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.

1 Welcome Address

Session 1: Stars & Stellar evolution

2 AGB stellar physics

Speaker: Amanda Karakas

3 Study of Barium stars

Speaker: Lupamudra S

10:50 AM Tea/Coffee

4 Study of H-deficiency and He-enhancement in stars

Speaker: Hema B P

5 S-type stars

Speaker: Yoshiya Mori

6 Carbon deficiency and Li enhancement in Stars

Speaker: Bharat Kumar Y

7 Origin of alpha-poor VMP Stars

Speaker: Jeena S K

8 Dusty photo-ionization model abundances of Planetary nebula

Speaker: Khusbu .

9 Star-dust connection

Speaker: Arkaprabha S

10 Discussion Session

Speakers: Muthumariappan C, Pandey G

1:00 PM Lunch

Session 2: Star Clusters/Stellar populations

11 Multiple stellar populations

Speaker: Richard De Grijs

12 Detection of Blue straggler stars in star clusters

Speaker: Arvind Kumar D

13 Investigating the disk kinematics of stellar populations in the SMC using GAIA DR3

Speaker: Dhanush S R

14 Discussion Session

Speakers: Annapurni S, Sivarani T

15 Closing Remarks

4:00 PM Tea/Coffee