Topics

- new results from large-scale surveys at different wavelengths and techniques for massive stars and supernovae
- new observational techniques and instrumentation for massive stars and supernovae
- the link between massive stars and their deaths (core-collapse and other SNe)
- short-lived phases of massive stars (LBVs, WRs and RSGs) and their characteristics as supernova progenitors
- constraints on the nucleosynthesis production in supernovae and the production of dust
- explosion mechanisms of supernovae and the parameters required for a successful explosion
- well established facts and open problems in our knowledge of massive stars
- challenges to present theoretical models: 2D and 3D models of interior and atmospheres
- massive stars as astrophysical tools: tracing the Milky Way and other galaxies structure; limits to our interpretation of the high-z Universe