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Monday, March 19, 2007 |
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Stellar Evolution and White Dwarfs
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Session 1: Isolated White Dwarfs |
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Morning Session Chair: Sterl Phinney (Caltech) |
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| 8:50am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:00am | Kurtis Williams (Univ. Texas) |
White Dwarf Initial-Final Mass Relation from Open Clusters [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | James Liebert (Univ. of Arizona) |
New Results on White Dwarfs from Sloan [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Authors | Announcement of Posters[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Session 2: White Dwarfs in Binaries and Truncated Evolution |
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| 11:00am | Boris Gänsicke (Univ. of Warwick) |
Populations of (Pre) Cataclysmic Variables [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Tom Marsh (Univ. of Warwick) |
Helium White Dwarfs in Binaries [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Ralf Napiwotzki (Univ. Hertfordshire) |
The Known Double White Dwarfs and Merger Rates [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Rosanne Di Stefano (Harvard, CfA) |
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Session 3: White Dwarf Binaries in Contact |
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| 2:00pm | Gijs Nelemans (Radboud Univ.) |
Observational Implications for Common Envelope Evolution [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Sterl Phinney (Caltech) |
Dynamical Stability at the onset of Mass Transfer [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Ron Webbink (UIUC) |
Overview of Outcomes from White Dwarf Mergers [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Session 4: AM CVn Binaries: Helium Accretors |
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| 4:00pm | Christopher Deloye (NWU) |
Overview on He Accreting WDs: AM CVn's [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Helium Shell Flashes and Faint Supernovae [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Bruno Leibundgut (ESO) |
Are the Subluminous Ia's Sub Chandra? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 6:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *Time may vary depending on end of dinner. |
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
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Accretion onto WDs, challenges..
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Session 1: Hydrogen Accretors: Unstable Burning |
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Morning Session Chair: Joe Patterson (Columbia Univ.) |
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| 9:00am | Dean Townsley (Univ. of Chicago) |
Broad Views of Hydrogen Ignitions in CVs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Paula Szkody (Univ. Washington) |
Observed Properties of Accreting WDs in CVs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Sumner Starrfield (Arizona State Univ.) |
Excavation or Accretion from Classical Novae [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Session 2: Population Numbers from Weak Explosions |
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| 11:00am | Allen Shafter (San Diego) |
Accreting Populations Implied from Classical Novae in Nearby Galaxies [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Marina Orio (Univ. Wisconsin) |
A View of M31 in the X-rays [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Jennifer Sokoloski (Columbia) |
Recurrent Novae, Symbiotics and RS Oph [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Jennifer Sokoloski (Columbia Univ.) |
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Session 3: Reaching Core Ignitions |
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| 1:30pm | Falk Herwig (Keele Univ.) |
Stellar Evolution Update for <8 Solar Mass Stars and Maximum Mass that makes a White Dwarf [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:00pm | Edward van den Heuvel (Univ. of Amsterdam) |
Binary Scenarios that may Achieve Core Ignitions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Rosanne Di Stefano (Harvard, CfA) |
Are there enough Supersoft Sources to make the Ia's? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Izumi Hachisu (Univ. Tokyo) |
Winds from Burning White Dwarfs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Session 4: Ignition to Flames |
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| 4:00pm | Pierre Lesaffre (ENS/LRA) |
From Ignitions to Early Convective Phases: Convective Urca [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Jonathan Dursi (Univ. of Toronto) |
First Flames: Burning, Turbulence and Buoyancy [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Edward Brown (Michigan State Univ.) |
22Ne and Metallicity Effects [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
