SCHEDULE
Available for download: the abstract book, with schedule (PDF)Sunday, June 8
Evening : Opening Reception
Every day, June 9-13
Continental breakfast available at HCCC at 7:30am
DAY ONE: June 9 - Cool Star Formation, Structure and Evolution
Morning : Opening Plenary Session
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| Laurent Gizon (MPS Goettingen) | Helioseismology in a stellar context: from SDO to PLATO |
| Adam Kraus (UT-Austin) | The Fundamental Properties of Cool Stars |
| Daniel Huber (NASA Ames) | Asteroseismology of Cool Stars |
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Contributed speakers: |
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| Ruth Angus (University of Oxford) | Calibrating Gyrochronology using Kepler Asteroseismic Targets |
| Trent Dupuy (University of Texas at Austin) | Testing Models of Substellar Evolution with Dynamical Masses |
| Ilaria Pascucci (LPL/U Arizona) | The EUV Luminosity from Young Cool Stars: Implications for the Dispersal of Protoplanetary Material |
Afternoon : Splinter Sessions:
Cool Cloudy Atmospheres: Theory and Observations (1899 Ballroom)
Cool Stars and Space Weather (HCCC)
Touchstone Stars: empirically determined parameters of cool stars (Prochnow)
DAY TWO: June 10 - Cool Stars as Dynamic Objects
Morning : Plenary Session
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Invited speakers: |
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| Jeff Hall (Lowell Obs.) | Sixty Years (and Counting) of Stargazing: Synoptic Observations of Sun-Like Stars |
| Bart De Pontieu (Lockheed-Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab.) | The Solar Chromosphere and Transition Region as Viewed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) |
| Moira Jardine (Univ. St. Andrews) | The Long and the Short of It: Timescales for Stellar Activity |
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Contributed speakers: |
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| Daniel Apai (University of Arizona) | The Physics and Chemistry of Brown Dwarf Clouds: Results from HST and Spitzer Phase Mapping Programs |
| Kyle Augustson (High Altitude Observatory - NCAR) | Simulations of Cyclical Dynamos and Grand Minima in Sun-like Stars |
| AA Pevtsov (National Solar Observatory) | SOLIS: Reconciling Disk-Integrated and Disk-Resolved Spectra from the Sun |
Afternoon : Splinter Sessions
Galactic Archaeology with Cool Stars (1899 Ballroom)
Magnetic Fields, Dynamos and Aurorae from Brown Dwarfs to Exoplanets (Prochnow)
Stellar surfaces with high spatial and temporal resolution (HCCC)
DAY THREE: June 11 - Cool Star Abundances
Morning : Plenary Session
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Invited speakers: The Cool Stars 18 Debate: "The Ins and Outs of Solar Abundances", Martin Asplund (ANU) & Marc Pinsonneault (OSU) |
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Contributed speakers: |
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| Natalie R Hinkel (San Francisco State University) | Variations in the Composition of Cool Stars |
| Michael Line (UCSC) | Determination of Temperatures and Abundances in Brown Dwarf Atmospheres |
| Andrew West (Boston University) | Wide Stellar Binaries and a Photometric (griz) Metallicity Calibration for Cool Stars |
Afternoon : Free time
Tours to Grand Canyon, DCT/Anderson Mesa, Sedona, Walnut Canyon
Evening: Public lecture
Lucianne Walkowicz (Princeton),
"Kepler and the Exoplanet Revolution"
Sponsored by
The Barringer Crater Company
DAY FOUR: June 12 - Cool Stars as Planet Hosts
Morning : Plenary Session
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Invited speakers: |
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| Kaitlin Kratter (U. Arizona) | Planet (or binary?) Formation Around Cool Stars |
| Nuccio Lanza (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania) | Star-Planet Interactions |
| Guillem Anglada-Escude (Queen Mary University of London) | Planetary Systems Around Cool Stars : a Window Towards Characterization of Small Planets |
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Contributed speakers: |
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| Megan Ansdell (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) | The Intrinsic UV Luminosity Distribution of M Dwarf Stars |
| Antoine Strugarek (Université de Montréal) | Close-in Planets and Magnetic Torques: What Impact on Stellar Evolution? |
| James Davenport (University of Washington) | Using Transiting Planets to Model Starspot Evolution |
Afternoon : Splinter Sessions
The accretion process in young stars (1899 Ballroom)
Portraying The Hosts: Stellar Science from Planet Searches (Prochnow)
Upgrading the Solar-Stellar Connection: news about activity in Cool Stars (HCCC)
Evening: Conference Banquet
DAY FIVE: June 13 - Observational Frontiers
Morning : Closing Plenary Session
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Invited speakers: |
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| Sofia Randich (INAF - Osservatorio di Arcetri) | The Gaia-ESO Survey |
| Fabienne Bastien (Vanderbilt) | Observing Convection in Cool Stars through Light Flicker |
| Carsten Denker (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam) | Progress in High-Resolution Solar Physics |
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Contributed speakers: |
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| Tabetha Boyajian (Yale) | Size Matters |
| Jacqueline Faherty (Carnegie Institution of Washington) | Young Brown Dwarfs at the Exoplanet Mass Boundary |
| Viki Joergens (Max-Planck-Institut for Astronomy) | The Coolest 'Stars' are Free-Floating Planets |