This Special Session will bring together the different wavelength regimes of high angular resolution observatories with astronomers from the low- and high-mass evolved star community. This combines observations at optical and infrared wavelengths with the VLT and VLTI with observations in the millimeter/submillimeter with arrays such as ALMA and cm-wave interferometry. We want to review the recent observational results, stimulate a discussion on how to combine the results with theory, and consider their implications for our understanding of late stellar evolution.

Programme

• Stars and stellar atmospheres
• Circumstellar envelopes and mass loss
• Proto-planeray nebulae and planetary nebulae

Invited speakers

• Andrea Chiavassa (Laboratoire Lagrange - Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
• Leen Decin (KU Leuven)
• Pierre Kervella (CNRS UMI FCA/Observatoire de Paris)
• Carmen Sànchez Contreras (Center for Astrobiology (INTA/CSIC))
• Markus Wittkowski (ESO)

Scientific organisers
Matthias Maercker (chair, Chalmers, Sweden), Claudia Paladini (ULB, Belgium), Elvire De Beck (Chalmers, Sweden), Valentin Bujarrabal (OAN-IGN, Spain), Eric Lagadec (OCA, France), Anita Richards (JBCA, UK)

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