PREFACE: 16th European White Dwarfs Workshop

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Jul 2009

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 172, Issue 1, pp. 011001 (2009).

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The 16th European Workshop on White Dwarfs was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 30 June to 4 July 2008 at the premises of the UPC. Almost 120 participants from Europe (France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, and several others), America (USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile), and other continents (Australia, South Africa, . . . ) attended the workshop. Among these participants were the most relevant specialists in the field. The topics covered by the conference were:
White dwarf structure and evolution Progenitors and Planetary Nebulae White dwarfs in binaries: cataclysmic variables, double degenerates and other binaries White dwarfs, dust disks and planetary systems Atmospheres, chemical composition, magnetic fields Variable white dwarfs White dwarfs in stellar clusters and the halo White Dwarfs as SNIa progenitors
The programme included 54 talks, and 45 posters. The oral presentations were distributed into the following sessions:
Luminosity function, mass function and populations White dwarf structure and evolution White dwarf ages White dwarf catalogs and surveys Central stars of planetary nebulae Supernovae progenitors White dwarfs in novae and CVs Physical processes in white dwarfs and magnetic white dwarfs Disks, dust and planets around white dwarfs Pulsating white dwarfs
Additionally we had a special open session about Spitzer and white dwarfs.
The Proceedings of the 16th European Workshop on White Dwarfs are representative of the current state-of-the-art of the research field and include new and exciting results. We acknowledge the very positive attitude of the attendants to the workshop, which stimulated very fruitful discussions that took place in all the sessions and after the official schedule. Also, the meeting allowed new collaborations tp start that will undoubtedly result in significant advances in the research field. We also acknowledge the willingness of the participants to deliver their contributions before the final deadline. We sincerely thank them.
The white dwarf community has been steadily growing since the first white dwarf workshop, held in Kiel (Germany) in 1974. Some of the participants in the first colloquium have already effectively retired; others - although officially retired - continue to attend successive workshops, Professor Weidemann, one of the first organizers, being a leading example. We hope we will be able to continue counting on them for many years. A very graphical view of the evolution of the field can be found in the homepage of Professor Detlev Koester, who has collected pictures of almost all the previous workshops:.
Additionally, several astronomers coming from related fields have joined our (not so) small community. Most importantly, several generations of young scientists gave their first talks in these workshops. In summary our community is an active one, and we have close, durable and solid ties of friendship. We are optimistic and we foresee that the spirit of the previous workshops will continue in future editions.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to our sponsors: The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC), the Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ajuntament de Barcelona, the School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona and UPCnet.
Finally, the IEEC staff and our graduate students have enthusiastically supported the organization of the workshop in every single detail; without them we would have not succeeded. We thank them especially. Also, we acknowledge the task of the Scientific Organizing Committee, which gave their full support in all the scientific tasks.
Enrique García-Berro, UPC Margarida Hernanz, ICE (CSIC) Jordi Isern, ICE (CSIC) Santiago Torres, UPC Editors
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