About This Event

In this small workshop of about 60 participants, we discussed the topic of mass-loss return to galaxies and the resulting dust and metal enrichment process. As the title suggests, the focus of our workshop was:

1. The parameterizations of mass-loss rates and their basis on facts for both massive stars and intermediate mass stars.
2. The variations in mass loss due to quiescent/smooth, eruptive/episodic, or explosive processes and to the effects of binary companions.
3. How these parameterizations affect both theoretical modeling of stellar evolution and estimates for mass-loss return to galaxies from stellar populations.
4. The composition in dust, metals and total gas of the ejecta and how these are incorporated into dust and chemical evolution of galaxies.

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Mike Barlow
• William Blair
• Stephane Charlot
• Eli Dwek
• Jay Gallagher
• Susanne Hoefner
• Ciska Kemper
• Gillian Knapp
• Jacco van Loon
• Paola Marigo
• Phil Massey
• Maryam Modjaz
• Nathan Smith
• Rosie Wyse

Science Organizing Committee

• Martha Boyer
• Alex Fullerton
• Jason Kalirai
• Claus Leitherer
• Margaret Meixner, chair
• Nino Panagia
• Ben Sargent