Schedule

The workshop and talks will be held in the SAAO Auditorium. 

Please let Petri Vaisanen (petri at saao) know by Thursday 16.11., if you plan to attend either Monday or Tuesday over the times with catering.    However, anyone is more than welcome to come and listen in on any talks without prior notice.

Note that the members of the collaboration are also organising a workshop on Nuclear Transients on Thursday, Nov 16, during the IAU Symposium 339 in Stellenbosch.

Sunday Nov 19th:  Internal collaboration workshop, SUNBIRD status, future multi-wavelength proposals.  10:30 to 15:00 with lunch.  Videocon to Australia and Chile.

Monday Nov 20th:  Open day.  All welcome.

9:00 – 9:25 Coffee
9:25 – 9:30 Petri Vaisanen (SAAO/SALT) Welcome
9:30 – 10:00 Seppo Mattila (Turku) Supernovae as tracers of cosmic star formation
10:00 – 10:30 Miguel Perez Torres (IAA Granada) Radio supernovae in LIRGs/ULIRGs
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:25 Erik Kool (Macquarie) First results from GeMS/GSAOI for SUNBIRD: Supernovae UNmasked By Infra-Red Detection
11:25 – 11:50 Hanindyo Kuncarayakti (FINCA) The environments of supernovae: IFU study and introducing the AMUSING survey
11:50 – 12:15 Erkki Kankare (Queens Univ. Belfast) Supernova impostors
12:15 – 12:40 Teppo Heikkila (Turku) High-mass X-ray binaries as progenitors of core-collapse supernovae
12:40 – 13:05 Tom Reynolds (Turku) Evaluating the fraction of obscured supernovae in LIRGs
13:05 – 14:30 Lunch & emailing
14:30 – 15:00 Jari Kotilainen (FINCA) Secular evolution in the host galaxies of gamma-ray emitting Narrow Line Seyfert 1s
15:00 – 15:25 Moses Mogotsi (SAAO) Galaxy Winds and Outflows with WiFeS and SALT + Bird Kinematics
15:25 – 15:50 David Buckley (SAAO) SALT observations of Nuclear Transients
15:50 – 16:15 Valentin Ivanov (ESO) “VISTA Variables in Via Lactea” and “VISTA Magellanic Clouds Survey” – two time-domain surveys among the first generation of ESO public surveys
16:15 – Coffee & informal discussion
18:00 – Braai at the Auditorium

Tuesday Nov 21st:  Open day.  All welcome.

9:30 – 9:50 Petri Vaisanen (SAAO/SALT) Time-stamping star-formation in a complex galaxy merger with VLT and SALT
9:50 – 9:10 Rajin Ramphul (UCT/SAAO) Stellar Populations in the SUNBIRD sample of LIRGs
10:10 – 10:30 Steve Crawford (SAAO/SALT) The progenitors of dwarf elliptical galaxies — starburst in intermediate redshift galaxy clusters
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:30 Sarah Kendrew (ESA / STScI) JWST: The Road to Science
11:30 – 13:00 Sarah Kendrew (ESA / STScI) JWST Proposal tools – Tutorial
13:00 – Lunch