Meeting update for April 18th, 2017

Feedback

Almost ready to start pulling out my feedback development branch and finalize testing/development for that. At this point we are at a crossroads — where we can either

a) improve the algorithm to simultaneously inject the target amount of linear and angular momentum into the outflow codes (currently the code has trouble with getting the right amount of angular momentum into the cones),

b) ignore angular momentum injection altogether (would limit accurate simulation of outflows on small scales, I suppose),

c) leave the code as is, which can introduce some potential wonky behavior of the outflows under certain circumstances (such as a counter rotating accretion disk/star system)

Reorientation Paper

The referee had a few comments for the paper before it could be accepted for publication. Namely, he thought there should be a convergence study in the paper (sims are currently running for this), suggested adding a infinite cooling case to the paper (which we are making a counter argument against, see attached draft of referee responses), and remaking some of the plots so that they have larger text (currently working on this now, should be finished by the end of the day).

The referee responses are due no later than May 9th, but would like to get them in by the *end of the week*. Since the report is so short, thought I would definitely run it by Jonathan at the very least before submitting.

Thesis Defense

I still need to finalize the last person on my committee and to check with Segev again about the scheduled defense date of August 4th.

In order to defend my thesis by August 4th, I need to have a copy of my finished thesis to the committee by *June 26* (almost two months away). How long do these things typically take to write? If it takes 3 weeks, then that leaves me a little over a month to get the feedback sims up and running for the next paper (before I have to hunker down and write my thesis).

Thermal Instability Presentation

I recently read Koyama & Inutsuka 2004 on the "Field Condition" (convergence condition for the thermal instability), and really enjoyed it. Put together a short presentation on this paper to share with you all (see link here: ​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uaQ5ukZL6sNtdwxfubdH_EHZIQfWY8EESwC1P0QtV9I/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000).

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