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International Workshop on Astronomy with Radioactivities

-  Jan 7-10, 2008

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Contact: Roland Diehl

The VIth workshop again took place at MPG's Ringberg Castle in the southern part of Bavaria, Germany.
The scope of this workshop series is to bring together observers of radioactive isotopes with theoriticians of cosmic nucleosynthesis, each from their variety of sub-fields (such as stellar/radio/X-ray/gamma-ray spectroscopy, meteoritic isotope analysis; and supernova/massive-star/AGB/cosmic-ray... nucleosynthesis). We also include the discussion of our tools, such as instruments, or simulation codes. The driver for our discussions is to understand how nature forms the isotopes we know.

This workshop was organized in Sessions of talks, with generous breaks for small-group discussions.

Scientific Themes and Sessions:

  1. Nuclear Reactions in Stars (Models of Stellar Structure and Nucleosynthesis, Observations of Stellar Nucleosynthesis though Radioactivities)
  2. Massive Stars and their Supernovae (Supernovae from Massive Stars and the Role of Radioactivity, Exotic SN Types, Hypernovae and  GRB,  Observational Diagnostics of Radioactivity in core-collapse Supernovae, SN1987A, Cas A, Radioactivities and Presolar Grains from Supernovae, 60Fe on Earth and a Nearby Supernova)
  3. Binary Systems (SNIa Explosions:  Ignition, Flame Evolution, and Mixing, Decay Positron and Gamma-Ray Energy Deposits and Escape, Nova Progenitors and Explosion, Dust from Novae and Thermonuclear Supernovae, Type-I X-ray Bursts and Superbursts, Accretion in Binaries: Special Cases)
  4. The Early Solar System (Condensation of Meteorites in the Early Solar Nebula, The Structure of the Early Solar Nebula,   Radioactivities in the Early Solar Nebula)
  5. Distributed Radioactivities (Mixing Processes in the Interstellar Medium, Dust Formation and Evolution, Roles of Radioactivities, 26Al and 60Fe, Positrons and their Annihilation, Radioactivities in Cosmic Rays, Nucleocosmochronology, The Cosmic Star Formation and Supernova Rates)
  6. Tools for Better Theories and Observations (Modelling Stars and Supernovae, Nuclear-Reaction Theories, Nuclear-Reaction Measurements; Telescopes for Radioactive-Decay Radiation, Isotopic Analysis of Material Samples, Isotopic Analysis of Cosmic Rays)
Publications: The workshop presentations are available through the schedule, as pdf files. We also will publish Proceedings of the workshop contributions in suitable form. This time we also plan to use this workshop to assemble a reference/review book on the topic of the conference series.

The conference site has limited capacity of max 55 people. This implies that attendance was restricted by "first-come/first-served" and previous workshop participants.

The conference costs: a conference fee of 120 EUR (covering Proceedings and logistics), and lodging costs (castle full board 100 EUR per day/night).

Dates and Schedule:
    • 15 Mar 2008:  Proceedings Contribution Deadline
    • 01 Nov 2008:  Target Date for Proceedings to be Published
This workshop was sponsored/supported by the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the Schlossmann foundation, and by the Munich Cluster-of-Excellence "Origin and Evolution of the Universe".

The next workshop of this series is intended to take place in March 2011 in Australia, hosted by Monash University with Maria Lugaro as Local Organizer.

Last update: 2008-01-28 by R. Diehl mail
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