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KITP Conference: White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics
(Nov 14-17, 2022)
Coordinators: Ken Shen and Alejandra Romero

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Monday, Nov 14, 2022

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome[Video][CC]
9:00am Maurizio Salaris (LJMU) Stellar evolution and its impacts on the properties of white dwarfs [REMOTE][Slides][Video][CC]
9:30am Evan Bauer (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) White Dwarf Sedimentation and Phase Separation: Status of Stellar Modeling for Cooling Timescales[Slides][Video][CC]
10:00am Simon Blouin (U Victoria) Fractionation processes in crystallizing white dwarfs[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Paula Izquierdo (U Warwick) Systematic uncertainties in the characterisation of He-dominated metal-polluted white dwarfs [REMOTE][Slides][Video][CC]
11:20am Matthew Green (Tel Aviv U) Eclipse Timing of AM CVn Binary Stars [REMOTE][Video][CC]
11:40am Keaton Bell (Queens College) The Disappearing White Dwarf Survey[Slides][Video][CC]
12:00pm Jan Van Roestel (U Amsterdam) Studying the population of compact white dwarf binaries using eclipses[Video][CC]
12:20pm Paul Ripoche (UBC) The white-dwarf population from the CFHT Large Area U-band Deep Survey[Slides]
12:40pm

Lunch Break

2:10pm Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue) Transients following WD mergers[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm Muk Kilic (Oklahoma) The Merger Fraction of Ultramassive White Dwarfs[Video][CC]
2:50pm Ilaria Caiazzo (Caltech) Merger remnants, double-faced stars and other curiosities: massive, rapidly rotating white dwarfs in ZTF[Slides][Video][CC]
3:10pm Ashley Ruiter (UNSW Canberra) Mergers of white dwarfs as failed Type Ia supernovae[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Dennis Crake (ROE) Machine Learning to Constrain the Initial-Final Mass Relation of White Dwarf Stars[Slides][Video][CC]
4:20pm Teruca Belmonte (U Valladolid) Experimental atomic physics and its application to white dwarf atmospheres: capabilities and challenges[Video][CC]
4:50pm Barbara Castanheira (Baylor) White Dwarfs in the HETDEX survey[Slides][Video][CC]
5:10pm Snehalata Sahu (U Warwick) HST/COS Ultra-Violet high-resolution spectroscopic survey of DA White Dwarfs[Slides][Video][CC]
5:30pm

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Tuesday, Nov 15, 2022

9:00am JJ Hermes (BU) Stellar Autopsies from White Dwarf Pulsations[Slides][Video][CC]
9:30am Paula Szkody (UW) Puzzles and Promise of Accreting Pulsating White Dwarfs[Slides][Video][CC]
9:50am Morgan Chidester (Arizona State) On Trapped Modes In Variable White Dwarfs As Probes Of the 12C(alpha, gamma)16O Reaction Rate[Video][CC]
10:10am Surajit Kalita (U Cape Town) Continuous gravitational wave observations to understand nature of compact objects[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:10am Agnes Kim (PSU Scranton) Constraints on mass and effective temperature for pulsating white dwarfs from parallaxes [REMOTE][Slides][Video][CC]
11:30am Sivan Ginzburg (Hebrew U) Crystallization dynamos: slow convection and fast rotation[Slides][Video][CC]
11:50am Stefano Bagnulo (Armagh Observatory) The origin of magnetism in isolated white dwarfs: Observational constraints[Video][CC]
12:10pm Claudia Rodrigues (INPE) Degeneracy of the white-mass estimation in magnetic cataclysmic variables[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Diogo Belloni (UTFSM) Do we fully understand how Cataclysmic Variables form and evolve?[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm Kareem El Badry (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Magnetic braking in binaries containing white dwarfs[Video][CC]
2:50pm Anna Pala (European Space Agency) A spectroscopic survey of the 300 pc sample of Cataclysmic Variables[Video][CC]
3:10pm Monica Zorotovic (U Valparaíso) Close white dwarfs with unevolved companions: constraints on the common envelope phase[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Arnab Sarkar (Cambridge) A unified model for the evolution of cataclysmic variables [REMOTE][Slides][Video][CC]
4:20pm Odette Toloza Castillo (UTFSM) Evolved cataclysmic variables and C/N ratio as a constraint on the evolution as seen as example in HS0218+3229[Video][CC]
4:50pm Zhuofu Chester Li (U Washington) A Systematic Search for Short Orbital Period Cataclysmic Variables Using the Zwicky Transient Facility[Slides][Video][CC]
5:10pm Peter Scherbak (Caltech) White dwarf binaries suggest a common envelope efficiency α ∼ 1/3[Slides][Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

