Programme

MONDAY, 7 APRIL
Time Title Speaker
12:30 Registration and light lunch  
14:00 Opening  
14:15 Science and community engagement at ESO Xavier Barcons
14:30 TBD Catherine Cesarsky
14:45 TBD Alvio Renzini
15:15 Building a distance ladder with population II distance indicators Marina Rejkuba
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Bruno and the early days of ALMA science at ESO Leonardo Testi
16:30 Standing on the shoulders of giants Celine Peroux
17:00 Life, The Universe, and Bruno David Silva
17:30 End of day  
TUESDAY, 8 APRIL
Time Title Speaker
09:00 Cosmology with strongly lensed supernovae Sherry Suyu
09:30 Scientific Adventures with Bruno Robert Kirshner
10:00 The Renaissance of the Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function (PNLF) George Jacoby
10:15 An update on the Hubble Constant from Surface Brightness fluctuations
 Joseph Jensen
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Calibrating Type Ia Supernova Luminosities with Surface Brightness Fluctuations: The Old Pop to H0 Peter Garnavich
11:30 SNe II the rescue: A novel distance-ladder free determination of the Hubble constant Christian Vogl
12:00 SNe II the rescue: An H0 determination based on a dedicated data set of SNe II in the Hubble flow Stefan Taubenberger
12:15 Two New Determinations of the Hubble Constant via the Classical Distance Ladder Taylor Hoyt
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 JWST Weighs in on the Hubble Tension Adam Riess
14:30 Strongly Lensed Supernovae: Implications for the Hubble Constant and transient astrophysics Suhail Dhawan 
14:45 The H0 value from SNe Ia in the Hubble flow Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente
15:00 The Hubble constant from near-infrared observations of type Ia supernovae Lluís Galbany Gonzalez
15:15 SNe II the rescue: Sibling supernovae as a path to test systematics in SN II cosmology Geza Csörnyei
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 The cosmic distance scale based on near-infrared observations of Type II and Anomalous Cepheids Teresa Sicignano
16:15 Standard Candles in the Ultraviolet Peter Brown
16:30 Type Ia supernova in the near-infrared: from explosion to cosmology Tomás Müller Bravo
16:45 Beyond the Mass Step: Improving the Hubble Diagram with an [O II] Correction to SN Ia Light Curves Bailey Martin
17:00 NIR cosmology with type Ia supernovae Kim Phan
17:15 End of the day
WEDNESDAY, 9 APRIL
Time Title Speaker
09:00 Spectropolarimetry of Supernovae Alex Filippenko
09:30 TBD Claes Fransson
10:00 The lonely white dwarf scenarios for type Ia supernovae Noam Soker
10:15 A Near-IR Search for Helium in the Superluminous Supernova SN2024ahr Harsh Kumar
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 The Extremes of the Luminosity-Decline Rate Relation Mark Phillips
11:30 Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae and a complete census of explosions Stephen Smartt
12:00 SN Ia progenitors: the current picture Dan Maoz
12:15 Exploring the range of impacts of He in the spectra of double detonation models for SNe Ia Fionntan Callan
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 JWST NIRSpec observations of SN 1987A Josefin Larsson
14:30 Clues on the (supernovae or non-supernovae) Origins of the Elements from Galactic Archeology Friedrich Thielemann
15:00 Modeling Successful and Failed Type Ia Supernovae in Single Massive CO White Dwarfs Amir Michaelis
15:15 Probing the progenitors of peculiar thermonuclear supernovae using early-time observations Shubham Srivastav
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 All known Type Ia supernova models fail to reproduce the observed luminosity-width correlation
 Doron Kushnir
16:15 Different but still same: on the common origin of the peculiar Type Iax SNe Barnabas Barna
16:30 Statistical Analysis of Early Spectra in Type II and IIb Supernovae Maider González Bañuelos
16:45 Early flash ionisation signatures in Type IIP SNe Bhavya Ailawadhi
17:00 A New Scope of Stellar Dust Revealed Melissa Shahbandeh
17:15 End of the day
19:00 Conference dinner
THURSDAY, 10 APRIL
Time Title Speaker
09:00 JWST Infrared Spectroscopy of White Dwarf Supernovae Saurabh Jha
09:30 TBD Brian Schmidt
10:00 TBD Maximilian Stritzinger
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 TBD Eline Tolstoy
11:30 KiDS and cosmology Konrad Kuijken
12:00 The gamma-ray view on supernovae Roland Diehl
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 SN 1987A: Theory Updates Four Decades Later Hans-Thomas Janka
14:30 Supernovae from Single Stars and Interacting Binaries Philipp Podsiadlowski
15:00 Pulsating Red Supergiants: A New Perspective on Type II Supernova Light Curve Diversity Vincent Bronner
15:15 Constraining the progenitor of a Type IIP SN 2023zcu via detailed photometric and spectral analysis Monalisa Dubey
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Early Warning Signs: Precursor activity preceding supernovae Seán Brennan 
16:15 When the VLT met ASKAP: Using Fast Radio Bursts as Cosmological Probe Stuart Ryder
16:30 Supernovae from the ZTF Jesper Sollerman
16:45 Lulin observatory's rapid response to extreme transients Janet Chen
17:00 Harnessing modeling techniques to decode the progenitors and environment of Type II Supernovae Raya Dastidar
17:15 Supernova searches with the 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Kuntal Misra
17:30 End of day
FRIDAY, 11 APRIL
Time Title Speaker
09:00 Decomposing the Milky Way Matthias Steinmetz
09:30 The VLT and AGN feedback: a successful story Vincenzo Mainieri
09:45 Narrow absorption lines from intervening material in supernovae: galaxy properties and environments Claudia Gutiérrez
10:00 Understanding the CSM asymmetries of Interacting Supernovae ASASSN-14il and 2021foa Naveen Dukiya
10:15 Environments of type Ia supernovae in terms of Si II velocities with Integral Field Spectroscopy Cristina Jiménez Palau
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Looking into SN host galaxies with AMUSING at the VLT Thallis Pessi
11:15 Strong progenitor age bias in supernova cosmology and concordance with DESI BAO Young-Wook Lee
11:30 Tracing back the birth environments of Type Ia supernova progenitor stars Young-Lo Kim
11:45 SN 2020udy: A New Piece of the Homogeneous Bright Group in the Diverse Iax Subclass Mridweeka Singh
12:00 The early-time light curves of type II and type IIb supernovae from the ATLAS survey Joseph Anderson
12:30 Light lunch