=====================================
The Sixth Annual GMTO Community Science Meeting, Stars: Birth and Death (www.gmtconference.org), will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 13-15, 2018. Registration is free and partial travel support may be given to students and postdocs. The deadline for contributed talks is July 2 while registration is open till August 6, 2018.
 
While stars spend most of their lives as stable, fusion-powered objects, stellar birth and death involve some of the most dramatic and diverse physical processes known to astrophysicists. Stellar beginnings are shrouded in dust and difficult to observe, and the next generation of large telescopes will offer transformative opportunities to understand this first chapter of the star formation story. Stellar death is often explosive, and a burgeoning swell of data on transient objects offers great opportunities for advancing our understanding of the last chapter of the stellar story. This conference brings together experts in the fields of star formation and stellar disruptions, eruptions and explosions. We will focus on key open questions that can be solved in the upcoming era of very large telescopes.
 
The conference will encompass a number of topics (and invited speakers) on the end points of stellar evolution:
 
Session 1: Welcome and Introduction (Josh Eisner, Raffaella Margutti, Rebecca Bernstein)
Session 2: IMF Origin and Implications (Paul Clark, Tuguldur Sukhbold)
Session 3: High-Mass Stars (Anna Rosen, Ragnhild Lunnan)
Session 4: Disks & Jets (Megan Reiter, Rodrigo Nemen)
Session 5: Astrochemistry & Nucleosynthesis (Ilse Cleeves, Ryan Chornock)
Session 6: Protostellar Properties & Evolution (Mike Dunham)
Session 7: Binaries (Kaitlin Kratter, Sung-Chul Yoon)
Session 8: Star Formation & Death in Extreme Environments (Jessica Lu, Dan Milisavljevic)
Session 9: Feedback/unusual transients (Megan Ansdell, Melina Bersten, Tony Piro)
Session 10: Stellar death as probes (Dan Perley)
 
More information can be found at our conference Web site:
 
http://www.gmtconference.org