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KITP Online Conference:
White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics
(Mar 29-30, 2021)
Coordinators: Alejandra Romero, Matthias Schreiber, Ken Shen, and Silvia Toonen
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Schedule
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Monday, Mar 29, 2021
Session I
8:00am
Nicola Gentile Fusillo (ESO)
Gotta find them all! Searching for white dwarfs in Gaia eDR3.
[Video][CC]
8:20am
Ale Romero (IF-UFRGS)
Pulsational properties of DA white dwarf stars
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
8:40am
Josiah Schwab (UCSC)
Ashes to Ashes: White Dwarfs from Double White Dwarf Mergers
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
9:00am
Sihao Cheng (Johns Hopkins)
Evan Bauer (Harvard & Smithsonian)
The Q branch: where white dwarfs stop cooling.
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
Session II
10:00am
Eva Villaver (UAM)
Planets and WDs
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
10:30am
Chris Manser (Warwick Univ.)
Gaseous planetary discs around white dwarfs
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[Video][CC]
11:00am
Ben Kaiser (UNC)
Mark Hollands (Warwick Univ.)
The detection of lithium in cool white dwarf atmospheres
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[Video][CC]
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2021
Session I
8:00am
Steven Parsons (Sheffield Univ.)
Anna Francesca Pala (ESO)
From common envelope to cataclysmic variable: an overview of white dwarfs in close binaries
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[Video][CC]
8:30am
Diogo Belloni (INPE)
Formation and Evolution of Close Magnetic White Dwarf Binaries
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[Video][CC]
9:00am
Na'ama Hallakoun (Weizmann Inst.)
Valeriya Korol (Leiden Obs.)
Joint title: Characterizing the Galactic double white dwarf population First talk by Na'ama Hallakoun: Part I: Observations and implications to the SN Ia progenitor problem Second talk by Valeriya Korol: Part II: future observations with LISA
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[Video][CC]
Session II
10:00am
Elias Aydi (MSU)
Brian Metzger (Columbia)
Shocking New Insights into Classical Novae
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[Video][CC]
10:30am
Saurabh Jha (Rutgers)
Observations of White Dwarf Supernovae
[Slides]
[Video][CC]
11:00am
Dean Townsley (Alabama)
The makings of models for white dwarf supernovae
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[Video][CC]
