Topics included

  • Planetary nebulae as tracers of stellar evolution: the giant branch-white dwarf connection; mass loss and stellar winds; binary interactions; eruptive events and transients
  • Planetary nebulae as hydrodynamics events: shaping of stellar winds, dusty winds, jet launching, jet-nebula interaction; the asterosphere; outflow shaping by binary interactions
  • Planetary nebulae as astrochemistry laboratories: molecular evolution; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and fullerenes; dust formation and destruction; photo-dissociation regions
  • Planetary nebulae as abundances decoders: atomic physics; photo-ionization and shocks; the forbidden-line vs recombination line abundance discrepancy; primary elemental production and ISM enrichment
  • Planetary nebulae as unique tools to study the structure and evolution of galaxies: star formation histories, abundance gradients, structural components and dark matter, galaxy dynamics, hierarchical mass assembly