Danie Visser - Welcome by Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research

/UCT

Christian Knigge - The evolution of the central binary system in

novae (IC01)

Linda Schmidtobreick - Old novae and the SW Sex phenomenon

(CT01)

Helena Uthas - BK Lyn - the oldest nova and a bellwether for

 cataclysmic variables (CT02)

Joachim Krautter - Life and work of Hilmar Duerbeck (1948-2012)

(IP01)

Martin Henze - Novae as supersoft X-ray sources in the

Andromeda galaxy (CT06)

Greg Schwarz - Recent advances in the modeling of panchromatic

observations of nova shells (IC04)

Tiina Liimets - A dynamic study of the nova remnant of GK Per

(CT07)

Sally Macfarlane - Integral field unit spectroscopy of the helium

nova V445 Puppis (CT08)

Valerio Ribeiro - Late-time Hubble Space Telescope imaging of

the outburst of the recurrent nova RS Oph (CT09)

Rodolfo Montez Jr - Discovery of expanding, X-ray emitting,

bipolar structures around the recurrent nova RS Oph (CT10)

Steve Shore - The spectroscopic evolution of a nova outburst

(IR02)

Alessandro Ederoclite - The mystery of T Pyx; the 2011 explosion

(CT11)

Farung Surina - Photometric and spectroscopic study of the

recurrent nova T Pyx in its 2011 outburst (CT12)

Fred Walter - The Stony Brook/SMARTS atlas of mostly

southern novae (CT13)

Elena Mason - Lessons learned from (some) recurrent

novae (CT14)

Michael Maxwell - Modeling the recurrent nova U Scorpii

in quiescence (CT15)

Poster session 2 - Ejecta, evolution and optical/infrared

observations of novae

Olivier Chesneau - High angular resolution observations of

novae in the infrared (CT17)

Tony Tyson - LSST and the future decade of optical transient

surveys (IC07) skype

Public lecture Prof Steve Shore (Upper Campus, University

of Cape Town)

Mike Bode - The speed class dependence of the classical nova

dust formation time scale (CT19)

Andrew Helton - The dusty nova - an examination of dust

production and processing in the ejecta of classical novae (CT20)  

Ami Glasner - Overshoot convective mixing in novae outbursts

(CT21)

Pavel Denisenkov - MESA and NuGrid simulations of classical

nova outbursts and nucleosynthesis (CT22)

Daan van Rossum - Wind-Type Atmosphere Models for Novae in 

the SSS Phase (CT23)

Yael Hillman - Peculiar features of nova outburst light curves

as derived from modelling (CT24)

Gamma-ray and X-ray observations of novae - Chair:

Laura Chomiuk

Margarita Hernanz - Gamma-ray emission from nova outbursts

(IC09)

Jan-Uwe Ness - Classification of high-resolution X-ray spectra of

super soft sources (CT26)

Julian Osborne - Swift X-ray and UV observations of novae

(CT28)

X-ray and Radio observations of novae - Chair:

Jennifer Sokoloski

Vanessa McBride - MAXI J0158-744: a luminous supersoft

source in the Magellanic Bridge (CT29)

Jennifer Weston - A new view of novae: radio observations of

V1723 Aql (CT30)

Joanna Mikolajewska - Life and work of Michael Friedjung

(1940-2011) (IP02)

Jennifer Sokoloski - Thermonuclear eruptions in symbiotic

systems (IR04)

Brent Miszalski - A remarkable sample of new symbiotic

stars towards the Galactic bulge (CT32)

Poster session 3 - Modeling, X-ray/radio observations of

novae, and symbiotic systems

Joanna Mikolajewska - Observational constraints on mass

transfer and accretion in symbiotic systems (IC11)

Dmitry Bisikalo - The flow structure in the classical symbiotic

 system Z And during its active phase (CT33)

Takashi Iijima - The nature of the symbiotic recurrent nova

V407 Cyg (CT34)

Magda Otulakowska-Hypka - A new look at the symbiotic

star RW Hydrae (CT35)

Shazrene Mohamed - The link between RS Oph and type Ia

supernovae (CT36)

George Wallerstein (pp Sumner Starrfield) - Repeating novae and

 SNIa (CT37)

Patrick Woudt - ThunderKAT: Studying novae in the radio with the

SKA precursor telescope MeerKAT (CT38)

Kirill Sokolovsky - The New Milky Way: a wide-field survey of

optical transients in the Galactic Plane (CT39)

Laura Chomiuk - Observing transients with the SKA and/

 its pathfinders (IR05)