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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
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White Dwarf Formation, WD-MS and WD-WD Mass Transferring Binaries |
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Morning Session Chair: Lars Bildsten (KITP)
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White Dwarf Formation |
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| 8:50am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:00am | Kurtis Williams (Univ. Texas - Austin) |
Initial-Final Mass Relations and Hot DQ's [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Klaus Werner (Eberhard Karls Univ.) |
Late Helium Flashes and Hydrogen Poor Stars [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Jason Kalirai (STScI) |
New Puzzles: Isolated Helium Core WDs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
White Dwarfs in Binaries and Classical Novae |
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| 11:00am | Christian Knigge (Univ. Southampton) |
Populations and Birthrates of Cataclysmic Variables [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Dean Townsley (Univ. Arizona) |
Unstable Hydrogen Burning: Classical Novae and SSS [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Allen Shafter (SDSU) |
Classical Novae Rates and Properties [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Rosanne di Stefano (Harvard CfA)
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Double White Dwarfs |
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| 2:00pm | Gils Nelemans (Radboud Univ.) |
Double Degenerate Rates and AMCVN Stars [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Geoffrey Clayton (LSU) |
RCorBor Stars from Double WD Mergers [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Joel Tohline (LSU) |
Double Degenerate Mergers and Outcomes [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Unusual Transients and Surprises |
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| 4:00pm | Ken Shen (UCSB) |
Helium Shell Flash Scenarios and Outcomes [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) |
New Unusual Transients in the 'Gap' [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Contributed Talks are 10 min + 5 min Discussion |
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| 5:00pm | Carles Badenes (Princeton) |
The SWARMS Survey: A Search for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors with SDSS [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:15pm | Ryan Foley (Harvard, CfA) |
SN 2008ha and Low-Luminosity Transients [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm | RECEPTION | KITP Courtyard |
| 6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
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Type Ia supernovae Progenitors, Rates and Models |
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Morning Session Chair: Frank Timmes (ASU)
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Ignition Scenarios and Outcomes |
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| 9:00am | Ken Nomoto (Univ. Tokyo) |
Single Degenerate Ignition Conditions and Constraints [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Tony Piro (UC Berkeley) |
Rotation, Magnetism and Nucleosynthesis during Smoldering Phase [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Fritz Roepke (MPA Garching) |
Outcomes from Deflagration Scenarios [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Detonations etc |
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| 11:00am | Dan Kasen (UCSC) |
Lightcurves and Spectra of Different Scenarios [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Peter Hoeflich (FSU) |
Polarization Spectra for Type Ias [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Contributed Talks are 10 min + 5 min Discussion |
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| 12:00pm | Dovi Poznanski (UC Berkeley) |
A Remarkable Supernova Gone Unremarked [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:15pm | Jose Prieto (OSU) |
A Spitzer/IRS Spectrum of the 2008 Luminous Transient in NGC 300: Connection to Proto-Planetary Nebulae [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Dick McCray (Univ. Colorado-Boulder)
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Explosive Outcomes and Dependences |
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| 2:00pm | Nando Patat (ESO) |
Type Ia Progenitor Signatures [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Andy Howell (LCOGT) |
Puzzles Presented by Superluminous and Subluminous Events [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame) |
Status of Age and Metallicity Dependences for Type Ia [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Populations, Progenitors and Rates |
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| 4:00pm | Alex Filippenko (UC Berkeley) |
Nearby SNe Rates [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Ben Dilday (Rutgers) |
New SDSS Results on Rates and Populations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Mark Sullivan (Univ. of Oxford) |
High Redshift Populations and Rates [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30pm | Andy Howell (LCOGT) |
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
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Type Ia Observations, Transitioning to Core Collapse Events |
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Morning Session Chair: Brian Schmidt (ANU)
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Observational Results on SNe |
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| 9:00am | Mark Phillips (Carnegie Observatories) |
