Conference Program
MONDAY
8:30-9:30: Registration
Introductory Session
Chair: Guillermo Bosch
9:30-10:00: Conference introduction: Dante Minniti & Mario Hamuy
10:00-10:30: Nidia Morrell
10:30-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
Session 1: Observations and surveys of massive stars
11:00-11:30: The massive star content of the Magellanic Clouds - Philip Massey (INVITED)
11:30-11:45: Infrared properties and mid-infrared variability of red supergiant stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Ming Yang
11:45-12:15: Surveys and populations of Wolf-Rayet stars - Kathryn Neugent (INVITED)
12:15-12:30: Unlocking the galactic Wolf-Rayet population with Gaia DR2 - Gemma Rate
12:30-12:45: A MUSE wide-field adaptive optics view of the massive star population in the SMC cluster NGC 330 - Julia Bodensteiner
12:45 - 14:30: LUNCH
Chair: Paula Benaglia
14:30-15:00: Binary star interactions: periastron events and evolution - Gloria Koenigsberger (INVITED)
15:00-15:15: Extreme AO of massive stars: searching for faint companions using VLT/SPHERE for the CHIPS project - Alan Rainot
15:15-15:30: Determination of absolute masses through apsidal motion studies –Gabriel Ferrero
15:30-15:45: FLAMing MiMeS: Can we extend our investigations of massive-star magnetism to nearby galaxies? - Gregg Wade
15:45-16:00: NGC 1624-2: anomaly or archetype? - Alexandre David-Uraz
16:00–16:30: COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Rodolfo Barbá
16:30-17:00: Spectroscopic monitoring of Galactic O and WN stars: some highlights of the OWN Survey - Roberto Gamen (INVITED)
17:00-17:15: The Tarantula massive binary monitoring: quantitative spectroscopy of O-type binary systems in 30 Dor - Laurent Mahy
17:15-17:30: Closing the divide – super-AGB stars vs. red supergiants - Carolyn Doherty
17:30-17:45: Properties of massive stars in Galactic binary systems - Carolina Sabín-Sanjulián
17:45-18:00: Spectral-photometric analysis of the binary system HM1 8 - Cinthya Rodríguez
19:00 WELCOME COCKTAIL
TUESDAY
Session 2: Stellar evolution
Chair: Philip Massey
9:00-9:30: Challenges in the understanding of the evolution of massive stars - Anahí Granada (on behalf of G. Meynet; INVITED)
9:30-9:45: The origin of Wolf-Rayet stars at low metallicity - Tomer Shenar
9:45-10:00: Three dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations of massive star envelopes - Matteo Cantiello
10:00-10:15: Pulsations as a common mass-loss trigger in evolved massive stars? - Michaela Kraus
10:15-10:30: Testing the evolution theory with accurate parameters for two early-type eclipsing binary systems in the LMC - Mónica Taormina
10:30-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Lydia Cidale
11:00-11:30: Binary evolution of massive stars and presupernovae - Omar Benvenuto (INVITED)
11:30-11:45: Missing links in the evolution of massive binaries - Rodolfo Barbá
11:45-12:00: Angular momentum evolution in massive binaries - Avishai Gilkis
12:00-12:15: Spectropolarimetry of WR + O binaries with SALT - Andrew Fullard
Session 3: Massive stars and their environments
12:15-12:45: Massive stars and their environments - Claus Leitherer (INVITED)
12:45 - 14:30: LUNCH
Chair: Emily Levesque
14:30-14:45: Over 100 massive stars in the Milky Way's central parsec: hydrodynamics, X-ray synthesis, and 360-degree videos - Christopher Russell
14:45-15:00: Super star cluster evolution: where is 30 Doradus going? - Elena Terlevich
15:00-15:15: Diagnosing massive star content from nebular emission of HII regions - Anika Beer
15:15-15:30: Eta Carinae: a stable star behind a dynamic circumstellar environment - Augusto Damineli
15:30-15:45: Revealing colliding wind binaries with radio interferometry: WR 11 and WR 133 - Paula Benaglia
15:45-16:00: Non-thermal emission from stellar bow shocks - Santiago del Palacio
16:00-16:30: COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Elena Pian
Session 4: Final fate of massive stars and their outcome
16:30-17:00: Stripped-envelope supernova progenitors - Gastón Folatelli (INVITED)
17:00-17:15: Fast and faint supernovae from binary progenitors - Eva Laplace
17:15-17:30: Systematic study of ejecta-companion interaction - Ryosuke Hirai
18:00: POSTERS AND BEERS (link to photos)
WEDNESDAY
Chair: Joseph Anderson
9:00-9:30: Light echoes of Eta Carinae, LBV eruptions, and pre-supernova mass loss - Nathan Smith (INVITED)
9:30-9:45: Red supergiants: new perspectives on dying stars - Emily Levesque
9:45-10:00: The red supergiant progenitors of type II-plateau supernovae - Schuyler Van Dyk
