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| Monday, June 23 |
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| 08h30 | Welcome adress | G. Meynet |
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| Session I: Challenges in massive star evolution | Chair: A. Noels |
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| 08h40 RT: | Physics of mass loss in massive stars | J. Puls |
| 09h20 CT: | Winds of metal-poor OB stars: updates from HST-COS UV spectroscopy | M. García |
| 09h45 CT: | Massive stars near the Eddington-limit, pulsations & mass-loss | G. Gräfener |
| 10h10 CT: | Discovery of a New Class of Wolf-Rayet Stars in the LMC | Ph. Massey |
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| 10h35-11h05 Coffee break |
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| 11h05 RT: | Physics of convection in massive stars | C. Meakin |
| 11h45 RT: | Stellar rotation: physics, evolution | A. Maeder |
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| 12h25-14h30 Lunch |
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| Session I: Challenges in massive star evolution (continued) | Chair: H. Saio |
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| 14h30 CT: | Observed rotational velocities of the O-type stars in the Tarantula Nebula single stars and binaries | O.H. Ramírez Agudelo |
| 14h55 CT: | Combining observational techniques to constrain convection in evolved massive star models | C. Georgy |
| 15h20 CT: | New prescriptions of turbulent transport from local numerical simulations | V. Prat |
| 15h45 RT: | The advanced phases of massive stars: the path to the core collapse and the explosive yields. | A. Chieffi |
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| 16h25-16h55 Coffee break |
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| 16h55 RT: | Physics of interacting close binaries | N. Langer |
| 17h35 CT: | The First Evidence of a Binary Progenitor for a Type Ib Supernova | M. Bersten |
| 18h00 PP: | Short poster presentations | |
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| 18h25 End of Day 1 |
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| Tuesday, June 24 |
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| Session I: Challenges in massive star evolution (continued) | Chair: R. Hirschi |
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| 09h00 CT: | Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow object candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud | E. Levesque |
| 09h25 CT: | Stellar Yields of Rotating First Stars | K. Takahashi |
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| Session II: Asteroseismology | |
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| 09h50 RT: | Basics of asteroseismology | A. Miglio |
| 10h30 RT: | Highlights in asteroseismology, with emphasis on massive stars | C. Aerts |
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| 11h10-11h40 Coffee break |
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| 11h40 CT: | Asteroseismology of OB stars as seen by hundreds of single snapshot spectra (and a few time-series of selected targets) | S. Simón-Díaz |
| 12h05 CT: | Photometric Variability of OB-type stars as a New Window on Massive Stars | M. Kourniotis |
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| 12h30-14h30 Lunch |
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| Session II: Asteroseismology (continued) | Chair: G. Meynet |
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| 14h30 CT: | Semi-Convective Mixing in Massive Stars as seen by Asteroseismology | E. Moravveji |
| 14h55 CT: | Probing high-mass stellar evolutionary models with binary stars | A. Tkachenko |
| 15h20 CT: | The puzzling new class of variable stars in NGC 3766: old friend pulsators? | S. Salmon |
| 15h45 CT: | Asteroseismology of red giants to constrain angular momentum transport | P. Eggenberger |
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| 16h10-16h40 Coffee break |
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| 16h40 CT: | Behaviour of pulsations in hydrodynamic models of massive stars | C. Lovekin |
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| Session III: Interferometry | |
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| 17h05 RT: | Basics of interferometry | G. van Belle |
| 17h45 RT: | An interferometric journey around massive stars | A. Meilland |
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| 18h25 End of Day 2 |
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| 19h30 - Public conference at Uni Dufour - "Les champ magnétiques stellaires : leur rôle sur la vie des étoiles et sur la nôtre." |
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| Wednesday, June 25 |
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| Session III: Interferometry (continued) | Chair: T. Rivinius |
