Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney 20 to 24 June 2011
Conference Ends!
SNe Conference Group Photo. Credit: Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez (AAO/MQ)
On behalf of the local and scientific organising committees, we would like to thank the participants for the success of our Conference.
Several participants have expressed an interest in having a PDF version of the talks or posters available on the conference web site. Hence, we are compiling them in the Schedule webpage (talks) and in the posters webpage. If you want to include your contribution in our website, please send it (a link may be preferable to e-mail if the PDF file is too large) to info2011 [at] aao [dot] gov [dot] au. No talk or poster will be included here without the permission of the authors.
The Final Booklet (PDF) with the Schedule and the Scientific Abstracts can be downloaded from here.
Motivation
The current generation of wide field transient surveys will revolutionize our understanding of why stars become supernovae. Designed to revisit large areas of sky at multiple wavelengths, these surveys are now discovering hundreds of supernovae each year. During the coming year, the number of supernova discoveries will increase even further as new transient surveys come online. As well as finding rare and possibly new types of supernovae, these surveys will generate new insights into both core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae. It is therefore timely to have a conference that explores the current (observational and theoretical) supernova landscape and the connection between supernovae and their host galaxies.
Some topics to be covered
include
- the many different paths to a supernova explosion
- the progenitors of supernovae
- supernova remnants
- the relationships between the properties of supernovae and their host galaxies
- supernovae as tracers of star formation
- unusual supernovae
- unexplained transients
- current and future transient surveys
Invited Speakers
- Carles Badenes
- Poonam Chandra
- Roger Chevalier
- Tomas Dahlen
- Luc Dessart
- Alex Filippenko
- Ryan Foley
- Claes Fransson
- Avishay Gal-yam
- Saurabh Jha
- Daniel Kasen
- Mansi Kasliwal
- Robert Kirshner
- Chiaki Kobayashi
- Rubina Kotak
- Emily Levesque
- Weidong Li
- Marco Limongi
- Keiichi Maeda
- Dan Maoz
- Maryam Modjaz
- Tara Murphy
- Ken'ichi Nomoto
- Andrea Pastorello
- Miguel Perez-Torres
- Mark Phillips
- Philipp Podsiadlowski
- Robert Quimby
- Armin Rest
- Stuart Ryder
- Brian Schmidt
- Stuart Sim
- Stephen Smartt
- Alicia Soderberg
- Mark Sullivan
- Takaya Nozawa
- Peter Nugent
Conference E-mail: Info2011.
Other meetings in Australia in June/July 2011:
- Following the meeting, Stuart Ryder and Seppo Mattila will be hosting a From Starburst to Supernova workshop at the AAO from 27-28 June.
- On June 29 - 1 July 2011, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research will hold a meeting on Astronomy & Astrophysics from Antarctica at the Taronga Centre in Sydney.
- Two weeks after the "Supernovae and their Host Galaxies" meeting, from 4 - 8 July, the Astronomical Society of Australia is organizing the ASA Annual Scientific Meeting, that will be held in Adelaide.
Poster of the conference:
You can download the poster of the conference following any of these links:
- Full resolution PDF version (2 Mb).
- Full resolution JPG version (3.2 Mb).
- Mid. resolution JPG version (459 Kb).
Public Talk
Renowned astronomer Robert Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA) will give a public talk at 2pm Sunday 19 June 2011 (the day before our conference starts) in the Power House Museum. All the information is provided in this link.
The conference is supported by the following institutions:
| Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) | CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) |
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