COOL STARS 22
24–28 June 2024, San Diego, California, USA
The "Cambridge Workshops on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research.
We reserve the right to make adjustments to the schedule.
| Time | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 6/23 | 6/24 | 6/25 | 6/26 | 6/27 | 6/28 | |
| Topic | New Insights into Star Formation and Evolution | Milky Way-scale Science and Big Data | The Sun and Cool Stars in the Time Domain | Cool Stars as Stellar Systems | Brown Dwarfs and Giant Exoplanets: Future Prospects and Thirty Years of Discovery | |
| 08:00-08:45 | Registration & welcome address | |||||
| 08:45-09:15 | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | |
| 09:15-10:00 | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Frank Shu in memoriam | Coffee break + Posters | Coffee break + Posters | Coffee break + Posters | Coffee break + Posters | |
| 10:15-10:50 | Coffee break + Posters | |||||
| 10:50-11:25 | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | Invited Talk | |
| 11:25-12:30 | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | Contributed Talks | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Concluding remarks & Picnic | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Splinter sessions | Splinter sessions | Excursions | Splinter sessions | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Networking & Professional Development Early Career Researcher Event | |||||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break + Posters | Coffee break + Posters | Banquet | |||
| 16:00-17:30 | Splinter sessions | Splinter sessions | ||||
| 17:30-18:00 | Posters | Posters | ||||
| 18:00-18:30 | Conference Reception & Pre-registration | |||||
| 18:30-19:00 | ||||||
| 19:00-20:30 | ||||||
| 20:30-21:00 | ||||||
| 22:00-22:00 |
The meeting will cover the following five science themes:
Recent advances in observational and theoretical tools allow us to now study star formation age ages and scales previously unavailable to astronomers. Radio and IR instruments routinely penetrate to depths on 100 Av. Meanwhile, interferometric techniques are resolving angular size to a few milli-arcsecs. These tools put us on the precipice of directly testing theoretical principles of the flow of matter from the molecular cloud through the disk down to the star…and back out again. We focus in this session on stars from just before the onset of Class 0 to the very end of Class II (user-defined).
The gathering and analysis of Milky Way-scale samples of stars is already underway, but the available data will expand dramatically in the next few years with the full Gaia dataset, Rubin/LSST, Euclid, and Roman. What new science will emerge from these datasets? How can these datasets be exploited? What additional data is needed? What tools need to be developed to analyze the data?
We are entering a new era of continuous monitoring of the Sun and other cool stars. Kepler, K2, and TESS have provided new views of stellar activity cycles, seismology, and explosive events on scales previously not accessible. In situ, high spectral resolution, and spatially-resolved data of the Sun and its immediate environment have shown how the temporal regime is necessary to understand the physical processes responsible for its variability, and by extension, the variability of other stars. Many unsolved problems remain in the time-domain, from the origin of activity cycle variability and angular momentum evolution over long timescales, to the physics of transient explosive events such as flares of all sizes, and coronal mass ejections. In this session, we focus on the origin and manifestation of the time-dependent physical processes in cool stars and the Sun, and we invite contributions in both theoretical and observational areas.
This session aims to put cool stars in the context of stellar systems. It includes all aspects of the creation and interactions of cool stars: their fundamental properties, their multiplicity at close and wide separations, their chemical abundances, their magnetic fields, and activity. The session also includes cool stars as hosts of planetary systems and/or disks and their interactions.
Cool Stars 9 in 1995 marked the first definitive detections of both brown dwarfs and exoplanets, with the announcements of Teide 1, GL 229 B, and 51 Pegasi b all occurring in the same year. The past 30 years have led to extraordinary growth in the fields of brown dwarf and exoplanet science. The spectral classes L, T, and Y have been defined and refined. A theoretical framework has been developed, centered on our growing understanding of chemistry and clouds in substellar atmospheres. However, many open fields of research remain. How do atmospheric dynamics shape chemistry, clouds, and weather? How are brown dwarf magnetic fields driven, and to what extent do they differ from cool stars and giant planets? How do brown dwarfs form, and how can we infer their formation mechanisms from atmospheric compositions or other properties? What is the nature of planetary systems around cool stars and brown dwarfs? In this session, we will present a retrospective view of the immense progress made over the past three decades, discuss the wealth of data coming from new facilities such as JWST, and look forward to exciting prospects of future facilities (ELTs, space missions such as the Nancy Roman Space Telescope, and more) in terms of unraveling the mysteries of substellar objects.
We are excited to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to give plenary talks at Cool Stars 22!
We are excited to announce that the following contributed speakers have been selected to give plenary talks at Cool Stars 22!