Programme
Generally, invited talks were 25 minutes + 10 minutes discussion. Contributed talks were 15 + 5 minutes, respectively. The electronics versions of the talks provided as PDF and/or PPT files. Videos of the talks are presently available in Windows Media Video (WMV) format only. Please find the links in the programme below.
Posters were on display during the whole conference. Please find the electronic versions at the end of this page.
| TALKS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| MONDAY | September 17 | Census, Progenitor AGB Evolution, R CrB, EHe | Presentation |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00-09:20 | Werner | Conference Opening | PDF PPT WMV |
| Chair: Clayton | |||
| 09:20-09:55 | Jeffery | Statistics of Hydrogen-Deficient Stars | PPT WMV |
| 09:55-10:30 | Falk Herwig | Progenitor AGB Evolution | PDF WMV(1) WMV(2) |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Bond | |||
| 11:00-11:35 | Rao | Observational Aspects of R CrB Stars | PPT WMV |
| 11:35-12:10 | Gustafsson | The problematic modelling of RCrB atmospheres | PPT WMV |
| 12:10-12:30 | Pavlenko | Model Atmospheres and Spectra of the Cool Hydrogen-Deficient Stars and Peculiar Giants | PPT WMV |
| Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Rao | |||
| 14:00-14:50 | Clayton | The Evolution of R Coronae Borealis Stars | PDF WMV |
| 14:50-15:10 | Pandey | Fluorine Abundances in R Coronae Borealis Stars | PPT WMV |
| 15:10-15:30 | Rosenbush | Shell-model Parameters of a Star with the R Coronae Borealis Type Variability | PPT WMV |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Liebert | |||
| 16:00-16:35 | Jeffery | Extreme Helium Stars: A Panorama | PPT WMV |
| 16:35-17:10 | Saio | Radial and Nonradial Pulsations in RCrB and EHe-B Stars | PDF WMV |
| 18:00 | Reception at the Institute | ||
| TUESDAY | September 18 | [WC], WELS, PG1159, O(He), Born-Again Stars, Pulsations | |
| Chair: Schönberner | |||
| 09:00-09:35 | Crowther | Spectroscopic Analysis of [WC]-type PN Central Stars | PDF WMV |
| 09:35-09:55 | Todt | Determining Element Abundances of [WC]-Type Central Stars for Probing Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis | PDF WMV |
| 09:55-10:15 | Gräfener | WR Wind Models: [WC]-Type CSPN vs. Massive Stars | PDF WMV |
| 10:15-10:35 | Marcolino | The Ultraviolet Spectrum of the WELS | PPT WMV |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Crowther | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | Werner | Element Abundances in PG1159 Stars | PDF PPT WMV |
| 11:30-11:45 | Reiff | FUSE Spectroscopy of Cool PG1159 Stars | PPT WMV |
| 11:45-12:00 | Ziegler | UV and FUV Spectroscopy of the Hybrid PG1159 Star NGC7094 | PDF WMV |
| 12:00-12:20 | Boyce | The unidentified FUV lines of hydrogen deficient dwarfs | PPT WMV |
| 12:20-12:40 | Bond | Mass-Loss Events in the Pulsating Central Star of Longmore 4 | PPT WMV |
| Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Heber | |||
| 14:00-14:20 | Rauch | O(He) Stars | PPT WMV |
| 14:20-14:55 | Gorny | Properties of [WC] Planetary Nebulae | PDF WMV |
| 14:55-15:15 | Kimeswenger | Morphologies of the Nebulae around "Born-Again" CSPNe | PDF WMV |
| 15:15-15:50 | Quirion | Hydrogen-Deficient Compact Pulsators, the GW~Vir Stars and DB White Dwarfs | PPT WMV |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Werner | |||
| 16:15-16:35 | Solheim | Search for Pulsations in Hydrogen-Deficient Planetary-Nebula Nuclei | PPT WMV |
| 16:35-17:10 | Schönberner | FG Sge, V605 Aql, Sakurai - Facts and Fictions | PDF WMV |
| 17:10-17:30 | Hajduk | On the Evolved Nature of CK Vul | PDF WMV |
| 17:30-17:50 | Savanov | Optical Spectroscopy of V4334 Sgr in 1996 | PPT WMV |
| WEDNESDAY | September 19 | Formation Scenarios for Hydrogen-Deficient Post-AGB Stars | |
| Chair: De Marco | |||
| 09:00-09:20 | Van Hoof | Recent Observations of V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object) and V605 Aql | PDF WMV |
| 09:20-09:55 | Herwig | Origin of Hydrogen-Deficient Post-AGB Stars: Late He Flash | PDF WMV |
