:00pm Hack time

Thursday, February 20th

Math for America Building
8:30 – 9:30am Breakfast
9:30 -9:50am Marginalizing over baryon effects – Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
9:50 – 10:10am Taranis: GPU-accelerated cosmological radiative transfer- Gennaro Di Pietro
10:10 – 10:30am SWIFT: Scaling cosmological simulations – Josh Borrow
10:30 – 10:40am Inter-lagrangian transfer in SIMBA – Josh Borrow
10:40 – 11:00am SIMBA and 2020s large-scale structure – Michael Wilson
11:00 – 11:30am Coffee break
11:30am – 1:00pm Future projects discussion, hack time
1:00 – 2:00pm Lunch
Participants
Name Institution
Daniel Angles-Alcazar CCA
Sarah Appleby University of Edinburgh
Josh Borrow ICC, Durham University
Joanne Cohn UC Berkeley
Weiguang Cui IfA, university of Edinburgh
Ruth Daly CCA/Penn State University
Romeel S. Davé University of Edinburgh
Ana Maria Delgado New York City College of Technology- CUNY
Gennaro Di Pietro University of Edinburgh
Claire Dickey Yale University
Chris Duckworth CCA / University of St Andrews
Prerak Garg University of Florida
Sultan Hassan New Mexico State University
Kartheik Iyer Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto
Benjamin Kimock University of Florida
Katarina Kraljic University of Edinburgh
T. K. Daisy Leung CCA
Qi Li University of Florida
Christopher Lovell University of Hertfordshire
Sidney Lower University of Florida
Ariyeh Maller CUNY
Francisco Rodriguez Montero Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Bhawna Motwani CCA
Renan Alves de Oliveira CCA
Karen Pardos Olsen University of Arizona
Douglas Rennehan University of Victoria
Daniele Sorini Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Rachel Somerville CCA
Nicole Thomas University of the Western Cape
Stephanie Tonnesen CCA
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro Princeton University
Martin White UC Berkeley
Michael Wilson LBNL
Xiaohan Wu Harvard CfA

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