Programme | IAUS 329

List of participants – as at 28 November

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SUNDAY
4 – 6pm	Registration Open	(Lobby, Spencer on Byron Hotel)
6 – 7.30pm	Welcome Reception	(Library Bar, Spencer on Byron Hotel)

MONDAY
8.15-9.15	Registration Open	(Spencer Ballroom, Level 1)
9.15-9.30	Welcome and Mihi Whakatau
9.30-10.10	Georges Meynet	Overview of recent developments in stellar theory and supernovae
10.10-10.30	Fed Bianco	Invited: Difference between Iib/Ib/Ic/Ic-BL
10.30-11	Morning coffee break
11.00-11.20	Bernhard Muller	Invited: Core-collapse SNe modelling – how many ways can you explode a star?
11.20-11.40	Desmond John Hillier	Invited: Quantitative spectroscopy of supernovae
11.40-11.55	Kenichi Nomoto	Radiation Hydrodynamics of Type I Superluminous Supernovae: Constraints on Progenitors and Explosion Mechanisms
11.55-12.10	Christina Thöne	SN 2015bh: an LBV becomes NGC 2770s forth SN… or not?
12.10-12.25	Xiao Lin	Emission-line diagnostics of Nearby HII Regions including Supernova host
12.25-12.40	Maria Drout	Probing the Extremes of Pre-SN Mass Loss with the PanSTARRS1 Medium-Deep Survey
12.40-14.00	Catered Lunch
14.00-14.20	Melina Bersten	Invited: Modelling the SN and progenitors
14.20-14.40	Morgan Fraser	Invited: Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae
14.40-15.00	Jose Groh	Invited: Spectroscopic evolution of supernova progenitors
15.00-15.15	Nathan Smith	Challenges to stellar evolution from LBVs, SN Impostors, and Supernovae with Dense CSM
15.15-15.30	Philipp Podsiadlowski	Binary Evolution and the Final Fate of Massive Stars
15.30-16.10	Afternoon tea
16.10-16.25	Jennifer Hoffman	Reconstructing the Scene: New Views of Supernovae and Progenitors from the SNSPOL Project
16.25-16.40	Emma Beasor	The evolution of red supergiants to supernovae
16.40-16.55	Athira Menon	The quest for blue supergiants: Binary merger models for the evolution of the progenitor of SN 1987A
16.55-17.10	Norhasliza Yusof	Very Massive Stars at Different Metallicities
17.10-17.25	Claudia Agliozzo	The mass-loss before the end: two luminous blue variables with a collimated stellar wind
17.25-17.40	Thomas Ertl	The progenitor-remnant connection of neutrino-driven supernovae across the stellar mass range

TUESDAY
9.00-9.20	Sergio Simon-Diaz	Invited: Multi Epoch views of massive stars
9.20-9.40	Jim Fuller	Invited: Asteroseismology of massive stars
9.40-10.00	Gregg Wade	Invited: Magnetic fields in massive stars
10.00-10.15	Matthew Shultz	Rotation, Evolution, Magnetic Fields, and Emission: Results from the First Population Study of Magnetic Early B-type Stars
10.15-10.30	Maria del Mar Rubio	Re-examining the upper mass limit of stars using an isolated ~140 Msun twin of R136’s WNh5 core stars
10.30-11.10	Morning coffee break
11.10-11.25	Jesús Maíz Apellániz	Gaia and spectroscopic surveys of O stars: the solar neighborhood in 6-D
11.25-11.40	Mary Oksala	The evolution of magnetic fields in hot stars
11.40-11.55	Bram Buysschaert	Magneto-asteroseismology of hot stars
11.55-12.10	Lidia Oskinova	X-ray diagnostics of massive star winds
12.10-12.25	Douglas Gies	Taking the Measure of Massive Stars and their Environments with the CHARA Array Long-baseline Interferometer
12.25-14.30	Long Lunch Break to explore (uncatered)
14.30-14.50	Maria-Fernanda Nieva	Invited: High accuracy quantitative spectroscopy in the Galaxy
14.50-15.10	Rodlofo Barba	Invited: OWN, a survey of O and WR stars
15.10-15.30	Keiichi Ohnaka	Invited: Resolving the mass loss from red supergiants by high angular resolution
15.30-15.45	Philip Massey	The Red Supergiant Content of the Local Group
15.45-16.00	Peter Scicluna	A high-contrast imaging survey of nearby red supergiants
16.00-16.40	Afternoon tea
16.40-16.55	Rainer Hainich	The metallicity dependence of WR winds
16.55-17.10	Kathryn Neugent	The Evolutionary Status of WN3/O3 Wolf-Rayet Stars

