Monday September 15th
09:00-10:00 Arrival of the Shuttle Bus from the City Center/Registration/Checking Emails
10:00-10:10 Jürgen Steinacker Welcome
Session 1: Radiative Transfer Coding & Scattering
(Chair Monday morning: Sebastian Wolf)
10:10-10:30 Manolis Xilouris 3D Radiative transfer models of spiral galaxies: The method of scattered intensities
10:30-10:50 Richard Tuffs Calculation of radiation fields in galaxies using the method of scattered intensities
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-11:40 Simone Bianchi Radiative transfer in a clumpy galactic disk
Session 2: Line Radiative Transfer Coding
11:40-12:00 Eric Keto Modeling non-LTE hyperfine emission
12:00-12:20 Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov Molecular Line Radiative Transfer in Prestellar Objects
12:20-12:45 General Discussion about Session 1 and 2 (Moderator: Tom Abel)
12:45-14:00 Lunch (at MPIA for those who have ordered a meal)
Session 3: Special Algorithms and Approaches for Radiative Transfer Coding
(Chair Monday afternoon: Barbara Whitney)
14:00-14:20 Tom Bethell Monte Carlo and the Delaunay Tesselation : radiative transfer on an unstructured and adaptive grid
14:20-14:40 Kristian Finlator Accuracy and Speed in Moment Methods for Continuum Radiative Transfer
14:40-15:00 Michael Wolff Validity of the plane-parallel approximation and corrections to perf orm radiative transfer in curved atmospheres
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-15:50 Juergen Steinacker Ray-tracing applied to star formation : inverse radiative transfer, high optical depths, resolution issues, and fitting algorithms
15:50-16:10 Rainer Wehrse Markov process simulations for radiative transfer problems
16:10-17:10 Free Time for Conversations/Collaborations
Session 4: Calculation of the Ionization by Radiation
17:10-17:30 Ilian Iliev Simulating Reionization at Large Scales
17:30-17:50 Barbara Ercolano 3D photoionisation and dust RT calculations with Monte Carlo methods
17:50-18:20 General Discussion about Session 3 and 4 (Moderator: Maarten Baes)
18:30 Departure of the Shuttle Bus to the City Center
20:00 Workshop Dinner at the Zum Gueldenen Schaf
Tuesday September 16th
09:00-9:30 Arrival of the Shuttle Bus from the City Center/Checking Emails
Session 5: Radiative Transfer Coding & Small Dust Grains/Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
(Chair Tuesday morning: Eric Keto)
09:30-09:50 Nikolai Voshchinnikov How large speculations allow us light scattering theory?
09:50-10:10 Karl Misselt Dust emission treated with DIRTY (preliminary title)
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:00 Kees Dullemond Radiative transfer with quantum heated grains
11:00-11:20 Chael Kruip
11:20-11:40 Ralf Siebenmorgen T Tauri disk emission and PAH destruction
11:40-12:10 General Discussion about Session 5 (Moderator: Mika Juvela)
12:10-12:45 Free Time for Conversations/Collaborations
12:45-14:00 Lunch (at MPIA for those who have ordered a meal)
Session 6: Aspects of Radiative Transfer Coding using the Monte-Carlo-Approach
(Chair: Manolis Xilouris)
14:00-14:20 Thomas Robitaille Radiation transfer modeling of young stars
14:20-14:40 Michiel Min Radiative transfer in massive protoplanetary disks
14:40-15:00 Patrik Jonsson Polychromatic Radiative Transfer with Sunrise
15:00-15:20 Sebastian Wolf Monte Carlo RT in Planet Formation Studies; Astrophysics Software Database
15:20-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-16:10 Dimitris Stamatellos Radiative transfer in starless clouds and young embedded protostars
16:10-16:30 Karl Gordon Radiative transfer in DIRTY and the DIRTY view of Star Formation Rate Indicators
16:30-16:50 Christophe Pinte Multi-wavelength modelling of protoplanetary disks
16:50-17:10 Barbara Whitney Full Treatment of Polarization: Emission, Scattering, Aligned Grains, Arbitrary Magnetic Fields, Multi-Wavelength
17:10-17:30 Maarten Baes Benchmarking continuum LTE radiative transfer codes in a disc galaxy environment
17:30-18:10 General Discussion about Session 6 (Moderator: Aake Nordlund)
18:30 Departure of the Shuttle Bus to the City Center
Wednesday September 17th
09:00-9:30 Arrival of the Shuttle Bus from the City Center/Registration/Checking Emails
Session 7: Radiative Transfer Coding and Adaptive Mesh Refinement/Magneto Hydro Dynamics
(Chair: Rainer Wehrse)
09:30-09:50 Aake Nordlund Fast radiative transfer for MPI and AMR
09:50-10:10 Bernd Freytag Radiation hydrodynamics simulations of dust layers in brown dwarfs
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-12:45 Free Time for Conversations/Collaborations
12:45-14:00 Lunch (at MPIA for those who have ordered a meal)
14:00-14:20 Sukanya Chakrabarti RADISHE'ing Simulations - from Protostars to Galaxies
14:20-14:40 Mika Juvela Radiative transfer on AMR grids
14:40-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-15:30 Tom Abel Radiation Transport in 3D AMR Simulations of Star Formation in the Galaxy
15:30-15:50 John Wise Adaptive Ray Tracing in AMR Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations
15:50-16:20 Karl Gordon Workshop Outlook: The Future of Radiative Transfer Work incorporating Cosmic Dust
16:20-17:00 Final Workshop Discussion (Moderator: Kees Dullemond)
17:00 End of the Workshop/Departure of the Shuttle Bus to the City Center