Scientific program

Each day there are five lessons of 50 min. each. During the whole week, this means 25 lessons. The lecturers are

• C. Charbonnel: low and intermediate mass star evolution
• P. Eggenberger: helio- and asterosismology
• C. Chiappini: chemical evolution of galaxies
• M. Liebendorfer: supernova explosions
• G. Meynet: massive star evolution
• F. Thielemann: nucleosynthesis in stellar explosions

Download the time table in pdf format.

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Lectures by Corinne Charbonnel

• 1) A global overview of low- and intermediate-mass star evolution [download slides in pdf]
  • main evolution and nucleosynthetic phases
  • Hydrogen and Helium burning, first and second dredge-up
  • observational clues on non-standard transport processes
• 2) Nucleosynthesis in AGB stars [download slides in pdf]
  • AGB structure
  • thermal pulses
  • mass loss
  • hot bottom burning
  • 3d dredge-up
  • s-process
  • yields
  • constraints from PNe and post-AGBs

Lectures by Patrick Eggenberger

• 1) Transport processes on the Main Sequence
  [download slides in pdf]
• 2) Using stellar oscillations to probe the internal structure of stars
  [download slides in pdf]
• 3) Asteroseismic observations and modelling of low and intermediate mass stars
  [download slides in pdf]

Lectures by Cristina Chiappini

• 1) Introduction to Chemical Evolution [download slides in pdf]
  • What is chemical evolution?
  • How to build a chemical evolution model?
  • Simple analytical models
• 2) Chemical evolution of the Milky Way: The Solar Vicinity [download slides in pdf]
  • Numerical Models - one example
  • The thin disk
  • The thick disk
  • The halo
• 3) Chemical evolution of the Milky Way: Leaving the Solar Vicinity [download slides in pdf]
  • Radial Gradients in the thin disk
  • Radial mixing effects
  • The bulge
• 4) Local Group: Chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies [download slides in pdf]
  • Carina, Sextan, Draco, Sculptor, Sagitarius, Ursa Minor
  • The Magellanic Clouds
  • Ultra faint dwarf galaxies
• 5) Cosmic Chemical Evolution [download slides in pdf]
  • The mass-metallicity relation
  • Damped Lyman alpha systems
  • Lyman-break galaxies

Lectures by Matthias Liebendoerfer

• 1) Supernovae, observables and their history/future [download slides in pdf]
• 2) Nuclear input physics and weak interactions [download slides in pdf]
• 3) Stellar core collapse and bounce [download slides in pdf]
• 4) Numerical modelling [download slides in pdf]
• 5) Postbounce evolution and the explosion mechanism [download slides in pdf]

Lectures by Georges Meynet

• 1) Stellar evolution in a nutshell (basic principles driving the evolution of stars) [download slides in pdf]
• 2) Massive stars as cosmic engines in galaxies (massive star evolution) [download slides in pdf]
• 3) Massive star populations in galaxies [download slides in pdf]
• 4) Massive star nucleosynthesis in the early Universe [download slides in pdf]
• 5) Massive star nucleosynthesis in the present day Universe [download slides in pdf]

Lectures by Friedel Thielemann

• 1) Nuclear Burning in Stars (nuclear reactions and thermodynamics) [download lectures 1 and 2 slides in pdf]
• 2) Nucleosynthesis Modelling in Stellar Burning and Explosions
• 3) Explosions in Binary Systems (Novae, X-ray bursts, type Ia supernovae) [download slides in pdf]
• 4) Massive Stars and Their End Stages (Core Collapse Supernovae, Hypernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts?) [download lectures 4 and 5 slides in pdf]
• 5) Origin of the Heaviest Elements and Connections to Galactic Evolution