Cool Stars 20.5 - virtually cool on March 2-4 2021
in Memory of John Stauffer
The "Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research.
Daily synchronous sessions via a Zoom webinar. These sessions will be 3 - 4 hours long (with breaks), and will be held from ~17:00 to 20:00/21:00 UTC. The webinars will be recorded, and uploaded to the Cool Stars 20 Youtube channel after the conference is over.
| CET | UTC | EST | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| 02 March 2021 | 03 March 2021 | 04 March 2021 | |||
| Stellar systems, clusters, and associations | The Sun and the Heliosphere | Post main sequence cool stars | |||
| 18:00-19:00 | 17:00-18:00 | 12:00-13:00 | Plenary session | Plenary session | Plenary session |
| 19:00-19:15 | 18:00-18:15 | 13:00-13:15 | Plenary session (Haikus) | Plenary session (Haikus) | Plenary session (Haikus) |
| 19:15-19:45 | 18:15-18:45 | 13:15-13:45 | Plenary session | Plenary session | Plenary session |
| 19:45-20:00 | 18:45-19:00 | 13:45-14:00 | Coffee break + Posters | Coffee break + Posters | Coffee break + Posters |
| Young stars | The Sun - Very low mass stars | Globular clusters and Main Sequence stars | |||
| 20:00-21:00 | 19:00-20:00 | 14:00-15:00 | Plenary session | Plenary session | Plenary session |
| 21:00-21:15 | 20:00-20:15 | 15:00-15:15 | Plenary session (Haikus) | Plenary session (Haikus) | Plenary session (Haikus) |
| 21:15-22:00 | 20:15-21:00 | 15:15-16:00 | Plenary session | Plenary session | Plenary session |
| 22:00-23:00 | 21:00-22:00 | 16:00-17:00 | Topical interest room 1, 2, 3 / social meeting | Topical interest room 4, 5, 6 / poster session | Topical interest room 7, 8, 9 |
Small changes in scheduling could still happen. Check back here.
We will host a virtual Social Hour (Tuesday), and a virtual Poster Session (Wednesday) during the Topical Interest Room times (4-5PM EST). These events will be hosted using Gather.Town, a virtual environment that runs in your web browser with a 90’s video game feel. The link to join will be circulated to registered attendees. Gather.Town allows attendees to walk around, play games, and video chat with those nearby. We’ve found this platform is fun, easy to use, and helps capture some of the magic of “bumping into colleagues” that we all miss! See the poster page for details on the poster session.
Invited talks are 24 + 6 min, contributed talks 12 + 3 min. See above for the timing of haiku sessions and coffee breaks.
Invited talks are 24 + 6 min, contributed talks 12 + 3 min. See above for the timing of haiku sessions and coffee breaks.
Invited talks are 24 + 6 min, contributed talks 12 + 3 min. See above for the timing of haiku sessions and coffee breaks.
youtube haiku session 1 | youtube haiku session 2
youtube haiku session 3 | youtube haiku session 4
youtube haiku session 5 | youtube haiku session 6
To facilitate collaboration on subjects of common interest we plan to host a number of "topical interest rooms" for about an hour at the end of each day's session. Unlike "Splinter sessions" in traditional Cool Stars conferences, a "topical interest room" does not have a list of speakers or presentations, but just a minimal agenda with maybe 3-5 subtopics to discuss. Anybody is free to share slides and data in a working group format. Possible discussion topics should be broad enough to be of general interest and narrow enough that a science goal could be effectively discussed in no more than one hour.
Zoom links will be included in email to registered participants.
Recording on youtube
Recording on youtube
This is for people with open positions to describe them. We suggest dditional conversations in slack. If any one has a job to offer, let us know by email to cs20@cfa.harvard.edu.