Generally, talks are 20 minutes incl. 5 minutes discussion. Posters (maximum size 84x118cm upright - the German DIN A0 format) are on display during the whole conference.
The electronic versions of the talks will be provided as PDF and/or PPT files. Please find the links in the programme below later.
Please find a PDF version of the following programme here.
| TALKS | |||
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| MONDAY, August 16 | Name | Sessions & Titles | Presentations |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Werner | Conference Opening | PPT |
| Luminosity function, mass distribution, and populations | |||
| Chair: Burleigh | |||
| 09:20 - 10:20 | Gianninas | A Spectroscopic Survey of Bright DA White Dwarfs | PPT |
| Tremblay | Application of improved model spectra to DA white dwarfs in the SDSS | PPT | |
| Bergeron | A comprehensive spectroscopic analysis of DB white dwarfs | PPT | |
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| 10:50 -12:30 | Catalan | Searching for the coolest white dwarfs in the Galaxy | |
| Dobbie | New white dwarfs for the stellar initial mass-final mass relation | PPT | |
| Falcon | A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs | PPTX | |
| Kepler | Magnetic White Dwarfs in the SDSS and Estimating the Mean Mass of Normal DA and DB WDs | PPTX | |
| Rebassa-Mansergas | The origin of low-mass white dwarfs | ||
| Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Krzesinski | |||
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Weston | Anyone Out There? Post-AGB Stars in the Galactic Halo | PPTX |
| White dwarf structure and evolution | |||
| Barstow | High-resolution EUV spectroscopy of Feige 2 | PPTX | |
| Adamczak | Analysis of Chandra-LETG spectra of two DA white dwarfs and a PG1159 star | ||
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| 16:00 - 17:40 | Werner | HST/COS Spectroscopy of H1504+65 | PPT |
| Dufour | HST observations of Hot DQ white dwarfs | PPT | |
| Dunlap | SOAR Observations of Hot DQ White Dwarf Stars | ||
| Vornanen | Magnetic Fields on DQ White Dwarfs with Carbon Molecular Lines | ||
| Gänsicke | White dwarfs with oxygen-rich atmospheres | ||
| 18:30 | Reception at the IAAT | ||
| TUESDAY, August 17 | Name | Sessions & Titles | Presentations |
| Chair: Castanheira | |||
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Wickramasinghe | New insights on the origin of magnetic fields in white dwarfs and neutron stars | PPTX |
| Külebi | Evolutionary status of RE J0317-853 | ODP | |
| Lawrie | Variability and rotation in magnetic white dwarfs | PPT | |
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| White dwarf ages | |||
| 10:50 - 12:30 | García-Berro | The white dwarf cooling age of NGC 6791 | PPT |
| Jeffery | The White Dwarf Age of NGC 2477 | PPT | |
| von Hippel | Deriving the Age of an Individual WD: SDSS, Bok, USNO, and Bayes | PPT | |
| Williams | Spectroscopic Analysis of the White Dwarfs in M67 | missing | |
| Winget | White Dwarfs in M4 and the Physics of Crystallization | ||
| Lunch Break | |||
| White dwarf catalogs and surveys | |||
| Chair: Farihi | |||
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Castanheira | White Dwarfs in the HET Dark Energy Experiment | PPTX |
| Debes | First Results of the WIRED Survey | PPT | |
| Kleinman | The SDSS DR7 White Dwarf Catalogue | PPT | |
| Sayres | Multi-survey and statistical methods for cool white dwarf discovery | ||
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| 16:00 - 17:20 | Verbeek | The UV-excess Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane | |
| Central stars of planetary nebulae | |||
| Rauch | HST/COS Observations of O(He) Stars | PPT | |
| Todt | [WN] central stars of planetary nebulae | ||
| Rühling | Diffuse X-rays from PNe with WR-type central stars | ||
| WEDNESDAY, August 18 | Name | Sessions & Titles | Presentations |
| Chair: Schuh | |||
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Bond | Two Planetary Nuclei with Recent Mass-Loss Episodes | PPTX |
| SN progenitors | |||
| Dan | Mass transfer dynamics in white dwarf binary systems | ||
| Geier | Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) | PPT | |
| Mereghetti | The ultra-massive fast-spinning white dwarf companion of HD 4979 | PPT | |
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| 10:40 - 11:40 | Miller Bertolami | Exploring the diffusion-induced nova scenario | PPT |
| Bogdan | Constraints on progenitors of Classical Novae | PPT | |
| Pavlenko | Activity of five WZ Sge-type systems in a few years after their outburst | PPT | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| 13:00 - 23:30 | Excursion & Conference Dinner | ||
