10–12 Jan 2024
Europe/Zurich timezone

Scientific Program

Day 1: Formation

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM: Volker Bromm - Formation of Supermassive Objects in the Early Universe

9:30 AM - 9:55 AM: Simon Glover - The IMF of Population III stars

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM: Masaki Kiyuna - The role of the cold accretion in the supermassive star formation

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM: John Regan - Forming Super Massive Stars in Cosmological Simulations

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM: Kazutaka Kimura - Co-evolution of Accreting Protostar and Circumstellar Disk in 3D: Evolution toward the Supermassive Star Formation

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM: Lewis Prole - Simulating Population III star formation

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM: Sunmyon Chon

2:30 PM - 2:55 PM: Lorenz Zwick - Direct collapse of exceptionally heavy black holes in the merger-driven scenario

3.00 PM - 3:30 PM: John Wise - Supermassive stars and massive black hole seeds in rapidly growing minihalos

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:25 PM: Patrick Eggenberger: Stellar evolution with rotation and magnetic fields

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session and Open Discussion (Challenges in the Field, New Physics, etc.)

 

Day 2: Evolution

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM: Jorick Vink - Mass Loss History of Very Massive Stars

9:30 AM - 9:55 AM: Dan Whalen - The Turbulent Origins of the First Quasars

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM: Stefania Salvadori - Unveiling the mass distribution of the first stars

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM: Devesh Nandal - Critical accretion rates, maximum mass and signatures of supermassive stars

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM: Daisuke Toyouchi - Toward understanding the coevolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM: Ralf Klessen

12:30 PM - 12:55 PM: Erin Higgins - Nucleosynthesis and wind yields of Very Massive Stars

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30 PM Onwards: Excursion & Dinner

Evening: No scheduled session due to excursion + Workshop dinner at 6 PM in St. Cergue

 

Day 3: Signatures

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM: Kohei Inayoshi - The assembly of the first massive black holes and the prospects of JWST observations

9:30 AM - 9:55 AM: Rui Marques Chaves: Observational evidence for Very Massive Stars in extremely UV-bright galaxies at cosmic noon

10:00 AM - 10:25 AM: Chiaki Kobayashi

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM: Adarsh Kuruvanthodi: Search strategies for supermassive stars in young massive star clusters: Using spectro-photometric properties

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM: Laura Ramirez - Globular clusters and SMS

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM: Corinne Charbonnel - Did supermassive stars shape the properties of the multiple stellar populations in proto-globular clusters? From the local to the early universe, and back

12:45 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM: Sophie Tsiatsiou - Fast-rotating massive Population III stars explain extreme nitrogen-emitters in high-redshift galaxies

2:30 PM - 2:55 PM: Hideyuki Saio - Instabilities in Super Massive Stars

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM: Marcelo Alberto Cortes Vergara - Global instability by runaway collisions in nuclear stellar clusters

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Coffee Break

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM: Daniel Schaerer - Exotic emission line galaxies at high-redshift: first evidence for supermassive stars?

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Open Discussion (Challenges in the Field, New Physics, etc.)

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