Organizers: Adam Burrows (Princeton); Raffaella Margutti (Berkeley); Eliot Quataert (Princeton); Bernhard Muller (Monash Univ.)

Core-Collapse Supernova theory is on the cusp of a major revolution in its predictive power.  This sixty-year-old problem at the center of much of astrophysics and at the nexus of nuclear, particle, statistical, and gravitational physics is experiencing a qualitative jump in its ability to map progenitor star with explosion outcomes and products. This is in no small measure due to the recent improvements in computer codes and high-performance computing hardware. In parallel, with the advent of multiple time-domain surveys, observations of supernovae and their environments have accelerated exponentially, measurements of neutron star and stellar-mass black hole systems have become much more refined and information-rich, and measurements of supernova light curves and spectra are starting to yield a wide range of physical constraints on their progenitors.  Moreover, the recent LIGO gravitational-wave results are revealing new information on the black hole and neutron star mass functions, whose ultimate origin is in core-collapse supernova explosions. However, there is currently a disconnect between theorists and observers that has grown larger in the last decade. Therefore, the goal of this PCTS workshop is to bring together observers and theorists to inform each of the others recent progress and to forge new collaborations.  Without such a dialogue, the two communities will continue to work, as they have done for too long, disjointly and separately, to the detriment of the significant progress now possible.

Space is limited and registration will close when we reach full capacity.