$Id: agenda.txt,v 1.8 2008-08-17 10:56:44 brandenb Exp $

Todo topics
  turning off the lpencil_check in auto-test
  writing of timings
  ordering T-shirts in good time
  change to SVN some time before the meeting
  clean up and re-order IDL directory

Discussion topics

- Intro to using python instead of idl (at least for newcomers) [Boris]

- Cleaning up the Makefile [Boris]

- An experience database [Anders]

- A discussion about Anders' problem regarding the conservation of mass in the
code. For quite high compressible convection runs (both in local boxes and
star-in-a-box ones), I also experienced bad mass conservation when
applying the upwind scheme on lnrho and this discussion will certainly be
useful for everybody (as Wolfgang's remarks following Anders' first
email). [Boris]

- A discussion about what the canonical list of tests would be. Actually,
we check 30 tests while some tests share the same physics (e.g. the
different convection ones). One can ask the question to restrict tests to
really different physics and/or geometry. [Boris]

- Discuss the future of initial conditions. The code is loaded with useless
and obsolete initial conditions. Should we put those in a special
initcond_XXX extension of each module?

- Should we add gsl library to the pencil code source?

- Is there a good way to avoid wrong names such as lncc for cc and lnTT for TT?

- Help with VAPOR

+ remove all lbidiagonal_derij=F



Preliminary programme:
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Tuesday

09:00-10:00 : Registration, coffee
10:00-10:45 : Welcome (Anders)
10:45-12:00 : Discussion: "Changing from CVS to SVN" (Tobi/Axel)
12:00-14:00 : Lunch
14:00-18:00 : Discussion: "Postprocessing with Python" (Boris)

Wednesday

09:00-09:45 : "Chemistry modules" (Axel)
09:45-10:30 : "Simulations of the geodynamo" (Graeme)
10:30-11:15 : Coffee break
11:15-12:00 : "The excitation of inertial-acoustic waves in turbulent
              accretion disks" (Tobi)
12:00-14:00 : Lunch
14:00-16:00 : Discussion: various topics
              - Clean up and re-order IDL directory (Anders)
              - Turning off the lpencil_check in auto-test (Wolfgang)
              - Should initial conditions be put in separate files?
              - Mass conservation (Boris/Anders/Tobi/Wlad)
              - Should we add gsl library to the pencil code source?
              - Is there a good way to avoid wrong names such as lncc for cc
                and lnTT for TT?
              - Cleaning up the Makefile (Boris)
              - An experience database (Anders)

Thursday

09:00-09:45 : "Simulations of transmagnetic accretion discs"/
              "Particle modules in the Pencil Code" (Anders)
09:45-10:30 : "Global models of planet formation" (Wlad)
10:30-11:15 : Coffee break
11:15-12:00 : "A Monte Carlo coagulation equation solver" (Andras/Andrej)
12:00-14:00 : Lunch
14:00-16:00 : New users ask questions
16:00-18:00 : Discussion: "A Pencil Code paper" (Axel)

Friday

09:30-10:15 : "Long time steps for diffusive problems" (Wolfgang)
10:15-11:00 : "Large scale dynamo in rotating shear flow" (Petri/Dhruba)
11:30-12:00 : "The test field method" (Axel)
12:00-14:00 : Lunch
14:00-18:00 : Discussion: various topics continued