PRE-Registration list
There are 89 participants pre-registered :
Name |
Organization |
Title of presentation |
| Robi BANERJEE | University of Heidelberg, ITA | |
| Nate BASTIAN | Excellence Cluster, Munich | |
| Joanne BIBBY | American Museum of Natural History | Searching for Wolf-Rayet stars in M101 using the Hubble Space Telescope |
| David BOHLENDER | National Research Council of Canada | |
| Dominik BOMANS | Astronomical Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum | Massive variable stars at low metallicity |
| Alceste BONANOS | National Observatory of Athens, Greece | Fundamental Parameters of 4 Massive Eclipsing Binaries in Westerlund 1 |
| Jura BORISSOVA | Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile | New Galactic Star Clusters Discovered in the VVV Survey. |
| Guillermo BOSCH | UNLP & CONICET, Argentina | |
| Jonathan BRAITHWAITE | University of Bonn | Why do massive stars contain such weak magnetic fields? |
| Saida CABALLERO-NIEVES | Georgia State University | High Angular Resolution Observations of the Massive Stars in Cyg OB2 |
| Matteo CANTIELLO | Argelander Institute for Astronomy - Bonn | Turbulence and magnetic fields generated by subsurface convection in hot, massive stars. |
| Norberto CASTRO RODRIGUEZ | National Observatory of Athens, Greece | Blue Massive Stars Beyond the Milky Way |
| André-Nicolas CHENÉ | Universidad de Concepcion, Universidad de Valparaiso | Young stellar clusters in the VVV survey: Towards a better understanding of their early evolution |
| Discovery of a new Wolf-Rayet star using SAGE-LMC | ||
| Large-Scale Variability of Single Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars | ||
| Olivier CHESNEAU | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur | Dense circumstellar environments and binarity |
| Paul CROWTHER | University of Sheffield | EITHER (1) Surveys of Wolf-Rayet stars beyond the Local Group OR (2) Very Massive Stars and the Eddington Limit |
| Augusto DAMINELI | IAGUSP | The nature of the periodic events in eta Carinae: collapse of the wind-wind collision. |
| Ashkbiz DANEHKAR | Macquarie University | |
| Alexandre DAVID-URAZ | Université de Montréal | MOST : a powerful tool to reveal the true nature of the mysterious dust-forming Wolf-Rayet binary CV Ser |
| X-ray emitting B stars in the Great Carina Nebula: curiosity or new paradigm? | ||
| Ben DAVIES | University of Cambridge | Young open star clusters: keys to understanding massive stars |
| Antoine DE LA CHEVROTIÈRE | Université de Montréal | Detecting magnetic fields in Wolf-Rayet stars |
| Selma DE MINK | STScI | Properties of Young Massive Stars and the role of Rotation, Binary Interaction and Stellar Mergers |
| Sébastien DESFORGES | Université de Montréal | Short-term spectroscopic variability of WC9 stars |
| artan DOGANI | mr | |
| Laurent DRISSEN | Université Laval | Hyperspectral imagers for the study of massive stars nebulae |
| Vikram DWARKADAS | University of Chicago | Ionization-Gasdynamics Models and X-ray Spectra of Wind-Blown Nebulae around Massive Stars |
| Chris EVANS | UKATC | |
| Jackie FAHERTY | American Museum of Natural History | |
| Diego FALCETA-GONCALVES | University of Sao Paulo | |
| Ademola Emmanuel FALEGAN | Federal University of Technology,Akure,Nigeria | |
| Don FIGER | RIT | |
| Alex FULLERTON | STScI / HIA | |
| Marc GAGNE | West Chester University | An X-ray Survey of Colliding Wind Binaries |
| Douglas GIES | Georgia State University | Massive Binaries: Dynamical and Evolutionary Transformations |
| Jose GROH | Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy | |
| Erika GRUNDSTROM | Vanderbilt University | Optical Spectroscopy of the Be Star in the gamma-ray Binary PSR B1259-63 |
| Ted GULL | NASA/GSFC | Eta Carinae: an observational testbed for 3-D interacting wind modeling |
| Wolf-Rainer HAMANN | University Potsdam | WC stars and their role in the life cycle of massive stars |
| Vincent HÉNAULT-BRUNET | University of Edinburgh | |
| Anthony HERVÉ | université de Liège | A new X-ray spectral modeling tool and its first application to Zeta Puppis. |
| Christian HUMMEL | European Southern Observatory | |
| Graham KANAREK | Columbia University | A Deep NIR Survey for Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars |
| Lex KAPER | Astronomical Institute UvA | On the formation of massive stars |
