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FINAL PROGRAM

• SUNDAY, October 12

  • 5:30-7:30 shuttles from hotel to Lowell and back to hotel

  • 5:30 Rotunda open for mounting posters

    5:30-7:30 RECEPTION (Steele Visitor Center)

• MONDAY, October 13

  • 7:45-8:45 Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

  • Session 0: Welcome and Introductory Remarks

    • 8:50-8:55 Welcome to Lowell (Bob Millis)
    • 8:55-9:00 Introductions (Phil Massey)

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  • Session 1A: Unevolved Massive Stars---Review Talks. Chair: Phil Massey

    • 9:00-9:30 Andre Maeder--Massive Star Evolution
    • 9:30-10:00 Alex Fullerton--Discordant Estimates of Mass Loss Rates
    • 10:00-10:30 Nidia Morrell--Massive Binaries

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  • 10:30-11:00 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 1B: Unevolved Massive Stars---Contributed Talks. Chair: Nancy Morrison

    • 11:00-11:20 Laura Penny--The Effects of Metallicity on the Rotation Rates of Massive Stars
    • 11:20-11:40 Jorick Vink--Mass Loss Predictions as a Function of Metallicity
    • 11:40-12:00 Yael Naze--HD 108 and the Other Peculiar Of?p Stars: Still Puzzling Peter, Jean-Marie, and the Massive Star Community

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  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch

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  • Session 2A: Evolved Massive Stars---Review Talks. Chair: David Abbott

    • 2:00-2:30 John Hillier--Current Status of Modeling WR Atmospheres
    • 2:30-3:00 Emily Levesque--The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants
    • 3:00-3:30 Nathan Smith--Where do LBVs Come From?

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  • 3:30-4:00 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 2B: Evolved Massive Stars---Contributed Talks. Chair: Bruce Bohannan

    • 4:00-4:20 Stan Owocki--Mass Loss Near the Eddington Limit
    • 4:20-4:40 Nolan Walborn--R127, the End of an Era
    • 4:40-5:00 Peredur Williams--Long-period Colliding-wind Binaries

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  • 5:30-7:00 Dinner
  • 6:30-8:30 Clark Telescope Viewing
  • 7:00-9:00 Shuttles to hotel

• Tuesday, October 14

  • 7:45-8:45 Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

  • Session 3A: Starbursts and WR Galaxies---Review Talks. Chair: Kelsey Johnson

    • 9:00-9:30 Jay Gallagher--Starbursts, Star Clusters, and Blowing the Galactic Winds
    • 9:30-10:00 Claus Leitherer--Spectral Synthesis of Massive Stars
    • 10:00-10:30 William Vacca--WR Galaxies

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  • 10:30-11:00 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 3B: Starbursts and WR Galaxies---Contributed Talks. Chair: Ana Torres

    • 11:00-11:20 Nate Bastian--The Role of Massive Stars in Early Star Cluster Evolution
    • 11:20-11:40 Augusto Damineli--The Stellar Content of Obscured Galactic Giant HII Regions
    • 11:40-12:00 Patrick Morris--Finding Hidden WR Stars in the IR

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  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch

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  • Session 4A: Young Massive Stars---Review Talks. Chair: Joel Parker

    • 2:00-2:30 Robert Blum--Young Massive Stars
    • 2:30-3:00 Remy Indebeteouw--Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds
    • 3:00-3:30 Sidney Wolff/Stephen Strom--Rotational Velocities for Early Type Stars and the Relationship Between Rotation Speed and Density in Star-Forming Regions

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  • 3:30-4:00 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 4B: Young Massive Stars---Contributed Talks. Chair: Ed Fitzpatrick

    • 4:00-4:20 Cassio Leandro Barbosa--W51 IRS2: A Compact HII Region in Detail
    • 4:20-4:40 You-Hua Chu--Where and How are Massive Stars Formed in Isolation
    • 4:40-5:00 Paul Crowther--Stellar Content of HII Regions

