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Wild Stars in the Old West II

March 16-March 19, 2009

University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Presentations

Program for Monday

Time	Speaker	Topic
09:00 to 09:10	Welcome Remarks	Howdy!
09:10 to 09:50	Christian Knigge	The Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables [10.07 MB .ppt]
09:50 to 10:10	Stuart Littlefair	The Donor Star Masses in Short Period CVs [1.17 MB pdf]
10:10 to 10:30	Stella Kafka	Activity on Magnetic CV Secondaries [3.41 MB .pps]
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee & Posters
11:00 to 11:30	Christopher Watson	Roche Tomography of the Donor Stars [1.62 MB pdf]
11:30 to 12:10	Paula Szkody	CVs with Pulsating White Dwarfs [7.90 MB .ppt]
12:10 to 12:30	Justin Steinfadt	Hydrogen Burning and Pulsations of He WDs [1.51 MB .ppt]
12:30 to 12:35	Poster Review
12:35 to 01:45	Lunch
01:45 to 02:15	Dean Townsley	Variations in Teff for Quiescent CV WDs [279 KB pdf]
02:15 to 02:45	Edward Sion	White Dwarf Heating in Nova-like Systems [1.33 MB .ppt]
02:45 to 03:05	James Liebert	The Paucity of Magnetic WDs in SDSS Binaries [738 KB .ppt]
03:05 to 03:35	Coffee & Posters
03:35 to 04:05	Christopher Tout	Binary Star Origin of High Magnetic Field WDs [123 KB pdf]
04:05 to 04:35	Matt Burleigh	Detached WD/BD Binaries as Progenitors of CVs [2.21 MB .ppt]
04:35 to 04:48	Ada Nebot	Post-CE Binaries from SDSS [4.30 MB .ppt]
04:48 to 05:01	Mattias Schreiber	Post-CE Binaries from SDSS Magnetic Braking [1.36 MB .ppt]
05:01 to 05:21	Monica Zorotovic Fiebig	Post-CE Binaries from SDSS [1.61 MB pdf]
05:21 to 05:34	Philip Davis	How Many CVs are Crossing the Period Gap? [3.73 MB .ppt]
05:34 to 06:00	Posters & Cocktails

Posters

1 Tom Marsh [4.56 MB pdf] 2 Edward Robinson [1.92 MB .ppt] 3 Tom Harrison 4 John Thorstensen [796 KB pdf] 5 Robert Smith 6 Penelope Longa-Peña 7 Metin Altan 8 Chris Savoury [846 KB .ppt] 9 Ryan Hamilton

10 Gulnur ikis Gun 11 Simon Tulloch 12 Phil Evans 13 Pablo Rodriguez-Gil [159 KB pdf] 14 Stylianos Pyrzas 15 John Tayor 16 Eric Schlegel 17 Irina Voloshina 18 Arne Henden 19 Stephen Potter

20 George Marshall 21 Jeff Robertson [1.28 MB pdf] 22 Elena Mason 23 Jorge Casares

Program for Tuesday

Time	Speaker	Topi
09:00 to 09:40	Danny Steeghs	The Galactic Population of AM CVn Binaries
09:40 to 10:00	Ken Shen	Unstable He Shell Burning on Accreting White Dwarfs
10:00 to 10:20	Marc van der Sluys	Magnetic Capture and the Formation Channel for AM CVn
10:20 to 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 to 11:20	Lars Bildsten	Where are the Helium Core White Dwarfs in CVs?
11:20 to 11:40	Irit Idan	Classical Novae on Low Accretion Rate Helium WDs
11:40 to 11:53	Claus Tappert	LTT 560 and Mass Transfer in Pre-CVs
11:53 to 12:13	Tiago Ribeiro	Studying Activity in Pre-CVs Secondaries
12:13 to 12:18	Poster Review
12:18 to 01:28	Lunch
01:28 to 01:41	Howard Bond	HST Observations of the Pre-CV Binary V471 Tauri
01:41 to 02:01	Dmitry Bisikalo	3D Modeling of the Circumbinary Envelope in Close Binaries
02:01 to 02:	Don Hoard	What’s Cool About Hot Stars?  CVs in the Infrared
02:31 to 03:01	Linda Schmidtobreick	The Role of SW Sex Stars in the Evolution of CVs
03:01 to 03:	Coffee Break
03:31 to 04:01	Boris Gänsicke	SDSS Unveils the Predicted Population at the Minimum Porb
04:01 to 04:31	Ulrich Kolb	Recent Population Synthesis Results
04:31 to 05:01	Lorne Nelson	Population Synthesis Models with Interrupted Braking
05:01 to 05:31	Magaretha Pretorius	The Space Density of Cataclysmic Variables
05:31 to 06:00	Poster Viewing
06:00 to 07:00	NOAO Reception

Posters

31 Kurtis Williams 32 Vadim Burwitz 33 Paul Barrett 34 Justus Vogel 35 Steve Howell 36 Iris Trauslen 37 Nicola Masetti 38 Kunegunda Bell 39 Jesus Corral-Santana

