During August 19-23, 2013 Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute hosted the International Workshop MODEST-13. The MODEST (MOdeling DEnse STellar systems) is a loosely knit international collaboration between various groups working in stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and related areas. One of the main activities of the collaboration is to provide a software framework for large-scale simulations of dense stellar systems, in which existing codes for dynamics, stellar evolution, and hydrodynamics can be easily coupled, and place them in the appropriate observational context. MODEST-13 is the thirteenth workshop within the MODEST initiative, the first major MODEST meeting in central Asia.
The topics of MODEST-13 workshop:
- Globular and dense clusters
- Central clusters in galaxies
- N-body simulations
Scientific Organizing Committee:
- Rainer Spurzem (NAOC/KIAA, Beijing, China) – Co-chair
- Chingis Omarov (Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan) – Co-chair
- Douglas Heggie (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- Piet Hut (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA)
- Stephen McMillan (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA)
- Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- Alison Sills (McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Local Organizing Committee:
- Chingis Omarov (Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan) – Co-chair
- Rainer Spurzem (NAOC/KIAA, Beijing, China) – Co-chair
- Maxim Makukov (Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan)
- Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev (Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan)
The booklet of the workshop
The booklet contains the workshop program and abstracts, and might be downloaded here (PDF).
Presentations
Some of the individual presentations are also available:
- Rainer Spurzem – Astrophysical Supercomputing, Galactic Nuclei and Black Holes [ppt]
- Rainer Spurzem – How it all started [ppt]
- Andreas Ernst – The volume of star clusters [pdf]
- Arkadiusz Hypki – Bimodal spatial distribution of blue stragglers as a tracer of star cluster dynamical state [pdf]
- Christoph Olczak – Mass segregation in young star clusters [pdf]
- Gareth Kennedy – The role of three-body stability in tidally interacting globular clusters [pdf]
- Inti Pelupessy – Cluster formation simulations with AMUSE [pdf]
- Jarrod Hurley – The Role of Stellar Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters [pdf]
- Jongsuk Hong – Black Hole Binaries in Nuclear Star Clusters and Gravitational Wave Sources [pdf]
- Margarita Sobolenko – N-body modelling of galaxy mergers and the mergers “mass deficit” effect [pdf]
- Mirek Giersz – New IMBH formation scenario in dense star clusters [pdf]
- Peter Berczik – Galactic Star Cluster mass evolution: High performance star by star simulations [pdf]
- Sverre Aarseth – Post-Newtonian N-Body Simulations [pdf]
- Thijs Kouwenhoven – The Dynamical Evolution of Multi-Planet Systems in Star Clusters [pdf]
- Yeong-Bok Bae – Compact Binaries Ejected from Globular Clusters as GW Sources [ppt]
Photos from the event
Click here to see photos from the workshop.
(as the workshop was somewhat too big to be held in the building of the Institute, it was held at the conference hall of Alma-Ata hotel, where most of the guest participants stayed.)