| THURSDAY, August 19 | Name | Sessions & Titles | Presentations |
| Chair: Dupuis | |||
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Sion | The White Dwarf in SS Cygni: FUSE + HST Spectral Analysis | PPT |
| Swierczynski | The WD environment and peculiar brightness variations in the Kelvin-Helmholtz timescale during the classical novae outburst | ||
| Solheim | Update on AM CVn binaries | PPTX | |
| White dwarfs in detached binaries | |||
| Holberg | Kepler Observations of White Dwarfs | PPT | |
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Bloemen | Doppler boosting in the Kepler light curves of KPD 1946+4340 and KOI-74 | under embargo |
| Day-Jones | Discovery of the first white dwarf + T dwarf binary system and the use of white dwarfs as age calibrator | ||
| Pyrzas | Hunting for eclipsing white dwarf main sequence binaries | ||
| Parsons | Precise White Dwarf Masses and Radii from Eclipsing White Dwarf-Main-Sequence Binaries | ||
| Ferrario | On the formation of Main Sequence-massive WD binaries | missing | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Ferrario | |||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Marsh | SDSS1257+5428: an extreme mass-ratio double white dwarf | Steele | Ultracool Companions to White Dwarfs | PPTX |
| Steinfadt | Discovery of the Eclipsing Detached Double White Dwarf Binary NLTT 11748 | ||
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| Physical processes in white dwarfs and magnetic white dwarfs | |||
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Isern | White Dwarfs as astroparticle physics laboratories | Chayer | Effect of Radiative Levitation on Calculations of Accretion Rates in White Dwarfs | PPTX |
| Dickinson | The stratification of metals in hot white dwarf atmospheres | ||
| Dupuis | Applying the accretion-diffusion model to a sample of DAZ without IR excess | PPT | |
| Kowalski | Ab initio Stellar Astrophysics: Reliable Modeling of Cool White Dwarf Atmospheres | ||
| Isern | White dwarfs as astroparticle physics laboratories | ||
| Disks, dust and planets around white dwarfs | |||
| Hogan | Latest Results From The DODO Survey: Imaging Planets Around White Dwarfs | ||
| FRIDAY, August 20 | Name | Sessions & Titles | Presentations |
| Chair: Gänsicke | |||
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Farihi | Planetary Debris as the Origin of Metal-Rich White Dwarfs | |
| Chu | Spitzer MIPS and Archival Surveys of IR Excesses of White Dwarfs | PPT | |
| Bilikova | Spectral Analysis of Mid-IR Excesses of WDs | PPTX | |
| Hartmann | Asymmetric line profiles in the spectra of gaseous metal disks around single DAZ white dwarfs | PDF AVI | |
| Coffee & Posters Break | |||
| 10:50 - 12:30 | Bonsor | Post-main sequence evolution of debris discs | PPT |
| Faedi | Detection limits for close substellar and planetary companions to WD in the SuperWASP survey | PPT | |
| Dreizler | On the evidence for planets orbiting the post-common envelope binary NN Ser | PPT | |
| Pulsating white dwarfs | |||
| Barlow | PROMPT - An effective tool for studies of pulsating stars | ||
| Li | Asteroseismology of the ZZ Ceti Star KUV08368+4026 | PPT | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Geier | |||
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Montgomery | GD358: The Case for Oblique Pulsation and Temperature Change | PPT |
| Mukadam | The Intriguing Accreting White Dwarf Pulsators | ||
| Sullivan | The DBV White Dwarf EC20058-5234: the continuing story | ||
| Dalessio | The O-C Diagram of EC20058-5234 | ||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Closing remarks | ||
| 18:00 | Farewell Party at the IAAT | ||
| Posters | |||
| Althaus | New core/envelope chemical profiles for pulsating DA white dwarfs | ||
| Babina | The spin light curves at different beat phases asynchronous polar BY Cam | ||
| Barnstedt | HIRDES - The main instrument of the WSO/UV satellite | ||
| Barstow | A large-scale survey of white dwarf composition from the FUSE archive | ||
| Bilikova | Hard X-ray Emission from White Dwarfs | ||
| Bognár | GD 244: asteroseismology of a pulsator in the middle of the ZZ Ceti instability strip | ||
| Boldin | Population synthesis studies of DA white dwarfs: constraints on cooling, birthrate and soft X-ray spectra evolution | ||
| Boneva | Models of vortices and spirals in white dwarf accretion binaries | ||
| Brassard | New Grids of NLTE Model Atmospheres for Hot Subdwarf Stars Including Metals | ||
| Burleigh | On the source of metals in some hot white dwarf photospheres | ||
