M. A. Hendry (1), S. J. Smartt (2), R. M. Crockett (2), J. R. Maund (3), A. Gal-Yam (4 and 5), D.-S. Moon (6), S. B. Cenko (6), D. W. Fox (4), R. P. Kudritzki (7), C. R. Benn (8), R. Ostensen (8) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, (2) Department of Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK, (3) Astronomy Department, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, (4) Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, (5) Hubble Fellow, (6) Department of Physics and Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, (7) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, (8) Isaac Newton Group, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Espana)