The updated Preliminary Scientific Programme schedule is provided below. Invited reviews (I), contributed talks (C), and posters will be presented. Invited reviews are assigned 30 minutes talk plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion, while contributed talks span 15+5 minutes. We would appreciate speakers adjusting the duration of their talks accordingly. The workshop will be divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Five of these time periods will be arranged as plenary sessions with a sequence of talks devoted to a particular topic. These five selected topics are:
The Formation of Stars and Planets
Advances in Solar Physics
Chemical Abundances as Diagnostic of Stellar Structure
Unsolved Problems in Stellar Activity
Impact of Space Missions on Cool Stars
The remaining two time slots will be arranged as parallel discussion sessions. The spirit of the these discussion sessions will the be same as for the last three Cool Stars meetings, with a moderator to organize the session and keep it moving, a panel of "experts" to raise questions and suggest answers, and frequent opportunities for contributions from the audience. During each time slot, there will be two concurrent discussion sessions. The four discussion topics will be:
Magnetic Fields in Cool Stars
Ages, Distances, and the Initial Mass Functions of Stellar Clusters
Understanding the Role of Binarity on Mass Loss and Atmospheric structure in Detached Systems
Prospects of the Research on Cool Stars with Very-Large Telescopes and New Developments in Instrumentation
A third afternoon session will be dedicated to a review by several members of the SOC of a group of posters that they have selected from the display, to promote an open discussion on several topics which can be considered of special relevance in this meeting.
Morning sessions will last from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm, with a 30 min coffee break at 11:00 am. Afternoon sessions will last from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, followed by a coffee/soda service and open time for poster viewing. You can retrieve an ASCII file of this schedule here.
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MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4. PLENARY SESSION 1
- Official opening
(TBC)
THE FORMATION OF STARS AND PLANETS
CHAIR: (TBC)
(I) - Pre-MS evolution of low mass stars
L. W. Hartmann
(I) - Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets
G. Chabrier
(I) - Status of the search for extrasolar planets and future prospects
D. Queloz
(C) - Formation and evolution of circumstellar disks
(TBC)
(C) - New pre-MS evolutionary tracks and planet formation
G. Wuchterl
(C) - Accretion shocks and winds in T Tauri stars
A. I. Gómez de Castro
(C) - The boundary between brown dwarfs and giant planets in sigma Orionis
M. R. Zapatero Osorio
MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 4. DISCUSSION SESSIONS 1 AND 2
AGES, DISTANCES, AND THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTIONS OF STELLAR CLUSTERS
Discussion Coordinator: J. Stauffer
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF BINARITY ON MASS LOSS AND ATMOSPHERIC
STRUCTURE IN DETACHED SYSTEMS
Discussion Coordinator: A. Brown
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TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 5. PLENARY SESSION 2
ADVANCES IN SOLAR PHYSICS
CHAIR: M. Vázquez
(I) - Asteroseismology of the Sun (the Sun as a star):
P. L. Pallé
(I) - Solar structure after neutrinos and helioseismology
D. O. Gough
(I) - The outer layers of the Sun and solar-type stars
C. J. Schrijver
(I) - Solar atmospheric dynamics
R. J. Rutten
(C) - Photospheric structure and spectro-polarimetry
J. Sanchez Almeida
(C) - Photospheric structure from high-angular resolution observations
O. V. D. Luehe
(C) - The variability of the Sun: from the visible to the X-rays
J. Lean
(C) - Helioseismic tomography of solar active regions
A. Kosovichev
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 5. DISCUSSION SESSIONS 3 AND 4
MAGNETIC FIELDS IN COOL STARS
Discussion Coordinator: F. Moreno Insertis
PROSPECTS OF THE RESEARCH ON COOL STARS WITH VERY-LARGE TELESCOPES
AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INSTRUMENTATION
Discussion Coordinator: L. Pasquini
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6. PLENARY SESSION 3
CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES AS DIAGNOSTICS OF STELLAR STRUCTURE
CHAIR: S. Balachandran
(I) - Giant Branch and Asymptotic Giant Branch abundance anomalies
D. L. Lambert
(I) - Convection, angular momentum transport, and mixing mechanisms in
late-type stars
P. Demarque
(I) - Tools for detailed chemical abundance analyses
B. Gustafsson
(C) - Light element abundances in cool stars
E. L. Martín
(C) - Light elements depletion in F- and G-type stars
A. Boesgaard
(C) - A consistent view of the Sun, Galactic clusters and halo stars
S. Vauclair
(C) - Coronal versus photospheric abundances in the Sun and stars
J. Drake
(C) - Effects on convection in line profiles and chemical abundances
M. Asplund
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THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7. PLENARY SESSION 4
UNSOLVED PROBLEMS IN STELLAR ACTIVITY
CHAIR: (TBC)
(I) - Coronal and chromospheric activity in late-type stars
M. Giampapa
(I) - The correlation between activity and stellar rotation
T. Simon
(I) - Latest results in surface imaging
K. Strassmeier
(C) - Magnetic field measurements in K and M stars
S. Saar
(C) - Differential rotation of young low-mass stars
A. Collier-Cameron
(C) - Chromospheric activity in metal-poor dwarfs
R. C. Peterson
(C) - Rotation and magnetic activity in very low mass stars and brown
dwarfs
G. Basri
(C) - From the convection zone to the corona: the missing links
B. Montesinos
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7. POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION
* (TBC)
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FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8. PLENARY SESSION 5
IMPACT OF SPACE MISSIONS ON COOL STARS
CHAIR: A. Title
(I) - Impact of SOHO and Yohkoh on solar physics
P. Brekke
(I) - Coronal physics of cool stars
A. Dupree
(I) - The Hipparcos legacy and late-type stars
M. Grenon
(C) - Winds of luminous stars studied with the HST
G. Harper
(C) - Studies of late-type stars with BeppoSAX
R. Pallavicini
(C) - Latest results from TRACE
L. Golub
(C) - Studies of cool giant stars using GHRS spectra
C. Jordan
- Conference Summary
J. Linsky
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Last modified: Fri Aug 27 19:24:39 WET DST 1999