We especially welcome young scientists. For students/postdocs who are eager to participate but lack travel funds, you may contact us to request travel support (sn2014support@cosmo.uchicago.edu).
Conference Topics:
- Progenitors, rates, and pre-explosion physics
- Explosion mechanisms and simulations: mergers, double detonations, single degenerates, sub-chandra's, and failed explosions
- Exceptional quality data: 2011fe, STIS UV, etc...
- Thermonuclear weirdos, SNIax, the fast and the furious
- Nucleosynthetic yields from supernovae and their effect on galaxy chemical compositions
- Host galaxy <-> luminosity relationship
- Radiation transport for SNIa
- Data-driven models for SNIa light curves + spectra
- SNIa and cosmology
- Challenges
Invited Speakers to date
| Pierre Astier LPNHE/ Univ. Paris | Laura Chomiuk Michigan State University | Joshua Frieman University of Chicago |
| Saurabh Jha Rutgers University | Daniel Kasen UC Berkeley | Robert Kirshner Harvard University |
| Chiaki Kobayashi University of Hertfordshire | Mario Livio Space Telescope Science Institute | Keiichi Maeda Kyoto University |
| Raffaella Margutti Harvard University | Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Saul Perlmutter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Armin Rest STScI | Adam Riess John Hopkins Univeristy | Steven Rodney Johns Hopkins University |
| Daniel Scolnic KICP at UChicago | Ken Shen UC Berkeley | Jeffrey Silverman University of Texas at Austin |
| Stuart Sim Queen's University Belfast | Mark Sullivan University of Southampton | J. Craig Wheeler University of Texas at Austin |
| Stan Woosley UCSC | Michael Zingale Stony Brook University |
Scientific Organizing Committee
| Don Lamb (Chair) University of Chicago | Laura Chomiuk Michigan State University | Ryan Foley University of Illinois |
| Joshua Frieman University of Chicago | Wolfgang Hillebrandt Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics | Robert Kirshner Harvard University |
| Dan Maoz Tel-Aviv University | Ken'ichi Nomoto Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo | Reynald Pain LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie |
| Mark Phillips Las Campanas Observatory - Carnegie Institution for Science | Fritz Röpke Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik | Paul Ricker University of Illinois |
| Ashley Ruiter Australian National University | Frank Timmes Arizona State University | Dean Townsley University of Alabama |
| J. Craig Wheeler University of Texas at Austin |
Local Organizing Committee
| Daniel van Rossum (Chair) University of Chicago | Edward Brown Michigan State University | Ryan Foley University of Illinois |
| Peter Garnavich University of Notre Dame | Ellen Harder University of Chicago | Richard Kessler University of Chicago |
| Don Lamb University of Chicago | James Truran University of Chicago |