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| 09h00 PP: | Short poster presentations | |
| 09h25 CT: | Zooming into eta Carinae with interferometry | J. Groh |
| 09h50 CT: | On the atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of red supergiant stars | M. Wittkowski |
| 10h15 CT: | Evidences for a large hot spot at the surface of Betelgeuse | M. Montargès |
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| 10h40-11h10 Coffee break |
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| 11h10 CT: | The recent disk evolution of Achernar resolved by VLTI spectro- interferometry | D. Faes |
| 11h35 GD: | General discussion on a few chosen questions | Leaders: H. Henrichs & G. Meynet |
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| 12h00 End of day 3 |
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| Free afternoon -- excursion: visit of CERN and wine tasting in Geneva vineyards |
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| Thursday, June 26 |
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| Session IV: Spectropolarimetry | Chair: C. Neiner |
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| 09h00 RT: | Basics of spectropolarimetry | J. Landstreet |
| 09h40 RT: | Recent highlights of spectropolarimetry | J. Grunhut |
| 10h20 CT: | Constraining general massive-star physics by exploring the unique properties of magnetic O-stars : rotation, macroturbulence, and subsurface convection | J. Sundqvist |
| 10h45 CT: | B fields in OB stars (BOB) : first results of the survey | T. Morel |
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| 11h10-11h40 Coffee break |
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| 11h40 CT: | Unraveling the brightness variability of sigma Ori E | M. Oksala |
| 12h05 CT: | Revealing the Mass Loss Structures of Three Key Massive Binaries Using Optical Spectropolarimetry | J. Lomax |
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| 12h30-14h30 Lunch |
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| Session IV: Spectropolarimetry (continued) | Chair: D. Arnett |
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| 14h30 RT: | Magnetic fields - stellar winds connection | A. ud Doula |
| 15h10 CT: | Linear polarimetry as a tool to constrain aspherical mass loss | J. Vink |
| 15h35 CT: | The BinaMIcS project: understanding the origin of magnetic fields in massive stars through close binary systems | E. Alecian |
| 16h00 CT: | Angular momentum transport by unstable toroidal magnetic fields | M. Gellert |
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| 16h25-16h55 Coffee break |
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| Session V: Synergies between different techniques | |
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| 16h55 RT: | Links between surface magnetic fields, abundances, and surface rotation in clusters and in the field | N. Przybilla |
| 17h35 PP: | Short poster presentations | |
| 18h00 GD: | General discussion on a few chosen questions | Leaders: A. ud Doula & R. Hirschi |
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| 18h25 End of Day 4 |
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| 19h30 Conference dinner at La Brasserie des Halles de l'île (registration requested) |
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| Friday, June 27 |
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| Session V: Synergies between different techniques (continued) | Chair: E. Levesque |
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| 09h00 CT: | Synergies between asteroseismology and spectropolarimetry to constrain transport and mixing processes in massive stars | S. Mathis |
| 09h25 CT: | Combining seismology and spectropolarimetry: from CoRoT and MOST to K2 and BRITE | C. Neiner |
| 09h50 CT: | X-ray emission from magnetic massive stars | Y. Nazé |
| 10h15 CT: | Massive Star Astrophysics with MSCF | D. Bomans |
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| 10h40-11h10 Coffee break |
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| 11h10 CT: | The Massive star population at the Center of the Milky Way | F. Najarro |
| 11h35 CT: | Accretion Signatures on Massive Young Stellar Objects | F. Navarete |
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| 12h00-14h00 Lunch |
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| Session VI: Towards a synthetic view | Chair: Ph. Massey |
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| 14h00 ST: | 3D and Some Other Things missing from the Theory of Massive Star Evolution | D. Arnett |
| 14h30 ST: | Asteroseismology of massive stars, the next step | A. Noels & M. Godart |
| 15h00 ST: | Interferometry of massive stars, the next step | Ph. Stee |
| 15h30 ST: | Spectropolarimetry of massive stars, the next step | G. Wade |
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| 16h00 End of the Symposium |