Photometric Diversity from the CSP [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Paolo Mazzali (MPA Garching) |
Important Inferences from Type Ia Specta [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Adam Riess (STScI) |
Hubble Constant from Ia's [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Results from New Surveys |
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| 11:00am | Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC) |
Results from Fermi [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Eran Ofek (Caltech) |
Results from Palomar Transient Factory [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Contributed Talks are 10 min + 5 min Discussion |
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| 12:00pm | Maria Teresa Botticella (Univ. Belfast) |
SN2008S : An Electron Capture SN from a Super AGB Progenitor [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:15pm | Joanne Bibby (Univ. Sheffield) |
Are Wolf-Rayet Stars Progenitors of Type Ib/c Supernovae? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Bruno Leibundgut (ESO, Garching)
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Odd SN and Remnants |
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| 2:00pm | Saurabh Jha (Rutgers) |
Power of Nebular Spectroscopy and SN 2002cx, 2005hk [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Robert Fesen (Dartmouth) |
What We Learn from Observing SNe Remnants [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Claes Fransson (Stockholm Obs) |
Supernova 1987A [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Large Scale Structure and Supernovae |
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| 4:00pm | Luc Dessart (CNRS) |
Status of the Expanding Photosphere Method for Distances [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Armin Rest (Harvard) |
Studying Ancient Supernovae via their Light Echoes and a PanStarrs-1 Update [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Robert Kirshner (Harvard, CfA) |
Supernova Cosmology [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:45pm | RECEPTION | KITP Courtyard |
| 6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | Dinner Celebration for Bob Kirshner's 60th Birthday [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
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Core Collapse Supernovae, Massive Stars, LBV |
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Morning Session Chair: Craig Wheeler (Univ. Texas - Austin)
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Core Collapse SNe |
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| 9:00am | Thomas Janka (MPA Garching) |
Status of 8-10 Solar Mass Objects and Beyond [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Stephen Smartt (Queen's Univ.) |
Progenitor Masses and IIP Inferences [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Justyn Maund (Niels Bohr Inst.) |
Spectrapolarimetry Indicators in Core Collapse Supernovae [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Core Collapse Mechanisms |
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| 11:00am | Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge Natl Lab) |
Status of Neutrino Driven Explosions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Thierry Foglizzo (CEA Saclay) |
Role and Impact of SASI [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Adam Burrows (Princeton) |
Emerging Themes in the Theory of CC SNe Explosions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Roger Chevalier (Univ. Virginia)
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Connecting Core Collapse SNe Models to Progenitors |
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| 2:00pm | Alex Heger (Univ. of Minn.) |
Expectations of Metallicity/Rotation Dependence [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Inst.) |
Connecting Massive Stars to Range of Outcomes [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Maryam Modjaz (UC Berkeley) |
The Ibc Zoo [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Really Bright Type II's |
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| 4:00pm | Robert Quimby (Caltech) |
Perspective on Bright Type II Events [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley) |
Luminous Blue Variable and Connection to Bright Events [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Stan Woosley (UCO/Lick Obs.) |
What Does Pair Instability Predict? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Friday, August 21, 2009 |
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Gamma-Ray Bursts, Type Ib/Ic Supernovae |
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Morning Session Chair: Elena Pian (INAF)
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SN/GRB Connection |
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| 9:00am | Alicia Soderberg (Harvard, CfA) |
Holistic View of GRB-SN [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Andrew MacFadyen (NYU) |
Collapsar Model [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Suvi Gezari (Johns Hopkins Univ.) |
Status of Shock Breakout Observations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Thanks and Awards [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Engines and Outcomes |
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| 11:00am | Edo Berger (Harvard, CfA) |
Properties and Galaxy Types of Short Hard Bursts [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley) |
Late Time Accretion onto BHs in Merger Events [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Chris Fryer (LANL) |
Double NS Mergers as GRBs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | Todd Thompson (OSU) |
