Rainer Spurzem's N-Body Lectures

Online N-Body Lecture 2023 (March 20-24, 2023)

Online N-Body Lecture 2021 (Sep. 27 - 29, 2021)

Please find Scanned Lecture Notes 2010 (17MB) and Scanned Lecture Notes 2011 (4MB) two files with scanned hand-written lecture notes. The material does not exactly agree with our lecture in Beijing 2011/2012, but should be helpful, hopefully.

You want to listen to earlier lectures? Here are video recordings of Rainer's N-Body Lectures in Heidelberg Dec. 2006. Beware: there may be some differences to today's lectures...

Sverre Aarseth's N-Body Workshop

The N-body training workshop will be held at KIAA from 30 October to 22 November 2012. The workshop consists of several lectures, but for most of the time the students will work on practical problems in the field of N-body dynamics. Students are expected to actively participate in all activities. The programming exercises can be carried out individually, but preferably in a group of two students. The training workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students at Peking University, NAOC, and other institutions. There is no registration fee. If you have a laptop, please bring it to the workshop.

Tue 30 Oct 19:00-20:30, Sverre Aarseth "Gravitational N-body simulations 1"
Thu 01 Nov 19:00-20:30, Sverre Aarseth "Gravitational N-body simulations 2"
Tue 06 Nov 19:00-20:30, Sverre Aarseth "Gravitational N-body simulations 3"
Thu 08 Nov 19:00-20:30,  Sverre Aarseth "Gravitational N-body simulations 4"
Tue 13 Nov 19:00-20:30,  Sverre Aarseth "Gravitational N-body simulations 5"
Thu 15 Nov 19:00-20:30,  Sverre Aarseth "Gravitational N-body simulations 6"
Tue 20 Nov 19:00-20:30, Rainer Spurzem  "Parallel computing with NBODY6++"
Thu 22 Nov 19:00-20:30,  Rainer Spurzem "GPU computing with NBODY6++"

The workshop will be held in the seminar room on the first floor of the
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University.
Continuously updated information will be available at
http://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/~kouwenhoven/nbody.html .

2011/2012 Lecture plan

Links to Relevant Webpages

• Sverre Aarseth's N-Body Webpage 

• Sverre Aarseth's Institute of Astronomy Home Page (with Code Downloads)

• Book: Cambridge N-Body Lecture's 2008; Table of Contents
  

• Rainer Spurzem's Heidelberg NBODY6++ Download Page (with NBODY6++ Manual)

• Literature List shown in Lecture Nov. 11

• Slides shown in Lecture Nov. 11
  

• Sverre Aarseth's 2003 Book on Gravitational N-Body Simulations
  

• Rainer Spurzem's 1999 Review Paper on Direct N-Body Simulations