ECT*/RTN Workshop on "Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology", September 25 - 27, 2003

Final programme


Thursday, September 25

Time Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:15
Welcome and Opening
9:15 - 9:45Enrico Cappellaro
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Italy)
Supernova rates
9:55 - 10:15Guillaume Blanc
(INAF, Padova, Italy)
The rate of type Ia SNe
10:20 - 10:50Ken'ichi Nomoto
(Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
Progenitors of type Ia supernovae
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 11:50Ramon Canal
(Univ. Barcelona, Spain)
Type Ia supernovae progenitor evolution
11:55 - 12:15Christoffer Tout
(Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
New ideas on common-envelope evolution
12:20 - 12:40Zhanwen Han
(Nat. Astr. Observ., Yunnan, China)
On the WD + MS channel for the progenitors of type Ia Supernovae
12:45 - 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 - 14:35Pierre Lesaffre
(Univ. Oxford and Inst. of Astronomy, Univ. Cambridge, UK)
The convective URCA process in C+O white dwarfs
14:40 - 15:00Peter Lundqvist
(Stockholm Observatory, Sweden)
Circumstellar interactions in SNe Ia
15:05 - 15:20Rubina Kotak
(Imperial College, London, UK)
New results on SN 2002ic
15:25 - 15:45Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente
(Univ. Barcelona, Spain)
The Tycho Brahe SNIa project
15:50 - 16:15 COFFE BREAK
16:15 - 16:45David Branch
(Univ. of Oklahoma, USA)
Type Ia supernovae: Direct analysis of early-time spectra
16:55 - 17:25Peter Nugent
(Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, USA)
The spectroscopic diversity of SNe Ia at low and high redshifts
17:35 - 17:55Paolo Mazzali
(Triest Observatory, Triest, Italy)
The properties of SNe Ia
18:00 END OF FIRST DAY; DINNER


Friday, September 26

Time Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:20Gabriele Garvini
(Stockholm University, Sweden)
Direct analysis of peculiar type Ia supernovae
9:25 - 9:45Sebastien Bongard
(IINL, France)
Spectroscopic luminosity sequence RSi and RCa
9:50 - 10:20Peter Meikle
(Imperial College, London, UK)
IR spectroscopy of type Ia supernovae
10:30 - 10:50Stefano Benetti
(INAF, Padova, Italy)
SN 2002bo, the first ESC supernova
10:55 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 11:40Vallery Stanishev
(Stockholm University, Sweden)
First results of the RTN campaigne on SN 2003du
11:45 - 12:05Maximilian Stritzinger
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
Spectrophotometry and S-corrections
12:10 - 12:30Maria Elena Salvo
(MT. Stromlo Observatory, Australia)
New tools to study SN Ia datasets
12:35 - 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 - 14:45Alexei Khokhlov
(Univs. of Chicago, USA)
Three dimensional simulations of type Ia supernovae
14:55 - 15:15Daniel Kasen
(Lawrence Berkely Nat. Lab., Berkeley, USA)
3-D signatures in SNe Ia
15:20 - 15:40Wolfgang Hillebrandt
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
SNe Ia simulations at MPA: a progress report
15:45 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 16:35Wolfram Schmidt
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
Numerical simulation of turbulent thermonuclear burning
16:40 - 17:00Friedrich Röpke
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
The interaction of thermonuclear flames with turbulence
17:05 - 17:25Claudia Travaglio
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
Multidymensional nucleosynthesis in SNe Ia
17:30 - 17:50Elena Sorokina
(ITEP, Moscow, Russia)
Dynamics and radiation of young SNRs
17:55 END OF SECOND DAY; DINNER


Saturday, September 27

Time Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:30 Sergei Blinnikov
(ITEP, Moscow, Russia)
Supernova models and light curves
9:40 - 10:10Peter Höflich
(Univ. of Texas, Austin, USA)
Models for SNe and observational constraints
10:20 - 10:40Luca Zampieri
(INAF, Padova, Italy)
Modelling lightcurves
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 11:35Matthias Stehle
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
Synthetic spectra of SNe Ia
11:40 - 12:00Daniel Sauer
(MPI f. Astrophysik, Garching, Germany)
Non-LTE models and synthetic spectra of SNe Ia
12:05 - 12:35Cecilia Kozma
(Stockholm Observatory, Stockholm, Sweden)
Late time modeling of SNeIa
12:40 - 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 - 14:45Brian Schmidt
(Mount Stromolo Obs., Australia)
Results of high-Z SN search
14:55 - 15:15Reynald Pain
(IN2P3/CNRS, Univ. Paris, France)
The SN program of the CFHT legacy survey
15:20 - 15:40 Stephane Blondin
(ESO, Garching, Germany)
Issues and concerns in high-redshift Type Ia SN spectroscopy
15:45 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 - 16:35 Chris Lidman
(ESO, Chile)
Constraints of cosmology from a new set of high redshift type Ia Supernovae
16:40 - 17:00 Serena Nobili
(Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)
I-band Hubble diagram for type Ia SNe
17:05 - 17:35Matthew Parry
(Theor. Phys., LMU, Munich, Germany)
Dark energy I
17:45 - 18:15Jens Niemeyer
(Univs. of Würzburg, Germany)
Dark energy II
18:30 END OF WORKSHOP; DINNER