Recent Talks

3- Setting up equilibrium models

- choosing from a DF, Jeans equations  and their limitations

- disk-bulge-halo models

1- Astrometry and photometry

- Hipparcos, Gaia, full-sky and large-area photometric surveys

- fitting models to data

- algorithms and tools

2- More on isochrones

- bolometric corrections and Teff-color relations

- populating isochrones, and the IMF

- simulating star clusters

- simulating apparent and detached binaries

- simulating interacting binaries

2- Stellar orbits and dynamical models

- orbits in various potentials, Jeans Thm, DF models, Schwarzschild, M2M

2- The thin disk.

- observational issues with the star formation history and the dynamical evolution of the thin disk.

- continuing gas accretion

- theoretical ideas about the formation and evolution of the thin disk.

2- Poisson solvers

- trees

- fixed and adaptive grids

- parallelization

1-  Overview of the structure of our Galaxy in the context of other galaxies

- the basic components

- dark matter properties

- general ideas about galaxy assembly

1- The basics

- overview of stellar evolution as a function of mass and metallicity

- from evolutionary tracks to isochrones

- quick overview of chemical changes at the stellar surface

1- Fundamental stellar dynamics

- relaxation, collisionless dynamics

- distribution functions, Jeans eqs, etc.

1- The use and abuse of N-body codes

- relaxation in spheres and disks,  collective enhancement

- code structure, block time steps