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Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022

9:00am Ingrid Pelisoli (U Warwick) Towards a volume-limited all-sky sample of extremely low-mass white dwarfs[Video][CC]
9:30am Ranjan Kumar (NIT Rourkela) Detection of extreme low mass white dwarfs in globular clusters M3 and M13[Slides][Video][CC]
9:50am Warren Brown (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) A Complete Sample of Low Mass White Dwarf Binaries in the SDSS Footprint[Slides][Video][CC]
10:10am Ruediger Pakmor (MPA) Type Ia Supernova Progenitors[Slides][Video][CC]
10:40am

Morning Break

11:10am Dan Kosakowski (UMass Dartmouth) Titanium-Powered Type Ia Supernovae and Remnants: Differentiating Between Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors with Ti44 [REMOTE][Slides][Video][CC]
11:30am Samuel Boos (Alabama) Multidimensional Hydrodynamical Simulations and Radiative Transfer Calculations of Thin Shell Double Detonations[Slides][Video][CC]
11:50am Abigail Polin (Caltech & Carnegie Observatories) The Explosive Deaths of White Dwarfs[Video][CC]
12:10pm Abinaya Rajamuthukumar (Max Planck institute for Astrophysics) Type Ia Supernova rates and evolutionary pathways: Effect of tertiary star in the formation of Single and Double degenerate SNe Ia[Embargoed]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Kate Maguire (Trinity Dublin) Observations of thermonuclear supernovae [REMOTE][Video][CC]
2:30pm Or Graur (Portsmouth) Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Old Supernovae Teach Us New Tricks [REMOTE][Video][CC]
2:50pm Yuan Qi Ni (U Toronto) Moment of Birth: How infant-phase signals from SN2018aoz inform Type Ia SN origins[Video][CC]
3:10pm Viraj Karambelkar (Caltech) Faintest of them all: SN 2021fcg and the population of low luminosity Type Iax supernovae[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jeno Sokoloski (LSSTC & Columbia U) New appreciation of the role of shocks in nova eruptions [REMOTE][Video][CC]
4:30pm Sumit Sarbadhicary (Ohio State U) Radio observations of old thermonuclear supernovae as a novel probe of progenitor models[Video][CC]
4:50pm Ivo Seitenzahl (UNSW Canberra) From the supernova remnant back to the white dwarf[Video][CC]
5:10pm Wynn Jacobson Galán (Berkeley) The Circumstellar Environments of Calcium-rich Transients[Slides][Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

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Thursday, Nov 17, 2022

9:00am Roberto Raddi (Barcelona Tech) Surviving Runaway Stellar Remnants from Thermonuclear Supernovae[Slides][Video][CC]
9:30am Siyi Xu (Gemini North) Observations of Polluted White Dwarfs[Video][CC]
10:00am Marc Brouwers (Cambridge) A road-map to white dwarf pollution[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am David Wilson (U Colorado Boulder) Antiphase extreme ultraviolet and optical variability at the white dwarf GD 394 [REMOTE][Slides][Video][CC]
11:20am Na'ama Hallakoun (Weizmann Inst.) Characterizing the Galactic double white dwarf population[Video][CC]
11:40am Lou Baya Ould Rouis (BU) With or Without You: Metal Pollution around Massive White Dwarfs as a Tool to Constrain Planetary Occurrence Rates[Slides][Video][CC]
12:00pm Christopher O'Connor (Cornell) Dynamics of white-dwarf planetary systems: origins of short-period companions and metal pollution[Slides][Video][CC]
12:20pm

Lunch Break

1:50pm Nicola Gentile Fusillo (ESO) The strange case of WDJ1328-1450: the white dwarf with a double debris disc[Video][CC]
2:10pm Joseph Guidry (BU) Characterizing the Orbital Periods of Transiting Planetary Debris around White Dwarfs[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm Harvey Richer (UBC) JWST Search for Debris Disks Around White Dwarfs in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae[Video][CC]
2:50pm Sihao Cheng (JHU / IAS) Planet candidates around massive white dwarfs[Slides][Video][CC]
3:10pm Valeriya Korol (U Birmingham) Double white dwarf separation distribution: astrometric evidence from Gaia for a gap at 1 au[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Stella Stopkowicz (Saarland U) Prediction and assignment of spectra from strongly magnetized White Dwarf stars using high-accuracy quantum chemistry[Video][CC]
4:30pm Akash Vani (U Heidelberg) Properties of white dwarfs in a semi-analytic Milky Way model based on Gaia DR3[Slides][Video][CC]
4:50pm Hang Yu (KITP) Tides in compact white dwarf binaries[Slides][Video][CC]
5:10pm

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