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  • 5:30-8:00 Dinner
  • 7:30-9:00 Shuttles to hotel

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• Wednesday, October 15

• 7:45-8:45 Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

• Session 5A: Broader Topics---Contributed Talks. Chair: Margaret Hanson

  • 9:00-9:20 Ed Churchwell--The Impact of Massive Stars on their Environments
  • 9:20-9:40 Norbert Przybilla--Massive Stars as Tracers of Galactochemical Evolution
  • 9:40-10:00 George Wallerstein--The use of the CaII Triplet Region for Metallicty in Supergiant M stars

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• 10:00-10:30 Break and Last Poster Viewing Opportunity

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• Session 5B: Broader Topics--Review Talks. Chair Ed van den Heuvel

  • 10:30-11:00 Philip Massey---The Effective Temperature Scale of O-type Stars
  • 11:00-11:30 Katy Garmany--Peter, A Historical Perspective
  • 11:30-12:00 Peter S. Conti--Where Do We Go From Here?

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• 12:30-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-2:30 Shuttles back to hotel

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• Posters (On display throughout the meeting in the Rotunda)

  • Cornelia Lang--Massive Stellar Clusters in the Galaxy: Multi-wavelength Observations of New Candidate Clusters
  • Ginny McSwain--The Gamma-ray Binaries LS 5039 and LS I+61 303 in the GLAST Era
  • Maria-Fernanda Nieva--High-resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy of Massive Stars
  • Knut Olsen--The Kinematics of LMC Red Supergiants
  • Stephen Skinner--X-ray Emission from Wolf-Rayet Stars
  • Alicia Soderberg---What Radio Observations of Tyle Ibc Supernovae Reveal About the Mass Loss of Massive Stars
  • Mairan Teodoro--Long Term Variability of Eta Car
  • Robert F. Wing--The K-Type Supergiants of the LMC: Not So Rare
  • Miriam Garcia--OB Stars in Dwarf Galaxies
  • Alessandro Moises--Near Infrared Catalogue of Galactic Giant HII Regions
  • David Whelan--Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Models of Star Clusters
  • C.-H. Rosie Chen--Massive Star Formation in LMC HII Complexes
  • Marc Gagne--X-rays and Magnetic Fields in Young OB Stars
  • Gerard Testor--A Near-Infrared Study of the Star-forming Region SMC-N88A
  • Ines Brott--Rotational Mixing in Magellanic Cloud B Stars: Theory and Observation
  • Saida Caballero--UV Spectrum and Properties of the Mass Donor Star in HD 226868=Cygnus X-1
  • Sabina Chita--Multiple RingNebulae Around Blue Supergiants
  • Gloria Koenigsberger--Tidal effects and periastron events in binary stars
  • Chip Kobulnicky--New Massive Binaries in Cygnus OB2
  • Natacha Linder--Optical Spectroscopy of Plaskett's Star
  • Laurent Mahy--Multiplicity of O stars in NGC 2244
  • Derck Massa--The Effects of Clumping on UV Wind Line Diagnostics
  • Tony Moffat--New Surprises from the MOST Satellite
  • Leisa Townsley--Remarkable X-ray Emission from the Young O4-O4 Binary in M17
  • Wolf-Rainer Hamann--WR Stars in the Galaxy and the LMC: Analysis, Parameters, and Evolution
  • Lidia Oskinova--Macroclumping in Winds of Massive Stars
  • Alan Willis--e-Merlin Radio observations of O and WR stars in Cyg OB2
  • Stefanie Wachter--Mid-Infrared Circumstellar Shell Sources discovered with Spitzer: An Obscured Population of Massive Stars?
  • Ian Howarth--A Brace of Bothersome Binaries
  • Daniel Lennon--The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars
  • Dennis Ebbets--Spectographs I've Known
  • Leonid Georgiev--Chemical Abundances in HD 5980

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