IAU Symposium: IAUS 421 Dusty Stellar Environments Shaped by Winds, Eruptions, and Explosions

6 - 11 December, 2027 Goa, India

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Key Topics

• Stellar nucleosynthesis and its imprint on circumstellar environments
• Mass-loss mechanism in single and binary stars
• Dusty environments in interacting binaries and common-envelope systems
• Formation and evolution of dust in explosive transients (supernovae, novae)
• Circumstellar chemistry connecting atoms, molecules, dust grains
• Emerging techniques for studying dusty stars and transients using JWST, LSST, Roman, ngVLA etc.

Contact

📧 [email protected]

Coordinating IAU Division

• Division G Stars and Stellar Physics

Supporting IAU Divisions

• Division A Fundamental Astronomy
• Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage
• Division H Interstellar Matter and Local Universe
• Division J (Galaxies and Cosmology)

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

• Arkaprabha Sarangi (Chair, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India)
• Shazrene Mohamed (co-Chair, University of Virginia, USA)
• Rubina Kotak (co-Chair, University of Turku, Finland)
• G.C. Anupama (co-Chair, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India)
• Sung-Chul Yoon (co-Chair, Seoul National University, South Korea)
• Poonam Chandra (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)
• John Hillier (University of Pittsburg, USA)
• Chiaki Kobayashi (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
• Keiichi Ohnaka (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)
• Wouter Vlemmings (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Local Organizing Committee (LOC)

• Arkaprabha Sarangi (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Projjwal Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad)
• G.C. Anupama (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• D. K. Sahu (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Sutirtha Sengupta (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Aman Kumar (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Sujit Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Jeena S K (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Pritam Banerjee (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Muskan Shaw (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Saptarshi Ghosh Dastidar (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Hrishav Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Judhajeet Basu (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Shatakshi Chamoli (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Lupamudra Sarmah (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Gitika Rameshan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
• Satish Nayak (Association of Friends of Astronomy, Goa)

Indian Institute of Astrophysics
(Host)