Cloudy Workshop

Registration is now open for the 2015 May Cloudy workshop.

Cloudy is a code that simulates diffuse gaseous environments. It calculates the plasma, chemistry, radiation transport, and dynamics problems simultaneously and self consistently, building from the foundation of individual atomic and molecular processes. The result is a prediction of the conditions in the material and its observed spectrum.

This workshop will cover observation, theory, and application of Cloudy to a wide variety of astronomical environments. This includes the theory of diffuse non-LTE matter and quantitative spectroscopy (the science of using spectra to make physical measurements). We will use Cloudy to simulate such objects as AGB stars, Active Galactic Nuclei, Starburst galaxies, and the intergalactic medium.

The sessions will consist of a mix of textbook study, using Osterbrock & Ferland, Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulæ and Active Galactic Nuclei, application of the spectral-simulation code Cloudy to a variety of astrophysical problems, and projects organized by the participants.  No prior experience with Cloudy is assumed.  There is no registration fee and financial support is not available.

See http://cloud9.pa.uky.edu/∼gary/cloudy/CloudySummerSchool/ for more information and to enroll.