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Massive Stars and Machine Learning, 24 November - 5 December 2025, Valparaíso, Chile


Massive stars are fundamental to understanding the chemical and dynamical evolution of the universe. As they evolve, they release chemically enriched material through powerful winds and eruptions, shaping their surroundings. Studying their physical properties and evolution is crucial, especially considering the impact of binary and multiple systems on their final stages. These stars also play a key role in generating gravitational waves, making them central to current research in multi-messenger astronomy.

Today, researchers rely on both synthetic and observational data to study massive stars. In this context, machine learning has become a powerful tool for identifying patterns, analyzing large datasets, and predicting stellar properties.

Complementing this, astrostatistics provides a rigorous framework to handle uncertainties and validate models, ensuring robust and trustworthy scientific conclusions.

In the frame of OCEANS, we are organizing the Machine Learning and Astrostatistics School: Applications to Massive Stars, hosted in Valparaíso, Chile.

The school will provide a solid introduction to modern data analysis techniques in stellar astrophysics. Through lectures and hands-on sessions, participants will explore how machine learning and statistical methods can be applied to massive stars research, from generating synthetic data to analyzing large-scale observational surveys.

For more information on the school and to register to the event, please visit the dedicated website.






ML-School

Physics of Massive Binaries, September 2027, Czech Republic/Poland

More detailed information will be provided closer to the event.

Workshops

Stellar Evolution, Exoplanets and Dynamics of Stellar Systems (SEEDS), 22-24 April 2026, Córdoba, Argentina

OCEANS members from Argentina are involved in the organization of a meeting to bring together researchers, fellows and students whose work ranges from massive stars in the Milky Way to extragalactic stellar systems and exoplanets. These topics will be addressed from both theoretical and observational perspectives, with the aim of fostering scientific exchange and encouraging future collaborations among participants.

The event will feature keynote lectures, thematic sessions, oral presentations, poster sessions, and informal networking opportunities.

The webpage with all detailed information about the meeting can be found here




Throughout the project period we plan to organize some dedicated workshops for training and knowledge exchange among team members. More detailed information will be provided closer to the event(s).


International Conference

Overcoming challenges in the evolution and nature of massive stars, June 2028, Brazil

An international conference will be organized in the last year of the project, with the aim to communicate and disseminate the project results with the community. Details about the conference will be announced closer to the event.

Consortium Meeting

Mid-Term Review / Project Meeting will be held in 2026 in Córdoba, Argentina

The mid-term meeting will be held in person, with the possibility to join online. Details about the meeting will be announced closer to the event.

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Secondments

Julieta Sánchez Arias from ASU visits UV (1 December 2025 - 31 January 2026)

Enzo Saavedra from IAC visits UNLP (22 November - 23 December 2025 and 9 - 25 January 2026)

Roel Lefever from UHEI visits ICATE (22 November - 21 December 2025)

Elisa Schösser from UHEI visits UMAYOR (21 November - 20 December 2025)

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Ronaldo Levenhagen from UNIFESP presented a seminar talk at the CFO Physics center, 5 November 2025

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SEEDS2026

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Secondment

Michalis Kourniotis from ASU visits UTFSM (4 November 2025 - 3 January 2026)

Communication & Dissemination

Julieta Sánchez Arias from ASU presented a seminar talk at the Charles University in Prague (29 October 2025)

Outreach Activities

Ignacio Araya from UMAYOR participated in the outreach event at the Planetarium in Huechuraba, Santiago (19 October 2025).

Communication & Dissemination

OCEANS members from UV and UMAYOR participated at the SOCHIAS meeting (13-17 October 2025)

Secondments

Carlos Martínez Sebastián from IAC visits UNLP (10 October - 24 November 2025)

Communication & Dissemination

Marcelo Borges Fernandes from ON presented a seminar talk at the Physics Department of the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, in the city of Nilópolis (8 October 2025)

Outreach Activities

Astronomy Week at UANL (6-10 October 2025). See our Activities for more information.

