Order of Talks
Theme-titles for individual sessions are indicative of topics discussed, but not exhaustive for the diversity in each session. Talks are scheduled to be 20 minutes each, with time for questions and discussion after.
Monday - 5th of May
09:00–12:00 Chair: Kasper Heintz
09:00 Darach Watson — Welcome, opening remarks and overview
Stellar spectroscopy & GCE
- Freeke van de Voort — r-process enrichment in cosmological simulations
- Camilla Juul Hansen — New observations of heavy elements in old metal poor stars
GRB-associated KNe
- Andrew Levan — Kilonovae in gamma-ray bursts
- Om Sharan Salafia — Gamma-ray bursts from compact binary mergers
14:30–17:00 Chair: Aayush Arya
- Morgan Fraser — Finding Kilonova is Hard
Kilonova spectra
- Nanae Domoto — Signatures of heavy elements in kilonova photospheric spectra
- James Gillanders — Detectability of r-process Signatures in James Webb Kilonova Spectra
- Albert Sneppen — Observational limits on helium abundance in AT2017gfo
- Daniele Malesani — A JWST survey of gamma-ray bursts supernova progenitors
Tuesday - 6th of May
09:00–12:00 Chair: Rasmus Damgaard
Radiative Transfer
- Anders Jerkstrand — Spectral synthesis modelling of kilonovae, and opportunities with JWST
- Luke Shingles — Radiative Transfer for NSMs with realistic masses
- Blanka Vlaagos — Spectral modelling of kilonovae in 3D NLTE
- Fiona McNeill — Using new atomic data in kilonova modelling
- Andreas Floers — Calibrated Forbidden Lanthanide Emission Lines
14:00–23:00
Afternoon excursion & conference dinner
Wednesday - 7th of May
09:00–12:00 Chair: Catherine Ramsbottom
Atomic Data
- Leo Mulholland — Atomic Data for Kilonovae
- Rasmus Damgaard — Machine Learning in Atomic Data Synthesis
- Michael McCann — Colisional Calculations
- Steven Bromley — Metastable-resolved Ionization and Recombination Properties of Te I–III
- Stephan Fritzsche — Atomic cascade computations for astro and plasma physics
14:30–17:00+ Chair: Emma Sokell
Experimental and hydro
- Kirsten Dowd — Near Infra-red Absorption Spectroscopy for Zirconium and Yttrium
- Hope Dannar — Dual-Comb Spectroscopy of Heavy Metals
- Eoin Fagan — Visible & NIR Spectra of Hafnium
- Thomas Janka — Outflows from White Dwarfs Collapsing to Neutron Stars
- Ruediger Pakmor — Double white dwarf mergers revisited
Thursday - 8th of May
09:00–12:00 Chair: Leo Mulhollland
Experimental Section
- John Costello—One Colour Multiphoton Ionization and Two Colour
Photoionization Control at Free Electron Lasers - Neon and Acetylene
- Elizabeth Den Hartog — Experimental Transition Probabilities for Singly Ionized Lanthanides
- Marym Alenazi + Lucero Segura Juarez — Lutetium Spectra and Colliding Plasma Setup/An Overview of UV and MIR Photo-absorption
- David McKeagney + Eanna Donohoe — 4f Photo-absorption of Gold Ions / Towards Direct Measurements of Oscillator Strength from LPP’s
- Aayush Arya A path to the Spectra of Actinides and Superheavy Elements
14:30–17:00+ Chair: Oliver Just
Neutrinos and Nucleosynthesis
- Irene Tamborra — Neutrinos in and from r-process sources
- Zewei Xiong — Neutrino oscillations or nucleosynthesis
- Yong Zhong Qian — r-process nucleosynthesis and multimessenger astrophysics
- Stephane Goriely — Progress in the modelling of nuclear inputs for r-process nucleosynthesis
- Samuel Giuliani — Nuclear masses and r-process nucleosynthesis
Friday - 9th of May
09:00–12:00 Chair: Yong Zhong Qian
Merger Hydro
- Oliver Just — Neutron-star merger modelling
- Tobias Fischer — Equation of state for hot and dense matter in astrophysical simulations
- Georgios Lioutas — TBD
- Andreas Bauswein — Finding hyperons in neutron stars
- Taimur Hafeez & Chandan Bagdia — Data procurement and management
11:30 Concluding remarks by Stuart Sim
