Welcome Reception Evening:
Welcome, Music, Registration, informal gathering
Block 1 – Dusty Environments of Low and Intermediate-Mass Stars
Mass-loss mechanisms in low- and intermediate-mass stars
Common-envelope evolution and its impact on dust production
Dust mass, composition and grain sizes in AGB stars
Post-AGB and pre-planetary nebula (pre-PN) environments: shocks, shaping, and dust
processing
Block 2 – Evolved Massive Stars
Mass-loss rates and wind-driving mechanisms in evolved massive stars
Eruptive mass-loss episodes and pre-supernova instabilities
Stripped-envelope stars and their circumstellar environments
Dust formation in colliding-wind binaries and Wolf–Rayet stars
Dust LBV giant eruptions
Block 3 – Dust Formation in Explosive Transients
Supernova explosions and circumstellar interaction (shock physics, cooling, light curves)
Dust formation and evolution across different supernova subclasses (Type II, IIn, IIb, Ib/c, Iax,
Ia-CSM, etc.)
Dependence of dust production on progenitor mass, mass-loss history, and CSM structure
Environments of novae and luminous red novae
Block 4 – Star-dust connection in the galactic ecosystem
Variations in stellar evolution and elemental yields and their impact on dust composition
Chemical networks leading to molecule formation and grain nucleation
Links between isotopic signatures, presolar grains, and stellar origin
Integrating nucleosynthesis with dust formation models : star-dust evolutionary chain
Incorporation of stellar ejecta and wind material into the ISM, and their contribution to
enrichment
Survival, destruction, and processing of dust grains across different ISM phases