Re: [mesa-users] MESA for Education

[Maarit K. <mj...@gm...>]

Dear all,

I recently lectured a course on stellar structure and evolution in the
University of Helsinki (undergrad level) using MESA both for demonstration
purposes during the lectures, and also for hands-on exercises for the
students. After having seen some trouble getting MESA installed and working
on the student computers, preparing some introductory material how to use
it and so forth, the students were able to use it themselves for
calculating simple stellar models. Developing further MESA for education
purposes it would be necessary to have some sort of quick reference guide
or manual, with some ready-to-run samples coming with the svn-distribution.
I am definitely interested in developing this idea further, although my own
expertise on MESA is still quite poor.

best wishes, Maarit Mantere

On 13 December 2011 01:03, Steve Kawaler <sd...@ia...> wrote:

> I think that a MESA for Education effort is a terrific idea - at all
> levels of post-secondary education.  For undergraduate introductory
> non-science courses all the way through graduate courses.  Please let
> me know how I can help.
>
> Steve Kawaler
>
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:52:17 -0800
> > From: Bill Paxton <pa...@ki...>
> > Subject: Re: [mesa-users] mesa release 3790 + a cool movie
> > To: mzi...@ma...
> > Cc: "mes...@li... users"
> >        <mes...@li...>,
> mes...@li...
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> >
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Mike Zingale wrote:
> >
> >> Bill/Josiah, indeed that is a nice movie, and one I am sure many of us
> will want to show in our Intro to Astronomy classes when we come upon
> stellar evolution.
> >
> > Great!   A movie like that is really a huge help to see the how the
> various things change together as the evolution goes forward.
> >
> >> On that note, is there any sort of organized effort toward MESA for
> Education, instead of research.
> >
> > Excellent suggestion.   There isn't any such organized effort yet, but
> there certainly should be.
> >
> >> Perhaps providing an archive of nice movies of stellar evolution for
> use in classes would be a good start.
> >
> > That would be a wonderful start -- I know Rich Townsend has been working
> on something like that
> > (oh!  I just got his email saying he has been working on it!!!)
> >
> > It would be wonderful if you and Rich and anyone else who is interested
> in MESA for Education would
> > work together on this.   I'd love to see it happen, but I won't be the
> one to push the effort.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
> >
> >
>
>
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