Scientific Programme


Day 1, Monday 6 July (afternoon)
Slides
13:00 Registration    
14:00 Tim De Zeeuw
Welcome and Opening
 
14:10 SOC/LOC
Announcements
 
Session 1: Overview  (Chair: Liz Humphreys)
 
14:20 Albert Zijlstra (invited) Grand Overview
PDF
15:00 Eric Lagadec Summary of the Recent Physics of Evolved Stars Meeting
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15:20 Hans Olofsson (invited)
Radio/Mm/Submm Observations of AGB and RSG stars PDF
15:50 Break    
16:20 Roberta Humphreys (invited) RSGs and AGBs in the Optical and Infrared -- the Evidence
for Mass Loss, Circumstellar Ejecta and Episodic Events

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16:50 Leonardo Testi (invited) Mm and Submm Interferometry, Current & Future Capabilities  
17:20 Jean-Philippe Berger (invited) Optical Interferometry: Current & Future Capabilities PDF
17:50 Reception    
Day 2, Tuesday 7 July
Slides
Session 2: Stellar Evolution & Atmospheres (Chair: Markus Wittkowski)
 
09:00
Georges Meynet (invited) Some Open Questions on the Physics of Stars
PDF
09:40 Paola Marigo
Linking the Evolution of AGB Stars with the Molecular Chemistry in their Circumstellar Envelopes
 
10:00 Alain Jorissen
Atmospheric Tomography of Supergiant Stars

PDF

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MOVIE

10:20 Pierre Kervella (invited)
The Atmosphere of Red Supergiants at High Angular Resolution
 
10:50 Break    
11:20 Michael Gordon Yellow Supergiants: Unlocking the Mysteries of Post-RSG Evolution PDF
11:40 Ramiro De La Reza Complex Organic and Inorganic Compounds in Shells of Lithium-Rich K Giant Stars  
12:00 Benoit Mosser (invited)
Mixed Modes in Red Giants: a Window on Stellar Evolution
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12:30 Discussion on Stellar Evolution & Atmospheres  
13:00 Lunch  
Session 3: Mass Loss Mechanisms & Dust (Chair: Roberta Humphreys)
 
14:30 Susanne Hoefner (invited) Dynamical Atmospheres and Winds of AGB Stars: A Theorist's View PDF
15:00 Sara Bladh
How M-type AGB Stars Bite the Dust PDF
15:20 Theo Khouri Investigating the Wind-Driving Mechanism in R Doradus  
15:40 Ward Homan Analytical Morphological Models and an Application to the CW Leo ALMA Data
PDF
16:00 Break    
16:30 Graham Harper (invited) Testing Theoretical and Semi-Empirical Models of Red Supergiant Extended Atmospheres PDF
17:00 Claudia Paladini (invited) Surface Features with VLTI PDF
17:30 Xavier Haubois Probing the Inner Dust Shell of Betelgeuse with Polarimetric Interferometry PDF
17:50 Peter Scicluna
Large Dust Grains in RSG Winds: High-Contrast Polarimetric Observations of VY Canis Majoris  
Day 3, Wednesday 8 July
Slides
Session 3 Continued: Mass Loss Mechanisms & Dust (Chair: Alain Baudry)  
09:00 Anita Richards (invited)
Radio/Sub-mm Clues to the Origins of Asymmetries and Clumps
PDF
09:30 Eamon O'Gorman
Spatially Resolved Radio/mm Continuum Studies of Red Supergiants
PDF
09:50 Dinesh Shenoy
Probing Hypergiant Mass Loss with Adaptive Optics Imaging and Polarimetry in the Infrared PDF
10:10 Lynn Matthews Searching for Evidence of Mass Loss on the Cepheid Instability Strip ---
10:30 Discussion on Mass Loss Mechanisms and Dust  
11:00 Break  
Session 4: Binaries, Shells & Shaping (Chair: Leen Decin)
 
11:30 Orsola De Marco (invited) Binary Stars Across the Mass Spectrum; From Observations to Theory and Back PDF
12:10 Shazrene Mohamed
Shaping the Outflows of Evolved Stars
 
12:30 Michel Hillen
The First Milli-Arcsecond Image of a Post-AGB Binary: the Inner 10 AU of IRAS08544-4431
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12:50 Lunch    
14:30 Sofia Ramstedt (invited)
Winds and Circumstellar Morphology of Binary AGB Stars with ALMA PDF
15:00 Miguel Montarges
The Dusty Disk and Companion of L2 Puppis, the Nearest AGB Star, Observed with VLT/SPHERE
PDF
15:20 Foteini Lykou Shaping Nebulae via Disks in AGB Stars  
15:40 Break    
16:10 Henri Boffin (invited) Binary Stars - an Interferometric View PPTX
16:40 Sebastian Ohlmann
Hydrodynamic Simulations of Common Envelope Phases  
Session 5: Magnetic Fields (Chair: Vincent Icke)  
17:00 Agnes Lebre (invited)
Surface Magnetism of Cool and Evolved Stars: the Harvest from the Spectropolarimetric Instruments PDF
17:30 Posters Poster viewing with beer and brez'n  
Day 4, Thursday 9 July
Slides
09:00 Wouter Vlemmings (invited) Magnetic Fields in Evolved Stars: Theory & Radio/Submm Line Observations PDF
09:30 Laurence Sabin (invited) Detection of Magnetic Fields in Evolved Stars: From the Envelope to the Photosphere

PPTX

MOVIE

10:00 Alizee Duthu
Magnetic Fields in C-Rich Evolved Objects
KEY
10:20
Binaries and B-Fields Discussion
 
11:00 Break    
Session 6: Evolved Stars and the Cycle of Matter (Chair: Paola Marigo)
 
11:30 Iain McDonald (invited) How to Make and Break Dust Around Metal-Poor Stars  
12:10 Jonathan Mackey
Cold Gas in Hot Star Clusters: the Fate of Winds from Red Supergiants
PDF
12:30 Discussion on Evolved Stars and the Cycle of Matter
 
12:50 Group Photo    
13:00 Lunch    
Session 7: Evolutionary End Products, Planetary Nebulae (Chair: Jeremy Walsh)  
14:30 Joel Kastner (invited) Planetary Nebulae: a Contemporary (Multiwavelength) Perspective
 
15:10 Valentin Bujarrabal (invited) Molecular Line Observations of Planetary and Protoplanetary Nebulae: Keplerian Disks PDF
15:40 Daniel Tafoya Sub-millimeter Maser Emission from Water Fountain Nebulae KEY
16:00 Break    
16:30 Mark Hollands Ancient Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs PDF
16:50 Discussion on Planetary Nebulae (20 min)
 
19:00 Conference Dinner    
Day 5, Friday 10 July
Slides
Session 8: Evolutionary End Products, Supernovae (Chair: Jon Marcaide)  
09:00 Rubina Kotak (invited) Supernova Progenitors: Variations on a Theme
 
09:40 Mikako Matsuura (invited) Supernova 1987A  
10:10 Noam Soker
Nebulae Powered by a Central Explosion PDF
10:30 Break    
11:00 Santiago Gonzalez The Rise-Time of Type II Supernovae PDF
11:20 Discussion on Supernovae
 
Session 9: Closing (Chair: Orsola De Marco)  
11:40 Franz Kerschbaum (invited) Closing Remarks: Enriching STEPS in finding clues on complex giants
PDF
12:20 SOC/LOC Announcements  
12:30 End of Meeting