Program

All times are based on US Central time.

Zoom link: https://go.ncsa.illinois.edu/EinsteinToolkitWorkshop
Tutorial server:
https://etk1.cct.lsu.edu/hub/login?next=%2Fhub%2F

Monday June 15

9:00 – 9:30
Numerical Relativity: Spacetime Engineering
Stuart Shapiro
Slides here

9:30 – 10:00
Multimessenger Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers from GRMHD Simulations
Manuela Campanelli (Online)
Slides here

10:00 – 10:30
Neutrino transport
David Radice
Slides here

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30
Gravitational wave modelling
Deborah Ferguson (Online)
Slides here

11:30 – 12:00
Modified gravity
Chloe Richards
Slides here

12:00 – 12:30
Introduction to CarpetX
Erik Schnetter (Online)

12:30 – 13:45
Lunch

13:45 – 14:45
Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit
Roland Haas
Slides here

14:45 – 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 – 16:00
How to write a CarpetX thorn
Steve Brandt

Tuesday June 16

9:00 – 9:30
Introduction to general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Charles Gammie
Slides here

9:30 – 10:00
What MUSES equations of state can do for the Einstein Toolkit
Jaki Noronha-Hostler
Slides here

10:00 – 10:30
Initial data for neutron stars
Antonios Tsokaros
Slides here

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30
Binary neutron star mergers
Elias Most

11:30 – 12:30
GRMHD tutorial with AsterX
Michail Chabanov (Online)
Slides here

12:30 – 13:45
Lunch

13:45 – 14:45
Career opportunities
Eloisa Bentivegna (Online)
Gabriele Bozzola (Online)
Bruno Giacomazzo (Online)
Jonah Miller (Online)

14:45 – 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 – 16:00
CapyrX: Writing CarpetX codes for non-cartesian coordinate systems
Lucas Timotheo Sanches

Wednesday June 17

9:00 – 11:00
Discussion on numerical relativity codes
William Black (DendroGR) Slides here
Tamara Evstafyeva (GRTeclyn, Online)
Slides here
Elias Most (FFE/FIL)
Carlos Palenzuela (MHDuet, Online)
David Radice (AthenaK)
Slides here
Nils Vu (Spectre, Online)

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30
NRPy2 / BHaHAHA
Zach Etienne

12:30 – 13:45
Lunch

13:45 – 14:45
SpEC/SpECTRE
Geoffrey Lovelace

14:45 – 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 – 16:00
The Einstein Engine: A Modular Code Generator for GPU Simulations in the Modern Era
Max Morris

Thursday June 18

9:00 – 9:30
GPU-accelerating multimessenger astrophysics simulations with GRaM-X
Philipp Moesta (Online)

9:30 – 9:45
Turbulence in strong gravity: a curvature-aware approach to black-hole accretion
Giuseppe Ficarra (Online)
Slides here

9:45 – 10:00
REGIME: A new approach to resistive GRMHD
Miquel Miravet Tenes (Online)

10:00 – 10:30
CanudaX
Helvi Witek
Slides here

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 – 11:15
Numerical relativity simulations of black hole-neutron star mergers
Rahime Matur
Slides here

11:15 – 11:30
Evolution of a black hole cluster with numerical relativity
Jamie Bamber
Slides here

11:30 – 11:45
Cauchy-characteristic extraction (CCE) with Einstein Toolkit
Noora Ghadiri
Slides here

11:45 – 12:00
Relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of compact binaries and radiation transport using MAYA and GRHayL
Johnny Tsao (Online)
Slides here

12:00 – 12:15
Hyperbolic encounters in quadratic scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Freddy Pardoe
Slides here

12:15 – 12:30
COCAL Initial Data Carpet Reader
Maxwell Rizzo
Slides here

12:30 – 13:45
Lunch

13:45 – 14:45
Large language models for numerical relativity
Zach Etienne
Liwei Ji

Slides here

14:45 – 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 – 16:00
Kuibit
Maxwell Rizzo
Slides here

2026 North American Einstein Toolkit Workshop and School
Email: hwitek@illinois.edu