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Day to Celebrate Ken Nomoto's 60th Birthday
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Morning Session Chair: Robert Kirshner (Harvard, CfA) |
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| 9:00am | Stan Woosley (UC Santa Cruz) |
Global Overview of Core Collapse + GRB [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:45am | Friedel Thielemann (Univ. of Basel) |
From Accreting WDs to Explosion: The Story of W7 [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Wolfgang Hillebrandt (MPA, Garching) |
Current Models for Ia's [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:45am | Alex Filippenko (UC Berkeley) |
Observational Confidence or Not ? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Craig Wheeler (Univ. Texas, Austin) |
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| 2:00pm | Jim Truran (Univ. of Chicago) |
Nucleosynthesis from Ias, Metal Poor Stars .. [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
[Each Talk is 20 min + 10 min Discussion] |
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| 2:45pm | Paolo Mazzali (Trieste Obs) |
Supernovae and GRBs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 3:45pm | Philipp Podsiadlowski (Univ. of Oxford) |
Electron-capture Supernovae and Accretion-induced Collapse of ONeMg White Dwarfs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:15pm | Izumi Hachisu (Univ. Tokyo) |
Ken Nomoto's Contributions to Japanese Science [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30 | Wolfgang Hillebrandt (MPA, Garching) |
Introducing Ken Nomoto [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:45 | Ken'ichi Nomoto (Univ. Tokyo) |
Short History of Supernova Research [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:25 | Haruyo Nomoto |
The Tapestry of Science and the Life of Scientists[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:30 | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | Dinner Speaker: Bob Kirshner |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *Time may vary depending on end of dinner. |
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
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Core Ignitions in Near Chandra Mass WDs
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Morning Session Chair: Elaine Oran (Naval Research Lab) |
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Session 1: Deflagrations to Detonations |
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| 9:00am | Fritz Röpke (MPA, Garching) |
Simulating Type Ia Supernovae: The Deflagration Model and Beyond [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Tomasz Plewa (Univ. of Chicago) |
Thermonuclear Supernova: A Successful Failure [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Vadim Gamezo (Naval Research Lab) |
Mechanisms for Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Type Ia Supernovae and Terrestrial Systems. [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Session 2: Deflagrations to Detonations (continued) |
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| 11:00am | Don Lamb (Univ. of Chicago) |
Gravitationally Confined Detonations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Daniel Kasen (John Hopkins) |
Overview of Theoretical Understanding of Type Ia Light Curves [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Ken'ichi Nomoto (Univ. Tokyo) |
Neutron-rich Nucleosynthesis in Type Ia's: Constraints from Near IR Nebular Observations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Frank Timmes (LANL) |
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Session 3: Spectral Insights |
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| 2:00pm | Paolo Mazzali (Trieste Obs) |
Constraints on Ia SN from Spectral Modeling [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Craig Wheeler (Univ. of Texas) |
Insights from Near IR Spectroscopy [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Carles Badenes (Rutgers) |
What has been learned about Type Ia SN from their Remnants [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Session 4: Spectral Insights.. |
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| 4:00pm | Andy Howell (Univ. of Toronto) |
Is the Brightest Ia Sn really Super Chandra? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | David Branch (Univ. of Oklahoma) |
Comparative Direct Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Spectra [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Tom Matheson (NOAO/NGSC) |
Clues in Spectra for Luminosity Dependence [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:45pm | WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION | |
| 7:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | *Time may vary depending on end of reception. |
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Friday, March 23, 2007 |
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The Diversity and Changes? with Age
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Session 1: New Insights |
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Morning Session Chair: Dan Maoz (Tel Aviv Univ.) |
