From: Peter Gallagher – peter.gallagher@tcd.ie

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THE TRANSIENT UNIVERSE: From Exoplanets to Hypernovae
Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
23-24 September 2010
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A joint specialist two day discussion meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Astronomical Science Group of Ireland.

PRINCIPAL TOPICS
o High-power transients, including gamma-ray bursts, hypernovae, TeV transients.
o Solar transients and the Sun-Earth connection.
o Stellar transients, including X-ray and radio transients, and other irregular stellar activity.
o Planetary system transients, including exoplanet and solar-system phenomena.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Gibor Basri (University of California, Berkeley)
Andrew Collier-Cameron (St Andrews University)
Joanna Haigh (Imperial College London)
Gregg Hallinan (University of California, Berkeley)
Louise Harra (MSSL, University College London)
Stephen Smartt (Queens University Belfast)
Danny Steeghs (University of Warwick)
Darach Watson (University of Copenhagen)

PUBLIC LECTURE
“The Sun-Climate Connection”
Professor Mike Lockwood (University of Southampton/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Thursday, September 23 at 7pm
Emmet Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS
There will be programme space for a number of contributed papers, as well as posters. There will be a prize for the best poster presented by a postgraduate student. Proposed contributions (Title, Author, Institute, Abstract) should be submitted by email to tohypernovae@gmail.com by August 27

REGISTRATION
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Simon Jeffery (co-chair), Paul Callanan (co-chair), Peter Gallagher, Felix Aharonian, Andrew Shearer, Mike Redfern, Gilly Clarke, Don Pollacco, Graham Harper, Neil Trappe, Ray Bates.