Program

BCool Meeting Vienna 2016

15-17 February 2016

Programme

Monday 15 February 2016

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Welcome and overview – Pascal Petit

Session 1: Habitability:

14:00 – 14:30 Manuel Güdel: Pathways to Habitability: from disks, to active stars, planets and life

14:30 – 15:00 Lin Tu: Stellar high-energy luminosity evolution for pre-main sequence and main-sequence stars

15:00 – 15:30 Jonti Horner: Which ExoEarths should we search for life?

Afternoon Tea

16:00 – 17:00Stephen Marsden:Institute Seminar: Magnetic Imaging of Cool Stars

Tuesday 16 February 2016

Session 2: Exoplanet host stars

09:00 – 09:30 Matthew Mengel: The Magnetic Fields of Planet-Hosting Stars

09:30 – 10:00 Belinda Nicholson: Temporal variability of the wind from the star Tau Bootis

Session 3: Magnetic cyles

10:00 – 10:30Sandra Jeffers: Understanding magnetic cycles in the BCool dataset

Morning Coffee

11:00 – 11:30 Sudeshna Boro Saikia:Surpising Solar-like cycles on 61 Cyg A

11:30 – 12:00 Victor See: What can we learn about stellar activity cycles from ZDI?

Session 4: Models / Interpretation

12:00 – 12:30 Moira Jardine: Timescales for coronal evolution of solar-like stars

12:30 – 13:00 Discussion

Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Lisa Lehmann: A Closer Look on Azimuthal Magnetic Fields of Cool Stars

14:30 – 15:00 Oleg Kochukhov: The uniqueness problem of ZDI with Stokes V spectra. Lessons from tau Sco inversions

Afternoon Tea

15:30 – 16:00 Julien Morin: Explaining the coexistence of large-scale and small-scale magnetic fields in fully convective stars

16:00 – 16:30 Nicolas Fabas: Magnetic fluxes in M dwarfs through atomic and molecular lines

16:30 – 17:00 Volkmar Holzwarth: The joint magnetosphere of the binary system YY Gem

17:00 –17:30 Discussion

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Session 5: Stellar winds

09:00 – 09:30 Colin Johnstone: Stellar rotational evolution on planetary atmospheres in single and binary star systems

09:30 – 09:45 Aline Vidotto: Could a change in magnetic field geometry cause the break in the wind-activity relation?

09:45 – 10:15 Jacquie Viladsen: The Role of Stellar Magnetic Fields in Radio Emission from Flare Stars

10:15 – 10:45 Carolyn Brown: Prominence effects on Habitability

Morning Coffee

Session 6: Young and active stars

11:15 – 11:45 Colin Folsom: Evolution of surface magnetic fields in young solar type stars

11:45 – 12:15 Lisa Rosen: Investigating the magnetic fields of young solar-twin stars

12:15 – 12:45 Victor Reville: 3D simualtions of young stars winds constrained by spectropolarimetric maps

12:45 – 13:15 Discussion

Lunch

Session 7: Evolved stars

14:30 – 15:00 Ana Palacious: 3D MHD simulations of the magnetic red giant star POLLUX

15:00 – 15:30 Andreas Kuenstler: Starspot evolution on the red giant star XX Triangulum

Afternoon Tea

16:00 – 16:30 Benjamin Tessore: Spectropolarimetric study of cool evolved stars

16:30 – 16:45 Discussion

16:45 – 17:00 Closing comments – Petit