SPLINTER	SESSION
18.00-18.12	Peter Kretschmar	Studying Stellar Winds in Massive X-ray Binaries
18.12-18.24	Yaël Nazé	X-rays from colliding winds in massive binaries
18.24-18.36	Kenji Hamaguchi	Origin of Extremely Hard X-ray Emission from Eta
18.36-18.48	Norbert Schulz	X-ray Emission from Massive Stars at the Core of
18.48-19.00	Chris Russell	Modeling the Chandra observations of the Galactic Center
19.00-19.12	Corinne Fletcher	Investigating the Magnetospheres of Rapidly
19.12-19.24	Grigoris Maravelias	Hα imaging for BeXBs in the Small Magellanic Cloud
19.24-19.36	Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein	A Candidate Red Supergiant X-ray Binary in M31

WEDNESDAY
9.00-9.20	Saida Caballero-Nieves	Invited: The Young and the Massive: Stars at the upper end of the Initial Mass Function
9.20-9.40	Hugues Sana	Invited: Multiplicity of massive stars
9.40-10.00	Konstantin Postnov	Invited: Progenitors of the black-hole binary mergers detected by LIGO
10.00-10.15	Herbert Pablo	The Most Massive Heartbeat : Finding the Pulse of Iota Orionis
10.15-10.30	Augusto Damineli	Eta Carinae A: a star with a hole
10.30-11.30	Morning coffee break and poster session sponsored by CAASTRO
11.30 onwards	Optional afternoon excursion (or free afternoon) and packed lunch

THURSDAY
9.00-9.20	Cyril Georgy	Invited: Evolution models of red supergiants
9.20-9.40	Stephen Justham	Invited: Massive Binary Stars
9.40-10.00	Natalia Ivanova	Invited: Common envelope: progress and transients
10.00-10.15	Wolf-Rainer Hamann	Massive stars in advanced evolutionary stages, and the potential progenitors of GW150914
10.15-10.30	Carolina Sabín-Sanjulián	Properties of the O dwarf population in 30 Doradus
10.30-11.10	Morning coffee break
11.10-11.25	Kyle Augustson	The Magnetic Furnace: Intense Core Dynamos in B Stars
11.25-11.40	Andrea Cristini	3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Carbon Shell in a Massive Star
11.40-12.00	Götz Gräfener	Invited: Clumping in stellar winds and interiors
12.00-12.20	Andreas Sander	Invited: Recent advances in NLTE stellar atmosphere models
12.20-12.35	Yanfei Jiang	3D Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Massive Star Envelopes at the Iron Opacity Peak
12.35-12.50	Christopher Bard	Effect of a Dipole Magnetic Field on Massive Star Line-Driven Winds
12.50-13.30	Lunch break (uncatered)
13.30-14.30	Data poetry workshop
14.30-14.45	Christiana Erba	New Insights into the Puzzling P-Cygni Profiles of Massive Magnetic Stars
14.45-15.00	Jeremiah Murphy	The Spatial Distribution of Massive Stars and Stellar Evolution
15.00-15.15	Ylva Louise Linsdotter Goetberg	The Elusive Population of Massive Binary Star Products: the far UV Spectra of Stripped Stars
15.15-15.30	Zsolt Keszthelyi	The evolution of magnetic hot massive stars: implementation of the quantitative influence of surface magnetic fields in modern models of stellar evolution
15.30-15.45	Matteo Cantiello	The Stellar Ultrasound
15.45-16.00	Liam McClelland	Helium stars: Towards an understanding of Wolf-Rayet evolution
16.00-16.30	Afternoon tea
16.30-17.00	Discussion led by Nathan Smith and Jose Groh
19.00-21.00	Conference Dinner

FRIDAY
9.30-9.50	André-Nicolas Chené	Invited: Massive infrared clusters in the Milky Way
9.50-10.10	Ignacio Negureruela	Invited: Massive Stars in Galactic Clusters
10.10-10.30	Jorick Vink	Invited: The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey
10.30-11.10	Anti-hangover coffee break
11.10-11.25	Francisco Najarro	The Massive stellar population at the Galactic Center
11.25-11.40	Paul Crowther	The Tarantula as a template for extragalactic star forming regions from VLT/MUSE
11.40-12.00	Miguel Urbaneja	Invited: Extragalactic supergiants
12.00-12.20	Elizabeth Stanway	Invited: What Distant Galaxies can tell us about Massive Stars”
12.20-12.40	Artemio Herrero & Miriam Garcia	Invited: Winds of low metallicity OB stars
12.40-14.00	Catered lunch
14.00-14.15	Claus Leitherer	The II Zw 40 Supernebula: 30 Doradus on Steroids
14.15-14.30	Linda Smith	The Very Massive Star Content of the Nuclear Star Clusters in NGC 5253
14.30-14.45	Benjamin Davies	Red Supergiants as Cosmic Abundance Probes
14.45-15.00	Seppo Mattila	An extremely energetic supernova in the nucleus of a merging system of galaxies
15.00-15.30	Afternoon tea
15.30-16.00	Emily Levesque
16.00-16.10	Conference close