Ensenada, Mexico - 16-20 July, 2018
8:20 - Registration
8:45 - LOC Welcome
Session Chair: Alexander Heger
9:00 - Aida Wofford - Massive stars: their environment and feedback
9:25 - Shingo Hirano - Formation of massive first stars with ten to one million solar-masses
9:50 - Miriam Garcia- Metal-poor, resolved Massive Stars: the Local Group
10:05- Dorottya Szecsi - Triacking the Yeti in the snow - Looking for metal-poor massive stars
10:20- COFFEE
11:00- Joachim Bestenlehner - The most massive stars in the Local Group: the star cluster R136
11:15- Fabian Schneider - The stellar initial mass function in the local 30 Doradus starburst
11:40- Norberto Castro - The spectroscopic Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in the SMC field OB population
11:55- Abel Schootemeijer - Testing massive star evolution in the Small Magellanic Cloud
12:30- LUNCH
Session Chair - Guillermo Garcia-Segura
2:30 - Artemio Herrero - Massive stars in the Milky Way: present and future
2:55 - Ben Davies - Red Supergiants: properties, populations
3:20 - Emily Levesque - Red Supergiants: A Magnifying Glass for Stellar Theory
3:45 - COFFEE
4:15 - Sung-Chul Yoon - Type Ib/Ic supernovae and their progenitors
4:40 - Jesus Toala - The violent impact of massive stars
5:05 - Discussion
5:30- Adjourn
Session Chair - Sung-Chul Yoon
9:00 - Alex Fullerton - Stellar Winds of Massive Stars in the Era of JWST
9:25 - Jorick Vink - Massive star mass loss
9:50 - Goetz Graefener - New mass-loss estimates for Wolf-Rayet stars
10:15- Emily Cannon - Imaging Red Supergiants with VLT/SPHERE/ZIMPOL
10:30- COFFEE -
11:00- Dylan Kee - Near Star Radiative Feedback and the Stellar Upper Mass Limit
11:15- Robin Bjorklund - Role of mass loss for the structure, evolution and pulsation properties of massive stars
11:30- Luca Grassitelli - Massive stars at the Eddington limit: sub-photospheric envelope structure and stellar winds
11:55- Stan Owocki - Radiation Hydrodynamics of Wind and Eruptive Mass Loss from Massive Stars
12:30- LUNCH
Session Chair - Alex de Koter
2:30 - Matteo Cantiello - Global Radiation Hydrodynamical Simulations of Luminous Blue Variables
2:55 - Isabelle Baraffe - Multi-dimensional stellar structure models to core collapse
3:10 - Discussion
3:30 - COFFEE
4:00 - Bernhard Mueller - 3D Simulations of Advanced Convective Burning Stages
4:25 - Robert Andrassy - 3D convection in massive stars: From the main sequence to core collapse
4:40 - Veronique Petit - Massive stars and B-fields
5:05 - Gregg Wade - Magnetic fields of massive stars at late stages of stellar evolution: implications for supernovae and remnants
5:20 - Discussion
5:30 - Adjourn
Session Chair - Gloria Koenigsberger
9:00 - Rolf Kuiper - The formation of massive (binary) stars
9:25 - Michael Abdul-Masih - Testing Chemically Homogeneous Evolution with VFTS 352
9:40 - Saida Caballero - Dancing with the Stars: Rotation and Multiplicity of the Most Massive Stars
10:05- Discussion
10:30- COFFEE
11:00- Lee Patrick - Red Supergiants: multiplicity
11:25- Katie Tehrani - Weighing Melnick 34: The most massive binary
11:40- Johanna Poorta - Orbital properties of massive binaries in M17 and implications for close massive binary formation
11:55 - Discussion
Session Chair - Matteo Cantiello
9:00 - Pablo Marchant -Modeling rotation in massive stars
9:25 - Ryosuke Hirai - Ejecta-companion interaction in massive binaries
9:40 - Nathan Grin - A calibration of overshooting from the observed width of the main sequence
9:55 - Frank Tramper - WO stars: massive stars on the verge of exploding
10:10- Jim Fuller - Wave-driven Pre-supernova outbursts
10:35- COFFEE
11:00- David Aguilera-Dena - Progenitors of SLSNe and GRBs
11:15- Philipp Podsiadlowski - The effects of binary evolution on the fate of massive stars
11:40- Chris Fryer - The Fates of Massive Stars: Effects of the Supernova Engine, Spin and binaries
12:05- John Hillier - Insight into SN Progenitors from analyses of light curves and spectra
12:30- LUNCH
Session Chair - David Aguilera-Dena
2:10 - Philipp Moesta - Jet-driven supernovae in the multimessanger era
2:35 - Fabio de Colle - Radio emission from the cocoon of a GRB jet: implications for relativistic SNe and GRB off-axis emission
2:50 - Keiichi Maeda - Supernova light curves
3:15 - Takashi Moriya - CSM and SNe
3:40 - COFFEE
Compact objects
4:10 - Alina Istrate - Extremely low-mass white dwarfs: the story so far
4:35 - Dany Page - Neutron star structure
5:00 - Paulo Freire - Pulsar masses and the evolution of binary pulsars
5:25 - Jose Guadalupe Martinez - Double neutron star masses
5:40 - Adjourn
Session Chair- Philipp Podsiadlowski
9:00 - Kishalay De - A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova forming a compact neutron star binary
9:25 - Chris Pankow - Gravitational-wave Transient Astronomy on the Rise
9:50- Discussion
10:30- COFFEE
11:00- Alejandro Vigna - The effect of supernova mechanisms on gravitational-wave sources
11:25- Natasha Ivanova - Physics of common envelope events
Conclusion
11:50- Norbert Langer - Perspectives
12:30- Finish