Introduction

1. Welcome to the Pencil Code school (A. Roper Pol and A. Brandenburg)
2. Introductions of the lecturers and students
3. Concluding the school (A. Roper Pol)

Lectures on Pencil Code:

1. Basics of Pencil Code (P. Bourdin)
2. Numerical schemes for differential equations (P. Bourdin and A. S. Midiri)
3. Discrete Fourier transform and power spectra (I. Stomberg and S. Candelaresi)
4. Post-processing and visualization (A. Brandenburg, P. Bourdin and S. Candelaresi)
5. Running on multiple CPUs. Parallelization (M. Rheinhardt)
6. Data handling. I/O approaches (P. Bourdin)
7. Contributing to the code: SVN, Github, Autotests (A. Roper Pol)
8. Accelerating Pencil Code on GPUs (M. Rheinhardt)

Lectures on early Universe physics:

1. Magnetohydrodynamics in the early Universe (A. Roper Pol)
2. Primordial magnetic fields (A. Brandenburg and A. Roper Pol)
3. Chiral MHD (D. Garg)
4. Gravitational waves (C. Caprini)
5. Inflation (R. Sharma)
6. First-order phase transitions (A. S. Midiri and I. Stomberg)

Practice sessions:

1. Getting familiar with the code
2. Sound and Alfvén waves
3. Forced helical turbulence
4. Free hands-on session
5. Decaying MHD turbulence
6. Gravitational waves and CosmoGW

Welcome to the Pencil Code school (20/10/2025 9:30am) by A. Roper Pol and A. Brandenburg

Introductions of the school lecturers and students (20/10/2025 10:30am)

Code lecture 1. Basics of Pencil Code (20/10/2025 11:30am) by P. Bourdin

Practice session 0. Getting familiar with the code (20/10/2025 3pm) by A. Roper Pol

Practice session 1. Sound waves and Alfvén waves (20/10/2025 4:30pm) by A. Roper Pol

Code lecture 2. Numerical schemes for differential equations (21/10/2025 9:30am) by A. Midiri and P. Bourdin

Part A (A. S. Midiri)

Part B (P. Bourdin)

Code lecture 3. Discrete Fourier transform and power spectra (21/10/2025 12:30pm) by I. Stomberg and S. Candelaresi

Code lecture 4. Post-processing and visualization (21/10/2025 12:30pm) by A. Brandenburg, P. Bourdin and S. Candelaresi

Practice session 2. Forced helical turbulence (21/10/2025 4:30pm) by A. Roper Pol

Code lecture 5. Running on multiple CPUs. Parallelization (22/10/2025 9:30am) by M. Rheinhardt

Code lecture 6. Data handling. I/O approaches (22/10/2025 10:30am) by P. Bourdin

Code lecture 7. Contributing to the code: SVN, Github, Autotests (22/10/2025 11:30am) by A. Roper Pol

Code lecture 8. Accelerating Pencil Code on GPUs (22/10/2025 12pm) by M. Rheinhardt

Practice session 3. Free hands-on session (22/10/2025 4pm) by A. Roper Pol

Physics lecture 1. Magnetohydrodynamics in the early Universe (23/10/2025 9:30am) by A. Roper Pol

Physics lecture 2. Primordial magnetic fields (23/10/2025 11:30am) by A. Brandenburg and A. Roper Pol

Physics lecture 3. Chiral magnetohydrodynamics (23/10/2025 12:30pm) by D. Garg

Physics lecture 4. Gravitational waves (23/10/2025 2pm) by C. Caprini

Physics lecture 5. Inflation (23/10/2025 4pm) by R. Sharma

Practice session 3. Decaying MHD turbulence (24/10/2025 9:30am) by A. Roper Pol

Physics lecture 6. First-order phase transitions (23/10/2025 11:30am) by A. S. Midiri and I. Stomberg

Part A (A. S. Midiri)

Part B (I. Stomberg)

Practice session 4. Gravitational waves and CosmoGW Python package (24/10/2025 3pm) by A. Roper Pol

School closure (24/10/2025 5:30pm) by A. Roper Pol