Program
September 14, 2014 - Sunday
7:00 PM - 9:00 PMRegistration and Reception
Hyatt Place Chicago-South

September 15, 2014 - Monday
8:30 AMWelcome
 Challenges
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMMario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute
Closing in on the Progenitors of SNe Ia
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMRobert P. Kirshner, Harvard University
The challenge of using something you don't fully understand
10:20 AM - 11:00 AMStan E Woosley, UCSC
Models for Type Ia Supernovae
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee break
 Progenitors and Rates
11:30 AM - 12:10 PMMichael Childress, Australian National University
The Relationship Between SN Ia Ages and Host Galaxies Throughout Cosmic Time
12:10 PM - 12:30 PMOr Graur, NYU
Constraining the progenitor of SN2011fe with pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope He II narrow-band observations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLUNCH
1:30 PM - 2:10 PMSteven Rodney, Johns Hopkins University
Progenitor Constraints from Type Ia Supernova Rates
2:10 PM - 2:50 PMLaura Chomiuk, Michigan State University
TBA
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMAssaf Sternberg, Excellence Cluster Universe, TU München
High-resolution spectroscopy and Type Ia supernova progenitors
3:10 PM - 3:40 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PMKate Maguire, European Southern Observatory
Circumstellar material around SNe Ia: observations and implications for the progenitors
4:20 PM - 4:40 PMBill Wolf, University of California Santa Barbara
Post-nova supersoft sources, recurrent novae, and the fastest recurrent nova yet discovered
4:40 PM - 5:00 PMMax Moe, Harvard University
What can eclipsing binaries tell us about the progenitors of SNe Ia?

September 16, 2014 - Tuesday
 Progenitors and Rates
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMKeiichi Maeda, Kyoto University
Insight and Constraints on SN Ia Progenitor and Explosion
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMJ. Craig Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin
Multiple Rotational States of White Dwarfs
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMCoffee break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AMChelsea E Harris, UC Berkeley
Prospects of Detecting CSM from SNe Ia Progenitor Systems
11:10 AM - 11:30 AMChris Pritchet, U Victoria
The DTD at late times: evidence against SD progenitors?
 Explosion Mechanisms and Simulations
11:30 AM - 12:10 PMDon Q. Lamb, University of Chicago
New Results on the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae
12:10 PM - 1:10 PMLunch
1:10 PM - 1:50 PMMichael Zingale, Stony Brook University
Modeling the Early Phases of SNe Ia
1:50 PM - 2:10 PMChris M Malone, LANL
Linking Simmering to Deflagration in SNe Ia
2:10 PM - 2:30 PMDean M Townsley, University of Alabama
Detonation Products and the Dependence of SNIa Spectra on Progenitor Composition
2:30 PM - 3:10 PMKen Shen, UC Berkeley
Double detonations in double white dwarf systems
3:10 PM - 3:40 AMCoffee break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PMKen'ichi Nomoto, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo
Final Evolution of Spinning White Dwarfs and their Companions in Single Degenerate Models for Type Ia Supernovae
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMAmi Shimo Glasner, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Sub Chandrasekhar Models for Supernovae
4:20 PM - 4:40 PMRobert Fisher, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
The Post-Merger Magnetized Evolution of White Dwarf Binaries
4:40 PM - 5:00 PMDoron Kushnir, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
An unambiguous test for direct collisions as the primary channel for type Ia SNe is possible in the near fututre

