17:00 – 21:00 Registration at the Krakowiak Hotel
19:00 – Welcome reception at the Krakowiak Hotel
09:00 – 09:20 Conference Opening: Jurek Krzesiński, Enrique Garcia-Berro, Klaus Werner
Pulsating white dwarfs
Chair: Martin Barstow
09:20 – 09:40 Roy Østensen: Six months of monitoring of a V777 Her pulsator with the Kepler spacecraft
09:40 – 10:00 Bart Dunlap: Multi-wavelength Observations of an Enigmatic White Dwarf Pulsator
10:00 – 10:20 Anjum Mukadam: Evolutionary Cooling of ZZ Ceti (R548)
10:20 – 10:40 Beata Malec: Pulsating White Dwarfs as constraints on exotic physics
10:40 – 11:40 Coffee & Posters Break
Chair: Gerald Handler
11:40 – 12:00 Denis Sullivan: New Time-series photometry of the helium atmosphere pulsating white dwarf EC04207-4748
12:00 – 12:20 Kurtis Williams: Ultraviolet and optical observations of variable hot carbon-atmosphere white dwarfs
12:20 – 12:40 James Dalessio: Mapping the Properties of Convection in Pulsating White Dwarfs
12:40 – 13:00 Paula Szkody: Enigmas of Accreting Pulsating White Dwarfs
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break (2 h)
Luminosity function, mass distribution, and populations
Chair: Gerard Vauclair
15:00 – 15:20 Jordi Isern: The impact of mergers on the mass distribution of white dwarfs
15:20 – 15:40 Jurek Krzesinski: Hot WD luminosity function, DA to non-DA ratio, SDSS DR7 - possible improvements
15:40 – 16:00 S.O. Kepler: Masses, Luminosity Functions and Magnetism in DAs and DBs
16:00 – 16:20 Nicholas Rowell: Inverting the White Dwarf Luminosity Function: the star formation history of the Milky Way
16:20 – 17:00 Coffee & Posters Break
17:00 – 17:20 Puji Irawati: The white dwarf mass distribution of PCEB with different alpha-CEValues
White dwarf structure and evolution - part 1
17:20 – 17:40 Gilles Fontaine: The Angular Momentum of Isolated White Dwarfs
17:40 – 18:00 Martin Barstow: Heavy element abundance patterns in hot DA White Dwarfs from a survey of the FUSE archive
18:00 end of Monday session
White dwarf structure and evolution - part 2
Chair: Kepler Oliveira
09:00 – 09:20 Pierre Bergeron: Know your Neighborhood: The Untold Story
09:20 – 09:40 Geoffrey Clayton: Are the R Coronae Borealis Stars Produced by White Dwarf Mergers?
09:40 – 10:00 Jan Staff: Hydrodynamic Simulations of White Dwarf Mergers Resulting in R Coronae Borealis Stars
10:00 – 10:20 Nicole Reindl: HST/COS Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Deficient post-AGB Stars: Clues on the Nature of O(He)-Type Star
10:20 – 11:00 Coffee & Posters Break
Chair: Nigel Hambly
11:00 – 11:20 Ulrich Mueller: UV Spectroscopy of Hydrogen-Deficient post-AGB Stars: PG 1144+005 and PG 1520+525
11:20 – 11:40 Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay: 3D models of Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere White Dwarfs
11:40 – 12:00 Klaus Werner: Metal abundances in hot DO white dwarfs
12:00 – 12:20 Patrick Dufour: White dwarfs with carbon dominated atmosphere: New observations and analysis
12:20 – 13:00 Coffee & Posters Break
Chair: Pierre Bergeron
13:00 – 13:20 Piotr M. Kowalski: Towards Understanding the Atmospheres of Cool White Dwarfs
13:20 – 13:40 Boris T. Gaensicke: Precision mass and radius measurements of white dwarfs in eclipsing binaries
13:40 – 14:00 Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas: High mass white dwarfs and the energy budget of common envelope evolution
14:00 end of Tuesday session
14:00 – 16:00 Lunch Break (2 h)
16:00 – 22:00 Social Event (trip to an outdoor restaurant and park).