| Casewell | Evolved Solar Systems in Praesepe | ||
| Castanheira | Discovery of eleven ZZ Ceti stars | ||
| Catalan | The effect of mergers in the white dwarf mass distribution | ||
| Classen | Search for substellar companions of sdB stars using Doppler spectroscopy | ||
| Corsico | The internal rotation profiles of GW Vir stars through asteroseismology | ||
| Debes | Results from a Magellan Spectroscopic DAZ Monitoring Campaign | ||
| Dimitrijevic | VAMDC FP7 project and STARK-B database: C II Stark broadening parameters for white dwarf atmospheres research | ||
| Dimitrijevic | Electrical conductivity of plasma in DB white dwarf atmospheres | ||
| Falcon | Creating White Dwarf Photospheres in the Laboratory | ||
| Farihi | White Dwarf -- Red Dwarf Systems Resolved with the Hubble Space Telescope | ||
| Ferrario | An Intermediate-Mass Binary Star Origin of Long Gamma-ray Bursts | ||
| Fontaine | The challenge of explaining the nonlinear features in the light curve of the ZZ Ceti star G117-B15A | ||
| Friederich | UV Spectroscopy of the Central Star of the Planetary Nebula Abell 43 | ||
| Gárces | Stellar chronology with white dwarfs in wide binaries | ||
| Giammichele | The atmospheric parameters of nearby white dwarfs revisited | ||
| Hermes | A Status Report on a Planet Search Around White Dwarf Stars | ||
| Hoard | The WISE InfaRed Excesses around Degenerates (WIRED) Survey | ||
| Isern | Iron White Dwarfs? | ||
| Katysheva | Superoutbursts of selected new SU UMa- and WZ Sge-type stars | ||
| Koester | Cool white dwarfs with extreme metal pollution | ||
| Korčáková | Radiative Transfer Through Discs of Cataclysmic Variables | ||
| Kowalski | Understanding the Oldest White Dwarfs: Atmospheres of Cool WDs as Extreme Physics Laboratories | ||
| Krausz | Spectral Analysis of various AMCvn Stars | ||
| Krzesinski | Tuning the hot WD LF | ||
| Külebi | Statistics of hydrogen-rich magnetic white dwarfs detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | ||
| Kupfer | The extreme helium star BD+10 2179 - the result of a WD merger? | ||
| Latour | NLTE line-blanketed model atmospheres for sdO stars | ||
| Legett | Cool White Dwarfs Found in the UKIRT Infrared Sky Survey | ||
| Limoges | A Census of White Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs of the Sun | ||
| Mohamad-Yob | FUV spectroscopy of K648 | ||
| Montgomery | Precession, White Dwarf Disks, and the Earth-Moon-Sun System | ||
| Montgomery | The Limits of a Perturbative Approach in Nonlinear Light Curve Analysis | ||
| Nagel | A new grid of NLTE accretion-disc models for AM CVn systems: application to CE 315 | ||
| Należyty | Physical parameters of the DA white dwarfs from ESO SN Ia Progenitor Survey data | ||
| Nitta | UV time series spectroscopy of GD358 | ||
| Pavlenko | MN Draconis: in-the gap dwarf nova with negative superhumps | ||
| Quirion | Photometry with a Space Spectrometer: Using the FUSE Archives | ||
| Renedo | New cooling sequences for old white dwarfs | ||
| Ringat | Theoretical White Dwarf Spectra on Demand: TheoSSA | ||
| Schaffenroth | Analysis of the HW Vir type star ASAS 102322-3737.0 | ||
| Schuh | News from the PG1159 white dwarf in a close binary | ||
| Schwarz | Radial Velocities of Numerically Simulated, Edge-On Cataclysmic Variables | ||
| Semionov | Waccabi - a 2D radiative transfer code for stellar winds in cataclysmic binaries | ||
| Silvotti | WD Planets from GAIA | ||
| Suleimanov | Modeling of the spectral energy distribution of cataclysmic variable TT Ari and evaluation of the system parameters | ||
| Suleimanov | UX Ursae Majoris as a SW Sex star | ||
| Suleimanov | 1RXS J180834.7+101041: a new cataclysmic variable with non-uniform disc | ||
| Torres | The white dwarf population of tri-axial haloes | ||
| Torres | The effects of the observational selection criteria on the post common envelope white dwarf-main sequence binary population | ||
| Traulsen | Accretion onto selected magnetic white dwarfs as seen in X-rays | ||
| Unglaub | The floating up of hydrogen in He-sdO stars in the case with no mass loss | ||
| Vauclair | The ZZ Ceti HS 0507+043B revisited | ||
| Warner | Pulsation in SDSS0919+08 and Rotation in VSX J0747+0650 | ||
| Wassermann | Metal abundances in KPD0005+5106 | ||
| Williams | The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence of NGC 188 | ||
| Ziegler | (F)UV analyses of hot, hydrogen-rich Central Stars: Determination of metal abundances and basic phot ospheric parameters | ||
| Zola | Jastrocam3 - new version of CCD data gathering software |
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