Here is the lodge at Cook's Branch Nature Conservancy:
From 11-15 March 2019 we held our tenth workshop on supernovae and related objects at Cook's Branch Nature Conservancy, near Montgomery, Texas. We thank Sheridan Mitchell Lorenz and the Mitchell Foundation for allowing us to hold another fruitful meeting. We also thank our caterer Dorit Minyan and camp manager Kathy Hutson for their large contributions to the success of our meeting.
The official mascot at Cook's Branch is the red cockaded woodpecker.
Participants (left to right): Nick Suntzeff, Shuvo Uddin, Mark Phillips, Chris Burns, John Hillier, Abigail Polin, Ken Shen, Elena Pian, Chris Ashall, Kevin Krisciunas, Paolo Mazzali, Peter Hoeflich, Peter Brown, Sijie Chen, Eric Hsiao, Lifan Wang, Jiawen Yang. Tony Piro participated remotely.
More photos from Nick Suntzeff can be seen by clicking here .
These are some of the presentations given at Cook's Branch from 11-15 March 2019:
Eric Hsiao on clues to the origins of super-Chandra exploding white dwarfs
Abigail Polin on modeling sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf explosions as Type Ia supernovae
Shuvo Uddin on host galaxies of supernovae in the Carnegie Supernova Survey
Chris Ashall on the use of the H-band break to probe the physics of Type Ia supernovae
Peter Brown on supernovae in the ultraviolet: where models and observations collide
Ken Shen on the success of dynamically driven double degenerate double detonation models
Tony Piro on nucleosynthetic constraints on Type Ia supernova progenitors
Paolo Mazzali on Type Ia supernovae: beyond Zorro
Elena Pian on long and short gamma-ray burst progenitors
This website is presently missing talks from Peter Hoeflich, John Hillier, and Lifan Wang. One or more may be included at a later date.
Large bass caught by Chris Stubbs in the lake at Firemeadow (ca. 2012). Photo by Massimo Della Valle.
The official drink of Cook's Branch supernova workshops continues to be the pisco sour:
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