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1 Monday, Nov. 26, :45 09:00 Registration Session I: Observations of the Galactic Components 09:00 09:10 Welcome 09:10 09:50 Nils Ryde: The Milky Way s Bulge (Invited) 09:50 10:30 Gail Zasowski: The Milky Way s Disks (Invited) 10:30 10:50 Guillaume Guiglion: The AMBRE Project: r-process elements in the Milky Way thin and thick discs 10:50 11:20 Coffee Break 11:20 11:40 Diane Feuillet: Mapping the Age-metallicity relation with APOGEE and Gaia 11:40 12:00 Sven Buder: Chemodynamics with the GALAH survey 12:00 12:20 Avrajit Bandyopadhyay: First results from HESP-GOMPA (Galactic survey Of bright Metal Poor stars) survey 12:20 13:20 Lunch Break 13:20 14:00 Piercarlo Bonifacio: The metal-poor halo and CEMP stars (Invited) 14:00 14:20 Jonay I. González Hernández: Discovery of two new extremely ironpoor dwarf stars in the Galactic halo 14:20 14:40 Kim Venn: High Resolution Spectral Analyses of Metal-Poor Stars in the CFHT Pristine Survey 14:40 15:00 Charli Sakari: R-Process-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way Halo 15:00 15:20 John Donor: Updates from the Open Cluster Chemical Abundance and Mapping (OCCAM) survey 15:20 15:50 Coffee Break

2 15:50 16:30 David Yong: A review on globular clusters (Invited) 16:30 16:50 David M. Nataf: Clues to Chemical Evolution in Current and Former Globular Cluster Stars 17:10 17:30 Xudong Gao: Abundance trends in open clusters 17:30 17:50 Mikhail Kovalev: NLTE analysis of stellar clusters Tuesday, Nov. 27, Session II: Observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies 09:00 09:40 Ása Skúladottír: Heavy elements in dwarf Speroidals (Invited) 09:40 10:00 Sten Hasselquist: APOGEE Chemical Abundances of the Large Magellanic Cloud 10:00 10:20 Jennifer Wojno: [Fe/H] and [α/fe] Abundance Measurements from the SPLASH Survey 10:20 10:40 Moritz Reichert: The role of neutron star merger in dwarf galaxies 11:10 11:50 Giuseppina Battaglia: Chemodynamics of dwarf Spheroidals (Invited) 11:50 12:10 Christian Hayes: The Chemical Abundance Profile of the Milky Way's Accreted Halo 12:10 12:30 Aldo Mura Guzman: Tracing the evolution of the Milky Way's stellar population(s) using fluorine Session III: Stellar Evolution 13:30 14:00 Raphael Hirschi: Stellar Evolution (Theory). (Invited) 14:00 14:30 Andreas Korn: Stellar Evolution (Observations) (Invited) 14:30 14:50 Ivan Cabrera-Ziri: Evidence for changes in He in stars with homogeneous CNO: challenging the role of the hot-cno cycle in the Hevariations in globular cluster stars 14:50 15:10 Raghubar Singh: Enhancement of Li in red giants 15:10 16:00 NON-conference, breakouts 16:00 16:30 Coffee Break Session IV: Nucleosynthesis

3 16:30 17:30 Almudena Arcones: Heavy elements formation in various formation sites (Invited) Wednesday, Nov. 28, Session V: Theory of the r-process, Neutron-Star Mergers 09:00 09:40 Stephane Goriely: Neutron star mergers and the robustness of the r- process(es) (Invited) 09:40 10:00 Shinya Wanajo: Nucleosynthesis in the ejecta of neutron star mergers and kilonovae 10:00 10:20 Oliver Just: Neutrino transport in models of neutron-star mergers and supernovae 10:20 10:40 Marius Eichler: Theoretical r-process sites and their signatures 11:10 11:30 Sho Fujibashi: Mass Ejection from Remnants of Binary Neutron Star Mergers 11:30 12:10 Thomas Janka: State-of-the-art supernova modeling (Invited) 12:10 12:30 Sabrina Gronow: Double detonations of sub-chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs 13:30 14:10 Kate Maguire: Observations of various types of Supernovae and how they affect GCE (Invited) 14:10 14:30 Anders Jerkstrand: Diagnosing the nucleosynthesis production of supernovae 14:30 15:10 Dan Maoz: Binary mergers, SNe Ia, and their role in GCE (Invited) 15:10 15:30 Gabriele Cescutti: Dwarf galaxies: a lab to investigate the neutron capture elements production 15:30 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 16:20 Freeke van de Voort: Neutron capture elements in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies

