|
Day |
Time |
Speaker / Lead |
Event |
|
SUNDAY |
19:00 |
|
Opening reception & registration |
|
MONDAY |
8:00 |
Beichman, Stauffer |
Opening remarks and welcome |
|
8:20 |
Rebull, van Belle |
Logistics and posters |
|
Helioseismology and Abundances |
|
8:30 |
Pinsonneault |
The Legacy of John Bahcall |
|
8:55 |
Basu |
What has helioseismology taught us about the Sun? |
|
9:20 |
Bedding |
Asteroseismology of solar-like stars |
|
9:45 |
Korn |
Atomic diffusion -- helium, lithium and heavy elements |
|
10:05 |
Break |
|
10:50 |
Allende-Prieto |
The Abundances of oxygen and carbon in the solar photosphere |
|
11:15 |
Ayres |
The Solar Oxygen Problem: Crisis, Catastrophe, or Opportunity? |
|
11:30 |
Drake |
Abundances from Other Means: A Cosmic Chemical Composition Caprice |
|
11:55 |
Schmelz |
Neon Lights Up a Controversy: the Solar Ne/O Abundance |
|
12:15 |
LUNCH |
|
Star Formation (Cores to Disks) |
|
13:35 |
Evans |
Star Formation: From Cores to Disks |
|
14:00 |
Allen |
Spitzer Imaging Studies of Star Forming Regions |
|
14:25 |
Calvet |
Dust evolution and planet formation in disks around young stars |
|
14:50 |
Linsky |
The Eagle Nebula: Pillars of Creation, EGGs, and PMS stars in NGC 6611 |
|
15:05 |
Break |
|
15:50 |
Guedel |
Highlights of the XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular
Cloud (XEST) |
|
16:00 |
Hartmann |
Dynamical Theory of Star Formation |
|
16:30 |
Helou |
The Spitzer Space Telescope Extended Mission |
|
16:50 |
|
Poster viewing and cocktail hour |
|
18:20 |
|
End of day |
|
TUESDAY |
8:30 |
|
Updated instructions; event planning |
|
Brown Dwarfs |
|
8:35 |
Kirkpatrick |
Outstanding Issues in Our Understanding of L and T Dwarfs |
|
9:00 |
Leggett |
Properties of the Coolest Dwarfs |
|
9:25 |
Cushing |
Spitzer Spectroscopy of Ultracool Dwarfs |
|
9:45 |
Cruz |
A New Population of Young Brown Dwarfs |
|
10:00 |
Break |
|
10:35 |
Burgasser |
Subsolar Metallicity Substellar Objects |
|
10:50 |
Barman |
Uncertainties in Brown Dwarf Models |
|
11:15 |
|
Poster viewing |
|
12:00 |
LUNCH |
|
Solar/Stellar Magnetic Fields |
|
13:20 |
Giampapa |
Overview and setting stage |
|
13:25 |
Johns-Krull |
Photospheric Magnetic Field Measurements on Late-Type Stars and Brown
Dwarfs |
|
13:50 |
Donati |
Magnetic topologies of cool stars |
|
14:20 |
Keller |
New observations of the magnetic vector field across the solar disk |
|
14:40 |
Berdyugina |
First detection of molecular circular polarization in starspots |
|
14:55 |
Cheung |
Magnetic flux emergence in the solar photosphere |
|
15:10 |
Break |
|
15:45 |
Splinters (1.5 hours) |
|
Brickhouse |
Spectral Diagnostics of Hot Plasma
from Cool Stars |
|
Steinacker |
The Formation of Low-Mass Protostars
and Proto-Brown Dwarfs |
|
Pinfield |
Mining the Next Generation of Surveys
for Cool Star Science |
|
17:15 |
|
poster viewing and cocktail hour |
|
18:15 |
|
End of day |
|
20:00 |
Wolk |
Great Observatories Special Evening Session |
|
WEDNESDAY |
Testing Stellar Evolutionary Models |
|
8:30 |
|
Announcements |
|
8:35 |
Boden |
Testing Stellar Evolutionary Models Through Interferometric Dynamical
Mass Determinations |
|
8:55 |
Kervella |
Interferometric angular diameters, linear radii and stellar modeling |
|
9:15 |
Hillenbrand |
An Assessment of Empirical Constraints on the Ages and Age Spread
of Stars in Star Forming Regions and Young Clusters |
|
9:40 |
Break |
|
10:15 |
Stassun |
Empirical Constraints on the Structure, Formation, and Evolution
of Young, Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs |
|
10:30 |
Grupp |
How accurately can we determine stellar parameters: The case of Teff in
F and G type stars |
|
10:45 |
Berger |
The Radius-Luminosity Relation from Near-Infrared Interferometry:
New M Dwarf Sizes from the CHARA Array |
|
11:00 |
Chaboyer |
M-Dwarf Stellar Models |
|
11:25 |
Terndrup |
Theory, Synthesis, and Future Directions |
|
11:40 |
|
Wrap-up / Adjorn |
|
11:45 |
|
Excursions: Buses leave hotel 12:15, return between 18:00 and 19:00 |
|
THURSDAY |
8:30 |
Splinters (3 hours plus 0.5 hour break) |
|
Mamajek |
Stellar Ages |
|
Apai |
Disks around Cool Stars and Brown
Dwarfs |
|
Megeath |
Cool Stars in Hot Places |
|
12:00 |
LUNCH |
|
Extrasolar Planets |
|
13:30 |
Pont |
Planet Transits |
|
13:55 |
Fortney |
Infrared Spectra and Light Curves of Hot Jupiters in the Spitzer Era |
|
14:20 |
Aigrain |
The COROT exoplanet programme |
|
14:40 |
Basri |
The Kepler Mission: Terrestrial Exoplanets and Stellar Activity |
|
15:00 |
Break |
|
15:45 |
Laughlin |
Theoretical Perspectives on Planet Formation Models |
|
16:10 |
Valenti |
Metallicities and Planet Formation |
|
16:30 |
|
Poster viewing and cocktail hour |
|
18:00 |
BANQUET |
|
22:00 |
|
End of day |
|
FRIDAY |
8:30 |
|
Final announcements |
|
Stellar Winds and Spins: From Birth Through the Main Sequence |
|
8:45 |
Wolff |
Stellar Winds and the Evolution of Angular Momentum |
|
8:55 |
Cranmer |
Winds of Main-Sequence Stars: Observational Limits and a Path to
Theoretical Prediction |
|
9:20 |
Rebull |
Rotation in Young Stars |
|
9:45 |
Matt |
Understanding the Spins of Young Stars |
|
10:15 |
Break |
|
10:45 |
Splinters (2.25 hours) |
|
Beichman |
Habitability and Life on Planets
around Cool Stars |
|
Jayawardhana |
Sub-Stellar Twins: Binarity in Brown
Dwarfs |
|
Jardine |
Coronal Structure of Pre-Main
Sequence Stars |
|
2:00 |
|
End of meeting picnic at Caltech |
