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Proceedings

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:54:23 +0200

The proceedings have now been published as volume 469 of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASPC). Participants will receive a copy by post.

Final Announcement

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:30:00 +0200

Dear All,

This is the final announcement concerning the EUROWD12 White Dwarf workshop. There are nearly a hundred participants who had registered for the workshop. Registration will take place on Sunday at the Krakowiak hotel (ul. Armii Krajowej 9 - see the map):

http://www.as.up.krakow.pl/eurowd12/organisation/location/

from 5 pm till 9:30 pm. We will have a small welcome reception there, from 7 to 9:30pm.

You may also register on Monday at the Pedagogical University, where the conference will take place. Those who did not pay the registration fee yet, can do so till the end of Monday's lunch break.

We accept only Polish currency "zloty/PLN" in cash. As for today the exchange rate is: 1 Euro = 4.12 PLN, 1 USD = 3.35 PLN.

If you are going to change money into Polish currency try NOT TO do that at the airport since the exchange rate is very bad there. You may find some exchange places called "KANTOR" in the city center (Rynek Glowny, Grodzka street). Some of them are open on Sundays. You can also withdraw cash from ATMs, several are located within
a walking distance from the conference venue and one at the entrance of the Pedagogical University building.

If you use public transportation in Krakow please be sure to buy and validate a ticket inside a bus or a tram. All you need to know about transportation can be found here:

http://www.as.up.krakow.pl/eurowd12/organisation/map/

(click on the image to get better resolution)

Tickets can be bought in "kiosks", ticket machines or from a driver. There are couple of kiosks at the Krakow airport (upstairs/first floor). Ticket machines are installed at some bus/tram stops and in many tram/buses. If you have to buy a ticket from a driver you will need exact change. Drivers sell only tickets valid for 1 hour ride.

The maximum poster size format which can be attached to our display boards is A0 (portrait).

See also our www pages for more information (news, last minute changes).

Looking forward to seeing you all in Krakow.

LOC

Poster

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:49:08 +0100

You can now download a PDF of the announcement poster.

First Announcement

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:36:02 +0200

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 18^th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, to be held in Krakow (Cracow), Poland on 13-17th August 2012. This meeting will continue the series of workshops which started in Kiel, Germany, in 1974. The last workshop took place on August 2010 in Tübingen (Germany).

The topics to be covered at the conference will be similar to those of the previous meetings. Therefore, contributions in all areas of white dwarf (WD) research are welcome, including properties of WDs in binaries, but excluding the general fields of CVs, sdB stars and planetary nebulae.

Since there is no formal list of topics yet, we show the one taken from eurowd10:

WD structure and evolution
Progenitors and central stars of planetary nebulae
Binaries: WDs in CVs, double degenerates, WD/brown dwarf systems, etc.
WD's dust disks and planetary systems
Atmospheres, chemical composition, magnetic fields
Pulsating WDs
WDs in stellar clusters and in the halo
WDs as SN Ia progenitors

We would like to maintain the spirit of previous conferences, thus allowing for oral contributions of around 20 minutes. Poster contributions are also welcome. Please inform any interested colleagues, as our mailing list might be not complete. Details about registration, publication of the proceedings, travel and accommodation and local information will be posted together with the second anouncement.