September 15, 2014 - Monday
| Welcome | |
| Challenges | |
| Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute Closing in on the Progenitors of SNe Ia | |
| Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University The challenge of using something you don't fully understand | |
| Stan E Woosley, UCSC Models for Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Coffee break | |
| Progenitors and Rates | |
| Michael Childress, Australian National University The Relationship Between SN Ia Ages and Host Galaxies Throughout Cosmic Time | |
| Or Graur, NYU Constraining the progenitor of SN2011fe with pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope He II narrow-band observations | |
| LUNCH | |
| Steven Rodney, Johns Hopkins University Progenitor Constraints from Type Ia Supernova Rates | |
| Laura Chomiuk, Michigan State University TBA | |
| Assaf Sternberg, Excellence Cluster Universe, TU München High-resolution spectroscopy and Type Ia supernova progenitors | |
| Coffee break | |
| Kate Maguire, European Southern Observatory Circumstellar material around SNe Ia: observations and implications for the progenitors | |
| Bill Wolf, University of California Santa Barbara Post-nova supersoft sources, recurrent novae, and the fastest recurrent nova yet discovered | |
| Max Moe, Harvard University What can eclipsing binaries tell us about the progenitors of SNe Ia? |
September 16, 2014 - Tuesday
| Progenitors and Rates | |
| Keiichi Maeda, Kyoto University Insight and Constraints on SN Ia Progenitor and Explosion | |
| J. Craig Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin Multiple Rotational States of White Dwarfs | |
| Coffee break | |
| Chelsea E Harris, UC Berkeley Prospects of Detecting CSM from SNe Ia Progenitor Systems | |
| Chris Pritchet, U Victoria The DTD at late times: evidence against SD progenitors? | |
| Explosion Mechanisms and Simulations | |
| Don Q. Lamb, University of Chicago New Results on the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Lunch | |
| Michael Zingale, Stony Brook University Modeling the Early Phases of SNe Ia | |
| Chris M Malone, LANL Linking Simmering to Deflagration in SNe Ia | |
| Dean M Townsley, University of Alabama Detonation Products and the Dependence of SNIa Spectra on Progenitor Composition | |
| Ken Shen, UC Berkeley Double detonations in double white dwarf systems | |
| Coffee break | |
| Ken'ichi Nomoto, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo Final Evolution of Spinning White Dwarfs and their Companions in Single Degenerate Models for Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Ami Shimo Glasner, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem Sub Chandrasekhar Models for Supernovae | |
| Robert Fisher, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth The Post-Merger Magnetized Evolution of White Dwarf Binaries | |
| Doron 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 | |
| Ryan Foley, University of Illinois Thermonculear Weirdos | |
| Saurabh W Jha, Rutgers University Type Iax Supernovae: Before and After | |
| Coffee break | |
| Jeffrey Silverman, University of Texas at Austin High-Velocity Features in the Spectra of Type-Ia Supernovae | |
| Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Spectroscopic Correlations Among SNe Ia | |
| Lunch | |
| Raffaella Margutti, Harvard University X-ray observations of SNe Ia | |
| Ariel Goobar, Stockholm University Lessons from SN2014J - the closest SNIa in several decades | |
| Light Curves and Spectra (Simulation) | |
| Daniel Kasen, UC Berkeley Light Curves and Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Stuart A Sim, Queen's University Belfast Light curves and spectra for multi-dimensional explosion models | |
| Coffee break | |
| Peter Garnavich, University of Notre Dame Continuous, Fast-Cadence Light Curves from Kepler | |
| Daniel R van Rossum, University of Chicago Supernova Light Curves and Spectra from Two Different Codes: Supernu and Phoenix | |
| Reception Quadrangle Club | |
| Conference 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) | |
| Mattia Bulla, Queen's University Belfast Theoretical Modelling of Type Ia polarisation spectra | |
| Michele Sasdelli, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics A metric space for SNIa spectra | |
| Natallia Karpenka, Stockholm University Photometric supernova classification using neural networks. | |
| Richard A Scalzo, Australian National University Ejected Masses of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Coffee break | |
| Kaisey S Mandel, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Type Ia Supernova Colors and Ejecta Velocities: Hierarchical Bayesian Regression with Non-Gaussian Distributions | |
| Paula Zelaya, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Sodium and Polarizing Dust Around Ia SNe | |
| Nucleosynthesis | |
| Chiaki Kobayashi, University of Hertfordshire Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies | |
| Lunch | |
| Host Galaxies | |
| Mark Sullivan, University of Southampton SNe Ia: Host galaxies and progenitors | |
| Greg Aldering, Berkeley Lab Improved Cosmological Parameter Measurements using Local Galaxy Environments | |
| Rachel C Wolf, University of Pennsylvania Host Galaxy Environment as a Parameter for SN Ia Standardization | |
| Yen-Chen Pan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Type Ia Supernovae and Their Host Galaxies |
September 19, 2014 - Friday
| Cosmology | |
| Joshua Frieman, University of Chicago Dark Energy and Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Adam Riess, John Hopkins Univeristy Refining the Hubble Constant with Parallax, Cepheids and Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory TBA | |
| Coffee break | |
| Pierre Astier, LPNHE/ Univ. Paris Cosmological use of supernovae | |
| Armin Rest, STScI Cosmological Constraints with Type Ia Supernovae Discovered during the first 1.5 Years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey | |
| Lunch | |
| Daniel Scolnic, KICP at UChicago Color Dispersion and Milky Way Reddening among Type Ia Supernovae | |
| Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics Cosmological parameters from SN Ia luminosity distances: a model-independent approach | |
| Coffee break | |
| Conference Summaries | |
| Edward F Brown, Michigan State University Theory and modeling summary [PDF, 38.68 MB] | |
| Andy Howell, LCOGT/UCSB Observational summary [PDF, 5.6 MB] | |
| Conference Adjourns |
