IAUGA 2024, Focus Meeting 4: Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce “Focus Meeting 4: Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients”, in conjunction with the IAU General Assembly 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa. We will have the sessions held on 13-14 August 2024; please see the meeting webpage for more information:https://mssn-iau2024.utu.fi/

Early registration and abstract submission are open through 1 March 2024, via the GA webpage:https://astronomy2024.org/registration/
(Note that your registration will allow you to access all the GA focus meetings and symposia.)
We encourage participation from students and young scientists. IAU offers travel grants for qualified participants, with the same application deadline.

We look forward to your contribution and participation in Cape Town!

FM4 SOC
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Invited talk topics:

• Recent and future transient surveys (Mansi Kasliwal)
• Fast transients and new discoveries of peculiar supernovae/transients (Dan Perley)
• SNe Type II, stripped-envelope SNe, and superluminous SNe (Daichi Hiramatsu)
• Luminous red novae, SN impostors, intermediate-luminosity transients (Morgan Fraser)
• Interacting SNe including type IIn, Ibn, Icn (Anjasha Gangopadhyay)
• Hot star winds (Andreas Sander)
• Stripped-envelope stars in binary systems (Ylva Götberg)
• Variable massive stars (Alceste Bonanos)
• Observational constraints on massive binary star evolution (Tomer Shenar)
• Red supergiant mass loss and evolution (Emma Beasor)