9:15-9:30 Welcome Remarks 

Session I

The Progenitors of SNe Ia: Setting the Scene

Chair: Philipp Podsiadlowski

09:15-09:45 Ken'ichi Nomoto: Progenitors of SNe Ia and nucleosynthesis constraints        

09:45-10:15 Peter Hoeflich: Progenitors of SNe Ia

10:15-10:45 Morning tea/coffee break

10:45-11:15 Rosanne Di Stefano: New three-star Models for SNe Ia

11:15-11:45 Paolo Mazzali: Characterizing the nature of SNe Ia

11:45-12:15 Lifan Wang: SNe Ia: polarimetry and progenitors

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

Session II

Observations of SNe Ia

Chair: Xiaofeng Wang

          13:30-13:55 Mark Magee: Modelling the early time behaviour of SNe Ia: effects of the 56Ni distribution 

          13:55-14:20 Patrick Kelly: A new route to estimating SN Ia luminosities and insights into progenitor populations 

          14:20-14:45 Christopher Ashall: Using near-infrared spectroscopy to determine the location of the outer 56Ni in SNe Ia

          14:45-15:10 Saurabh Jha: Type Iax SNe-1

                               Saurabh Jha: Type Iax SNe-2

          15:10-15:25 Elena Pian: THESEUS, a small ESA payload for multiwavelength transients 

          15:25-15:40 Samuel Wyatt: Strong, early near infrared carbon absorption in the transitional type Ia SN 2015bp/SNHunt281

15:40-16:10 Afternoon tea/coffee break

16:10-18:00 Chairs: Lifan Wang, Paolo Mazzali

                    Discussion Period #1:

                    What do observations tell us about SNe Ia? How do they constrain progenitor models?

Day 2, Tuesday, August 6

Session III

SN Remnants and Surviving Companions 

Chair: Xiangdong Li

9:00-9:30 Carles Badenes: The SN remnant view of type Ia progenitors

9:30-9:55 Gilles Ferrand: From the thermonuclear SN to the SN remnant

9:55-10:20 Hiroya Yamaguchi: Tycho's SN remnant

10:20-10:30 Conference photo

10:30-11:00 Morning tea/coffee break

11:00-11:25 Ivo Seitenzahl: SN Ia remnant tomography

11:25-11:50 Zhengwei Liu: Imprints of a non-degenerate companion star in SNe Ia

11:50-12:15 Satoru Katsuda: Linking overluminous Ia and Ia-CSM from observations of SN remnants

12:05-13:30 Lunch break

Session III

SN Remnants and Surviving Companions

Chair: Keiichi Maeda

13:30-13:55 Curtis McCully: 10 years in the life of SN 2012Z (not provided)

13:55-14:20 Xiangcun Meng: BLAPS: the possible surviving companions of SNe Ia (not provided)

14:20-14:45 Jozsef Vinko: Constraints on the ejecta masses of SNe Ia from photometry

          14:45-15:00 Jose Prieto: Contraining explosions and progenitors of SNe Ia from ~100 nebular-phase spectra

          15:00 -15:10 Wenxiong Li: Observations of type Ia SN 2014J for nearly 900 days and constraints on Its progenitor system

15:10-15:20 Callum McCutcheon: The surviving companion of SNe Ia in the single-degenerate channel

          15:20-15:30 Yaotian Zeng: 3D Hydrodynamical simulation of ejecta-companion interactions for type Iax SNe

15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea/coffee break

16:00-18:00 Chairs: Carles Badenes, Rosanne Di Stefano

                     Discussion Period #2 

                     Confronting progenitor models with observations

Day 3, Wednesday, August 7

Session IV

Signatures of the CS environment and Companion Constraints

Chair: Saurabh Jha

8:30-9:00 Xiaofeng Wang: New constraints on progenitors of SNe Ia (not provided)

          9:00-9:25 D. Andrew Howell: Using Las Cumbres Observatory to reveal early bumps in the lightcurves of SNe Ia

9:25-9:50 Yi Yang: Spectropolarimetry of Infant SNe Ia

9:50-10:20 Morning tea/coffee break

10:20-10:50 Keiichi Maeda: Diversity of SNe Ia in the rising phase

10:50-11:15 Mattia Bulla: Where is the dust? Estimating the location of dust in [some] SNe Ia

11:15-11:40 Ji-An Jiang: Multiple origins of early-excess SNe Ia and associated subclasses