September 17, 2014 - Wednesday
 High-Quality, Subluminous, and Unusual Data
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMRyan Foley, University of Illinois
Thermonculear Weirdos
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMSaurabh W Jha, Rutgers University
Type Iax Supernovae: Before and After
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMCoffee break
10:50 AM - 11:30 AMJeffrey Silverman, University of Texas at Austin
High-Velocity Features in the Spectra of Type-Ia Supernovae
11:30 AM - 12:10 PMPeter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Spectroscopic Correlations Among SNe Ia
12:10 PM - 1:10 PMLunch
1:10 PM - 1:50 PMRaffaella Margutti, Harvard University
X-ray observations of SNe Ia
1:50 PM - 2:10 PMAriel Goobar, Stockholm University
Lessons from SN2014J - the closest SNIa in several decades
 Light Curves and Spectra (Simulation)
2:10 PM - 2:50 PMDaniel Kasen, UC Berkeley
Light Curves and Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae
2:50 PM - 3:30 PMStuart A Sim, Queen's University Belfast
Light curves and spectra for multi-dimensional explosion models
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMPeter Garnavich, University of Notre Dame
Continuous, Fast-Cadence Light Curves from Kepler
4:20 PM - 4:40 PMDaniel R van Rossum, University of Chicago
Supernova Light Curves and Spectra from Two Different Codes: Supernu and Phoenix
6:00 PMReception
Quadrangle Club
7:00 PMConference Dinner
Spouses: register with LOC before Sept 8 if you want to join!
Quadrangle Club
 After-Dinner Talk -- Bob Kirshner

September 18, 2014 - Thursday
 Light Curves and Spectra (Data)
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMMattia Bulla, Queen's University Belfast
Theoretical Modelling of Type Ia polarisation spectra
9:20 AM - 9:40 AMMichele Sasdelli, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
A metric space for SNIa spectra
9:40 AM - 10:00 AMNatallia Karpenka, Stockholm University
Photometric supernova classification using neural networks.
10:00 AM - 10:20 AMRichard A Scalzo, Australian National University
Ejected Masses of Type Ia Supernovae
10:20 AM - 10:50 AMCoffee break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AMKaisey S Mandel, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Type Ia Supernova Colors and Ejecta Velocities: Hierarchical Bayesian Regression with Non-Gaussian Distributions
11:10 AM - 11:30 AMPaula Zelaya, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Sodium and Polarizing Dust Around Ia SNe
 Nucleosynthesis
11:30 AM - 12:10 PMChiaki Kobayashi, University of Hertfordshire
Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies
12:10 PM - 1:10 PMLunch
 Host Galaxies
1:10 PM - 1:50 PMMark Sullivan, University of Southampton
SNe Ia: Host galaxies and progenitors
1:50 PM - 2:10 PMGreg Aldering, Berkeley Lab
Improved Cosmological Parameter Measurements using Local Galaxy Environments
2:10 PM - 2:30 PMRachel C Wolf, University of Pennsylvania
Host Galaxy Environment as a Parameter for SN Ia Standardization
2:30 PM - 2:50 PMYen-Chen Pan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Type Ia Supernovae and Their Host Galaxies

September 19, 2014 - Friday
 Cosmology
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMJoshua Frieman, University of Chicago
Dark Energy and Type Ia Supernovae
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMAdam Riess, John Hopkins Univeristy
Refining the Hubble Constant with Parallax, Cepheids and Type Ia Supernovae
10:20 AM - 11:00 AMSaul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TBA
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMCoffee break
11:30 AM - 12:10 PMPierre Astier, LPNHE/ Univ. Paris
Cosmological use of supernovae
12:10 PM - 12:50 PMArmin Rest, STScI
Cosmological Constraints with Type Ia Supernovae Discovered during the first 1.5 Years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey
12:50 PM - 1:50 PMLunch
1:50 PM - 2:30 PMDaniel Scolnic, KICP at UChicago
Color Dispersion and Milky Way Reddening among Type Ia Supernovae
2:30 PM - 3:10 PMWolfgang Hillebrandt, Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics
Cosmological parameters from SN Ia luminosity distances: a model-independent approach
3:10 PM - 3:40 PMCoffee break
 Conference Summaries
3:40 PM - 4:20 PMEdward F Brown, Michigan State University
Theory and modeling summary [PDF, 38.68 MB]
4:20 PM - 5:00 PMAndy Howell, LCOGT/UCSB
Observational summary [PDF, 5.6 MB]
5:00 PMConference Adjourns