This conference is part of the six-month ITP program entitled "Supernovae". The conference focused on the study of supernovae which involves a diverse community of researchers in observational astronomy, radiation transport, nuclear physics, hydrodynamics, particle physics, cosmology, and numerical techniques. All segments of this community have been particularly active since the impetus provided by SN 1987A, whose tenth anniversary this ITP six-month program celebrates.
New observations, as well as improvements in computers, have sparked advances in the multi-dimensional modeling of theexplosion mechanisms, in the numerical calculation of radiation transport, and in understanding the origin of the elements, a primary goal of nuclear astrophysics for the last fifty years. .
Some of the topics covered during the conference were optical, infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations of supernovae, mechanisms of both core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae, nucleosynthesis, progenitor stars, radiation transport, spectra and light curves, galactic chemical evolution, isotopic anomalies in meteorites, and supernova remnants.