| 09:55-10:15 | Miller Bertolami | Revisiting the Born Again (VLTP) Scenario: The importance of the remnant's mass | PPT WMV |
| Coffee Break | Conference Photo | ||
| Chair: Herwig | |||
| 10:45-11:20 | De Marco | The evolution of H-deficient post-AGB stars: observational tests of single and binary evolutionary scenarios | PPT WMV |
| 11:20-11:40 | Diehl | The Formation of Hydrogen-Deficient Stars through Common Envelope Evolution | PPT WMV |
| 11:40-12:00 | Discussion | WMV | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 | Excursion & Conference Dinner | ||
| THURSDAY | September 20 | WD, sdO/B, CV, Massive WR | |
| Chair: Jeffery | |||
| 09:00-09:20 | Liebert | New Results and a Luminosity Function for DO and DB White Dwarfs | PPT WMV |
| 09:20-09:40 | Dufour | Hot DQ White Dwarf Stars: A New Challenge to Stellar Evolution | PPT WMV |
| 09:40-10:15 | Heber | Subluminous O Stars | PPT WMV |
| 10:15-10:35 | Napiwotzki | The Origin of Helium-Rich Subdwarf O Stars | PDF WMV |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Hamann | |||
| 11:00-11:20 | Ahmad | Helium-Rich Subdwarf B Stars | PPT WMV |
| 11:20-11:55 | Marsh | AM CVn Stars | PDF WMV |
| 11:55-12:15 | Woudt | V445 Puppis - A Unique Helium Nova | PPT WMV |
| 12:15-12:35 | Kato | Modeling the Light Curve of V445 Puppis: Helium Nova on a Massive White Dwarf | PPT WMV |
| Lunch Break | |||
| Chair: Langer | |||
| 14:00-14:35 | Nelemans | Hydrogen-Deficient Low-Mass X-Ray Binary Donors | PDF WMV |
| 14:35-14:55 | Nagel | Metal Abundances of Accretion Discs in AM CVn Binaries | PDF WMV |
| 14:55-15:15 | Bildsten | Faint Thermonuclear Supernovae from AM CVn Binaries | PPT WMV |
| 15:15-15:35 | Waldman | Helium Stars as Supernova Progenitors | PPT WMV |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Bildsten | |||
| 16:00-16:20 | Copperwheat | ULTRACAM observations of two accreting white dwarf pulsators | PDF WMV |
| 16:20-16:55 | Hamann | WR Analyses | PDF WMV |
| 16:55-17:30 | Glatzel | Stability and Pulsations of WR Stars | PDF WMV |
| FRIDAY | September 21 | WR/GRB, Intermediate-Mass Binaries, SN Ia | |
| Chair: Nelemans | |||
| 09:00-09:35 | Langer | WR Stars as GRB Progenitors | PDF WMV |
| 09:35-10:10 | Podsiadlowski | Binary Channels for the Formation of Hydrogen-Deficient Stars | PDF WMV |
| 10:10-10:45 | Bildsten | Progress on Paths to Type Ia Supernovae | PPT WMV |
| Coffee Break | |||
| Chair: Podsiadlowski | |||
| 11:15-11:50 | Fryer | Simulations of Merging White Dwarfs | PDF WMV |
| 11:50-12:25 | Mazzali | Type I Supernovae and their Progenitors | PDF PPT WMV |
| 12:25-12:45 | Discussion | WMV | |
| 12:45-13:15 | Liebert | Conference Summary | PPT WMV |
| End of Conference | |||
| POSTERS | |||
| Corsico | Asteroseismological Modeling of PG 1159-035, the Prototype of the GW Vir Variable Stars | ||
| Geballe | 18O and the Origins of Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon Stars and R Coronae Borealis Stars | ||
| Gesicki | The nature of M 2-29 | ||
| Kipper | Optical Spectrum of Z UMi during its maximum light | ||
| Kusterer | Accretion-disk wind in AM CVn binaries | ||
| Miller Bertolami | Modeling He-rich Subdwarfs through the Hot-Flasher Scenario: First Results | ||
| Miszalski | Central Stars of Galactic Bulge and MASH Planetary Nebulae | ||
| Onifer | The Metallicity Dependence of Wolf-Rayet Mass Loss | ||
| Rauch | On the Distribution of Dust in the "Born-Again" Planetary Nebula A30 | ||
| Rosenbush | Possible Indicator of Incipient Light Minimum in a Star with the R Coronae Borealis Type Variability | ||
| Rosenbush | List of Helium Novae | ||
| Rosenbush | Seasonal Variations of Radial Velocity of RY Sgr which is a Star with the R CrB Type Variability: Preliminary Results | ||
| Schuh | A PG 1159 Close Binary System | ||
| Traulsen | XMM-Newton Observations of Two Soft X-Ray Selected Magnetic CVs | ||
| Wende | Non-Linear Pulsations in Wolf-Rayet Stars | ||
| Werner | KPD0005+5106: Hottest DO White Dwarf Much Hotter Than Assumed |