MUNICHFEST2025 program
See also a more compact version (the week at a glance) in the conference timetable
| Start | End | Sun. April 6 - DAY 0 | |
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| 18:00 | 19:30 | Registration and welcome | |
| Start | End | Speaker | Mon. April 7 - DAY 1 |
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| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration | |
| 9:00 |
9:20 |
Opening, welcome and logistics | |
Sessions 1+2: Radiation driven winds + stellar atmosphere/wind modelling |
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| 09:20 | 10:00 | Puls | Radiation driven winds (Keynote talk) |
| 10:00 |
10:20 |
Krticka | Wind mass-loss rate predictions: from mCAK model to unified NLTE wind models |
| 10:20 | 10:40 | Sabhahit | Mass-loss predictions for very massive stars |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Cure | Delta-Slow Solutions in B-Supergiant Winds: Insights from m-CAK Hydrodynamics |
| 11:00 | 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Bernini Peron | Understanding the wind driving in early-type B hypergiants |
| 12:00 | 12:40 | Hamann | Stellar atmosphere/wind modeling (Keynote talk) |
| 12:40 | 13:00 | Sundqvist | Legacy of Jo’s FASTWIND: future prospects and challenges |
| 13:00 | 16:00 | Lunch+Free time | |
| 16:00 | 00:20 | Owocki | Steady vs. eruptive mass loss from massive stars (Invited talk) |
| 16:20 | 00:20 | Schillemans | 2D simulations of LBV-like atmospheres and wind outflows |
| 16:20 | 16:40 | Van der Sijpt | Sub-surface turbulence across the upper HR diagram |
| 16:40 | 17:00 | Delbroek | Toward spectral analysis with 3D massive-star model atmospheres |
| 17:00 | 17:40 | Round Table 1: Atmosphere + wind modelling (1D/3D, time-dependence, non-spherical geometries, clumping) | |
| Start | End | Speaker | Tue. April 8 - DAY 2 |
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Sessions 3+4: Quantitative spectroscopy (I) OB-type stars + (II) WRs, LBVs, SNe, and CSPNe |
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| 09:00 | 09:40 | Herrero | Quantitative Spectroscopy of OB-type stars (Keynote talk) |
| 09:40 | 10:00 | Przybilla | Hybrid non-LTE analyses of massive stars |
| 10:00 | 10:20 | de Burgos | Quantitative spectroscopy of Galactic B-type supergiants: signatures of binary interaction |
| 10:20 | 10:40 | Furey | The wind properties of O-stars at sub-SMC metallicity |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Aschenbrenner | Quantitative spectroscopy of (binary) OB-type stars with machine learning |
| 11:00 | 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 | 12:20 | Najarro | IR studies of massive stars in the MW (Invited talk) |
| 12:20 | 13:00 | Round table 2: Spectroscopic analyses (large surveys, automatic analyses, machine learning, atomic data) | |
| 13:00 | 15:00 | Lunch+Free time | |
| 15:00 | 19:30 | Trip to the Tajogaite Volcano | |
| Start | End | Speaker | Wed. April 9 - DAY 3 |
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| 09:00 | 09:40 | Hillier | Quantitative spectroscopy of WR stars, LBVs, SNe, and CSPNe (Invited talk) |
| 09:40 | 10:00 | Mendez | A short history of spectroscopic distances to PN central stars |
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Todt | Spectral analyses of H-deficient central stars of planetary nebulae |
| 10:20 | 10:40 | Sander | Classical Wolf-Rayet stars: New insights and puzzles from dynamically-consistent models |
| 10:40 | 11:20 | Coffee Break | |
Session 5: Massive star evolution |
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| 11:20 | 12:00 | Ekström | Stellar physics: evolution effect from mixing and mass loss (Invited talk) |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Keszthelyi | The Wind-Momentum Luminosity Relation as a mass-loss scheme in evolutionary models of massive stars |
| 12:20 | 12:40 | Romagnolo | Very massive stars do not expand: the role of winds in the evolution of the most massive black hole progenitors |
| 12:40 | 13:00 | Kubátová | Low-metallicity massive single stars with rotation |
| 13:00 | 15:20 | Lunch+Free time | |
| 15:20 | 16:00 | Langer | Evolution of massive binary stars (Invited talk) |
| 16:00 | 16:20 | Martínez Sebastián | der gestirnte himmel über mir: Observational hints of binary interacting products in Galactic massive O-type stars with IACOB and Gaia |
| 16:20 | 16:40 | Bodensteiner | News from BLOeM - the multiplicity properties of OeBe stars |
| 16:40 | 17:00 | Negueruela | Are all Be stars really formed in binaries? |
| 17:00 | 17:40 | Round table 3: Evolution (singles / binaries / triples, incl. formation) | |
| 18:30 | 23:00 | Salinas + Cocktail + Social Dinner | |
| Start | End | Speaker | Thu. April 10 - DAY 4 |
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| 09:40 | 10:00 | Kuiper | Recent Progress in the Field of High-Mass Star Formation |
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Ramirez-Tannus | The origin of massive close binary stars |
Session 6: Atmospheres and winds in massive binaries |
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| 10:20 | 11:00 | Koenigsberger | Atmospheres and winds in binaries (Keynote talk) |
| 11:00 | 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Mahy | The role of metallicity in massive binary evolution |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Pauli | Strong stellar winds of partially stripped stars in post-interaction binaries |
Session 7: Additional views of massive stars: Asteroseismology / X-rays / Magnetism / Variability / interferometry |
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| 12:20 | 13:00 | Aerts | The asteroseismic view of massive stars (Invited talk) |
| 13:00 | 15:20 | Lunch+Free time | |
| 15:20 | 16:00 | Oskinova | X-raying massive stars (Invited talk) |
| 16:00 | 16:20 | Fullerton | The Structured Winds of OB Stars: Thoughts on Paradigms, Progress, and Prospects |
| 16:20 | 16:40 | St-Louis | Modelling light and linear polarization curves from winds including Corotating Interaction Regions |
| 16:40 | 17:00 | Deshmukh | Interferometry of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binarity, Winds and More |
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17:20 |
David-Uraz | Multiwavelength view and future perspectives on corotating interaction regions |
| 17:20 | 17:40 | Cano González | A radio continuum study of massive stars at the Galactic Centre Arches cluster with the VLA |
| Start | End | Speaker | Fri. April 11 - DAY 5 |
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Session 8: Hot massive stars as tools for Galactic and extragalactic stellar astronomy |
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| 09:00 | 09:40 | Leitherer | Unresolved Stellar Populations (Invited talk) |
| 09:40 | 10:00 | Millan-Irigoyen | HR-pyPopStar: high spectral resolution stellar population synthesis models |
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Roth | Extragalactic massive stars observed with IFU: MUSE, BlueMUSE, and the future WST |
| 10:20 | 11:00 | Kudritzki | Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy (Keynote talk) |
| 11:00 | 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Urbaneja | From Local to Distant Galaxies: Advancing Quantitative Spectroscopy of Blue Supergiants |
| 12:00 | 12:40 | Round Table 4: Future prospects (low Z, gravitational wave events, transients, unresolved populations, JWST, ELT) | |
| 12:40 | 13:00 | Closing | |
| 13:00 | 15:20 | Lunch & Free time | |
| 15:20 | 20:00 | Trip to Charco Azul / Tilos hiking path | |
| Start | End | Sat. April 12 - DAY 6 | |
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| 09:00 | ~18:00 | Trip to ORM | |