KSPA 2023 Conference: The lives, deaths and afterlives of interacting stars
MPA Garching, June 26th - June 30th 2023.
A conference is hosted in the first week of the Kavli Summer Program, and features invited pedagogical lectures, and contributed talks presenting state-of-the-art research on the program topic. Participation to the conference is open to everyone who wishes to attend. All presentations will be published online.
Scientific Program
Monday June 26th:
- 8:30: Coffee and Registration
- 9:00: Welcome and explanations
- 9:20: Introductory science talk by Selma de Mink and icebreakers
- 10:30: Coffee break
- 11:00: Lecture by Jim Fuller Physics of Stellar Interiors 1
- 12:30: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Lecture by Shazrene Mohamed Physics of Stellar Exteriors 1
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Parallel sessions: Fellow orientation and faculty discussions
- 18:30: Welcome dinner at Garching Augustiner restaurant
Tuesday June 27th:
- 9:00: Lecture by Jim Fuller Physics of Stellar Interiors 2
- 10:30: Coffee break
- 11:00: Seminar by Carles Badenes Stellar multiplicity with spectroscopic surveys
- 12:30: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Project presentations
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project presentations
Wednesday June 28th:
- 9:00: Lecture by Earl Belliger Asteroseismology
- 10:30: Coffee break
- 11:00: Lecture by Paul Ricker Common envelope evolution
- 12:30: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Participant talks
- Ylva Gottberg: "Stars stripped in binaries: from theoretical prediction to observation"
- Valeriya Korol: "The Marshmallow Dilemma: a handful of double compact object binaries today or an entire Galaxy in a decade?"
- Felix Ahlborn: "Application of turbulent convection theory in stellar evolution models"
- Taeho Ryu: "Varieties of tidal disruption event"
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project discussions
Thursday June 28th:
- 9:00: Lecture by Jim Fuller Physics of Stellar Interiors 3
- 10:30: Coffee break
- 11:00: Project discussions
- 12:30: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Participant talks
- Mathieu Renzo: "Widowed stars"
- Alejandro Vigna Gomez: "Natal kicks during the formation of black-hole binary VFTS 243"
- Alessandro Trani: "A very short introduction to the 3-body problem"
- Christopher Tiede: "Simulating binary accretion"
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project discussions
Friday June 29th:
- 9:00: Lecture by Jim Fuller Physics of Stellar Interiors 4
- 10:30: Coffee break
- 11:00: Lecture by Shazrene Mohamed Physics of Stellar Exteriors 2
- 12:30: Lunch break and discussions
- 14:00: Participant talks
- Ilaria Caiazzo: "White Dwarfs science with time domain surveys"
- Cole Johnston: "Observations in dynamical and tidal asteroseismology"
- Santiago Torres: "The Evolution of Stars and their Planets"
- Wolfgang Kerzendorf: "Supernova Tomography"
- 15:30: Break
- 16:00: Project discussion, choice submission and celebrations in Garching