Invited talk for the IAU G2 online conference series

IAU G2 has initiated a series of online talks on massive stars. On Thursday Sep 26 (2024) Alceste was invited to give seminar talk on our latest results in ASSESS. “Episodic Mass Loss in Evolved Massive Stars: Insights from the ASSESS project“ Abstract: Episodic mass loss is not understood theoretically, …

Gonzalo talks about our latest results on extreme red supergiants

Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez arrived in Crete way in advance of the 3rd Supernova Remnants conference. That gave him the opportunity to present at the Institute of Astrophysics (FORTH) our latest results on some extreme red supergiants we have encountered during the ASSESS project. “Episodic mass loss in two evolved Red Supergiants …

Observing from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile

Gonzalo Munoz-Sanchez and Evangelia Christodoulou traveled this November to Chile, and more specifically to the ESO’s Very Large Telescope facility in Paranal. The purpose of their trip was to get the data for a project that was awarded ~1.5 nights at the very competitive FORS2 instrument. The goal was to …

Seminar for TLS Tautenburg

Grigoris got an invitation in March to give a talk to the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, scheduled for June 21 (the summer solstice 2022). With the title “The ASSESS classifier: a machine-learning tool to uncover populations of evolved massive stars in nearby galaxies” he gave an introduction to the massive stars …