==================================================== Title: "Theoretical Studies of Superluminous Supernovae" Dr. Manolis Chatzopoulos The University of Texas at Austin, USA ===================================================== When: Wednesday, August 7 at 1:00 p.m. Where: 2nd Floor Seminar Room ===================================================== Abstract: The past decade Texas astronomers discovered the brightest supernovae ever observed, the so called Superluminous Supernovae. Significant progress has been made ever since in understanding the nature and origin of these exceptional manifestations of violent stellar death. I will summarize the theoretical advances we have done here in UT Astronomy in understanding the nature of these events and their explosion mechanisms. These advances involved the development of analytical models that fit the light evolution from these events as well as sophisticated numerical simulations performed in the Texas Advanced Computing Center Ranger and Stampede supercomputers.