4 16:20 16:40 Emanuele Spitoni: Galactic Archaeology with asteroseismic ages: the role of a delayed infall of gas in chemical evolution models 16:40 17:00 Derek Homeier: Atmospheres and Opacities of Cool Dwarf Stars 17:00 18:00 Poster Session 18:30 19:30 Conference Dinner 19:30 20:30 Falk Herwig: 3D1D hydro-nucleosynthesis simulations of convectivereactive nucleosynthesis for yields and galactic chemical evolution 20:30 21:30 ALL - Wrap-up Thursday, Nov. 29, Session VI: Galactic Chemical Evolution 09:00 09:40 Nikos Prantzos: GCE of heavy elements (Invited) 09:40 10:00 Benoit Coté: Neutron Star Mergers Might Not be the Only Source of r-process Elements in the Milky Way 10:00 10:20 Valeria Grisoni: Chemical evolution models for the Milky Way thick and thin discs 10:20 10:40 Jan Rybizki: GCE with Chempy: transforming stellar physics into abundances and vice versa 11:10 11:50 Pascale Jablonka: GCE of dwarf galaxies from a theoretical point of view (Invited) 11:50 12:10 Yutaka Hirai: Understanding the Enrichment of Heavy Elements by Galactic Chemo-Dynamical Evolution Models 12:10 13:10 Lunch Break 13:10 13:50 Karl-Friedrich Thielemann: Nucleosynthesis across the Galaxy (Invited) 13:50 14:10 Ralf Schönrich: Making the merger r-process possible in chemical evolution Session VII: Observational Surveys 14:10 14:30 R. Michael Rich: Abundance Trends in the bulge and Galactic Center: The view on the doorstep of large surveys 14:30 14:50 Michael Hanke: ATHOS - a cross survey tool for determining stellar parameters 14:50 15:10 Ditte Slumstrup: Systematic Differences in Spectroscopic Analysis

5 15:10 15:30 Bertrand Lemasle: Spectroscopic diagnostics for Cepheids as stellar tracers for Galactic chemical evolution 15:30 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 16:20 Valeriy Vasilyev: Non-LTE oxygen line formation in 2D RHD simulations of cepheid atmospheres 16:20 16:40 Poster Talks 16:40 18:00 SOC reviews Friday, Nov. 30, :15 10:00 Maria Lugaro: The s-process and grains (Invited) 10:00 10:20 Ina Kristine Berentsen Kullmann: Nuclear impact on astronomical processes: a first experimental constraint on the s-process 191 Os(n,γ) branch-point reaction rate 10:20 10:40 Diego Vescovi: The major neutron source in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars 11:10 11:40 Richard Stancliffe: Stellar Evolution and CEMP stars (Invited) 11:40 12:10 Carlo Abate: Stellar Evolution and CEMP stars (Invited) 12:10 12:30 Jacqueline den Hartogh: S-process in rotating AGB stars 13:30 14:20 Sergio Cristallo: s-process from metal-poor AGB stars and the effect of rotation (Invited) 14:20 14:40 Carolyn Doherty: s- & i-process element production in rotating massive/super-agb stars 14:40 15:10 Coffee Break 15:10 15:40 Chiaki Kobayashi: Galactic chemical evolution of neutron capture elements 15:40 16:10 Georges Meynet: Angular momentum transport, chemical mixing and nucleosynthesis 16:10 17:00 Poster talks and final discussions

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