Circumstellar Media and Late Stages of Massive Stellar Evolution

September 4-8, 2006, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico




FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

PICTURE GALLERY

PROGRAM

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Monday 4

20:00 Welcome reception at Hotel Mision Santa Isabel

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Tuesday 5

------Session I: SN/GRB progenitors and their CSM

09:15 Opening

09:30 Norbert Langer "SN/GRB progenitors" (I)

10:00 Sung-Chul Yoon "pre-GRB evolution of massive stars"(I)

10:30 Allard-Jan van Marle "Models for the CSM of long Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor Candidates" (I)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 You-Hua Chu "CSM around late stages of stellar evolution" (I)

12:00 Roberta Humphreys "The Circumstellar Environments of the Cool Hypergiants: Implications for the Mass Loss Mechanism" (I)

12:30 Kris Davidson "The Giraffe at the Tea Party: Eta Carinae" (I)

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13:00 Lunch
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16:00 Estela Reynoso "Radio observations of SNR environments" (I)

16:30 Jorick S. Vink "Pre-SN mass loss predictions for massive stars" (C) ppt

------Session II: Effects of binarity, binary progenitors, SNe Ib/Ic, ...

16:50 Philipp Podsiadlowski "Shaping the Circumstellar Medium around Binary Systems" (I)

17:20 Coffee Break

17:50 Onno Pols "pre-SN evolution of massive binaries" (I)

18:20 Paolo Mazzali "Hypernova, GRBs and their associated SNe" (I)

18:50-19:20 General Discussion

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Wednesday 6

09:30 Michael Corcoran "High Energy Diagnostics of the Circumstellar Medium around Eta Carinae" (I) ppt

10:00 Stephen Smartt "Progenitors of core collapse SNe" (I)

10:30 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz "Collapsars" (I)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 John Eldridge "Massive binaries as supernova progenitors" (C)

------Session III: SN Ejecta and their interaction with the CSM

11:50 Roger A. Chevalier "Circumstellar interaction around Type Ib/c supernovae and the GRB connection" (I)

12:20 Claes Fransson: "CS interaction for Type II SNe" (I)

12:50 Vikram V. Dwarkadas "SN Evolution in Stellar Winds and Bubbles" (I)

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13:20 Lunch
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16:00 Jennifer Hoffman "Polarized Line Profiles as Diagnostics of Circumstellar Geometry in Type IIn Supernovae" (I)

16:30 Alicia Soderberg "A Large Radio Survey of Type Ibc Supernovae" (I)

17:00 Coffee Break

17:30 Jane Arthur "circumstellar environments of core-collapse supernovae" (I)

------Session IV: Cas A and young SNRs (1987A, ....)

18:00 Rob Fesen "Optical Observations of the Cas A SNR and its Surrounding Circumstellar Medium" (I)

18:30-19:00 General Discussion
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20:00 Restaurant "623" wine tasting
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Thursday 7

09:30 Jeonghee Rho "Dust and Circumstellar Medium of Cas A as Revealed by Spitzer" (I)

10:00 Martin Laming "X-Ray Evolution of Cassiopeia A" (I)

10:30 Brenda Perez "Progenitor Stars and CSM of SNe in the Range 23-33 Mo and Their Relation with SNR Cas A" (I)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Guillermo Garcia-Segura "Numerical Experiments for Cas A" (C) sxi

11:45 Sabina Chita "The pre-supernova medium around massive stars:12 solar masses" (C) ppt

12:00 Xavier Prochaska "Clues to the Massive Progenitors of GRB from the Gas Surrounding Them" (I) (Session V)

12:30 Hsiao-Wen Chen "Probing the Baryonic Content of the Distant Universe Using Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows" (I) (Session VI)

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13:00 Lunch
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16:00 Daniel Dewey "Cas A / Properties of the bright X-ray knots " (C) pdf

16:20 Gwen Rudie "Evidence for CSM in the young Galactic SNR 3C58"(C)

16:40 Sangwook Park "X-Ray Observations of SNR with CSM Interaction (G292.0+1.8 and SN 1987A)" (I)

17:10 Coffee Break

------Session V: Gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows

17:30 Jonathan Granot "Theory of GRB Afterglows" (I)

18:00-18:30 General Discussion

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20:00 Restaurant "El Charro" conference dinner
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Friday 8

10:00 Miguel Angel Aloy "Relativistic outflows in GRBs" (I)

------Session VI: High redshift / low metallicity issues, Pop III & pair instability, GRB hosts/environments, SN/GRB rate

10:30 Massimo DellaValle "SNe and GRBs" (I)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Tom Abel "The Environments of the First Stars" (I)

12:00 General Discussion and Closing


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Saturday 9

10:00 Tour to the wineries
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REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee will be 50 $ (use cash for the fee at the registration desk). The registration will start on Monday the 4th of September at 18:00 at the Conference Hotel and will continue on Tuesday the 5th of September from 9:00 at the conference room.



HOTEL

Mision Santa Isabel
Tel: 52-646-1 78 33 45
Fax: 52-646-1 78 36 16
e-mail: misionsantaisabel@yahoo.com


Single room 49 $.
Double room 69 $.
Family room (up to 6) 79 $.
Breakfast will be 6 $ per person.

Check in will start on Monday 4th at 1:00 PM at the front desk.



Check FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT for hotel address



SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

  • Monday 4th (8:00 PM): Welcome reception at Hotel Mision Santa Isabel.

  • Wednesday 6th (8:00 PM): Restaurant "623" wine tasting ***** 40 $.

  • Thursday 7th (8:00 PM) : Restaurant "El Charro" conference dinner ***** 30 $.

  • Saturday 9th morning (half-day trip): Tour to the wineries at Guadalupe Valley ***** 12 $.



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    REGISTRATION by e-mail to ggs@astrosen.unam.mx

    Subject: REGISTRATION
    Please, provide name, institution, full address, tittle and abstract of contribution,
    arrival date, departure date,
    single room (49 $), double room (69 $), family room (79 $), number of companion people,
    vegetarian,
    interest in the Wednesday wine tasting (40 $),
    interest in the Thursday dinner (30 $),
    interest in the Saturday tour to the wineries (12 $).

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    The contributions to the meeting will be printed in the
    Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Serie de Conferencias.
    Editors: G. Garcia-Segura and E. Ramirez-Ruiz



    CONFERENCE POSTER

    Scientific Organizing Committee:

    N. Brickhouse, A. J. Castro-Tirado, R. Chevalier, Y.-H. Chu , D. Cox,
    J. Franco, C. Fransson, G. Garcia-Segura, U. Hwang, N. Langer,
    E. Ramirez-Ruiz, M. Rupen, R. Terlevich, J. Vink


    Local Organizing Committee:

    G. Garcia-Segura, J. A. Lopez, M. Rozas, G. Tovmasian, L. Hernandez