Programme

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Alvio Renzini (Padova)	Opening remarks
Richard Stancliffe (Cambridge)	Key Talk: Understood, uncertain and unknown physics of super-AGB stars
Falk Herwig (Keele)	The physics of burning and convective mixing in super-AGB stars as a function of metallicity
Pilar Gil-Pons (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)	Evolution of primordial and Z=0.00001 SAGB stars
Herbert Lau (Cambridge)	An Explosive End to Intermediate-Mass Zero-Metallicity Stars
Kurtis Williams (Austin, Texas)	Key Talk: Observational constraints on the most massive white dwarf progenitors
Klaus Werner (Tübingen)	Is the hottest known white dwarf a bare O/Ne stellar core?
Nye Evans (Keele)	Implications for SuperAGB stars from neon novae
Cristina Chiappini (Genève)	Impact of SAGBs in the early chemical enrichment of the Galaxy
Maria Lugaro (Utrecht)	The r+s CEMP stars and AGB supernovae
Stephen Smartt (Belfast)	Key Talk: Observational constraints on the masses of supernova progenitors
Rene Oudmaijer (Leeds)	Properties of post-Red Supergiants
Jeremy Yates (UCL)	Caught in the act - bipolarity in the molecular outflow of the SuperGiant and suspected SN progenitor NML Cyg
Anita Richards (University of Manchester)	Maser clues for super-AGB status
Peter Woitke (Edinburgh)	Understanding the Mass Loss from Red Giant Winds
Gregory Sloan (Cornell)	Distinguishing high-mass evolved stars in the Magellanic Clouds
Alvio Renzini (Padova)	Closing remarks

Poster 1	Dinah Moreira Allen (Hertfordshire)	A comparison between abundances of barium and post-AGB stars
Poster 2	Mikako Matsuura (NAOJ)	Gas and dust outflow from AGB stars