Activities

Conference participation:

• 5-9 September 2022: XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Tenerife, Spain,
  • Poster: “ASSESSing evolved massive stars in NGC 6822 and IC 10” – Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez [poster link]
    
• 20-23 June 2022: VFTS meeting, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Talk: “ASSESSing Red Supergiants, in the Local Group … and beyond!” – Stephan de Wit
• 8-13 May 2022: IAU Symposium 361: “Massive Stars Near and Far, Ballyconnell, Ireland
  • Talk: “Introducing the ASSESS project: Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars – Key to Understanding the Explosive Early Universe” – Alceste Bonanos
  • Talk: “Using machine-learning to investigate the populations of dusty evolved stars in various metallicities” – Grigoris Maravelias [arXiv link]
  • Poster: “Progenitors and companions of stripped-envelope supernovae” – Manos Zapartas
  • Poster:“Properties of dusty Red Supergiant stars in the Magellanic Clouds” – Stephan de Wit
  • Poster: “ASSESSing evolved massive stars in NGC 6822 and IC 10” – Gonzalo Munoz Sanchez
• 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
• 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:

• 2022
  ✔ 15 hours at 10.4m GTC (Semester 2022B)

  ✔ 4.2 hours at 8.2m VLT-ESO (Period 109)
  ✔ 24.8 hours at 10.4m GTC (Semester 2022A)

• 2020
  ✔ 39 hours at 8.2m VLT-ESO (Period 105)
  ✔ 42 hours at 10.4m GTC (Semester 2020A)
• 2018 – present
  ✔ ~4 hours at 6.5m Baade-LCO (engineering time)

Workshop Organization:

• 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:

• June 21, 2022: Seminar at Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (virtual)
  Talk: “The ASSESS classifier: a machine-learning tool to uncover populations of evolved massive stars in nearby galaxies” – Grigoris Maravelias
• 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