Workshop on Outstanding Problems in Massive Star Research - the final stages

这个奖项将为一个关于大质量恒星演化的会议提供部分支持。会议将集中讨论这些恒星爆发事件的问题，这些事件经常出现在超新星调查中，尽管它们并不代表大质量恒星爆炸的最后阶段。这次会议将汇集天文学家、理论家和观测者，研究大质量恒星演化的最后阶段、它们的不稳定性、超新星及其前身，以及最后爆发的结果。会议的结构将鼓励与会者之间的讨论和交流，并刺激理论工作和新的观察，以解决许多这些问题。为了更广泛地传播，组织者将在研讨会的网页上发布回顾演讲、海报和讨论记录。

This award will provide partial support for a conference on the evolution of massive stars. The conference will concentrate on the problem of eruptive events in these stars, which often appear in surveys for supernovae even though they do not represent the explosive end phase of a massive star. The conference will bring together astronomers, theorists and observers, studying the final stages of massive star evolution, their instabilities, supernovae and their progenitors, and the outcomes of the final eruptions. The meeting will be structured to encourage discussion and communication among the participants and to stimulate theoretical work and new observations that will address many of these questions. For broader dissemination, the organizers will post the review talks, posters and a transcription of the discussion on the workshop web pages.