Talk Dynamics I 1- Fundamental stellar dynamics - relaxation, collisionless dynamics - distribution functions, Jeans eqs, etc. Read more
Talk Dynamics II 2- Stellar orbits and dynamical models - orbits in various potentials, Jeans Thm, DF models, Schwarzschild, M2M Read more
Talk Dynamics V 5- The Galactic halo - mass, extent, shape - substructure, inner/outer halo Read more
Talk Simulations I 1- The use and abuse of N-body codes - relaxation in spheres and disks, collective enhancement - code structure, block time steps Read more
Talk Simulations II 2- Poisson solvers - trees - fixed and adaptive grids - parallelization Read more
Talk Simulations III 3- Setting up equilibrium models - choosing from a DF, Jeans equations and their limitations - disk-bulge-halo models Read more