Attending the VFTS Barba meeting in Madrid

This year VFTS (VLT-FLAMES TaranTula Survey) 2024 meeting took place on Sep 16-18, in Madrid (Spain). That was another great opportunity for our PhD students to communicate their results and receive valuable feedback from some of the world experts in the field. In particular Gonzalo (Munoz-Sanchez) presented “Episodic mass loss …

Contributions to IAU’s FM4: Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients

During the XXXII IAU General Assembly in South Africa the Focus Meeting 4: Bridging the final stages of massive stars to supernovae and transients (13-14 August 2024) had two contributions form the ASSESS team. Alceste was invited to provide an overview for variability in massive stars, while Kostas had a …

Contributions to the International Conference Physics of Extreme Massive Stars

The International Conference on the Physics of Extreme Massive Stars took place on June 24-28 (2024) in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. That was a great opportunity for our PhD students Gonzalo and Evangelia to present some of our most recent results in an international conference focused on topics such …

Contributions to the Supernova Remnants III conference

Between 9 – 15 of June (2024) the ASSESS team was in Crete to help with the materialization of the third iteration of Supernova Remnants conference, which becomes probably the most important point of reference for this particular field. However, it also intersects with ours since our targets of interest …

Contributing to the 16th Hellenic Astronomical Conference

During 26-28 of July (2023), the ASSESS group actively participated in the 16th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, held in Athens. In total, we had three talks and five posters accepted. Alceste Bonanos provided an overview of the “Results of the ASSESS project: Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars: Key to …

Contribution to the XV meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society

Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez traveled to Tenerife (Spain) for a week in September (5-9), to participate in the XV scientific meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society. There he presented his work from the reduction of GTC multi-object spectroscopic data we have obtained for NCG 6822 and IC 10 galaxies. The poster is …

ASSESS team joined the IAUS 361 in Ireland

The IAU Symposium 361: “Massive Stars Near and Far” was held in Ballyconnell, Ireland in the week of 8-13 May 2022. That was our first in-person meeting since the start of the pandemic, and the ASSESS team took advantage of the opportunity to travel to Ireland to present our work. …

ASSESS team participates in IAU Symposium 361

The ASSESS team is joining the Massive Stars IAU Symposium 361 titled “Massive Stars Near and Far“, held in Ballyconnell, Ireland (May 18-22). The SOC has offered Alceste a talk “Introducing the ASSESS project: Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars: Key to Understanding the Explosive Early Universe”, while while …