20-24 Jan 2014 Saint Andrews (United Kingdom)

Program

— MONDAY —

10:00 - 10:30 : COFFEE

  • 10:30 - 10:35 : Welcome address (Jardine)
  • 10:35 - 11:15 : the Bcool snapshot survey (Marsden)
  • 11:15 - 11:55 : The evolution of surface magnetic fields in young solar-type stars (Folsom)

11:55 - 13:30 : LUNCH

  • 13:30 - 14:10 : An X-ray signature of increasing magnetic topology complexity on the pre-main sequence (Gregory)
  • 14:10 - 14:30 : Long term magnetic variability of the young solar analogue HN Peg (Boro Saikia)
  • 14:30 - 14:50 : ZDI monitoring of epsilon Eridani (Jeffers)
  • 14:50 - 15:10 : Surface mapping of the young solar analogue AP 149 (Brown)

15:10 - 15:40 : TEA

15:40 - 16:30 : DISCUSSION

18:15 : Whisky tasting in the physics building staff common room

 

— TUESDAY —

09:30 - 10:00 : COFFEE

  • 10:00 - 10:30 : Evolution of stellar magnetism: observational constraints (Vidotto)
  • 10:30 - 11:00 : Angular momentum evolution model for low mass stars (Gallet)
  • 11:00 - 11:30 : Magnetic giants (Petit)
  • 11:30 - 12:00 : Spectropolarimetric observations of mira stars (Lèbre)

12:00 - 13:30 : LUNCH

  • 13:30 - 14:00 : Magnetism of very-low-mass stars: are we observing dynamo bistability? (Morin)
  • 14:00 - 14:30 : Ionising atmosphere of Brown Dwarfs (Helling)
  • 14:30 - 15:00 : PolarBase (Petit)

15:00 - 15:30 : TEA

15:30 - 16:30 : DISCUSSION

19:30 : Dinner at Forgan’s Restaurant in town

 

— WEDNESDAY —

09:30 - 10:00 : COFFEE

  • 10:00 - 10:20 : Improving Stellar Wind Braking Laws (Reville)
  • 10:20 - 10:40 : The Influence of Cool Stellar Winds on Galactic Cosmic Rays (Rimmer)
  • 10:40 - 11:10 : Stellar activity and exoplanet detection (Jeffers)
  • 11:10 - 11:30 : On the effects of stellar winds on the magnetospheres and potential habitability of exoplanets (See)
  • 11:30 - 12:00 : Cyclotron Maser Radio Emission from Astrophysical Sources: Theory and Scaled Laboratory Experiment. (Vorgul)

12:00 - 13:30 : LUNCH

  • 13:30 - 14:00 : exoplanet transit variability (Llama)
  • 14:00 - 14:20 : ZDI of the Sun (Collier Cameron, TBC)
  • 14:20 - 14:50 : Benchmarking Zeeman-Doppler imaging with MHD direct numerical simulations (Morin)
  • 14:50 - 15:20 : Coronal dynamical evolution in response to enhanced surface shear - the case of the missing prominences (Mackay)

15:20 - 15:50 : TEA

15:50 - 16:30 : DISCUSSION

 

— THURSDAY / FRIDAY —

Focused discussions on specific sub-projects. Program to be defined.

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