Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 164
This version created on 05 October 2006

Theory, Synthesis, and Future Directions


Donald Terndrup, Ohio State University

During the last decade we have seen a remarkable interplay of theory
and observations, leading to many successes in helioseismology and the
understanding of the evolution of young stars.  Future developments,
especially large parallax surveys, will permit us to investigate many
other types of stars with equal accuracy.  After a review of the
sensitivity of stellar models to the treatment of convection, element
separation processes, and detailed abundance patterns, I will discuss
figures of merit which must be achieved in order to make further
progress.  I will show that it is particularly important to determine
highly accurate temperatures and metallicities over wide swaths of the
H-R diagram.

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