1-5 November 2021: The Origin of Outflows in Evolved Stars IAU Symposium 366, Virtual Meeting Talk: “Introducing the ASSESS project: Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars: Key to Understanding the Explosive Early Universe” – Alceste Bonanos Poster: “Studying evolved massive stars in nearby galaxies using a photometric machine-learning classifier – Grigoris Maravelias [poster link]
5 – 8 July 2021: The 15th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Virtual Talk: “Applying machine-learning methods to build a photometric classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies” – Grigoris Maravelias [YouTube link] Talk: “Spectral analysis of evolved massive stars in the SMC and LMC” – Stephan de Wit [YouTube link] Talk: “Evolved massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds” – Ming Yang [YouTube link] Poster: “Bouncing against the Yellow Void – the case of rho Cas” – Grigoris Maravelias [YouTube link]
28 June – 2 July, 2021: European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2021, Virtual Plenary Talk: “New developments and challenges in massive star evolution ” – Alceste Bonanos Poster: “Applying machine-learning methods to build a photometric classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies” – Grigoris Maravelias [poster link] Poster: “Evolved massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds” – Ming Yang [poster link] Poster: “A new automated tool for the spectral classification of OB stars” – Elias Kyritsis (incl. Grigoris Maravelias) [poster link]
September 9-13, 2019: Workshop: A Synoptic View of the Magellanic Clouds – VMC, Gaia and Beyond, Garching, Germany, Talk: “Evolved massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds” – Ming Yang
July 17-19, 2019: Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing and Astrophysics workshop, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Talk: “Automated classification of massive stars in nearby galaxies” – Grigoris Maravelias
July 8-11, 2019: 14th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Volos, Greece Talk: “Automated classification of massive stars in nearby galaxies” – Grigoris Maravelias
June 24-28, 2019: EWASS 2019, SS17, Lyon, France Talk: “The key ingredients: mass, binarity and mass loss” – Alceste Bonanos
June 3-8, 2019: Supernova Remnants II, Crete, Greece Poster: “Identifying massive stars in nearby galaxies, in a smart way” – Grigoris Maravelias Poster: “Evolved Massive Stars at Low-metallicity: A Source Catalog for the Small Magellanic Cloud” – Ming Yang
Observing Runs:
2020 ✔ 39 hours at 8m VLT-ESO (Period 105) ✔ 42 hours at 10.4m GTC (Semester 2020A)
December 13, 2019: Machine-learning workshop at NOA, Penteli, Greece
A kick-off meeting to enhance synergies between the National Observatory of Athens and the ATHENA research center, specialists in information technology, big data, and AI.
Dissemination activities:
November 1-3, 2019: 11th Panhellenic Conference on Amateur Astronomy, Volos, Greece Talk: “rho Cas and its 2013 outburst – comparing visual to digital observations” – Grigoris Maravelias