10:00-10:15: Analysis of a select group of type II-P supernovae - Laureano Martínez
10:15-10:30: Progenitor mass distribution of core-collapse supernova remnants in our Galaxy and Magellanic Clouds based on elemental abundances - Satoru Katsuda
10:30-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Melina Bersten
11:00-11:30: bInsights into core-collapse supernovae from spectral modeling - John Hillier (INVITED)
11:30-11:45: Mass loss before core-collapse supernovae - Andy Howell
11:45-12:00: Progenitor mass loss and supernova remnant evolution - Dan Patnaude
12:00-12:15: The 30-year search for the compact object in SN 1987A - Dennis Alp
12:15-12:30: A new method to measure the distance to historic transients - Carlos Contreras
FREE AFTERNOON
THURSDAY
Session 5: Superluminous supernovae, GRB-connected SNe, GW events, Peculiar Objects
Chair: Masaomi Tanaka
9:00-9:30: Kilonovae as cosmic foundries of heavy elements - Elena Pian (INVITED)
9:30-9:45: The Perplexing Case of iPTF14hls - Iair Arcavi
9:45-10:00: DES16C3cje: A fall-back supernova with high mass and low energy - Claudia Gutiérrez
10:00-10:30: Type Ib/c supernovae and gamma-ray bursts - Paolo Mazzali (INVITED)
10:30-10:45: GRB 171205A – the first long GRB in a grand-design spiral galaxy - Christina Thöne
10:45-11:00: The peculiar SN2018cow in the context of GRB-SNe - Antonio de Ugarte Postigo
11:00-11:30: COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Maria Drout
11:30-12:00: Superluminous supernovae and their origin - Takashi Moriya (INVITED)
12:00-12:15: Mind the gap: the pair instability boundary - Robert Farmer
12:15-12:30: Evidence that galaxy interactions are factories for massive star formation at high redshift - Jeff Cooke
12:30-12:45: Type II superluminous supernovae from PTF - Giorgos Leloudas
12:45 - 14:30: LUNCH
Session 6: Supernova surveys: early discovery, rates, hosts
Chair: Gastón Folatelli
14:30-15:00: Supernova surveys in Chile - Mark Phillips (INVITED)
15:00-15:15: Early supernova discoveries: what can the observers contribute to our understanding of the final breaths of massive stars, progenitors of core-collapse supernovae - Ofer Yaron
15:15-15:30: Shock breakout delay due to circumstellar material seen in most Type II Supernovae - Francisco Förster
15:30-15:45: High-cadence light curves of transients from the Kepler telescope - Armin Rest
15:45-16:15: Wide-Field supernova surveys: probing new regimes of transient science - Maria Drout (INVITED)
16:15-16:45: COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Kate Maguire
16:45-17:15: Observational differences and similarities between SNe II and stripped-envelope events - Joseph Anderson (INVITED)
17:15-17:30: Comparison of optical light curves of hydrogen-rich and hydrogen poor type II supernovae - Priscila Pessi
17:30-17:45: Connecting supernova rates with the host galaxies parameters: results from the SUDARE survey - Giuliano Pignata
17:45-18:00: Using the environment to infer supernova progenitor properties - Lluís Galbany
18:00-18:15: Host environments of long GRBs, SLSNe and SNe Ic-BL: implications for progenitors - Susanna Vergani
20:00: CONFERENCE DINNER
FRIDAY
Session 7: Cosmology with SNe
Chair: Mark Phillips
10:00-10:30: The Hubble constant: it takes a village - Christopher Burns (INVITED)
10:30-10:45: Near-IR Hubble diagrams of SNe II - Ósmar Rodríguez
10:45-11:00: Optimizing spectroscopic follow-up strategies for supernova photometric classification with active learning - Santiago González-Gaitán
11:00-11:15: Young super stellar clusters: precision cosmology and the universality of the initial mass function - Roberto Terlevich
11:15-11:45: COFFEE BREAK
Session 8: SN Ia progenitors and explosion mechanisms
Chair: Nidia Morrell
11:45-12:15: Constraining the explosions and progenitor systems of type Ia supernovae - Kate Maguire (INVITED)
12:15-12:30: Red vs blue: early observations of thermonuclear supernovae reveal two distinct populations? - Maximilian Stritzinger
12:30-12:45: Multiple origins of early-excess type Ia supernovae and their implications - Ji-an Jiang
12:45-13:00: NIR spectroscopy of type Ia supernovae - Eric Hsiao
13:00-14:30: LUNCH
Chair: Francisco F&oulm;rster
14:30-15:00: SN Ia progenitors and explosion mechanisms - Keiichi Maeda (INVITED)
15:00-15:15: Progenitor signatures of type Ia supernovae - Peter Hoeflich
15:15-15:30: Fast declining SNe Ia in the NIR - Chris Ashall
15:30-15:45: NIR Nickel Emission Features in SN Ia spectra - Sahana Kumar
15:45-16:30: COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30: Conference summary: Roberto Terlevich & Gloria Koenigsberger