IAU 250

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The following are the assignments given out to the graduate students + Allard-Jan for the Hawaii meeting.

Contents 1 Topics 2 Monday Talks 3 Tuesday Talks 4 Wednesday Talks 5 Thursday Talks 6 Friday Talks

Topics

Name	Topic A	Topic B
Mary	New observational studies of massive stars (Spitzer, FUSE, GALEX, Chandra, XMM, VLT, Subaru, Gemini)	Massive Star interactions with ISM; wind-blown bubbles, feedback and superwinds; the role of massive stars versus AGN
Tom	Colliding wind effects in massive binaries, dust formation	Formation of Population III stars, re-ionization and early enrichment
Nurdan	Nucleosynthesis in massive stars and their role in the early chemical evolution of galaxies	Massive star evolution of single and binary stars, including rotation and magnetic fields, dependence on metallicity
Chris	Core-collapse SN, Gamma Ray Bursts, and their host galaxies at high redshift	Massive Stellar populations in the Local Group and beyond, Super Star Clusters and Starbursts
Allard-Jan	New theoretical atmospheric developments (clumping, porosity, magnetic fields)	Stellar populations in high redshift galaxies selected at optical, infrared and sub-mm wavelengths

Monday Talks

Time	Title	Speaker	Name
	X-ray Emission from O stars	David Cohen	Allard-Jan
	Physical and wind properties of OB stars	Joachim Puls	Allard-Jan
	The metallicity dependence of the mass-loss rate of early-type massive stars	Alex de Koter	Nurdan
	Properties of Wolf-Rayet stars	Paul Crowther	Nurdan
	WR wind models from hydrodynamic model atmospheres	Gotz Grafener	Allard-Jan
	LBVs: Mass loss close to the Eddington limit	Stan Owocki	Allard-Jan
	Pulsation-initiated mass loss in LBVs - a parameter study	Andrew Onifer	Allard-Jan
	What do we really know about massive star winds?	John Hillier	Tom
	The physical properties of Red Supergiants	Phil Massey	Allard-Jan
	The evolutionary state of the cool hypergiants	Roberta Humphreys	Allard-Jan
	Massive binaries	Tony Moffat	Tom
	3D SPH simulations of colliding winds in Eta Car	Atsuo Okazaki	Tom

Tuesday Talks

Time	Title	Speaker	Name
	Development in physics of massive stars	George Meynet	Nurdan
	Can pulsational instabilities impact a massive star's rotational evolution	Richard Townsend	Nurdan
	Close binary evolution	Norbert Langer	Nurdan
	The effect of massive binaries on stellar populations and supernova progenitors	John Eldridge	Nurdan
	Core-collapse supernovae: Physics and Observations	Adam Burrows	Chris
	Episodic mass-loss and pre-SN circumstellar envelopes	Nathan Smith	Chris
	The progenitor stars of core-collapse supernovae	Stephen Smartt	Chris
	Magnetars: Massive star progenitors	Bryan Gaensler	Mary
	Can very massive stars avoid pair-instability SN?	Sylvia Ekstrom	Chris
	Long GRBs - core-collapse SN connection	Andrew MacFayden	Chris
	The nature of GRB progenitors: observational constraints	Kris Stanek	Allard-Jan
	Stellar evolustion at low metallicity	Raphael Hirschi	Nurdan
	Evolution of progenitor stars in Type Ib/c SN and long GRBs	Sung-Chul-Yoon	Nurdan

Wednesday Talks

Time	Title	Speaker	Name
	Young massive cluster	Don Figer	Chris
	Properties of massive stars in the Galactic center	Fabrice Martins	Chris
	Metallicity studies of massive stars in the infrared: unveiling obscured clusters of our Galaxy	Paco Najarro	Nurdan
	Massive stars in nuclei and arms of spiral galaxies	Fabio Bresolin	Chris
	UCHII regions and newly born O-type stars	Peter Conti	Nurdan
	The effects of N-body stellar dynamics on the early evolution of the massive star population of dense star clusters	Dany Vanbeveren	Chris
	Massive stars in dwarf and irregular galaxies	Eva Grebel	Chris
	Westerland 1 as a template for massive star evolution	Ignacio Negueruela	Chris
	One hundred 30 Dor's - is the Milky Way different or are we somehow missing them?	Margaret Hanson	Mary

Thursday Talks

Time	Title	Speaker	Name
	Individual massive stars in external galaxies	Rolf Kudritzki	Mary
	VLT surveys of WR populations in spiral galaxies M83 and NGC 1313	Lucy Hadfield	Mary
	The evolution of the circumstellar and interstellar medium around massive stars	Jane Arthur	Mary
	Bubbles and super-bubbles: Theory and observations	You-Hua Chu	Mary
	Spitzer and ISO observations for studying the mass-loss histories and wind-wind interactions of massive stars with circumstellar nebulae	Pat Morris	Mary
	Massive star feedback: Starbursts and superwinds	Mike Dopita	Tom
	Massive stars, super star clusters and feedback in starbursts	Jay Gallagher	Allard-Jan
	Gemini IFU observations of Galactic outflows in starburst galaxies	Linda Smith	Allard-Jan
	Nucleosynthesis: role of massive stars	Francesca Matteucci	Nurdan
	Detailed nucleosynthesis yields from the explosions of massive stars	Carla Frohlich	Nurdan

Friday Talks

Time	Title	Speaker	Name
	Massive stars as tracers of z= 1-5 galaxies	Max Pettini	Tom
	Radiative feedback in starburst galaxies	Sally Oey	Mary
	Star-forming galaxies at z greater than 5	Yoshiaki Taniguchi	Tom
	Massive star populations in z = 3-7 starbursts	Daniel Schaerer	Tom
	Core-collapse supernovae as dust producers in the early Universe	Rubina Kotak	Tom
	Gamma-Ray Bursts as probes of high-z galaxies	Johan Fynbo	Tom
	Probing the ISM and stellar environments of GRB host galaxies	Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky	Mary
	The connection between GRBs and extremely metal-poor stars as a nucleosynthesis probe of the early universe	Ken'ichi Nomoto	Tom
	The first stars	Volker Bromm	Tom
	Imprint of the first stars era in the cosmic IR background fluctuations	Alexander Kashlinsky	Tom
	Imaging and spectroscopy with the JWST	George Sonneborn	Mary
	E-ELT	Sandro D'Odorico	Mary