›The 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun
Topic 1: Fundamental Parameters of Cool Stars and Brown Dwarfs
- Atmosphere models and observations
- Interior models and the observational Mass-Radius-Luminosity relation
- Angular diameters
- Metallicities
- Binaries
Topic 2: Formation and Evolution of Cool Stars and Brown Dwarfs
- Evolutionary models
- Disks around Low-Mass stars and Brown Dwarfs
- T-Tauri and star formation regions
- Accretion
- Winds, jets and mass loss
Topic 3: Magnetic Fields, Activity, and the Solar-Stellar Connection
- Helio- and astero-seismology
- Solar and stellar dynamos, magnetic fields generation and topologies,
- spectro-polarimetry
- Variability: solar and stellar flares, solar irradiance variability and sources of stellar jitter
- Solar/stellar coronal heating: theory and observations
- Solar and stellar winds, mass loss, and angular momentum evolution
Topic 4: Evolved Stars and Hot-Cool Star Connection
- Red giants / super-giants fundamental parameters
- Chemistry and rotation of evolved (cool) stars
- Coronae and winds in hot stars: similarities and differences with cool stars
- Magnetic fields in hot stars: similarities and differences with cool stars
Topic 5: Cool Stars as Exoplanet Hosts
- Planet Formation around Cool Stars and Brown Dwarfs
- Planet searches/studies around cool stars and brown dwarfs; current results and limitations
- Effect of the host stars on the planets; exoplanetary atmospheric propertiesand habitability
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