Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution

Contribution List

1. Welcome and introductory remarks

Miguel A. Urbaneja

10/08/2026, 09:30

2. Episodic mass loss in evolved massive stars

Alceste Bonanos

10/08/2026, 10:00

3. Stellar Masses and Mass-Loss Rates: Challenges and Perspectives

Lydia Cidale, Michalis Kourniotis

10/08/2026, 14:30

4. Hydrodynamically Consistent Mass-Loss Rates for Very Massive Stars: Wind Physics, Stellar Evolution, and Cosmic Implications

Gautham Sabhahit

11/08/2026, 09:30

5. High-Velocity Absorption Events in the Atmospheres of Blue Supergiants

Olga Maryeva, Lydia Cidale, Anahi Granada

11/08/2026, 14:30

6. LBVs as binary evolution products: mergers and mass gainers

Nathan Smith

12/08/2026, 09:30

7. Discussion

12/08/2026, 14:30

8. Massive Stars as Extragalactic Probes of Cosmic Abundances and Distances

Rolf Kudritzki

13/08/2026, 09:30

9. Be stars as laboratories for angular-momentum and mass loss in rapidly rotating B stars

Anahi Granada, Lydia Cidale

13/08/2026, 14:30

10. A first version of FASTWIND-3D (soon available at request)

Jon Sundqvist, Lara Delbroek, Nicolas Moens

14/08/2026, 09:30

11. Does atmospheric turbulent pressure mean a doubling of the spectroscopic mass of the most massive stars?

Lara Delbroek, Jon Sundqvist, Nicolas Moens

14/08/2026, 10:00

12. Wrap up session

14/08/2026, 14:30

13. Welcome and introductory remarks

Sylvia Ekström

17/08/2026, 09:30

14. Winds and Evolution of Supergiants

Jorick Vink

17/08/2026, 10:00

15. Surface abundances of massive stars as tracers for mixing processes and angular momentum transport

Norbert Przybilla

17/08/2026, 14:30

29. Open questions regarding the origin and evolutionary impact of massive star magnetic fields

Gregg Wade, James Barron

18/08/2026, 09:30

17. Angular Momentum Loss and X-ray Emission in Massive Stars Winds: a short update

Asif ud-Doula

18/08/2026, 14:30

18. From Massive Binary Stars to Black Hole Systems: What Gravitational Waves and Gaia Reveal About massive star evolution?

Aleksandra Olejak

19/08/2026, 09:30

19. Spectrointerferometry as a tool to spatially resolve the winds, companions and interactions of massive stars

Abigail Frost

19/08/2026, 10:10

20. Discussion

19/08/2026, 14:30

21. Mass transfer in massive binaries

Norbert Langer

20/08/2026, 09:30

22. Chemical fingerprints of mass transfer in massive stars

Harim Jin

20/08/2026, 14:30

23. Improving the treatment of the outer regions of massive stars in evolution models

Thomas Voje

21/08/2026, 09:30

24. Wrap up session

21/08/2026, 14:30

25. Welcome and introductory remarks

Ashley Barnes

24/08/2026, 09:30

26. Is it really needed to jump from 5000 to 50000 OB-type stars to understand massive star evolution?

Sergio Simón-Díaz

24/08/2026, 10:00

27. N-body Interactions, Explosive Outflows, Feedback, and the Origin of Stellar Masses

John Bally

24/08/2026, 14:30

28. Mass, Multiplicity, and Massive-Star Evolution: Open Questions Across Environments

Jaime Villaseñor, Tomer Shenar

25/08/2026, 09:30

16. Mass and angular momentum assembly in the formation of massive stars

Rolf Kuiper, André Oliva

25/08/2026, 14:30

30. Bistability jumps

Matheus Bernini Peron

26/08/2026, 09:30

31. New clues on the TAMS location: implications for stellar models and the presence of binary products

Luca Sciarini, Abel de Burgos

26/08/2026, 10:10

32. Discussion

26/08/2026, 14:30

33. The interplay between angular momentum transport, tidal interactions, and internal mixing in close binaries

Sophie Rosu, Luca Sciarini

27/08/2026, 09:30

34. Stripped star masses as benchmark for stellar structure

Ylva Goetberg

27/08/2026, 14:30

35. Stripped-envelope stars across the mass ladder - where do we stand and what are we missing?

Andreas Sander

27/08/2026, 15:10

36. Two Clocks for Massive-Star Formation: The H II-Region Lifetime and ZAMS Problems

Paolo Padoan

28/08/2026, 09:30

37. Wrap up session

28/08/2026, 14:30

38. Welcome and introductory remarks

Sergio Simón-Díaz

31/08/2026, 09:30

39. The Formation and Feedback of Massive Stars Across Scales and Environments"

Ashley Barnes

31/08/2026, 10:00

40. Modeling the combined outflow from a dense cluster of stars with strong stellar winds

Stan Owocki

31/08/2026, 14:30

41. Massive stars in the early Universe: clues from globular cluster abundances and gravitational waves

Mark Gieles

01/09/2026, 09:30

42. Have we got a valid template for the low-Z Universe?

Ignacio Negueruela

01/09/2026, 14:30

43. Low-metallicity massive stellar populations as high-z analogues

Calum Hawcroft

01/09/2026, 15:10

44. Feedback from massive stars in star cluster and galaxy simulations

Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier

02/09/2026, 09:30

45. Candidate Intermediate-mass Black Hole Discovered in an Extremely Young Low-metallicity Cluster in a Nearby Tadpole Galaxy

Q. Daniel Wang

02/09/2026, 10:10

46. Discussion

02/09/2026, 14:30

47. The role of OB stars in the new era of Galactic cartography

Michelangelo Pantaleoni González

03/09/2026, 09:30

48. Massive runaway stars: an increasingly important tool for our understanding of OB stars

Mar Carretero-Castrillo

03/09/2026, 14:30

49. Helium enrichment in O-type stars: challenges from the observations of binaries

Carlos Martínez-Sebastián

03/09/2026, 15:10

50. The MUDEHaR potential: A discussion on Hα Time-domain Astronomy

Gonzalo Holgado

04/09/2026, 09:30

51. Improving Chemical Abundance Determinations in Early B-Type Stars.

Alba Casasbuenas

04/09/2026, 10:10

52. Wrap up session

04/09/2026, 14:30