Welcome

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.

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We are excited to announce that Cool Stars 23 will be held in Tokyo, Japan!

Splinter sessions are going to be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoon (the dates listed are nominal and subject to change until 3 months prior to the conference). There will be three splinter sessions in parallel. These sessions are organized separately from the main conference. Each splinter session will have its own website with contact information for contributors. The websites will be linked from the splinter session title in the list below when they are available. Splinter session organizers can set their own deadlines for contributions to their sessions.

Monday
- Learning from the Coldest Worlds in the era of JWST
  Jackie Faherty (American Museum of Natural History); Aaron Meisner (NSF NOIRLab)
- The Creation and Destruction of Lithium in Cool Stars
  Julio Chanamé (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile); Robin Jeffries (Keele University); Sarah Martell (University of South Wales); Marc Pinsonneault (The Ohio State University)
- Unraveling the Magnetic Fields of (Sub)-Stellar Systems
  Robert Kavanagh (ASTRON); John Sebastian Pineda (University of Colorado Boulder); Mary Knapp (MIT Haystack Observatory)
Tuesday
- The Solar Neighbourhood: the Importance of being Complete
  Céline Reylé (Besançon Observatory); Davy Kirkpatrick (IPAC/Caltech); Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi (Amherst College); Ricky Smart (INAF-OATo)
- Solar-Stellar Eruption Analogy: Observations and Models
  Yuta Notsu (University of Colorado Boulder); Kai Yang (University of Hawaii at Manoa); Alison O. Farrish (NASA/GSFC); Graham S. Kerr (NASA/GSFC and Catholic University of America)
- The Buddy System: Utilizing the Wealth of Host Star Data to Inform Substellar Physics
  Emily Calamari (CUNY Graduate Center/American Museum of Natural History); Austin Rothermich (CUNY Graduate Center/American Museum of Natural History)
Thursday
- Planet-Host Cool Dwarfs: Star-Planet Connection and Tracing Planetary Formation and Composition
  Neda Hejazi (University of Kansas); Ian Crossfield (University of Kansas); Natalie Hinkel (Louisiana State University); Diogo Souto (Federal University of Sergipe); David Coria (University of Kansas); Emilio Marfil (Hamburger Sternwarte); Yakiv Pavlenko (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias); Katia Cunha (University of Arizona); Zachary Maas (Indiana University); and Zhoujian Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Exoplanet Space Weather around Cool Stars
  Donna Rodgers-Lee (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies); Carolina Villarreal D'Angelo (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba); Gopal Hazra (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Stefano Bellotti (Leiden University)
- Magnetic Fields in the Sun and Low-mass Stars
  Paul I. Cristofari (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); Andrea K. Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Klaus G. Strassmeier (Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam); Jean-François Donati [Université de Toulouse, CNRS)

Splinter session proposals (submissions closed)

Splinter sessions were solicited from the community in November 2023. This process is now closed, but the original solicitation can be found below for reference

The CS22 SOC invites the community to propose splinter sessions on current hot topics. Proposals for splinter sessions can be made by individuals or groups of individuals. At this time, we are planning on ~9 splinter sessions with the option of hosting a 90 or 180 minute session. The splinter organizers will have access to abstracts of potential contributions submitted on the abstract form.

Splinter organizers should be prepared to produce and maintain a website that includes the schedule and speakers, and describes opportunities for people to participate in the session. The splinter websites will be linked from the main CS22 website, so all meeting participants are aware of the splinter sessions and can make informed choices about which sessions they wish to attend. A complete program for each splinter should be online six weeks prior to the meeting, that is by May 6th, 2024 - and hopefully earlier.

Any splinter session proposal should include the following:

Title
Names of the session organizers with primary contact information; names of co-organizers if appropriate
Estimate of small (50-100 people), medium (100-200), or large (200+ people) session
Selection of time allocation, either 90 or 180 minutes
Two page summary of the goal of the session, including discussion on why this is a timely and relevant topic for CS22
List of potential speakers, and a plan for how additional speakers will be solicited (Note that CS22 follows a "one person - one talk" rule. Plenary speakers cannot give a talk in a splinter session, nor can one person present in more than one splinters session.)
Proposed Splinter format that includes a description on how the audience will be involved
Commitment to set up a website in support of the splinter, with a complete program online by May 6th, 2024
Commitment to contribute a summary of the session for the proceedings

Deadline for splinter session proposals is November 17, 2023. Instructions for splinter proposal submissions can be found at this Google Form.

We plan to announce accepted splinter sessions by early-January, 2024, and will provide links to your splinter session website for attendees to submit contributions to your splinter as soon as possible.

Please do not propose splinters that are too similar to the five main morning sessions (see the conference program) if you wish to maximize your chances of success.