40 Stefanie Wachter 41 Jillian Bornak 42 Cristina Zurita 43 Kieran O’Brien 44 Marissa Kotze 45 Teo Muñoz-Darias 46 Manuel Torres 47 Robert Schwarz 48 Marco Mantraga 49 Ladislav Hric

50 Daniela Barria Diaz 51 Julie Skinner 52 Fergus Wilson 53 Peter Hoeflich 54 Allesandro Ederoclite 55 Akira Imada

Program for Wednesday

Time	Speaker	Topic
09:00 to 09:20	Kent Honeycutt	Characteristics of the Wind in BZ Cam
09:20 to 10:00	Axel Schwope	XMM Observations of Polars
10:00 to 10:30	David Buckley	Observations of CVs with SALT
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:20	Fred Walter	The Downside of EF Eri
11:20 to 11:50	Paul Mason	Radio Observations of CVs
11:50 to 12:20	Domitilla de Martino	X-Ray Observations of IPs
12:20 to 12:25	Poster Review
12:25 to 01:35	Lunch
01:35 to 01:	Gerardo Luna	Chandra Observations of EX Hya
01:48 to 02:01	Christopher Mauche	Multiwavelength Observations of AE Aqr
02:01 to 02:31	Knox Long	Geometry and Structure of CV Winds
02:31 to 03:01	Peter Wheatley	Origin of DNe Outburst X-Rays
03:01 to 03:31	Coffee Break
03:31 to 03:51	Ronald Mennickent	Supercycles in Double Periodic Variables
03:51 to 04:21	Graham Wynn	Outrageous Outbursts
04:21 to 04:51	Jennifer Sokoloski	Do Disks Survive Novae Explosions?
04:51 to 05:11	Joanna Mikolajewska	Symbiotic Stars: Challenges to Evolution Theory
05:11 to 05:24	Ladislav Hric	AG Dra - A Symbiotic Mystery
05:24 to 06:00	Posters & Cocktails
06:30	Buses leave for banquet from NOAO building

Posters

60 Tom Harrison 61 Rob Seaman 62 Viktor Malanushenko 63 Risako Matsui 64 Brad Schaefer 65 Drahomir Chochol 66 Akira Arai 67 Akira Imada 68 Solen Balman 69 Allen Shafter

70 Auni Somero 71 Augustin Skopal 72 Augustin Skopal 73 Attay Kovetz 74 Dina Prialnik 75 Pierluigi Selvelli 76 Antonio Bianchini 77 Kevin Moore 78 Akira Arai 79 Mariko Kato

80 Dai Takei 81 Jan-Uwe Ness 82 Jim Lyke 83 Tomasz Kaminski 84 Gagik Tovmassian 85 Andres Aviles 86 Sergey Zharikov 87 Koji Mukai

Program for Thursday
“TOADs, Recurrent and Classical Novae”

Time	Speaker	Topic
09:00 to 09:15	Marina Orio	X-Ray Observations of Novae
09:15 to 09:28	Lieke van Spaandonk	Ca II Spectroscopy of Short Orbital Period CVs
09:28 to 09:	Kristiina Byckling	A Unique Insight into a Rare Outburst of GW Lib
09:41 to 10:01	Daisaku Nogami	Superoutburst Evolution of WZ Sge, GW Lib, and V455 And
10:01 to 10:14	Gagik Tovmassia	Simultaneous Observations of the 2007 Outburst of V455 And
10:14 to 10:27	Michele Montgomery	The Source of Negative Superhumps
10:27 to 10:52	Coffee Break
10:52 to 11:05	Sergey Zharikov	Wanted: The True Bounce Back Systems
11:05 to 11:25	Brad Schaefer	Recurrent Nova Photometric Histories
11:25 to 11:45	Ashley Pagnotta	V2487 Oph: A Test of RNe Identification Criteria
11:45 to 11:58	Helena Uthas	The X-Ray Emission and Binary Parameters of T Pyx
11:58 to 12:11	Randy Campbell	Morphology of the Ejecta from the Classical Nova V723 Cas
12:11 to 12:24	Ting-Ni Lu	The Counterparts of X-Ray Sources in the Globular Cluster M12
12:24 to 01:35	Lunch
01:35 to 02:15	Julian Osborne	Swift Observations of Recent Novae
02:15 to 02:35	Magarita Hernanz	The Recovery of Accretion in Novae as Seen in X-rays
02:35 to 02:48	Gloria Sala	XMM-Newton Observations of V5116 Sgr (N Sgr 2005#2)
02:48 to 03:08	Michael Shara	Recovery of the Ultraluminous Red Nova in M31
03:08 to 03:35	Coffee Break
03:35 to 03:48	Martin Henze	The First Two Transient SSS in M31 Globular Clusters
03:48 to 04:08	Elena Mason	V1309 Sco: Not a THEA System
04:08 to 04:38	Izumi Hachisu	A Prediction Formula of Supersoft X-ray Phase of CNe
04:38 to 04:51	Roger Wesson	V458 Vul - A Classical Nova Inside a Planetary Nebula
04:51 to 05:00	Closing Remarks (Next stop Kyoto!)