BOULDER-MUNICH II

Programme


MONDAY 1997 JULY 21

13.00Buffet Lunch

14.00 -
16.00
Session 1: Chair: Mike Barlow
=> IR spectroscopy <=
Peter Conti:IR spectroscopy of hot stars
Margaret Hanson:ZAMS O Stars
Janet Drew:Extreme mass loss signatures of massive young stellar objects
Alex Fullerton:High-resolution spectroscopy of hot supergiants in the near-IR
Paul Crowther:Quantatitive spectroscopy of Of supergiants in the near-IR

... Tea ...

16.15 -
18.00
Session 2
Paco Najarro:Quantitative IR-spectroscopy of hot stars observed by ISO
=> Magellanic matters <=
Alex de Koter:An empirical isochrone for very massive stars in R136a
[Phil Massey]:Star formation in R136a (presented by Peter Conti)
Nolan Walborn:Spectral Classification in the 30 Doradus and N11 Clusters:
Global Structures from the Ground and Compact Groups with HST
Sally Oey:Predicted O Star Lyc Emission vs. HII Region Luminosities in the LMC

18.15Cocktail Reception

19.15Dinner


TUESDAY 1997 JULY 22

8.15 Breakfast

9.00 -
10.45
Session 3: Chair: Simon Jeffery
=> OB stars in the Galaxy and beyond <=
Artemio Herrero:Spectral analysis of Galactic O stars
James McCarthy:Spectroscopy of Blue Supergiants in M31 and M33 with Keck HIRES
Kim Venn:A-supergiant abundances in the Local Group
Ilusion Monteverde-
Hernandez:
The stellar oxygen abundance gradient in M33

... Coffee ...

11.00 -
13.00
Session 4:
Philip Dufton:B-type stars as tracers of galactic abundance variations
=> Winds: models and observations <=
Rolf Kudritzki:Stellar-wind momentum in galaxies and a new parameterization of the radiative line force
Stan Owocki:Gravity-darkening effects in 2D wind models for rotating hot stars
Derck Massa:A UV survey of B supergiants: continuum properties
Raman Prinja:A UV survey of B supergiants: time-averaged stellar wind properties

13.10 Lunch

14.15 -
16.00
Session 5: Chair: Ian Howarth
Joachim Puls:Spectral diagnostics of blue stars with winds
Adi Pauldrach:Realistic models for expanding atmospheres
Uwe Springmann:Models of radiatively driven Wolf-Rayet star winds
Achim Feldmeier:An origin of X-rays from O stars

... Coffee ... and time to play croquet, take a walk, write a paper....

19.15 Dinner


WEDNESDAY 1997 JULY 23

8.15 Breakfast

9.00 -
10.45
Session 6: Chair: Antonella Nota
=> The WR connection <=
Bruce Bohannan:Physical Parameters of Ofpe/WN9 stars
Anna Pasquali:Asymmetry in the wind of Ofpe/WN9 stars
Nicole St-Louis:Evolutionary links between O and other massive stars in clusters
Allan Willis:The Neon Abundance in WC stars -- tests of massive star evolution theory

11.00 -
12.45
Session 7:
=> Model atmospheres <=
Ivan Hubeny:Non-LTE metal line-blanketed model atmospheres of hot stars
Daniel Schaerer:Line blanketed non-LTE atmospheres including stellar winds;
Ionizing fluxes for O stars and their impact on HII regions
Werner Schmutz:Non-LTE O star atmospheres with line blanketing and photon loss from the HeII 303 line
Sylvia Becker:Non-LTE line formation for iron-group elements in A supergiants

13.00 Lunch

14.15 -
16.00
Session 8: Chair: Ron Hilditch
=> Stirring it up <=
Andre Maeder:The physics of rotational mixing in massive stars
Norbert Langer:The evolution of surface parameters in rotating O stars
Georges Meynet:Massive star models with rotation: new numerical results
=> Double, double, toil and trouble <=
Doug Gies:O Stars in Binaries

... Tea ...

16.15 -
18.00
Session 9:
Tim Harries:Absolute parameters of O stars from binary studies
Laura Penny:Fundamental Parameters from O-Type Binaries
Lex Kaper:Stellar winds in High-Mass X-ray Binaries
Michelle Thaller:Mass-Loss Rates From H-Alpha Emission: a Caution in Binary Systems
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19.15 Conference Dinner


THURSDAY 1997 JULY 24

8.15 Breakfast

9.30 Coach leaves for UCL
POSTERS

Jason Aufdenberg Non-LTE line-blanketed atmosphere models of the early-B giants Epsilon and Beta CMa
Jean-Francois BertrandBig Game Hunting: Massive Binaries in 30 Doradus
Luc DessartQuantitative spectroscopy of massive stars in NGC3603 and R136
Simon JefferyDetection of companions to binary subdwarf B stars
Neil McErleanThe helium abundance in the atmospheres of blue supergiants
Tony MoffatKinematics and Photometry of O and WR Stars with HIPPARCOS
Antonella NotaLow-mass stellar content in 30 Doradus
Keith SmithHelium chemistry in O-type supergiants

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