Date

Lecturer: Frank Timmes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Monday
June 20
9:30am

Computer Introduction for Workstation Lab (9:30)
Overview and Purpose (10:00)
Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations I
Linear algebra for reaction networks I
PP chains (code will be provided)

Tuesday
June 21
9:30am

Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations II
Thermodynamic trajectories
CNO Cycles (code will be provided)

Wednesday
June 22
9:30am

Linear algebra for reaction networks II
Nuclear physics input to reaction networks
alpha-chain networks (code will be provided)

Thursday
June 23
9:30am

Nuclear statistical equilibrium (code will be provided)
Big Bang nucleosynthesis (code will be provided)

Friday
June 24
9:30am

General reaction networks (code will be provided)
Networks in hydrodynamic simulations (1D hydrocode will be provided)

Date

Lecturer: Brad Meyer (Clemson University)

Monday
June 27
9:30am

Overview of Behaviors (steady states and equilibria)
Steady State Simulations (example PP and CNO chains)

Tuesday
June 28
9:30am

Steady state in the s-process and BBN
Practicum (bbn code, s-process code)

Wednesday
June 29
9:30am

NSE and QSE--constrained equilibria
Practicum (NSE and QSE codes)

Thursday
June 30
9:30am

The r-process (equilibria and steady states)
Practicum (r-process codes)

Friday
July 1
9:30am

Extreme nucleosynthesis (the r-process versus bbn)
Summary and closing

*** A special lecture on networks in biological & other systems will be given
by Lazlo Barabasi from The University of Notre Dame.
Title: "Understanding Complex Networks: From the WWW to the Cell"
June 23, 2005

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
June 16, 2005