Conference Schedule
for the Workshop on Classical Novae and Type Ia Supernovae

May 20-21, 2005   Santa Barbara, California


The speakers below are ALL CONFIRMED.. As you can see, we set aside plenty of time for discussion during the meeting. Each talk is followed by a discussion period equal to 1/2 the length of the talk. All SPEAKERS will be held to the allotted times, so please carefully note your time.

May 20: Classical Novae and Type Ia Progenitors

8:45 AM

Lars Bildsten: Welcome to Santa Barbara/Logistics

Session 1: Binary Evolution, Rates, Accumulation

9:00-9:30

Dean Townsley (Chicago): Classical Novae as a Probe of Cataclysmic Variables

9:30-9:45

Discussion

9:45-10:15

Allen Shafter (SDSU): CN rates in our galaxy and others

10:15-10:30

Discussion

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Session 2: Explosion and Nucleosynthesis

11:00-11:20

Tony Piro (UCSB): Mixing and Spreading of Matter on an Accreting WD

11:20-11:30

Discussion

11:30-12:10

Margarita Hernanz (Barcelona): Nucleosynthesis during Classical Nova
(including nucleosynthesis evidence in Nova grains)

12:10-12:30

Discussion

12:30-2:00

LUNCH IN KOHN HALL COURTYARD

Session 3: CN Experiment and Observations

2:00-2:40

Chick Woodward (U. Minnesota): Dust and IR observations of CN

2:40-3:00

Discussion

3:00-3:20

Christian Iliadis (UNC-Chapel Hill): CN Nucleosynthesis: Experiment

3:20-3:30

Discussion

3:30-4:00

Coffee Break

Session 4: Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

4:00-4:20

Steve Boggs (Berkeley): Near and Far Future Gamma-Ray Options

4:20-4:30

Discussion

4:30-4:50

Lars Bildsten (KITP): Ignition, Modes of Accretion and Progenitors

4:50-5:00

Discussion

5:00-5:20

Gijs Nelemans (Nijmegen): Observations of Double Degenerates

5:20-5:30

Discussion

6:30 PM

Dinner Together at El Paseo in Downtown Santa Barbara

May 21: Type Ia Supernovae

Session 1: Ignition and Flame Initiation

9:00-9:15

Leandro Gasques (Notre Dame): Carbon Fusion Rates and the Ignition Curve

9:15-9:22

Discussion

9:22-9:37

Scott Wunsch (Johns Hopkins): Convective Phase and Flame Triggering

9:37-9:45

Discussion

9:45-10:15

Stan Woosley (UCSC): Numerical Simulations of Burning

10:15-10:30

Discussion

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Session 2: Flames/Burning Continued

11:00-11:20

Mike Zingale (UCSC): Flame Instabilities in Type Ia Supernovae

11:20-11:30

Discussion

11:30-11:50

Fritz Roepke (MPA): Distributed Burning in Ia SN

11:50-12:00

Discussion

12:00-12:20

Tomazw Plewa (Chicago): Gravitationally Confined Detonations

12:20-12:30

Discussion

12:30-2:00

LUNCH IN KOHN HALL COURTYARD

Session 3: Nucleosynthesis

2:00-2:20

Frank Timmes (LANL): Type Ia Nucleosynthesis

2:20-2:30

Discussion

2:30-2:50

Avishay Gal-Yam (Caltech): Fe Enrichment and Ia rates

2:50-3:00

Discussion

3:00-3:20

Cornelia Wunderer (Berkeley): Future Gamma-Ray Missions

3:20-3:30

Discussion

3:30-4:00

Coffee Break

Session 4: Rates and Observations

4:00-4:20

Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame): SN Properties correlated with galaxy type and metallicity

4:20-4:30

Discussion

4:30-4:50

Daniel Kasen (Johns Hopkins): Spectra and polarization of Ias

4:50-5:00

Discussion

5:00-6:00

OPEN DISCUSSION, WRAPUP

6:00 PM

NO FORMAL DINNER PLANS. EVERYBODY DOES AS THEY PLEASE


The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)

  Jan. 15, 2005