Our main aim is to bring people together to talk about their work, discuss current problems and promote new ideas. The actual programme will be fixed on the first day of the meeting. Anyone can bring up material they would like to discuss, any topic on star clusters, the Galactic Centre or any other problems related to numerical dynamics are welcome.

Tuesday, December 12

9:00 – 11:30Welcome coffee and tea
11:45 – 13:00Joerg Dabringhausen: "Testing the stability of models for the Galactic center in N-body simulations"
13:00 – 13:45Lunch
13:45 – 14:45Douglas Heggie: "Mysteries of core collapse"
15:00 – 19:00Individual meetings & work
19:00 – 21:00Conference dinner (restaurant Castle Residence)

Wednesday, December 13

9:00 – 10:00Morning coffee and tea
10:10 – 11:20Christian Boily: "Kinematics and morphology of star forming regions"
(seminar of the Astronomical Institute of Charles University; lecture hall T1)
11:45 – 12:45Sambaran Banerjee: "Black holes and neutron stars in dense stellar systems"
12:45 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:45Sverre Aarseth: "Hermite block-step method"
15:45 – 17:00discussion on debugging & tuning of the NBODY6/7 code – Part I
18:00 – 21:00Gluehwine at the Christmas market

Thursday, December 14

9:00 – 9:45Morning coffee and tea
9:45 – 11:15Vaclav Pavlik: "Black hole retention fraction in star clusters"
11:15 – 12:00Individual meetings & work
12:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:30Long Wang: "Symplectic Particle Tree & Algorithmic Regularization Code for Star Clusters (SPARC-SC)"
15:30 – 16:00Long Wang: "Nbodyx @ GitHub"
16:00 – 17:00Pavel Kroupa: "Multiple populations in the ONC"

Friday, December 15

9:00 – 10:00Morning coffee and tea
10:00 – 11:30Individual meetings & work
11:30 – 12:45Lunch
12:45 – 15:00Sverre Aarseth et al.: discussion on debugging & tuning of the NBODY6/7 code – Part II