SCIENCE SEMINAR
High Performance Computing: New Insights into Binary Evolution
Dr. Lorne Nelson
Physics Department
Bishop's University
Friday, April 3, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:20 pm
NICOLLS 1
High performance computing (HPC) is giving scientists the ability to carry out sophisticated investigations of highly complex systems. This is especially true in the area of astrophysics where theorists are using computer models to study the formation and evolution of exotic systems that contain compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Although computationally intensive, the evolution of these systems can be followed numerically over the age of the Universe. Using Monte Carlo methods, an entire population of these systems can be synthesized and the ensemble properties of the population can be compared with the observations. In this talk, I will discuss these issues and show how the use of HPC has provided us with new and exciting.
THIS TALK IS PRESENTED AT A LEVEL THAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR UNIVERSITY OR CEGEP STUDENTS.
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