Meeting Abstract
We are organizing a meeting to celebrate four decades of contributions of Professor Anthony F.J. Moffat to massive-star research. Since his first papers on open clusters in the early 70’s, Tony’s research interests have expanded in many directions to cover a multitude of aspects of massive stars. The meeting will encompass the following main subjects on which he has worked during his career:
| Young open star clusters: keys to understanding massive stars |
| Galactic structure and dynamics; runaway stars |
| Massive binaries: orbits, masses, mass-loss rates, binary frequency, colliding winds, dust formation |
| The most massive stars |
| The true nature of clumping in hot stellar winds and its consequences |
| Rotation and magnetic fields |
| Pulsations (e.g. MOST and soon BRITE-Constellation) |
| WR surveys (Galactic and extra-galactic) |
The Program Organizing Comittee will consider any proposed contributions but priority will be given to those that are related to the selected themes for this meeting.
Important Dates
| October 18, 2010 : | First Announcement and Web pre-registration opens |
| April 10, 2011 : | Deadline for early registration |
| April 15, 2011 : | Abstract submission deadline |
| May 16, 2011 : | Cancellation (with Registration fee reimbursement) deadline |
| May 16, 2011 : | Hotel reservation deadline |
| June 10, 2011 : | Deadline for late registration |
| July 11, 2011 : | Beginning of Scientific Meeting in the Honour of Anthony F.J. Moffat |
| July 15, 2011 : | End of Scientific Meeting in the Honour of Anthony F.J. Moffat |