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| 9:00am | Doug Leonard (San Diego) |
What Polarimetry has taught us. [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | Mark Phillips (CTIO) |
The Peculiar SN 2005hk [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:00am | Alicia Soderberg (Caltech) |
Observations of Ia SN that provide Evidence for Circumstellar Interactions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Acknowledgements[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
Session 2: Type Ia rates and Properties: Galaxy Dependences |
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| 11:00am | Weidong Li (UC Berkeley) |
The Nearby SN Ia rate from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Saurabh Jha (Stanford) |
The Low-redshift Supernova Ia Sample [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | Chris Pritchet (Univ. of Victoria) |
The Low Redshift Ia Rate as a Function of Galaxy Type [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Avishay Gal-Yam (Caltech) |
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Session 3: Cosmological Type Ia Results |
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| 2:00pm | Mark Sullivan (Univ. of Toronto) |
SNLS Results on Cosmology [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Michael Wood-Vasey (Harvard, CfA) |
ESSENCE Results: Similarity of SNeIa at Low and High Redshift [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | Adam Riess (STScI) |
Lessons Learned from SNe Ia at z>1 [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
Session 4: New Results |
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| 4:00pm | Peter Nugent (LBNL) |
The Environments of High and Low Luminosity SNe Ia [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | Rollin Thomas (LBNL) |
New Results from the SNFactory [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:00pm | Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame) |
New Results from SDSS [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 5:45pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | Shuttle also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. |
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATION |
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| Shimon Asida (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) |
Verification of an Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Flame Model for Type Ia Supernova Simulations | |
| Carles Badenes (Rutgers) |
A Deep Chandra Observation of Kepler's Supernova Remnant: A Type Ia Supernova with Circumstellar Interaction | |
| Stéphane Blondin (Harvard, CfA) |
Determining the Type, Redshift, and Phase of a Supernova Spectrum | |
| Nancy Elias (MPA, Garching) |
SN~2002cv: A Heavily Obscured Type Ia Event | |
| Robert Fisher (Univ. Chicago) |
Semi-Analytic Modelling of Nuclear Burning Bubbles and the Implications for Physically Self-Consistent Initial Conditions in Type Ia Supernova Simulations | |
| Domingo García-Senz (UPC, Barcelona) |
Multidimensional Modelling of Type Ia Supernovae Explosions | |
| Nathan Hearn (Univ. Chicago) |
Simulating White Dwarf Merger Scenarios for Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Falk Herwig (Keele Univ.) |
Multi-dimensional Simulations of Helium Shell Flash Convection | |
| Yutaka Ihara (Univ. Tokyo) |
Searching for a Companion Star of Tycho's Type Ia Supernova with Optical Spectroscopic Observations | |
| George Jordan (Univ. Chicago) |
Three-Dimensional Simulations of the Deflagration Phase in the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Chiaki Kobayashi (NAOJ) |
Type Ia Supernova Progenitors, Elemental Abundance Ratios, and Cosmic Supernova Rate History | |
| Casey Meakin (Univ. Chicago) |
Simulations of Detonations in the Context of the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Tony Piro (UC Berkeley) |
Type Ia Progenitor Rotation: Accretion and Simmering | |
| Alexei Poludnenko (Univ. Chicago) |
From Seconds to Days: Modeling of Post-Explosion Evolution of Type Ia Supernova Explosions | |
| Steven Rodney (Univ. Hawaii, IfA) |
Revisiting the SNIa Rate at z>1 | |
| Ivo Seitenzahl (Univ. Chicago) |
Detonation Criteria in the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Ken Shen (UCSB) |
Thermally Stable Nuclear Burning on Accreting White Dwarfs | |
| Stuart Sim (MPA, Garching) |
Light curves for lop-sided SNe Ia | |
| Vallery Stanishev (Stockholm Univ.) |
ESC Observations of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 2005hk | |
| Masaomi Tanaka (Univ. Tokyo) |
One and Three-Dimensional Modeling of Pre-maximum Spectra of Type Ia SNe | |
| Nozomu Tominaga (Univ. Tokyo) |
Nucleosynthesis in Jet-induced Supernovae | |
| Dean Townsley (Univ. Chicago) |
Flame Evolution During the Deflagration Phase of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Ju Zhang (Univ. Chicago) |
Low Mach Number Reactive Flow Solver For Modeling Core Convection in Type Ia Supernova Progenitors | |
| Andrey Zhiglo (Univ. Chicago) |
Numerical Flame Propagation | |
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