Twenty Years after SN1987A

What did we learn, what will the next SN tell us?

February 23, 24, and 25, 2007

Hilton Waikoloa, Hawaii

Modified 03/22/2007  

Thursday Feb. 22

 

Start

End

 

 

17:00

18:00

Registration

 

Friday Feb. 23

 

Start

End

Title

Speaker

8:00

8:30

Registration

 

8:30

8:40

Opening remark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I. History of SN1987A

 

 

Chair: Alfred Mann(Univ. of Pennsylvania)

 

8:40

9:10

Kamiokande

Masatoshi Koshiba (U. Tokyo)

9:10

9:40

IMB

Jack Vander Velde (Michigan)

 

 

Coffee Break

 

10:10

10:40

BAKSAN

Evgenii Alexeyev (INR)

10:40

11:10

LSD

Oscar Saavedra (INFN)

 

 

Chair: Rolf Kudritzki (Univ. of Hawaii)

 

11:10

11:40

Optical history of SN1987A after explosion

Nicholas Suntzeff (Texas A&M)

11:40

12:10

X-Ray history of SN1987A after explosion

Yasuo Tanaka (Max-Planck, Garching)

 

 

LUNCH

 

13:30

14:00

Progenitor of SN1987A

Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford)

 

 

Chair: Raymond Sawyer(UCSB)

 

14:00

15:00

Summary of particle physics lessons from SN1987A

Georg Raffelt (MPI-Munich)

 

 

Coffee Break

 

15:30

16:30

Summary of astrophysics from 1987A

David Arnett (Arizona)

 

 

 

 

 

 

II. Current understanding of supernovae

16:30

17:00

Compact objects; neutron stars, black holes

James Lattimer (SUNY, Stonybrook)

17:00

18:00

Poster presentation

 

 

Saturday Feb. 24

 

Start

End

Title

Speaker

 

 

Chair: Wick Haxton(Univ. of Washington)

 

8:30

9:15

The Supernova Explosion Mechanism: Introduction and Status Report

Adam Burrows (Arizona)

9:15

9:45

Results from Multidimensional Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae and Implications for Future Efforts

Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge)

9:45

10:15

Elementary processes in core collapse and neutrino burst

Shoichi Yamada (Waseda)

 

 

Coffee Break

 

10:45

11:15

Modeling Core-Collapse Supernovae: Neutrinos and the Explosion Mechanism Fourty Years After Colgate & White

Hans Thomas Janka (MPI-Garching)

11:15

11:45

SNII rate estimates in our and nearby galaxies

Shin'ichiro Ando (Caltech)

 

 

Chair: Vernon Barger(Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

11:45

12:15

Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Supernovae: Shock Re-Heating, the r-Process, and the Neutrino Signal

George Fuller (UCSD)

 

 

LUNCH

 

13:30

14:30

Particle physics with the SN neutrino burst

Alexei Smirnov (ICTP)

14:30

15:00

Supernovae and GRB's

Alexander Heger (LANL/UCSC)

15:00

15:30

Relic SN neutrinos

Gary Steigman (Ohio State U.)

 

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Chair: Kate Scholberg(Duke University)

 

16:00

16:15

SN early warning detection of neutrinos

Alec Habig (Minnesota, Duluth)

16:15

16:30

AstroAlert: Amateurs and the Next Supernova

Rick Fienberg (Sky & Telescope)

16:30

17:00

Silicon burning neutrinos

Andrzej Odrzywolek (Jagiellonian U.)

17:00

17:30

SN and life on Earth

Andy Karam (Rochester Institute of Technology)

18:00

 

Banquet

 

 

Sunday Feb. 25

 

Start

End

Title

Speaker

 

 

III. Current and Future detectors and their capabilities for SN data

 

 

Chair: Gene Beier (Univ. of Pennsylvania)

 

8:30

8:55

Super-Kamiokande

Masayuki Nakahata (ICRR)

8:55

9:20

KamLAND

Petr Vogel (Caltech)

9:20

9:45

LVD

Walter Fulgione (INFN and INAF)

9:45

10:10

ICECUBE

Lutz Koepke, University of Mainz

10:10

10:35

SNO+ and other projects related to supernova detection at SNOLab.

Clarence J. Virtue (Laurentian)

 

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Chair: Lawrence Sulak (Boston University)

 

11:05

11:30

GADZOOKS

Mark Vagins (UCI)

11:30

12:00

Gravity wave detectors

Erik Katsavounidis (MIT)

 

 

LUNCH

 

 

 

Chair: Kenzo Nakamura (KEK)

 

13:00

13:25

Future large volume scintillation detectors

Franz von Feilitzsch (T.U. Munich)

13:25

13:50

Future large volume liquid argon detectors

Andre Rubbia (ETH Zurich)

13:50

14:15

Future large volume water Cherenkov detectors

Yoichiro Suzuki (ICRR)

14:15

14:55

Understanding Supernovae: From Forensics to the Future

John Beacom (Ohio State U.)