Talk series: The Galaxy, Stellar Compositions and Dynamics

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    Dynamics I

    1- Fundamental stellar dynamics - relaxation, collisionless dynamics - distribution functions, Jeans eqs, etc.

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    Dynamics II

    2- Stellar orbits and dynamical models - orbits in various potentials, Jeans Thm, DF models, Schwarzschild, M2M

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    Dynamics III

    3- Galactic disk dynamics

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    Dynamics IV

    4- The Galactic bulge - structure - dynamics - origin

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    Dynamics V

    5- The Galactic halo - mass, extent, shape - substructure, inner/outer halo

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    Simulations I

    1- The use and abuse of N-body codes - relaxation in spheres and disks, collective enhancement - code structure, block time steps

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    Simulations II

    2- Poisson solvers - trees - fixed and adaptive grids - parallelization

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    Simulations III

    3- Setting up equilibrium models - choosing from a DF, Jeans equations and their limitations - disk-bulge-halo models

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    Simulations IV

    4- Analysis "on the fly" - code testing - made-to-measure