Programme
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Monday
08:1509:00 Registration
09:0009:30 Welcome
09:3010:00 Coffee break
Session 1: Stellar winds, diagnostics across the electromagnetic spectrum
Chair: Gustavo Romero (Villa Elisa)
10:0010:40 Theory of stellar winds - Stan Owocki (Delaware)
10:4011:20 UV, optical and near-IR diagnostics of massive stars - Fabrice Martins (Montpellier)
11:2011:40 3-D radiative transfer modeling of structured winds in massive hot stars with Wind3D - Alex Lobel (Brussels)
11:4012:00 A proper description of clumping in hot star winds: The key to obtaining reliable mass-loss rates? - Jon Sundqvist (Munich)
12:0013:45 Lunch
13:4514:25 X-rays, clumping and wind structures - Linda Oskinova (Potsdam)
14:2515:05 Radio observations of massive stars - Ronny Blomme (Brussels)
15:0515:25 Massive stars in polarized light - Jennifer Hoffman (Denver)
15:2515:45 Is macroturbulent broadening in OB supergiants related to pulsations? - Sergio Simon-Diaz (La Laguna)
15:4516:10 Coffee break and poster session
16:1016:30 Mass loss from the most massive stars: a multi-wavelength view on the central part of 30 Dor - Götz Gräfener (Armagh)
16:3016:50 The most luminous stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds - Wolf-Rainer Hamann (Potsdam)
16:5017:10 Pulsations in Wolf-Rayet stars: observations with MOST - André-Nicolas Chené (Herzberg)
17:1017:30 General X-ray properties of hot, massive stars - Yaël Nazé (Liège)
17:3018:00 General discussion Session 1 - Coord: Joachim Puls (Munich)
18:30: Reception at the Tower Hall (offered by the city of Liège)
Tuesday
Session 2: Massive star formation, confronting theory and observation
Chair: You-Hua Chu (Urbana)
09:0009:40 Long-wavelength (mid-IR to mm) studies of massive star formation - Henrik Beuther (Heidelberg)
09:4010:00 The radiation pressure barrier in the formation of massive stars - Rolf Kuiper (Heidelberg)
10:0010:20 Evidence for disks around young high-mass stars - Rolf Chini (Bochum)
10:2010:50 Coffee break and poster session
10:5011:30 The multi-wavelength view of massive star formation in massive clusters) - Hans Zinnecker (Potsdam)
11:3011:50 Multiple populations of massive (proto-)stars in cluster forming complexes - Simon Clark (Milton Keynes)
11:5012:10 Physical properties and evolutionary stages of massive young stellar objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Rosie Chen (Charlottesville)
12:1013:50 Lunch
13:5014:30 Poster viewing session
14:3014:50 A near IR imaging survey of high and intermediate-mass young stellar outflow candidates - Suzanne Ramsay (ESO)
14:5015:20 General discussion Session 2 - Coord: Allan Willis (London)
Session 3: Evolution and interaction of massive stars with their environment
Chair: Kerstin Weis (Bochum)
15:2016:00 Evolution of single massive stars with special emphasis on the LBV and RSG phase - Georges Meynet (Genève)
16:0016:30 Coffee break and poster session
16:3016:50 Mixing of CNO-cycled matter in massive stars - Norbert Przybilla (Bamberg)
16:5017:10 Rotational mixing in massive stars, more puzzling than ever! - Ines Brott (Utrecht)
17:1017:30 Evolution of massive Be and Oe stars at low metallicity towards the long gamma-ray bursts - Christophe Martayan (ESO)
17:3017:50 The supergiant sequence in Westerlund 1 and the nature of B hypergiants - Ignacio Negueruela (Alicante)
17:5018:10 A hidden population of massive stars with circumstellar shells discovered with the Spitzer Space Telescope - Stefanie Wachter (Pasadena)
18:3020:00 Visit of the AMOS workshops and reception (offered by AMOS)
Wednesday
09:0009:40 Feedback from massive YSOs and massive main-sequence stars - You Hua Chu (Urbana-Champaign)
09:4010:00 A multi-dimensional study of circumstellar nebulae around massive stars - Allard Jan van Marle (Leuven)
10:0010:20 A search for ejecta nebulae around Wolf-Rayet stars using the SHS Hα survey - David Stock (London)
10:2010:50 Coffee break and poster session
10:5011:30 Circumstellar Matter around evolved massive stars - Nathan Smith (Berkeley)
11:3011:50 The nebulae around LBVs: a multi-wavelength approach - Grazia Umana (Catania)
11:5012:20 General discussion Session 3 - Coord: Nicole St-Louis (Montréal)
12:2013:20 Lunch (sandwiches)
13:2018:10 Excursions or free afternoon
Thursday
Session 4: Future instrumentations and their application to massive star's research
Chair: Jean-Pierre Swings (Liège)
09:0009:40 Massive star research within the ELT era - Chris Evans (Edinburgh)
09:4010:00 Spectroscopic madness – a golden age for amateurs - Thomas Eversberg (Bonn)
10:0010:20 Studying massive stars with the International X-ray Observatory - Gregor Rauw (Liège)
10:2010:45 Coffee break and poster session
10:4511:00 General discussion Session 4 - Coord: Jean-Pierre Swings (Liège)
Session 5: Massive binaries: interaction and evolution
Chair: Michaël De Becker (Liège)
11:0011:40 Signatures of binary evolution processes in massive stars - Dany Vanbeveren (Brussels)
11:4012:00 The role of rotation on the evolution of massive stars in close binaries - Selma de Mink (Utrecht)
12:0014:00 Lunch
14:0014:40 Poster viewing session
14:4015:00 Solving light curves of WR + O binaries: a regularization approach - Igor Antokhin (Moscow)
15:0015:20 massive are the most massive stars? - Olivier Schnurr (Potsdam)
15:2015:50 Coffee break and poster session
15:5016:30 Theoretical models of interacting winds in massive binaries - Julian Pittard (Leeds)
16:3016:50 Multiwavelength study of the runaway binaries HD14633 and HD15137 - Virginia McSwain (Lehigh University)
16:5017:10 Understanding the non-thermal emission arising in the massive O-star binary Cyg OB2 #5 - Sean Dougherty (DRAO)
17:1017:50 Results of the 2009 multi-wavelength campaign on eta Carinae - Mike Corcoran (GSFC)
17:5018:10 Multi-wavelength diagnostics of massive binary interaction in eta Carinae - Jose Groh (Bonn)
19:00: Conference Dinner at the Société Littéraire
Friday
09:0009:40 Results of the 2009 multi-wavelength campaign on WR140 - Peredur Williams (Edinburgh)
09:4010:00 3D modelling of massive star binary systems eta Carinae, WR22 and WR140 - Ross Parkin (Liège)
10:0010:30 Coffee break and poster session
10:3010:50 Cygnus OB2 : a laboratory for massive binaries, runaway stars, and triggered star formation - Chip Kobulnicky (Laramie)
10:5011:10 Multiplicity of O-type stars in the young open cluster NGC2244 and the Mon OB2 association - Laurent Mahy (Liège)
11:1011:30 The massive binary population of the starburst cluster Westerlund 1 - Benedict Ritchie (Milton Keynes)
11:3012:00 General discussion Session 5 - Coord: Margaret Hanson (Cincinnati)
12:0012:30 Concluding remarks - Doug Gies (Atlanta)