I use ffmpeg often to make and modify movies. But when creating movies from image sequences, ffmpeg requires the movies to be sequentially numbered. Some time ago, I wrote a bash function that create temporary symbolic links to the image files from which ffmpeg can create a movie. You can find the function below, and … Continue Reading ››

For the handful of people that keep up with my astro-ph postings, I figured to share my python script that automates this process because manual posting would be extremely tedious. The script asks for an arXiv number, and then retrieves the title, authors, and PDF. It asks the user for categories for the WordPress site … Continue Reading ››

Conference website: Austin, TX.

(Day 1) Wednesday, 01 April 2015

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Stacy – Influence of Minihalo Environment on the Growth of Pop III Clusters

• Exploring ~10 Pop III star formation sites in a 1 Mpc/h box, focusing on multiplicity of Pop III clusters.
• Total mass in sink particles are in the range 20-120 … Continue Reading ››

Conference (website) at Stockholm University

(Day 1) Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Mellema – Introduction

• Photon Underproduction Crisis (Kollmeier+ 2014)
• Counting photons: the SF efficiency and UV escape fraction are degenerate, and functions of halo mass and time.
• Topology of ionized regions from 21-cm can indicate which sources are responsible for reionization.

Gnedin – Cosmic Reionization on Computers (CROC)

• Star formation and feedback … Continue Reading ››

Conference (website) in Palm Cove, QLD, Australia.

(Day 1) Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Will transcribe my notes someday.

(Day 2) Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Marino – Multiple GC Populations

• Observational evidence in various GCs do not match single stellar populations (SSPs).
• Second parameter: GCs with the same metallicity show different HB morphologies. See Catelan (2009) for a review.
• Other evidence: multiple/spread … Continue Reading ››