Invited Speakers

  • Cathie Clarke (Cambridge, UK): Multiplicity at birth and how this impacts star formation
  • JJ Eldridge (Auckland, NZ): Population and spectral synthesis: it doesn't work without binaries!
  • Laurent Eyer (Geneva, CH): Gaia and the LSST and their importance for stellar astrophysics and binary star research
  • Francesco Ferraro (Bologna, Italy): The  physics of Blue stragglers: defining a dynamical clock for star clusters
  • Rob Izzard (Cambridge, UK): Binary population synthesis
  • David Jones (IAC, Spain): The importance of binarity in the formation and evolution of planetary nebulae
  • Pavel Kroupa (Bonn, Germany): The impact of binary systems on the determination of the stellar IMF
  • Norbert Langer (Bonn, Germany): Testing massive binary evolution models: a necessary challenge
  • Sara Lucatello (Padova, Italy): Extremely low-metallicity binaries
  • Michela Mapelli (Padova, Italy): The Maxwell's demon of star clusters, aka the impact of binaries on N-body system evolution
  • Robert Mathieu (Wisconsin, US): Binary Stars and Alternative Stellar Evolutionary Paths in Open Star Clusters
  • Max Moe (Arizona, US): Statistics of Binary / Multiple Stars
  • Gijs Nelemans (Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Waves
  • Ferdinando Patat (ESO): Type Ia Supernovae: where are they coming from and where will they lead us?
  • Onno Pols (Nijmegen, The Netherlands): Mysteries in the formation of chemically polluted binaries
  • Maurizio Salaris (Liverpool, UK): Low- and intermediate-mass star evolution: open problems
  • Hugues Sana (Leuven, Belgium): Binarity at high mass, many (futile) attempts to find genuine single stars
  • Nathan Smith (Steward Observatory, USA): The Luminous Blue Variable/WR connection and pre-SN evolution
  • Jennifer Sokoloski (Columbia, USA): Symbiotic stars
  • Else Starkenburg (Potsdam, Germany): Binaries and early Galactic chemical evolution
  • Nial Tanvir (Leicester, UK): Binary Interactions and Gamma-ray bursts
  • Ed van den Heuvel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands): Summary of the conference
  • Hans Van Winckel (Leuven, Belgium): Binary post-AGB stars as tracers of stellar evolution

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