Scientific Program
This Joint
Discussion will be held over a full day on August
16, 2006 and will consist of invited talks, as well
as oral and poster contributions. The format of the
meeting will allow for plenty of opportunities for
discussion and interactions between the
participants. We expect about 100
participants.
Schedule:
| 09:00
– 09:10 |
Claus Leitherer |
Welcome and Overview |
| 09:10
– 09:35 |
Tony Moffat |
Keplerian Masses for the Most
Massive Stars |
| 09:35
– 10:00 |
Alceste Bonanos |
Massive Extragalactic
Eclipsing Binaries |
| 10:00
– 10:15 |
Goetz Graefener |
The Masses of Late-Type WN
Stars |
| 10:15
– 10:30 |
Onno Pols |
Inflation of Luminous
Metal-Rich WR Stars |
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| 11:00
– 11:25 |
Artemio Herrero |
Spectroscopic versus
Evolutionary Masses |
| 11:25
– 11:50 |
Stan Owocki |
Mass Loss and
the Eddington Limit |
| 11:50
– 12:05 |
Ted Gull |
The Ejecta of h
Car |
| 12:05
– 12:20 |
Schuyler Van Dyk |
Extragalactic h
Car Analogs |
| 12:20
– 12:30 |
Participants |
Short Presentations |
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| 02:00
– 02:25 |
Sally Oey |
Upper Mass Limit in Young
Star Clusters |
| 02:25
– 02:40 |
Fabrice Martins |
Massive Stars in the Central
pc of the Galaxy |
| 02:40
– 03:05 |
Pavel Kroupa |
High-Mass
IMF in Different Environments |
| 03:05
– 03:30 |
Georges Meynet |
Stellar Evolution with
Rotation |
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| 04:00
– 04:15 |
Lev Yungelson |
Evolutionary Models for
Supermassive Stars |
| 04:15
– 04:40 |
Daniel Schaerer |
Properties
of Massive Metal-Free Stars |
| 04:40
– 05:30 |
Participants |
General Discussion |
The SOC encourages
everybody interested in this Joint Discussion to contact
us with suggestions and questions.
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