Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey In Space After Stellar Death
June 6-11, 2016
Venue: Chania, Crete, Greece
3rd Announcement of the Conference
Registration is open and the deadline for abstract submission is March 4, 2016. To register, please follow the "Register" button on the website: http://snr2016.astro.noa.gr
We encourage delegates to:
(a) book accommodation well in advance as hotels impose strict release dates for reservations and there is a limited number of rooms available. After these dates no guarantee can be made that rooms will be available.
(b) book their flight-tickets to Chania well in advance since it is a very touristic destination and the cost becomes very high within the last 2 months.
For both (a) and (b) you can find more information below.
Background and Scientific Rationale
The meeting “Supernova Remnants: An Odyssey in Space after Stellar death” will explore the exciting recent observational and theoretical progress in the structure, evolution and physics of SNRs. The Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications & Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, invites you to the beautiful island of Crete, the home of many well known myths, i.e. of Deadalus and Icarus, Theseus and the Minotaur, the birth of Zeus.
The conference will build upon spectral and imaging observations from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths of SNR blast waves, pulsar wind nebulae and SN ejecta and their interpretation through models and numerical simulations. The goals of the meeting are understanding the evolution of SNRs and their interaction with interstellar gas, elucidating the physical processes that govern shock waves and relativistic plasmas, and inferring characteristics of supernova explosions from SNR observations.
We will focus on narrowing the gap between observations and theories with the help of powerful new instrumentation such as hard X-ray and gamma-ray satellites, large optical telescopes, and sub-mm and low-frequency radio arrays on the one hand, and increasingly detailed and realistic numerical simulations on the other. New understanding of the nature of supernova remnants and processes that occur there offers new insights into the role of SNRs in the structure and evolution of galaxies and the nature of supernova explosions.
Looking forward to seeing you in Crete!
Scientific Topics & Session Chairs
* Radiation studies from gamma-rays to radio in Galactic and Extragalactic SNRs (D. Green)
* The search for the binary companions of SN progenitors in SNRs (W. Blair)
* Pulsar winds nebulae (including Crab flares) (P. Slane)
* Magnetic fields in SNRs and PWNe (R. Kothes)
* Collisionless shock waves in SNRs (A. Decourcelle)
* Jets and Asymmetries in SNe and their Remnants (R. Fesen)
* SNRs as probes and drivers of galaxy structure (A. Rest)
* SNe and SNRs cosmic ray acceleration (T. Bell)
* SN ejecta – abundances, clumpiness (K. Borkowski)
* SNe and SNRs with circumstellar interactions (J. Raymond)
Invited Speakers (confirmed)
R. Chevalier (USA - Opening plenary talk), J. Vink (Netherlands – Summary plenary talk), E. Amato (Italy), C. Badenes (USA), G. Dubner (Argentina), P. Ghavamian (USA), W. Kerzendorf (Canada), S-H. Lee (Japan), M. Lemoine-Goumard (France), I. Leonidaki (Greece), L. Lopez (USA), R. McCray (USA), D. Milisavljevic (USA), D. Patnaude (USA), W. Reich (Germany), S. Reynolds (USA), S. Safi-Harb (Canada), N. Soker (Israel), A. Spitkovsky (USA), T. Temim (USA), S. Van Dyk (USA), B. Williams (USA)
Important Dates:
2016 March 04 Deadline for abstract submission for contributed talks
2016 April 01 Notification on selected abstracts for oral presentations
2016 April 08 Deadline for early registration and payment (€350)
2016 April 08 Deadline for abstract submission for posters
2016 May 03 Deadline for hotel reservation with guaranteed special meeting prices
2016 May 13 Deadline for late registration and payment (€400)
2016 June 05 On-site registration opens (€450 – payment in cash only)
2016 June 06 The conference starts
Registration
Online registration by all participants, including invited speakers, SOC and LOC members is mandatory. Participants need to complete (or update if already registered) the registration form to submit poster or contributed talk abstracts.
The meeting registration fee will be € 350 and includes the welcome reception, 4 lunches and coffee breaks, providing the payment is received by April 08th, 2016. Beyond this date a late registration fee of € 400 will be charged.
We are planning the following social events-excursions:
(a) a welcome reception (Sunday, June 5th)
(b) an afternoon excursion to the Town of Chania (Wednesday, June 8th)
(c) a conference banquet (Thursday, June 9th)
(d) a full day Boat Excursion to Gramvousa and Balos (Saturday, June 11th)
More information on these events can be found on the conference website. Please note that the cost of the conference banquet and excursions are not covered by the registration fee.
Participants are expected to arrive in Chania by Sunday, June 5th and to depart from Chania not earlier than Saturday, June 11th.
Venue & Accommodation
The meeting will take place at the luxury 5* beachside hotel Minoa Palace Luxury Resort & Spa, situated in the cosmopolitan area of Platanias, 12 km west of the picturesque town of Chania and only a 30 min drive from Chania International Airport. Instructions for reaching the hotel can be found here.
The Local Organizing Committee has secured rooms at special rates for our meeting attendees at a number of hotels apart the main conference hotel. All reservations must be made directly with the hotels through their special link.
We invite interested participants to visit the conference website for more information: http://snr2016.astro.noa.gr
Scientific Organizing Committee
P. Boumis (co-chair), J. Raymond (co-chair), T. Bell, W. Blair, K. Borkowski, A. Decourchelle, R. Fesen, D. Green, R. Kothes, A. Rest, P. Slane
Local Organizing Committee
P. Boumis (co-chair), A. Bonanos (co-chair), D. Abartzi, S. Akras, A. Chiotellis, M. Kopsacheili, M. Kourniotis, I. Leonidaki, A. Manousakis, M. Pliatsika, Z.T. Spetsieri, S. Williams
Weblink: http://snr2016.astro.noa.gr/
Email: bonanos@noa.gr