INT Workshop on "Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology", August 4 - 6, 2004

Preliminary Program


Wednesday, August 4

Time Speaker Title
9:30 - 9:45
Welcome and Opening
Session 1: Supernova Progenitors
9:45 - 10:15E. Cappellaro
(Oss. Astron. Capodimonte)
Statistical evidences of the nature of type Ia SN progenitors
10:15 - 10:45K. Nomoto
(U. Tokyo)
The progenitors of type Ia SNe
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 11:45S. Starrfield
(U. Arizona)
Growing white dwarfs to the Chandrasekhar limit
11:45 - 12:15T. Uenishi
(U. Tokyo)
Rotation of accreting white dwarfs in axisymmetric models
12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session 2: Observations of Nearby Type Ia SNe
14:00 - 14:30M. Turatto
(Padua Obs.)
Detailed observations of nearby SNe Ia
14:30 - 15:00P. Garnavich
(U. Notre Dame)
Properties of SN Ia host galaxies
15:00 - 15:30P. Nugent
(LBNL, Berkeley)
Spectropolarimetry and the 3D analysis of SNe Ia
15:30 - 16:00 COFFE BREAK
16:00 - 16:30M. Hamuy
(UOCIW, Pasadena)
Recent results from SN 2002ic
16:30 - 17:00M. Wood-Vasey
(LBNL, Berkeley)
Photometry of Sn 2002ic and implications for the progenitor mass-loss history
17:00 - 17:20N. Elias de la Rosa
(Padua Obs.)
SN 2003cg in NGC 3169
17:20 - 18:00 Open discussion on nearby supernova observations: What do we need and how can we get it?
18:00 END OF FIRST DAY


Thursday, August 5

Session 3: Lightcurves and Spectra Modeling
Time Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:30P. Mazzali
(Triest Obs.)
Properties on SNe Ia: What we learned from two years of the RTN
9:30 - 10:00M. Stehle
(MPA, Garching)
Abundance tomography of type Ia SNe
10:00 - 10:30E. Baron
(U. Oklahoma)
Current status of qualitative spectroscopy of SNe Ia
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:00S. Blinnikov
(ITEP, Moscow)
Probing SN explosions with lightcurves and x-ray spectra
Session 4: Explosion Models
12:00 - 12:30S. Woosley
(UC Santa Cruz)
SN Ia: Ignition and implications
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 14:30S. Wunsch
(Sandia NL)
Convection and off-center ignition in SNe Ia
14:30 - 15:00W. Hillebrandt
(MPA, Garching)
The physics and modeling of turbulent thermonuclear combustion
15:00 - 15:30M. Zingale
(UC Santa Cruz)
Flame instabilities in SNe Ia
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:00W. Schmidt
(U. Würzburg)
Challenges in SN Ia explosion modeling
17:00 - 17:30B. Messer
(U. Chicago)
Scaling Relations in Buoyancy-Driven Thermonuclear Flame
17:30 - 18:00A. Calder
(U. Chicago)
The deflagration phase of type Ia SNe
18:00 - 18:30T. Plewa
(U. Chicago)
SN Ia explosions: Gravitationally confined detonations
18:30 END OF SECOND DAY; SOCIAL DINNER


Friday, August 6

Session 4 (cont.): Explosion Models
Time Speaker Title
9:00 - 9:30 F. Röpke
(MPA, Garching)
Initial parameters in thermonuclear supernova explosion models
9:30 - 10:00J. Truran
(U. Chicago)
Nucleosynthesis during the deflagration phase of SNe Ia
10:00 - 10:30 Open discussion on explosion models: Where do we stand?
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 5: SNe Ia and Cosmological Implications
11:00 - 11:30P. Höflich
(U. Texas)
SN Ia and cosmology
11:30 - 12:00L. Wang
(LBNL, Berkeley)
3D effects on SNe Ia as standard candles
12:00 - 12:30G. Goldhaber
(LBNL, Berkeley)
CMAGIC: A new method for the study of SNe Ia
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 - 14:30P. Ruiz-Lapuente
(U. Barcelona)
Dark energy from SNe Ia
14:30 - 15:00B. Leibundgut
(ESO, Garching)
Status of the ESSENCE project
15:00 - 15:30R. Pain
(IN2P3/CNRS, U. Paris)
SNIFS first light
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 16:30 H. Lampeitl
(Fermilab, Batavia)
Searching for supernovae within SDSS II
16:30 - 17:30 Open discussion on distant supernova: Can they constrain cosmology beypond what is known?
END OF WORKSHOP