Program


Monday 6 June
From waves to winds: gas dynamics in evolved stars

Chair: Patricia Whitelock
14:00-14:30 Claudia Paladini The coolest (sur)faces we have seen so far in the infrared (invited)
14:30-14:50 Sofie Liljegren Pulsation properties of AGB star 3-D model grids
14:50-15:10 Markus Wittkowski VLTI/PIONIER imaging observations of the AGB star R Sculptoris
15:10-15:30 Sara Bladh Wind models of M-type AGB stars in the LMC
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Chair: Albert Zijlstra
16:00-16:30 Elizabeth Humphries AGB and RSG Stars: From the Radio to the Sub-mm (invited)
16:30-16:50 Eamon O'Gorman Long Baseline Radio Continuum Observations of Betelgeuse: Understanding Mass Loss in Red Supergiants
16:50-17:10 Benjamin Tessore Surface magnetic field detection in M-type supergiant stars: the non-uniqueness of Betelgeuse
17:10-17:30 Josef Hron The dynamic atmospheres of carbon rich giants - constraining models via interferometry

Tuesday 7 June
The circumstellar environment of cool giants and supergiants

Chair: Susanne Hoefner
14:00-14:30 Eric Lagadec The Circumstellar Environment of AGB stars and Supergiants (invited)
14:30-14:50 Leen Decin High spatial resolution studies of the winds of evolved stars
14:50-15:10 Ambra Nanni Constraining dust properties in Circumstellar Envelopes of C-stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: optical constants and grain size of carbon dust
15:10-15:30 Olivia Jones The dustiest AGB Stars and RSG in the Magellanic Clouds
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Chair: Martha Boyer
16:00-16:30 Shazrene Mohamed Modelling the interactions of cool giants with (sub)stellar companions: Implications for mass-transfer rates and outflow geometries (invited)
16:30-16:50 Alfonso Trejo-Cruz Dust-production rates of AGB stars in the Solar Neighborhood
16:50-17:10 Tina Güth A First Look at the Circumstellar Dust Composition of O-type Mira Variables observed with Spitzer
17:10-17:30 Miguel Montarges The optical interferometry view of convection in nearby red supergiants