| Amit KASHI | Technion - Israel | |
| NISHA KATYAL | Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), INDIA | |
| Rubab KHAN | Ohio State University, Columbus | Self-Obscured Dusty Massive Stars in Nearby Galaxies |
| Gloria KOENIGSBERGER | ICF, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | |
| Sebastien LEPINE | American Museum of Natural History | |
| Adriane LIERMANN | Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy | |
| Alex LOBEL | Royal Observatory of Belgium | Modeling the Asymmetrical Wind of the Massive LBV Binary MWC 314 |
| Oveis MAHMOUDI | Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch | |
| Christophe MARTAYAN | ESO | |
| Andrew MASON | The Open University | |
| Philip MASSEY | Lowell Observatory | The Wolf-Rayet Content of M33 |
| Jon MAUERHAN | IPAC/Caltech | Red Eyes on Wolf-Rayet Stars: New Discoveries in the Galaxy via Infrared Color Selection |
| Georges MEYNET | Geneva University | |
| Anthony MOFFAT | Université de Montréal | Pulsations of massive stars |
| Thierry MOREL | ULg, Liege, Belgium | Mixing in magnetic massive stars |
| Enrique MORENO MÉNDEZ | Argelander-Institut für Astronomie | |
| Nidia MORRELL | Las Campanas Observatory | |
| Ignacio NEGUERUELA | University of Alicante | |
| Joy NICHOLS | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | On the potential importance of studying X-ray emission line variability in OB stars |
| Lidia OSKINOVA | Potsdam University | X-ray emission from massive stars and what can we learn about stellar winds from it. |
| Fernando PENA | ICA-Saint Mary's University | p-mode evolution as a function of rotation |
| Andy POLLOCK | European Space Agency | The dazzling stories of WR140, WR25 and other X-ray colliding-wind binaries. |
| Charles PROFFITT | STScI/CSC | Observations of Boron Abundances in Rapidly Rotating Early-B Stars |
| Benedict RITCHIE | Open University, UK | |
| Carmelle ROBERT | Université Laval | UVIT Characteristics of Young Stellar Populations |
| Olivier SCHNURR | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam | The most massive stars |
| Michael SHARA | American Museum of Natural History | Surveys for Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Galaxy and the Local Group |
| B SHYLAJA | Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium | |
| Sergio SIMÓN-DÍAZ | Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain) | Macroturbulent broadening: a single-snapshot alternative to investigate stellar pulsations in Massive Stars? |
| Linda SMITH | Space Telescope Science Institute | Stellar Feedback at Low Metallicity: The Gas Dynamics of the Young SMC Cluster NGC 346 |
| Nathan SMITH | U. of Arizona | |
| Noam SOKER | Technion - Israel | |
| Nicole ST-LOUIS | Université de Montréal | Timeseries of High Resolution Linear Spectropolarimetric Observations of Wolf-Rayet Stars |
| Krzysztof STANEK | The Ohio State University | |
| Christiaan STERKEN | University Brussels | |
| Andrea STOLTE | Argelander Institut for Astronomy, Bonn | |
| Guy STRINGFELLOW | University of Colorado | Identification of New Galactic Candidate-LBVs and WR Stars from IR Spectroscopy |
| Sharanya SUR | Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Univ. of Heidelberg | |
| Yamina TOUHAMI | Georgia State University | A CHARA Array Survey of the Circumstellar Environments of Rapidly Rotating Be Stars |
| Resolving Circumstellar Disks of Be stars with The CHARA Array Interferometer | ||
| Karel A. VAN DER HUCHT | SRON-Utrecht | |
| Dany VANBEVEREN | Free University of Brussels | The formation and evolution of massive and very massive stars in dense stellar clusters |
| Jorick VINK | Armagh Observatory | Wind models for very massive stars up to 300 solar masses |
| Delia VOLPI | Royal Observatory of Belgium | Massive non-thermal radio emitters: new data and their modelling |
| Nolan WALBORN | Space Telescope Science Institute | The ONn Giants |
| New Spectroscopic Categories of Young O Stars from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey | ||
| Kerstin WEIS | Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum | LBV nebulae as tracers of stellar instabilities |
| Hans ZINNECKER | Deutsches SOFIA Institut, Univ. Stuttgart & NASA-Ames | Is massive star formation a scaled-up version of low-mass starformation? |
| David ZUREK | American Museum of Natural History |