New windows on transients across the Universe

• 9.00am – 5.00pm on 23 April 2012 – 24 April 2012
• at The Royal Society, London

The Crab Nebula, courtesy of Davide De Martin, ESA/Hubble.

Organised by Professor Paul O'Brien, Professor Stephen Smartt, Professor Ralph Wijers and Professor Kenneth Pounds CBE FRS

Registration for this event is now open - click here to register

A violent stellar explosion detonates every second in the visible Universe producing transients such as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. The dawn of a novel array of international observing facilities and detailed super-computer simulations is transforming the field. Our interdisciplinary meeting brings together experimentalists and theorists from photonic, astro-particle, and gravitational wave detection experiments to discuss their results and ideas.

Download the draft programme here

Speakers for this event include:

Professor John Beacom, Professor Lars Bildsten, Professor Josh Bloom, Professor Avishay Gal-Yam, Professor Neil Gehrels, Professor Jim Hinton, Professor Jens Hjorth, Professor Isobel Hook, Professor Andrew MacFadyen, Professor Sera Markoff, Professor Tsvi Piran, Professor Stephen Rosswog, Professor Sheila Rowan, Professor Brian Schmidt, Professor Ben Stappers, Professor John Tonry.

Registration
This discussion meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is free to attend, but pre-registration online is essential. 

The organisers are offering the opportunity for registered participants to deliver a brief talk or poster during the meeting. The deadline for registration, should you wish to be considered for a talk or poster, is Monday 16 January 2012. After this date, participants will be sent information on submitting an abstract.

An optional lunch is offered each day for £20+VAT per day, and should be booked at registration.  Payment is accepted online by Visa, MasterCard, Visa Debit, Maestro, Electron and Solo cards.

In the event of a booking for lunch being cancelled, the Society can only refund the payment providing the cancellation is received at no later than 5 working days before the Discussion Meeting.

This meeting is followed by a related Satellite meeting at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre entitled Interpreting signals from astrophysical transient experiments from 25 – 26 April 2012.