MPA Garching

Wolfgang Hillebrandt’s 80th Birthday Symposium

Location: Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
(Talk sessions in seminar room E.0.11)
Date Monday, August 5, 2024
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome
09:10 - 10:35 Session 1: Stellar populations and supernovae (Chair: Paolo Mazzali)
09:10 – 09:40 Stan Woosley Pulsational pair-instability supernovae
09:40 – 09:55 Alexander Heger Finding the oldest star
09:55 – 10:15 Ivo Seitenzahl Type Ia supernova nucleosynthesis
10:15 – 10:35 Ashley Ruiter Type Ia supernovae from double white dwarf merger populations
10:35 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:40 Session 2: Supernovae and cosmology (Chair: Markus Kromer)
11:10 – 11:40 Bob Kirshner Supernova cosmology
11:40 – 12:00 Bruno Leibundgut Hubble constant from supernovae
12:00 – 12:20 Sherry Suyu Gravitationally lensed supernovae
12:20 – 12:30 Christian Vogl Type II supernovae as a barrier-free path to the Hubble constant
12:30 – 12:40 Geza Csoernyei Observational tests of Type II supernova distance measurements
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:40 Session 3: Binaries and transients (Chair: Sabine Schindler)
14:00 – 14:30 Fritz Roepke Simulations of common-envelope interactions and related processes
14:30 – 15:00 Claes Fransson Supernova 1987A with JWST
15:00 – 15:20 Friedrich-Karl Thielemann Wolfgang, the Cafe "Süsse Ecke" and the r-Process
15:20 – 15:40 Stuart Sim Radiative transfer for Type Ia supernovae and kilonovae
15:40 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 18:15 Session 4: Stellar processes and consequences (Chair: Roland Diehl)
16:15 – 16:45 Selma de Mink Rising and evolved stars at MPA
16:45 – 17:15 Matthias Steinmetz Chemical cartography of the Milky Way
17:15 – 17:25 Stefan Hachinger & Luigi Iapichino Simulations, qubits, and data management: our journey from astrophysics into HPC
17:25 – 17:35 Sandra Benitez Herrera The importance of science engagement
17:35 – 17:45 Wolfgang Kerzendorf Supernova Wolfgang: studying the rise and environment
17:45 – 18:00 Friedrich Kupka Convective overshooting revisited
18:00 – 18:15 Jens Niemeyer Kindling the flame
18:30 Banquet
20:00 – 21:00 Reminiscences: Wolfgang’s footprints in a broader context
20:00 – 20:05 Manfred Lindner (video)
20:05 – 20:25 Herrmann Lederer Passion for supernovae and supercomputing: a computer centre perspective
20:25 – 20:40 Ewald Müller Recollection of 50 years of common history
20:40 – 21:00 Achim Weiss Wolfgang, the director
…… and OTHERS
22:00 End of Catering (but not of Beer)