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The Giant Branches |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 The time allocated to each talk includes 5 minutes for questions 09:30 09:45 Welcome (the organizers) The giant branches in the CMD and HRD (observations and theory) 09:45 10:15 Weiss:
Stellar evolution of RGB and AGB stars. Importance, features, uncertainties 10:15 10:45 Ferraro:
Observed Giant Branches: where, how, what, feature 10:45 11:15 Coffee
break 11:15 11:45 Cassisi: He-core mass evolution: theoretical
uncertainties 11:45 12:05 Marigo: Modelling the AGB: update from 12.05 12.25 Pols: AGB in binaries: their evolution and
remnants 12:25 13:30 Lunch 13:30 14:00 Soszynski: Variable RGB and AGB stars in the OGLE data 14:00 14:30 Wood:
Theoretical models of pulsating RGB and AGB stars 14:30 15:30 Short presentations (10 min.) about
Stellar model resources (Chaboyer, Weiss, Salaris/Cassisi,
Izzard, Charbonnel, Karakas) or working
session 15:30 16:00 Coffee
break 16:00 17:30 Discussion session: Weiss Comparison of pre-calculated models
("The Giants Challenge) 17:30 19:00 Wine & Cheese
party Tuesday, 12 May 2009 Chemical evolution (I) 09:00 09:30 Carretta: Observations of chemical evolution along
the RGB 09:30 09:50 Bragaglia: He-poor and He-rich stars in Globular
Clusters: a study of RGB stars in 19 Galactic GCs with FLAMES 09:50 10:20 Charbonnel: Mixing on the red giant branch:
Where do we stand? 10:20
10:50 Coffee break 10:50 11:20 Garcia-Berro: Chemical evolution of Super-AGB stars
11:20 11:40 Stancliffe: Evolution of ultra-metal-poor RGB and
AGB stars 11:40 12:10 Lebzelter: Chemical evolution along the AGB:
observations 12:10
13:10 Lunch
13:10 14:30 working session 14:30 15:00 Karakas:
Thermal pulses and third dredge up predictions: theoretical uncertainties 15:00 15:30 Romano:
AGB nucleosynthesis and galactic chemical evolution 15:30
16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 17:30 Discussion session: Izzard GC abundance anomalies: the AGB and super-AGB
connection Wednesday, 13 May 2009 Chemical evolution (II) 09:00 09:20 Uttenthaler: Elemental abundances of a sample of
Galactic Bulge AGB variables from CRIRES spectra 09:20
09:40 Palmerini: Li abundances due to non-convective
mixing in AGB stars 09:40
10:00 Smiljanic: Carbon isotopic ratios in giants of open
clusters 10:00
10:20 Decin: Chemistry in the envelopes around O-rich
evolved stars 10:20
10:50 Coffee break Envelopes and atmospheres (I) 10:50 11:20 Gustafsson: Calculations of theoretical model
atmospheres for RGB and AGB stars 11:20
11:40 Collet: Hydro-simulations of RGB envelopes 11:40
12:00 van Belle:
The Teff scale for RGB and AGB stars 12:00
12:20 Trampedach: Calibration of superadiabatic
convection in RGB and AGB models 12:20
13:30 Lunch Free afternoon 17:00 Boat trip with conference dinner on board Thursday, 14 May 2009 Envelopes and atmospheres (II) 09:00 09:30 Lederer: Molecular opacities for AGB modelling 09:30
10:00 Groenewegen: Predicted spectral properties of dusty
AGB stars Mass loss 10:00
10:30 Hoefner: Dust formation and winds: new models for
M-stars 10:30 11:00 Coffee break 11:00
11:30 Origlia: Empirical mass loss estimates: RGB 11:30 12:00 van Loon:
Empirical mass loss estimates: AGB 12:00
12:20 Matsuura:
Impact of AGB stars on gas and dust production in the local group galaxies 12:20 13:30 Lunch 13:30 15:00 Working session 15:00 15:30 Coffee break 15:30
16:00 Serenelli:
Initial-final mass relation for low-intermediate mass stars 16:00 17:30 discussion
session: Zijlstra Mass loss along
the RGB & AGB: HB morphology, He-WD, SN1.5 production Friday, 15 May 2009 Applications of the giant branches 09:20 09:50 Bellazzini: RGB and AGB in SSPs 09:50 10:20 Gallart: RGBs in
composite stellar populations 10:20
10:40 de Boer:
Probing the Star Formation History of old populations in Dwarf Spheroidals 10:40 11:10 Coffee
break 11:10 11:40 Salaris: RGB and AGB role in population synthesis
models 11:40 12:10 Peletier: Spectral libraries for cool stars 12:10 12:30 Marin-Franch: Fluctuation magnitudes and AGB
modelling 12:30
13:30 Lunch 13:30 14:00 Tolstoy:
Resolved stellar populations with the JWST and E-ELT 14:00
15:00 Concluding discussion End of
the workshop [Back] |
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