IAU Symposia
IAUS 302: Magnetic fields throughout stellar evolution
Start date/time
August 25, 2013
End date/time
August 30, 2013
Place
Biarritz,
France
Contact
Pascal Petit
ppetit@irap.omp.eu
Event website
http://iaus302.sciencesconf.org/
Coordinating Division
Division IV Stars
SOC Co-Chairs: Moira Jardine (UK), Pascal Petit (France), Henk Spruit (Germany)
SOC Members: Gibor Basri (USA), Matthew Browning (UK), Corinne Charbonnel (France), José-Dias do Nascimento (Brazil), Siraj Hasan (India), Oleg Khochukov (Sweden), Renada Konstantinova-Antova (Bulgaria), Hiroaki Isobe (Japan), Stephen Marsden (Australia), Sami Solanki (Germany), Henk Spruit (Germany), Klaus Strassmeier (Germany), Asif Ud-Doula (USA), Gregg Wade (Canada)
Editors of Proceedings: Pascal Petit (France), Moira Jardine (UK), Henk Spruit (Germany)
Topics:
- Stellar structure and evolution
- Magnetized accretion and outflows in young stellar objects
- Magnetic braking of PMS stars
- Solar and stellar activity in photospheres, chromospheres and coronae, and stellar cycles
- Magnetism in very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
- Star-planet interaction
- Stellar dynamos across the HR diagram
- Magnetic field origin and stability in massive stars
- Magnetically-confined winds of massive stars
- Dynamo and mass-loss in giant and supergiant stars
- Final phases of stellar evolution : magnetism in compact objects