Stars, Stellar evolution, and Stellar PopulationsAstrophysics Conference

Monday Dec 1, 2025, 10:00 AM → 4:30 PM Asia/Kolkata

Council Meeting Room

The Group Committee 2 is organizing a one-day conference on December 1, 2025 in the IIA council room. The conference will focus on the key topics in stellar astrophysics, including stellar nucleosynthesis in evolved stars of various metallicities, star clusters, stellar populations in nearby galaxies, followed by an extended discussion.

10:00 AM → 10:05 AM Welcome Address

10:05 AM → 12:30 PM Session 1: Stars & Stellar evolution

10:05 AM AGB stellar physics

Speaker: Amanda Karakas

10:35 AM Study of Barium stars

Speaker: Lupamudra S

10:50 AM Tea/Coffee

11:00 AM Study of H-deficiency and He-enhancement in stars

Speaker: Hema B P

11:15 AM S-type stars

Speaker: Yoshiya Mori

11:30 AM Carbon deficiency and Li enhancement in Stars

Speaker: Bharat Kumar Y

11:45 AM Origin of alpha-poor VMP Stars

Speaker: Jeena S K

12:00 PM Dusty photo-ionization model abundances of Planetary nebula

Speaker: Khusbu .

12:15 PM Star-dust connection

Speaker: Arkaprabha S

12:30 PM → 1:00 PM Discussion Session

Speakers: Muthumariappan C, Pandey G

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Session 2: Star Clusters/Stellar populations

2:00 PM Multiple stellar populations

Speaker: Richard De Grijs

2:30 PM Detection of Blue straggler stars in star clusters

Speaker: Arvind Kumar D

2:45 PM Investigating the disk kinematics of stellar populations in the SMC using GAIA DR3

Speaker: Dhanush S R

3:00 PM → 3:45 PM Discussion Session

Speakers: Annapurni S, Sivarani T

3:45 PM → 4:00 PM Closing Remarks

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Tea/Coffee