White dwarf catalogs and surveys
Chair: Judith Provencal
09:00 – 09:20 Elizabeth Jeffery: White Dwarfs in NGC 188
09:20 – 09:40 Nicola Gentile Fusillo: White dwarfs in the SDSS photometric footprint
09:40 – 10:00 Sandra Magdy Kamel Greiss: The search for white dwarfs in the Kepler field
10:00 – 10:20 Edward Sion: The Distribution of Spectroscopic Subtypes and Kinematics of White Dwarfs within 25 pc of the Sun
10:20 – 10:40 Tommi Vornanen: Open Science Project on White Dwarfs
10:40 – 11:30 Coffee & Posters Break
Chair: Jurek Krzesinski
11:30 – 11:50 Silvia Catalan: Cool white dwarfs in the WTS survey
Central stars of planetary nebulae
11:50 – 12:10 Gerald Handler: The ZZ Leporis stars - wind-variable central stars of youngPlanetary Nebulae
12:10 – 12:30 Todd Hillwig: The current status of our understanding of close binary central stars of planetary nebulae
12:30 – 12:50 Brent Miszalski: IC4663: The first unambiguous [WN] Wolf-Rayet central star of a planetary nebula
12:50 – 14:50 Lunch Break (2 h)
Chair: Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
14:50 – 15:10 Warren Reid: A multi-wavelength investigation of newly discovered planetary nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
15:10 – 15:30 Dimitri Douchin: Estimating the binary fraction of central stars of planetary nebulae
15:30 – 15:50 Philip Hall: Planetary nebulae after common-envelope phases initiated by low-mass red giants
15:50 – 16:10 Helge Todt: Spectral analyses of Wolf-Rayet type central stars
16:10 – 17:10 Coffee & Posters Break
SN progenitors
Chair: Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami
17:10 – 17:30 Carles Badenes: The Merger Rate of Binary White Dwarfs in the Galactic Disk
17:30 – 17:50 Shazrene Mohamed: RS Ophiuchi: A Type Ia Supernova Progenitor?
17:50 – 18:10 Silvia Toonen: Progenitors of Supernovae Type Ia
18:10 end of Wednesday session
White dwarfs in novae and CVs
Chair: Patrick Dufour
09:00 – 09:20 Paul Chote: New time series observations of the intriguing object GW Librae
09:20 – 09:40 Elena Pavlenko: Asynchronous polar BY Cam: the spin-orbital synchronization and variation of accretion geometry on the 8-year time scale
09:40 – 10:00 Valery Suleimanov: Fitting of Chandra LETG spectrum of SS Cygni in outburst by model atmosphere spectra
10:00 – 10:20 Boris Gaensicke: The WD mass distribution of CVs
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee & Posters Break
White dwarfs in detached binaries
Chair: Ellen Ringat
10:50 – 11:10 Sarah Casewell: A substellar cuckoo?
11:10 – 11:30 JJ Hermes: Orbital decay from gravitational radiation in a 12.75-min WD+WD binary
11:30 – 11:50 Marc van der Sluys: The formation of double white dwarfs and their role as gravitational-wave sources
11:50 – 12:10 Stephan Geier: Hot subdwarf binaries with white dwarf companions
12:10 – 12:40 Coffee & Posters Break
Chair: Warren Reid
12:40 – 13:00 Jay Holberg: Where are all the Sirius-Like Systems?
13:00 – 13:20 James Liebert: The mysterious white dwarf binary system EGB6 = PG0950+139
Physical processes in white dwarfs and magnetic white dwarfs
13:20 – 13:40 Nathan Dickinson: An analysis of metallic high ion absorption line profiles at DA white dwarfs.
13:40 – 14:00 Ross Falcon: Creating White Dwarf Photospheres in the Laboratory: Strategy for Astrophysics Applications
14:00 end of Thursday session
14:00 – 16:00 Lunch Break (2h)
16:00 – 22:00 Conference Banquet at the Wieliczka Salt Mine
(includes a tour through the Salt Mine. Please take a sweater or a coat! It’s cold down there: 15 C, 59 F).
Physical processes in white dwarfs and magnetic white dwarfs (part 2)
Chair: Klaus Werner
09:00 – 09:20 Stefan Jordan: Kilogauss magnetic fields in white dwarfs and their direct progenitors
09:20 – 09:40 Baybars Külebi: Evolution of debris disks around magnetic white dwarfs
09:40 – 10:00 Enrique Garcia-Berro: On the origin of high-field magnetic white dwarfs
10:00 – 10:20 Katherine Lawrie: Photometric Variability Survey of Magnetic White Dwarfs
10:20 – 11:00 Coffee & Posters Break
Disks, dust and planets around white dwarfs
Chair: Daniela Boneva
11:00 – 11:20 Detlev Koester: Search for metal pollution in 80 DA white dwarfs
11:20 – 11:40 Jay Farihi: WD 0208-510: A Sirius-type Binary with a Planet Hosting Star
11:40 – 12:00 Madelon Bours: Planets around white dwarf binaries
12:00 – 12:20 Matthew Burleigh: Searching for substellar and exoplanetary companions to white dwarfs
12:20 – 12:40 Closing remarks: Kurtis Williams
12:40 end of Friday session