17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun

June 24-29, 2012
Splinter Sessions

Organizers: Peter Allen (F&M/U. Penn), Trent Dupuy (CfA/Harvard), and Adam Kraus (IfA/Hawaii)
Title: Multiplicity of Cool Dwarfs

Website: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~tdupuy/cs17
SOC liaison: Keivan Stassun



Organizers: Dániel Apai (U Arizona), Stanimir Metchev (SUNY), Jacqueline Radigan (U Toronto)
Title: Clouds in Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets

Website: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/metchev/CS17_clouds/index.html
SOC liaison: Nader Haghighipour



Organizers: Rainer Arlt (AIP) , Alfio Bonanno (INAF), Klaus G. Strassmeier (AIP), Stefan Czesla (U. Hamburg), Klaus Huber (U. Hamburg)
Title: Stellar differential rotation in theory and observation

Website: http://www.aip.de/en/research/research-area-cmf/cosmic-magnetic-fields/mhd/cs17-splinter
SOC liaison: Jurgen Schmitt



Organizers: John Bochanski (Penn State), Suzanne Hawley (U. Washington)
Title: Determining the Ages of Low–Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: Calibrating Empirical Relations, Exploring Benchmark Systems, and Developing a Theoretical Underpinning of Stellar and Sub-Stellar Evolution

Website: http://tinyurl.com/cs17ages
SOC liaison: Suzanne Hawley



Organizers: Adam Burgasser (UCSD), Jacqueline Faherty (U. Chile), Sarah Schmidt (U. Washington), Andrew West (Boston University), Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio
(CAB-INTA, Spain)
Title: Kinematics of Ultracool Dwarfs

Website: http://pono.ucsd.edu/~adam/browndwarfs/cs17/
SOC liaison: John Stauffer



Organizers: Eric Hilton (U. Hawaii), Barbara Rojas-Ayala (AMNH), Sebastien Lépine (AMNH), Eric Gaidos (U. Hawaii), Andrew Mann (U. Hawaii)
Title: M Dwarf Stars in the Light of (Future) Exoplanet Searches

Website: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/hilton/CS17splinter/
SOC liaison: Jeff Valenti



Organizers: Viki Joergens (ITA/MPIA), Juan Alcalá (INAF-OAC), Thomas Henning (MPIA), Antonella Natta (INAF) , Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar (UAM), Emma Whelan (DIAS)
Title: Disks, accretion and outflows of brown dwarfs

Website: http://www.mpia.de/homes/joergens/cs17splinter.html
SOC liaison: Beate Stelzer



Organizers: J. Davy Kirkpatrick (Caltech), Michael Cushing (U. Toledo), Christopher Gelino (Caltech)
Title: Furthering our Understanding of the Solar Neighborhood using WISE

Website: http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/davy/CS17/index.shtml
SOC liaison: Hugh Jones



Organizers: María Jesús Martínez González (IAC, Spain), Stephen Marsden (James Cook University, Australia)
Title: Polarisation and magnetic fields in cool stars and the Sun

Website: http://www.iac.es/congreso/cs17spectropol
SOC liaison: Klaus Strassmeier



Organizers: Søren Meibom (CfA, USA), Ansgar Reiners (IAG, Germany), and Jonathan Irwin (CfA, USA)
Title: Angular Momentum Evolution of Cool Stars: Toward a Synthesis of Observations and Theory Before and After the ZAMS

Website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~smeibom/cs17ss.html
SOC liaison: Leslie Hebb



Organizers: Julien Morin (IAG, Germany), Denis Shulyak (IAG, Germany), Ansgar Reiners (IAG, Germany), and Moira Jardine (U. St. Andrews, Scotland)
Title: Multiple Views of Magnetism in Cool Stars

Website: http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~jmorin/cs17_magnetism
SOC liaison: Ilaria Pascucci



Organizers: Katja Poppenhaeger (Hamburg Observatory), Hans Moritz Gunther (CfA)
Title: Non-thermal processes in coronae and beyond

Website: http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/cs17xraynonthermal/index.html
SOC liaison: Andrea Dupree