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Title: First Informal Zwicky Workshop


1
First Informal Zwicky Workshop
  • S. R. Kulkarni
  • California Institute of Technology

2
Why this workshop?
  • Cosmic Explosions area of common interest
  • Promote cross-town collaboration
  • Harness LCO, Palomar, Keck and Magellan to make
    Pasadena the leading center in cosmic explosions

3
Carnegie Effort
  • Major initiative on Ia SNe at LCO (Freedman,
    Phillips talk)
  • Campanas Swope 40-inch (C40)
  • Campanas du Pont 100-inch (C100)
  • Magellan Telescopes (Baade Clay)

4
Developments at Palomar
  • Palomar 48-inch (P48) now equipped with mosaic
    CCD (QUEST)
  • - Yale Intermediate SN program
  • - LBL SN Factory for local Ia SNe
  • Palomar 60-inch (P60) now robotocized and
    currently equipped with CCD imager
  • - Ready to respond to SWIFT
  • sLOTIS partnership with P60

5
Caltech Effort
  • NuStars, SMEX mission focussed on nuclear lines
    (Harrison talk)
  • Collapsars (Soderberg)
  • SNe cosmology (Ellis talk)
  • GRB Program (Fox, Park)

6
Learn from Experts
  • Lick Observatory SN Program (Li)
  • ESSENCE (Kirshner)
  • SN Factory (Wood-Vasey)
  • PanSTARRS (Price)
  • RAPTOR (Vestrand)

7
Zwicky
  • The greatest astrophysicst at Caltech
  • supernovae
  • neutron stars
  • dark matter
  • clusters
  • interacting blue galaxies
  • Not recognized as such either locally or
    nationally
  • Deserved a great observatory
    recognition

8
To all speakers
  • Please introduce yourself
  • Please give your flash disk to Avishay in advance
    of talk
  • Talks (ppt files) will be posted on the web (if
    permitted by the speaker)

9
If Zwicky was here he would say.
  • This meeting is a spherically useful meeting!
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