Outreach Activities

Researchers Night at ASU (26 September 2025). See our Activities for more information.

Communication & Dissemination

Pâmela Alves de Oliveira and Aline Bento Teixeira from UNIFESP attended the II Unified Postgraduate Symposium (26 September 2025).

Secondments

Federico Garcia from UNLP visits IAC (26 September - 28 October 2025)

Jorge Ariel Combi from UNLP visits IAC (26 September - 28 October 2025)

Olga Maryeva from ASU visits UANL (24 September - 23 October 2025)

Leila Yamila Saker from UNC-OAC visits ASU (23 September - 22 November 2025)

Communication & Dissemination

Yeisson Osorio and Alba Casasbuenas from IAC attended the 2nd International School on Atomic and Molecular Data Evaluation and Curation at the Universidad de Valladolid (22-24 September 2025).

Alba Casasbuenas from IAC attended the 30th Anniversary congress of the Amateur Astronomy Association of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (17-19 September 2025).

OCEANS members participated at the IAU Symposium 402 (15-19 September 2025) in Ensenada, Mexico.

OCEANS members participated at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Astronomical Association (15-19 September 2025) Mendoza, Argentina.

Federico García and Jorge Ariel Combi from UNLP participated at the eleventh micro-quasar workshop A Microquasar Odyssey: Unveiling the Complexities (15-19 September 2025) at Cefalú, Sicily, Italy.

Secondments

Aldana Alberici Adam from UNLP visits ASU (31 August - 5 November 2025)

Tomás Ansín from UNLP visits IAC (31 August - 29 October 2025)

Elisa Schösser from UHEI visits STScI (15 August - 19 September 2025)

Gemma Gonzalez i Tora from UHEI visits STScI (15 August - 19 September 2025)

Joris Josiek from UHEI visits STScI (15 August - 19 September 2025)

Communication & Dissemination

Marcelo Borges Fernandes from ON participated at the XXIX Encontro Sergipano de Física (XXIX Sergipe Physics Meeting, 6-8 August 2025)

Secondments

Luciana Gramajo from UNC-OAC visits CAMK (29 July - 18 September 2025)

Communication & Dissemination

Michalis Kourniotis, Julieta Sánchez, and Suryani Guha from ASU participated at the 9th TESS/16th Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Workshop (7-11 July 2025), Klosterneuburg, Austria.

Communication Activity

Communication of the OCEANS project during the visit of Czech policy-makers at ASU (27 June 2025).

Summer School

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Communication Activity

Marcelo Borges Fernandes from ON communicated OCEANS during the XII SimFAST meeting (28 - 30 May 2025).

Communication & Dissemination

Leticia V. Ferrero from OAC-UNC participated in the ESO workshop The role of accretion and ejection variability in the evolution of young stars and their disks (19 - 22 May 2025) at the ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany.

Outreach Activities

Information material on OCEANS and on the scientific contribution of ASU team members can be found on our Information page.

Outreach Activities

Open Doors at ASU (16 - 17 May 2025). See our Activities for more information.

Secondments

Gabriel Ferrero from UNLP visits IAC (27 April - 1 July 2025)

Communication & Dissemination

Researchers from ASU participate at the DPG Spring Conference in Göttingen, Germany (31 March - 4 April 2025)

Secondments

Gemma Gonzalez i Tora from UHEI visits UV (3 March - 2 April 2025)

Elisa Schösser from UHEI visits UTFSM (3 March - 2 April 2025)

Roel Lefever from UHEI visits UTFSM (3 March - 2 April 2025)

Leticia Ferrero from UNC-OAC visits ASU (23 February - 16 May 2025)

Gonzalo Holgado from IAC visits UNLP (2 February - 20 March 2025)

Anahí Granada from UNRN visits IAC (20 January - 21 February 2025)

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