Birth of Magnetars [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 1:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 2:30pm | CONFERENCE END | Shuttle Available to BWSCI. *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus (See Jocelyn to sign up.) |
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| Conference Photo (credit: Iair Arcavi) | ||
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ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
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| Carlos Badenes (Princeton) |
Raising the Dead: X-ray Studies of Type Ia Supernova Remnants [Poster] | |
| Carlos Badenes (Princeton) |
A Search for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [Poster] | |
| Melina Bersten (Univ. Chile) |
Hydrodynamical Models of Type II-P SN Light Curves[Poster] | |
| Joanne Bibby (Univ. Sheffield) |
Are Wolf-Rayet Stars Progenitors of Type Ib/c Supernovae?[Poster] | |
| Sarah Blake (Univ. Oxford) |
Metallicities and Ages of Type Ia Supernovae Host Galaxies | |
| Stephane Blondin (ESO) |
Type Ia Supernova Spectra from the CfA Supernova Program[Poster] | |
| Alceste Bonanos (STScI) |
A Survey of the Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe [Poster] | |
| Maria Teresa Botticella (Univ. Belfast) |
SN2008S : An Electron Capture SN from a Super AGB Progenitor | |
| David Chamulak (MSU) |
The Nucleosynthetic Signature of Surface Detonation in Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Emmanouil Chatzopoulos (Univ. Texas - Austin) |
Properties of Over-luminous SNe and Peculiar Transients[Poster] | |
| Laura Chomiuk (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) |
[O III] Emission-Line Sources in Extragalactic Globular Clusters[Poster] | |
| Sean Couch (Univ. Texas - Austin) |
Observational Effects of Aspherical Supernovae | |
| Nancy Elias de la Rosa (Caltech) |
The Progenitors of Recent Core-Collapse Supernovae | |
| David Eichler (Ben Gurion Univ.) |
Signatures of Nearby Gamma Ray Bursts, As Seen by Most Observers | |
| Nicolas Flagey (Spitzer Science Ctr) |
Discovery Of Several Hundreds Of Compact-Extended Sources Within The Mipsgal Survey[Poster] | |
| Gaston Folatelli (Univ. Chile) |
The Carnegie Supernova Project: Analysis of the First Sample of Low-Redshift Type-Ia Supernovae[Poster] | |
| Andrew Friedman (Harvard, CfA) |
Disentangling Dust Extinction and Intrinsic Color Variation of Type Ia Supernovae With Near Infrared and Optical Photometry | |
| Haley Gomez (Cardiff Univ.) |
The Importance of Supernovae to the Interstellar Dust Budget [Poster] | |
| Haley Gomez (Cardiff Univ.) |
Submillimetre Dust Factory Revealed in Cassiopeia A [Poster] | |
| Santiago Gonzalez (Univ. Toronto) |
The Rise-Time of Underluminous SNe Ia[Poster] | |
| Jerome Guilet (CEA Saclay) |
What Can Stop the Growth of SASI during Core Collapse? | |
| Aaron Jackson (SUNY Stony Brook) |
A Study of the Criteria for a Deflagration to Detonation Transition in a Type Ia Supernova[Poster] | |
| Yasuomi Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo) |
Intrinsic Color Dispersion of Type Ia Supernovae [Poster] | |
| Knox Long (STScI) |
Supernova Remnants in the ChASeM33 X-ray Survey of M33[Poster] | |
| Keiichi Maeda (Univ. Tokyo) |
Nebular Spectra of Type Ib/c and Ia Supernovae, and Their Explosion Asymmetry | |
| Kate Maguire (Queen's Univ.) |
Near Infrared Studies of IIP Supernovae and Their Explosion Parameters [Poster] | |
| Kaisey Mandel (Harvard) |
Statistical Models for Optical and NIR Type Ia Supernova Light Curves | |
| Howie Marion (U Texas/TAMU) |
Exploring Correlations between NIR Spectra and the Brightness of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Curtis McCully (Rutgers) |
HST and Ground-Based Observations of SN 2008A: A Peculiar 2002cx-like Type Ia Supernova[Poster] | |
| Adam Miller (UC Berkeley) |
Results from Recent Observations of Very Luminous Supernovae | |
| Milos Milosavljevic (Univ. Texas - Austin) |
Collapsar Accretion and The Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Light Curve | |
| Takashi Moriya (Univ. Tokyo) |
Faint Supernovae with Fallback [Poster] | |
| Jeremiah Murphy (Univ. Washington) |
Criteria for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions by the Neutrino Mechanism[Poster] | |
| Jeremiah Murphy (Univ. Washington) |
A Model for Gravitational Wave Emission from Neutrino-Driven Core-Collapse Supernovae[Poster] | |
| James D. Neill (Caltech) |
Exploring Galaxy Evolution with Supernovae [Poster] | |
| Jason Nordhaus (Princeton) |
Explorations in Modern Supernova Theory [Poster] | |
| Andrea Pastorello (Queen's Univ.) |
Subluminous Core-Collapse Supernovae | |
| Giuliano Pignata (Univ. Andres Bello) |
Results from the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE [Poster] | |
| Tony Piro (UC Berkeley) |
Shock Breakout from Type Ia Supernova[Poster] | |
| Jose Luis Prieto (OSU) |
A Spitzer/IRS Spectrum of the 2008 Luminous Transient in NGC 300: Connection to Proto-Planetary Nebulae | |
| Jeonghee Rho (Caltech) |
Dust Formation Observed in Young Supernova Remnants with Spitzer | |
| Sumner Starrfield (ASU) |
New Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Outburst of RS Oph: The White Dwarf is Growing in Mass | |
| Katalin Takats (Univ. Szeged) |
Measuring Expansion Velocities, Photospheric Temperatures and Dilution Factors of Type II-P Supernovae[Slides] | |
| Frank Timmes (ASU) |
On Type Ia Supernovae From The Collisions of Two White Dwarfs[Poster] | |
| Frank Timmes (ASU) |
Trends in 44 Ti and 56 Ni from Core-Collapse Supernovae[Poster] | |
| Nozomu Tominaga (Konan Univ.) |
Multicolor Light Curve of Type II Supernova Shock Breakout | |
| Stefano Valenti (Queen's Univ.) |
A Low Energy Core-Collapse Supernova without a Hydrogen Envelope | |
| Schuyler Van Dyk (Caltech) |
Post-LBV Supernovae | |
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