Fifteenth Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics, March 22 - 27, 2010

Preliminary Program


Monday, March 22

Time Speaker Title
14:45 - 15:00Organizers Welcome and introductory comments
15:00 - 15:25 Wolfgang Hillebrandt, MPA
Type Ia Supernovae: the beauties and the beasts
15:25 - 15:50 Fritz Röpke, MPA
SNe Ia models
15:50 - 16:15 Wolfram Schmidt, Univ. Göttingen
Intermittency and DDTs in SNe Ia
16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 - 17:10 Franco Ciaraldi-Schoolmann, MPA
Turbulence in delayed detonation models in SNe Ia simulations
17:10 - 17:35 Philipp Edelmann, MPA
Thermonuclear reaction fronts in white dwarfs
17:35 - 18:00 Rüdiger Pakmor, MPA
Double white dwarfs mergers as progenitors of SNe Ia
18:30 DINNER


Tuesday, March 23

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:25 Ashley Ruiter, MPA
Progenitors of SNe Ia and Accretion Induced Collapse
09:25 - 09:50 Ken Shen, UC Santa Barbara
Helium shell detonations from AM CV_N systems: New results on SNe Ia
09:50 - 10:15 Michael Fink, MPA
Detonation in WD stars
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 Markus Kromer, MPA
Radiative transfer in SNe Ia - Predicting observables for explosion models
11:10 - 11:35 Stuart Sim, MPA
Detonations in Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarfs: a comparison with observations
11:35 - 12:00 Ivo Seitenzahl, MPA
Internal conversion electrons and SN light curves
12:00 - 12:25 Daniel Sauer, Stockholm Univ.
Alternatively powered supernovae
12:00 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
15:00 - 15:25 Claes Fransson, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm
Modeling and observations of the ejecta and ring of SN 1987A at very late stages
15:25 - 15:55 Fabian Miczek, MPA
Stability of shear flows in stellar interiors
15:55 - 16:15 Miroslav Mocak, IAA
Hydrodynamic simulations of core convection in stars
16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 - 17:10 Jordi Isern, IEEC Barcelona
Axions and the cooling of white dwarfs
17:10 - 17:35 Matthias Hempel, Univ. Heidelberg
Statistical model for a complete supernovae equation of state
17:35 - 18:00 Irina Sagert, Univ. Frankfurt
EOS for explosive astrophysical systems, including a quark matter phase transition: Compatibility with heavy ion and pulsar data is considered
18:30 DINNER


Wednesday, March 24

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:25 Gena Bisnovatyi-Kogan, IKI Moscow
Activity of the non-equilibrium layer in the neutron star crust
09:25 - 09:50 Albino Perego, Univ. Basel
Neutrino physics and neutrino transport in core collapse supernova
09:50 - 10:15 Victor Utrobin, ITEP Moscow
Progenitors of type IIp supernovae
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 Stephan Hachinger, MPA
How much helium is hidden in SNe Ic?
11:10 - 11:35 Anatoli Iyudin, Moscow State Univ.
Observational evidence of a hypernova in our Galaxy
11:35 - 12:00 Dimitri Nadoyzhin, ITEP Moscow
Non-equilibrium neutronization and the electron neutrino flash for gravitational collapse of stellar core
12:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 18:30 FREE AFTERNOON / EXCURSION
18:30 DINNER


Thursday, March 25

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:25 Jeremiah Murphy, Univ. Washington, Seattle
Conditions for successful CCSN explosions
09:25 - 09:50 Rodrigo Fernandez, IAS Princeton
Progress on the SASI
09:50 - 10:15 Kei Kotake, NAOJ Tokyo
2D and 3D modeling of core-collapse supernova explosion
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 Raphael Hix, ORNL
CHIMERA models for core-collapse supernovae
11:10 - 11:35 Matthias Liebendörfer, Univ. Basel
Approximantions for 3D supernova models
11:35 - 12:00 Bernhard Müller, MPA
A new multi-dimensional GR neutrino hydrodynamics code for CCSNe
12:00 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
15:00 - 15:25 Jeremiah Murphy, Univ. Washington
A model for GW emission from CCSN explosions
15:25 - 15:50 Martin Obergaulinger, MPA
Hydromagnetic instabilities in SNe
15:50 - 16:15 Ewald Müller, MPA
3D simulations of mixing in supernova envelopes
16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 - 17:10 Bruce Fryxell, Univ. Michigan
Supernova Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
17:10 - 17:35 Matthias Herzog, MPA
Burning of a neutron star to a strange star
17:35 - 18:00 Friedel Thielemann, Univ. Basel
Explosive nucleosynthesis in core collapse supernovae: The Fe-group and beyond
18:30 BAVARIAN NIGHT


Friday, March 26

Time Speaker Title
09:00 - 09:25 Sergei Blinnikov, ITEP Moscow
New applications of SN II to cosmology
09:25 - 09:50 Michele Marta, FZ Dresden
Experimental study of 14N (p, gamma) O15 reaction
09:50 - 10:15 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo, GSI
Nuclear physics and r-process nucleosynthesis
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 Almudena Arcones, GSI
Core-collapse supernovae, neutrino-driven wind and nucleosynthesis
11:10 - 11:35 Shinya Wanajo, TUM
The r-process in black hole winds
11:35 - 12:00 Yuhri Ishimaru, ICU
Galactic chemical evolution and origin of r-process elements
12:00 - 12:25 Nobuya Nishimaru, NAOJ Tokyo
r-process nucleosynthesis in magnetically dominated core collapse supernovae
12:00 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
15:00 - 15:25 Claudia Travaglio, AO Turino
p-process nucleosnthesis in SNe Ia
15:25 - 15:50 Joachim Görres, Univ. Indiana Notre Dame
Neutron sources for the s-process
15:50 - 16:15 Urs Frischknecht, Univ. Basel
Light element destruction and s process in massive stars with rotation
16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 - 17:10 Joachim Görres, Univ. Indiana Notre Dame
On the C12+C12 reaction rate
17:10 - 17:35 Roland Diehl, MPE
Gamma ray spectroscopy and nucleosynthesis
17:35 - 18:00 Dieter Hartmann, Clemson Univ.
Cosmic chemical evolution: What to expect from GRB observations
18:00 - 18:15Organizers Concluding remarks
18:30 DINNER