Detailed Conference Program

(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)


Tuesday, 14. September 2021

09:00-11:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

Stars - Stars and Stellar Feedback (virtual Stars)

09:00  Kuiper:
On the metallicity-dependence of radiation forces and photoionization feedback in massive star formation

09:20  Jaeyeon Kim:
A systematic determination of the evolutionary timescale of successive phases of star formation and gas dispersal by stellar feedback

09:40  André Oliva:
The processes driving jets during the formation of high-mass stars

10:00  Amith Govind:
Close stellar flybys are common in low-mass clusters

10:20  Gautham Narayana Sabhahit:
Superadiabaticity and the metallicity independence of the Humphreys-Davidson limit

10:40  Roel Lefever:
Impact of the uncertain velocity fields on the spectral appearance of Wolf-Rayet stars

Culture - Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy (virtual Cult)

09:05  Wayne Horowitz:
The Babylonian constellation of APIN

09:20  Susanne Hoffmann:
Stellarium Sky Cultures: Painting Babylonian

09:35  Michael Geymeier:
Constellation Cetus: Whale or Monster?

09:50  Break

10:00  V. R. Pai:
Star names in Indian culture - a search leading to their evolution

10:15  Daniel Cunnama:
Inspiration and Engagement with Astronomy Through Khoi and San Starlore

10:30  Doris Vickers:
Maximilian Hell's contributions to the quarrel about the naming of the planet Uranus

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-13:00 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (virtual plenum)

11:30  Karl Schwarzschild Lecture 2020 - Friedrich-Karl Thielemann:
Origin of the Elements in the Universe

12:15  PhD Prize Talk 2020 - Anna-Christina Eilers:
The Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

12:45  Bruno H. Bürgel Prize Talk - Uwe Reichert:
Communicating astronomy - a personal experience

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture 2021 (virtual plenum)

14:00  Karl Schwarzschild Lecture 2021 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell:
Opening Time Domain Astrophysics

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-18:00 AG Mitgliederversammlung (virtual assembly)