Recent highlights

• April 10, 2004: Press release RESEARCHERS RESOLVE INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLE MYSTERY
• 27 June 2001: Awarded two PhD students
• 27 June 2001: Awarded financial support for building a 9-node GRAPE-6a operated Beowulf
• January 10, 2003 NASA: Press release RESEARCHERS SEEK HEART OF BLACK HOLE MYSTERY
• September 2002: Press release Virtuele expeditie naar de Kuiper Gordel
• January 2002 AAS: Press release The runaway growth of intermedate mass black holes in dense star clusters
• 5 December 2001: Awarded KNAW fellowship

Activities

• Develpement of the n-body environment starlab
• The manybody web site
• The GRAPE web site
• tricks and tips
• The local grape web site
• animations
• archive
• supercomputer.nl

Teaching

• HOVO 2006 Sterhopen
• Inter academiaal (spring lectures 2005)
• HOVO 2005 Kosmologie: gast docent
• HOVO 2004 Het zonnenstelsel: gast docent
• HOVO 2003 Leven en dood van sterren: gast docent
• Sterrenhopen in de Supercomputer: algemene informatie over de dynamica van sterrenhopen
• Sterrenkunde werkstukpakket voor middelbare scholieren (HAVO/VWO)
• Stochastic Simulations (2003++)
• Beta Festival NEMO (2006)

Master student projects

• Vacant student projects
• Johan Withagen (2008, with Stefan Harfst) On the collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy
• Edda Heinsman (March 2008, with Stefan Harfst) Goodbye Andromeda
• Jeroen Bedorf (Nov 2007, with Robert Belleman) High performance direct gravitational N-body simulation of Graphica Processing Units (Publication: Belleman et al. 2008, High performance direct gravitational N-body simulations on graphics processing units II: An implementation in CUDA)
• Peter Geldof (May 2007, with Robert Belleman) Generic computing on graphics processing units (Publication: Portegies Zwart et al. 2007, High-performance direct gravitational N-body simulations on graphics processing units)
• Floris van Deuveren (Sept 2007) Possible dark matter in the Galactic center
• David Stibbe (July 2006) Visualization of individually sampled data
• Jelle van den Berk (November 2005) (Publication: van den Berk et al. 2007, The formation of higher order hierarchical systems in star clusters)
• Jort Gemmeke (November 2005) Detecting Chaos in N-body Simulations (Publication: Gemmeke etal (2008) Detecting Irregular Orbits in Gravitational N-body Simulations)
• Ramon Brasser (July 1999) The Collision Probability Between two Bodies Revolving in the Solar System

PhD students

• Evghenii Gaburov (2008) UvA: Promotores prof. R. Weijers, prof. P. Sloot, co-promotores S. Portegies Zwart, O. R. Pols
• Evert Glebbeek (2008) UU: Promotores prof. F. Verbunt co-promotores S. Portegies Zwart, O. R. Pols
• Nicolas Faber (2008) Strasbourg: Promotores dr. C. Boily dr. S. Portegies Zwart
• Alessia Gualandris (2006) UvA: Promotores prof. E.P.J. van den Heuvel, prof. P. Sloot, co-promotor S. Portegies Zwart
• Mark Gieles (2006) UU: Promotor prof. H. Lamers, co-promotor S. Portegies Zwart
• Thijs Kouwenhoven (2006) UvA: Promotores prof. E.P.J. van den Heuvel, prof. L. Kaper, co-promotores A. Brown, S. Portegies Zwart

Online talks and presentations

• Jan 31, 2003 presentation at KITP at the Globular Clusters: Formation, Evolution and the Role of Compact Objects conference
• Febr 25, 2002 presentation at KITP at the Black Holes: Theory Confronts Reality, Three Years Later workshop

MODEST related

• modesta
• MODEST-8b Workshop 15 June until 19 September 2008 in Amsterdam
• MODEST-7f Workshop 10 June until 15June 2007 in Amsterdam
• MODEST-6d Micro workshop 21 March until 15 Aptil 2006 in Amsterdam
• MODEST-5c Summer school on 24-30 July 2005 in Amsterdam
• MODEST-4b meeting on 7-8 June in Amsterdam
• MODEST-2 meeting on 16-17 December in Amsterdam
• Roche
• McScatter
• AMUSE
• MUSE
• ASTROSIM

Conference organization

• LUNA meetings
• Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems 5-9 September, 2007 [Capri, Italy]
• Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters May 29 - June 1, 2006 [Lunteren, The Netherlands]
• Formation and evolution of massive young star clusters 17-21 November 2003 [Cancun, Mexico]
• Modeling Dense Stellar Systems Tuesday 22 (p.m.), Wednesday 23 (full day) August 2006 [Prague]
• Massive stars in interacting binaries 16-21 August 2004 [Montreal, Quebec]

Projects for Master students

• Master Projects within GRID computing