Programme
| MONDAY, 7 APRIL | ||
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| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 12:30 | Registration and light lunch | |
| 14:00 | Opening | |
| 14:15 | Science and community engagement at ESO | Xavier Barcons |
| 14:30 | Reminiscences, Bruno and ESO telescopes at the turn of the century | Catherine Cesarsky |
| 14:45 | An intriguing link between the fate of massive stars and galaxy formation in the early Universe | Alvio Renzini |
| 15:15 | Building a distance ladder with population II distance indicators DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765602 | Marina Rejkuba |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Bruno and the early days of ALMA science at ESO DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765628 | Leonardo Testi |
| 16:30 | Standing on the shoulders of giants DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765592 | Celine Peroux |
| 17:00 | Life, The Universe, and Bruno DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765614 | David Silva |
| 17:30 | End of day | |
| TUESDAY, 8 APRIL | ||
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| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Cosmology with strongly lensed supernovae DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765624 | Sherry Suyu |
| 09:30 | Scientific Adventures with Bruno DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765574 | Robert Kirshner |
| 10:00 | The Renaissance of the Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function (PNLF) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765566 | George Jacoby |
| 10:15 | An update on the Hubble Constant from Surface Brightness fluctuations DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765568 | Joseph Jensen |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Calibrating Type Ia Supernova Luminosities with Surface Brightness Fluctuations: The Old Pop to H0 | Peter Garnavich |
| 11:30 | SNe II the rescue: A novel distance-ladder free determination of the Hubble constant DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765635 | Christian Vogl |
| 12:00 | SNe II the rescue: An H0 determination based on a dedicated data set of SNe II in the Hubble flow DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765626 | Stefan Taubenberger |
| 12:15 | Two New Determinations of the Hubble Constant via the Classical Distance Ladder DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765564 | Taylor Hoyt |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | JWST Weighs in on the Hubble Tension DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765604 | Adam Riess |
| 14:45 | The H0 value from SNe Ia in the Hubble flow DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765606 | Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente |
| 15:00 | The Hubble constant from near-infrared observations of type Ia supernovae | Lluís Galbany Gonzalez |
| 15:15 | SNe II the rescue: Sibling supernovae as a path to test systematics in SN II cosmology | Geza Csörnyei |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | The cosmic distance scale based on near-infrared observations of Type II and Anomalous Cepheids DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765612 | Teresa Sicignano |
| 16:15 | Type Ia supernova in the near-infrared: from explosion to cosmology DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765640 | Tomás Müller Bravo |
| 16:30 | Beyond the Mass Step: Improving the Hubble Diagram with an [O II] Correction to SN Ia Light Curves | Bailey Martin |
| 16:45 | NIR cosmology with type Ia supernovae DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765596 | Kim Phan |
| 17:00 | Discussion | |
| 17:15 | End of the day | |
| WEDNESDAY, 9 APRIL | ||
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| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Spectropolarimetry of Supernovae | Alex Filippenko |
| 09:30 | SN 1987A and the compact object | Claes Fransson |
| 10:00 | The lonely white dwarf scenarios for type Ia supernovae DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765618 | Noam Soker |
| 10:15 | A Near-IR Search for Helium in the Superluminous Supernova SN2024ahr | Harsh Kumar |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | The Extremes of the Luminosity-Decline Rate Relation DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765598 | Mark Phillips |
| 11:30 | Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae and a complete census of explosions DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765616 | Stephen Smartt |
| 12:00 | SN Ia progenitors: the current picture DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765586 | Dan Maoz |
| 12:15 | Exploring the range of impacts of He in the spectra of double detonation models for SNe Ia | Fionntan Callan |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | JWST NIRSpec observations of SN 1987A DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765582 | Josefin Larsson |
| 14:30 | Clues on the (supernovae or non-supernovae) Origins of the Elements from Galactic Archeology DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765630 | Friedrich Thielemann |
| 15:00 | Modeling Successful and Failed Type Ia Supernovae in Single Massive CO White Dwarfs DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765590 | Amir Michaelis |
| 15:15 | Probing the progenitors of peculiar thermonuclear supernovae using early-time observations DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765620 | Shubham Srivastav |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | All known Type Ia supernova models fail to reproduce the observed luminosity-width correlation DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765580 | Doron Kushnir |
| 16:15 | Different but still same: on the common origin of the peculiar Type Iax SNe | Barnabas Barna |
| 16:30 | Statistical Analysis of Early Spectra in Type II and IIb Supernovae | Maider González Bañuelos |
| 16:45 | End of the day | |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner | |
| THURSDAY, 10 APRIL | ||
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| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | JWST Infrared Spectroscopy of White Dwarf Supernovae DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765570 | Saurabh Jha |
| 09:30 | Reminiscences of Supernovae with Bruno DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765610 | Brian Schmidt |
| 10:00 | Exploring the expanding landscape of underluminous SNe Ia DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765622 | Maximilian Stritzinger |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Stars without a temper | Eline Tolstoy |
| 11:30 | KiDS and cosmology DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765576 | Konrad Kuijken |
| 12:00 | The gamma-ray view on supernovae | Roland Diehl |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 | SN 1987A: Theory Updates Four Decades Later | Hans-Thomas Janka |
| 14:30 | Supernovae from Single Stars and Interacting Binaries DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765600 | Philipp Podsiadlowski |
| 15:00 | Pulsating Red Supergiants: A New Perspective on Type II Supernova Light Curve Diversity | Vincent Bronner |
| 15:15 | Constraining the progenitor of a Type IIP SN 2023zcu via detailed photometric and spectral analysis | Monalisa Dubey |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Early Warning Signs: Precursor activity preceding supernovae | Seán Brennan |
| 16:15 | When the VLT met ASKAP: Using Fast Radio Bursts as Cosmological Probe DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765608 | Stuart Ryder |
| 16:30 | Supernovae from the ZTF DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765646 | Jesper Sollerman |
| 16:45 | Lulin observatory's rapid response to extreme transients | Janet Chen |
| 17:00 | Harnessing modeling techniques to decode the progenitors and environment of Type II Supernovae | Raya Dastidar |
| 17:15 | End of day | |
| FRIDAY, 11 APRIL |
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| Time | Title | Speaker |
| 09:00 | Decomposing the Milky Way DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765648 | Matthias Steinmetz |
| 09:30 | The VLT and AGN feedback: a successful story DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765584 | Vincenzo Mainieri |
| 09:45 | Narrow absorption lines from intervening material in supernovae: galaxy properties and environments | Claudia Gutiérrez |
| 10:00 | Environments of type Ia supernovae in terms of Si II velocities with Integral Field Spectroscopy DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765644 | Cristina Jiménez Palau |
| 10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Looking into SN host galaxies with AMUSING at the VLT DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765594 | Thallis Pessi |
| 11:15 | Strong progenitor age bias in supernova cosmology and concordance with DESI BAO DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765636 | Young-Wook Lee |
| 11:30 | Tracing back the birth environments of Type Ia supernova progenitor stars DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15765572 | Young-Lo Kim |
| 11:45 | SN 2020udy: A New Piece of the Homogeneous Bright Group in the Diverse Iax Subclass | Mridweeka Singh |
| 12:00 | The early-time light curves of type II and type IIb supernovae from the ATLAS survey | Joseph Anderson |
| 12:30 | Light lunch | |