STScI's 1998 May Symposium will be devoted to the topic of: "Unsolved Problems in Stellar Evolution". All aspects of stellar evolution, from birth to death, will be discussed, with an emphasis on important open questions.
Topics covered in invited talks will include:
Star Formation
Pre Main Sequence Evolution
The Initial Mass Function
Brown Dwarfs
Young Stellar Objects
The Mass-Luminosity Relation
Convection and Rotation
The Solar Neutrino Problem
Evolution to Red Giants
The Importance of Input Physics and Parameters to Models
Evolution of Binaries
Mass Loss
Abundance Anomalies
Blue Stragglers
Planetary Nebulae
White Dwarfs
Supernovae
Pulsars
Black Holes
The Role of Binaries in Star Formation
Asteroseismology
The Ages of Globular Clusters
Pulsars
Science Results for Stellar Structure and Evolution from Hipparchos
Type Ia Supernovae, What Are They?
Confirmed invited speakers include:
E. Salpeter
F. Shu
S. Stahler
B. Elmegreen
J. Liebert
J. Najita
E. Churchwell
J. Andersen
J. Toomre
J. Bahcall
P. Eggleton
A. Maeder
P. Podsiadlowski
R. Kudritzki
L.A. Willson
C. Pilachowski
M. Mateo
H. Bond
D. Winget
S. Woosley
R. Narayan
I. Iben Jr.
I. Bonnell
T. Brown
A. Renzini
S. Thorsett
Y. Lebreton
M. Livio
M. Bobrowsky (presenting Chris Skinner's work)