          11:40-11:55 Maokai Hu: Dust scattering: effects on light curves and polarization evolution of SNe Ia with CSM

12:00-13:00 Lunch break

          13:00-20:30 Social event (Half day tour of the Tiger-Leaping Gorge, after which we will have a dinner on the way to hotel at around 19:00)

Day 4, Thursday, August 8

Session V

Progenitor models and Binary Population Synthesis

Chair: Chiaki Kobayashi

          9:00-9:25 Doron Kushnir: Simulating collisions of white dwarfs as a primary channel for SNe Ia

          9:25-9:55 Noam Soker: SN Ia scenarios in 2019: a rising demand for clean and symmetrical explosions

9:55-10:10 Chengyuan Wu: Outcomes of double WD mergers

10:10-10:40 Morning tea/coffee break

10:40-11:05 Bo Wang: WD+He star binaries as the progenitors of SNe Ia

          11:05-11:30 Takashi Moriya: Circumstellar properties of SNe Ia from the helium star donor channel

          11:30-11:55 Patrick Neunteufel: The implications of magnetic torques for the single degenerate helium donor channel

11:55-12:10 Dongdong Liu: The formation of double massive WDs and SNe Ia

12:10-13:30 Lunch break

Session VI

Explosion models

Chair: Peter Hoeflich

13:30-14:00 Friedrich K. Roepke: Testing SN Ia progenitor channels in a consistent modeling pipeline (not provided)

14:00-14:15 Sabrina Gronow: Double detonations of sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs

14:15-14:30 Florian Lach: Type Iax SNe from deflagrations of Chandrasekhar mass WDs 

          14:30-14:45 Yossef Zenati: Calcium-rich SNe from disruptions of CO WDs by hybrid He-CO WDs

          14:45-15:00 Ataru Tanikawa: Three dimensional simulations of double-detonation explosions in double-degenerate systems for SNe Ia

          15:00-15:10 Rachael C. Amaro:  NIR and optical observations of ASASSN-14lp: new clues to its progenitor

15:10-15:40 Afternoon tea/coffee break

          15:40-17:40 Chair: Zhanwen Han, Friedrich K. Roepke

Discussion Period #3

Progenitor models, binary population synthesis, and explosion modelling

18:30-21:30 Conference dinner

Day 5, Friday, August 9

Session VII

Progenitor Evolution, Chemical Enrichment and Supernova Cosmology

Chair: Noam Soker

9:00-9:30 Chiaki Kobayashi: Constraining SN Ia progenitors from galactic chemical evolution

9:30-9:55 Christa Gall: Lensed Ia SNe: single- vs. double-degenerate (not provided)

          9:55-10:20 David Jones: How much do cosmological constraints from SNe Ia depend on SN physics?

10:20-10:50 Morning tea/coffee break

10:50-11:15 Yen-Chen Pan: Probing the progenitor metallicity of SNe Ia with ultraviolet spectra

11:05-11:30 Armin Rest:  High-cadence light curves of SNe Ia from the Kepler telescope

11:30-11:55 Lluis Galbany: A SN in the borough: integral field spectroscopy of SN Ia host galaxies

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

Session VII

Progenitor Evolution, Chemical Enrichment and Supernova Cosmology

Chair: Mark Magee

13:30-13:55 Jeremy Mould:  The OzDES SN project

13:55-14:10 Joris Vos:  The TESS view of the SN Ia progenitor HD 49798

14:10-14:25 Jujia Zhang: First 450 days observation of SN 2018zd: from type IIn to type IIP

          14:25-14:40 Matthew Siebert:  Investigating the diversity of SN Ia spectra with the open-source relational database Kaepora-1

                               Matthew Siebert:  Investigating the diversity of SN Ia spectra with the open-source relational database Kaepora-2

14:50-15:00 Lei Hu:  SN by feeding incompletely time sampled spectral data

          15:00-15:10 Wei-Min Liu:  Can the friction of the nova envelope account for the extra angular momentum loss in cataclysmic variables?

15:10-15:20 Noriaki Arima:  SN survey with the wide-field CMOS camera Tomo-e Gozen

15:20-15:30 Miho Kawabata: Long-term optical/NIR observations of type Iax SN 2014dt

          15:30-15:40 Haliang Chen:  Populations of accreting WDs

15:40-16:10 Afternoon tea/coffee break

16:10-18:00 Chair: Ken'ichi Nomoto, Philipp Podsiadlowski

Discussion Period #4

How to solve the progenitor conundrum: a roadmap for the future of SN Ia research