Program
Talks and joint discussion sessions are in room PS.128, on the 1st floor. Lunch and Coffee breaks are served in the common room next to PS.128. Afternoon breakout sessions can use several additional rooms on the ground floor (PS.16B/C, PS.17A, PS.18, PS.19).
[Click on the title links to download a PDF copy of the talks]
Sunday 15th April:
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome reception and registration in the Atrium of University House
Monday 16th April:
| Time: | Speaker: | Title: |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome | |
| 9:15-9:55 | P.Groot | AM CVn stars overview |
| 9:55-10:35 | P.Carter | The hidden population of AM CVns in the SDSS |
| 10:35-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:40 | D.Levitan | The Search for Outbursting AM CVns with PTF |
| 11:40-12:20 | P.Woudt | Ultra-compact binaries in the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey |
| 12:20-13:00 | G.Nelemans | Long-term AM CVn evolution and the connection with UCXBs |
| 13:00 - | LUNCH | |
| Breakout sessions | ||
| 15:30 | COFFEE | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Joint Discussion (population studies, space densities) |
Tuesday 17th April:
| Time: | Speaker: | Title: |
| 9:15-9:55 | T.Prince / G.Nelemans | AM CVn Systems as Gravitational Wave Sources / eLISA |
| 9:55-10:35 | M.Benacquista | Gravitational Wave Detectors |
| 10:35-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:40 | D.Kaplan | Understanding Mass Transfer in Extremely Low Mass WD Binaries |
| 11:40-12:20 | T.Marsh | Detached double white dwarfs as AM CVn progenitors |
| 12:20-13:00 | D.Marcello | Simulations of Super-Eddington Dynamical Mass Transfer in Double White Dwarfs |
| 13:00- | LUNCH | |
| Breakout sessions | ||
| 15:30 | COFFEE | |
| 16:00-17:00 | DISCUSSION ( double WDs as progenitors and GWR sources) |
Wednesday 18th April:
| Time: | Speaker: | Title: |
| 9:15-9:55 | S.MacFarlane | The He-nova V445 Puppis |
| 9:55-10:35 | T.Kupfer | GTC observations of ultracompact binaries |
| 10:35-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:40 | C.Copperwheat | Period evolution in AM CVns |
| 11:40-12:20 | J.Sepinky | Angular Momentum Exchange in Double White Dwarfs Undergoing Direct Impact Mass Transfer |
| BOXED LUNCH | ||
| 13:00 | Afternoon free for social trip to Warwick Castle |
Thursday 19th April:
| Time: | Speaker: | Title: |
| 9:15-9:55 | D.Steeghs | Spectral line diagnostics & MOA source |
| 9:55-10:35 | K.Gehron | Spectral modelling of AM CVn stars |
| 10:35-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:40 | G.Ramsay | Outbursts in AM CVn systems |
| 11:40-12:20 | I.Kotko | AM CVn stars - a source of information about accretion disk physics |
| 12:20-13:00 | M.Wood | AM CVn Stars and the Two-Source Model for Positive Superhumps |
| 13:00- | LUNCH | |
| Breakout sessions | ||
| 15:30 | COFFEE | |
| 16:00-17:00 | DISCUSSION (understanding of current sample) | |
| DINNER in Kenilworth |
Friday 20th April:
| Time: | Speaker: | Title: |
| 9:15-9:55 | S.Jeffery | White Dwarf Merger Outcomes |
| 9:55-10:35 | X.Zhang | The merging of double helium white dwarfs |
| 10:35-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:40 | L.Yungelson | Hydrogen-rich ultracompact CV and their cousins |
| 11:40-12:20 | E.Breedt | Short period Hydrogen-rich CVs - progenitors of AM CVn stars? |
| 12:20-13:00 | Summary discussion | |
| 13:00 | LUNCH |