Several decades have passed since the early attempts to describe the stars, when the pioneers of stellar evolution modelling made tremendous efforts to replicate Sun's evolution and comprehend the colour-magnitude diagrams of star clusters. While the first attempts were confined to main sequence and giant stars, the advent of highly performing computers allowed for the modelling of more advanced phases, extending to the AGB, post-AGB, and the white dwarf cooling sequence. These significant steps forward were made possible by improvements in understanding the physical mechanisms most relevant to shaping the stellar interiors and driving stellar evolution, such as convection, opacities, mass loss, gravitational settling, and rotation.
These studies laid the ground for extending the results from stellar evolution modelling to other fields of Astronomy, including the study of stellar populations in clusters, Galactic Archeology, and ultimately paved the way for the development of modern Asteroseismology. This field has demonstrated a key role in accurately determining the masses and ages of tens of thousands of stars across the Milky Way.
The conference will provide the opportunity to bring together experts from different fields of research to discuss the most recent developments and opportunities arising from the synergy between studies on the evolution of stars, their oscillation properties, and stellar populations. The starting point will be the exploration of the last frontiers reached along the way to understanding the interiors of stars .The debate will then shift to the tight connection between stellar structure and Asteroseismology, and the discussion of the role of stellar models and yields as essential ingredients required to interprete star clusters and address the field of Archeology. The contribution from ongoing and future space missions, such as Kepler, Tess, Gaia and Plato, will be also addressed.
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