[mesa-users] KASC6 Early-bird, abstracts, and invited speakers

Wed Apr 10 04:08:33 EDT 2013

Dear all,

- EXTENDED EARLY-BIRD FEE:

Due to the slight delay in opening registration for the KASC6
conference, to be held 23-28 June in Sydney, it has been decided to
extend the Early-bird registration fee deadline by two weeks, to April
14.  Go to kasc6.com

- ABSTRACT SUBMISSION & DEADLINE:

Note that the April 14 date coincides with the deadline for abstract
submissions, and we encourage you to submit your abstract(s) at your
earliest convenience.

- PROGRAMME & INVITED SPEAKERS:

There will be sessions devoted to: solar-type stars; stellar activity
and rotation; red giants; stellar population studies and large
surveys; binaries and clusters; compact pulsators, and classical
pulsators.

The SOC is still finalizing the list of invited speakers. We can
already reveal the following confirmed invited speakers:

Hans Kjeldsen (KASC in the Extended Mission);
Marc Pinsonneault (Future challenges and opportunities with Kepler);
Dave Soderblom (Estimation of ages of stars);
Ken Freeman (Stellar population studies and Kepler asteroseismology);
Laurent Gizon (PLATO2.0);
George Ricker (TESS);
Luca Casagrande (Estimation of fundamental stellar parameters);
Andrej Prsa (Binary star studies with Kepler);
Mike Ireland (The future of ground-based observations in the Kepler era);
Jeffery Smith (Status and future plans of the Kepler Science pipeline);
Benoit Mosser (Asteroseismology of red giants with Kepler);
Daniel Huber (Asteroseismology of Kepler exoplanet host stars);
Jennifer Johnson (APOGEE, and the APOKASC collaboration);
Victor Silva Aguirre (Tests of stellar interior physics with Kepler);
Rafael Garcia (Estimation of stellar rotation periods from Kepler data);
Travis Metcalfe (Stellar activity studies with Kepler);
Karsten Brogaard (Cluster studies with Kepler);
Jim Fuller (Theory of tidally excited oscillations and tidal 
interactions);
JJ Hermes (Asteroseismology of compact pulsators);
Peter Papics (Observations of classical pulsators with Kepler);
Maryline Briquet (Tests of stellar interior physics with classical 
pulsators);
Simon Murphy (Pulsations of A and F-type stars)

On behalf of the LOC
--
Dennis Stello

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Dennis Stello wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> You have received this email because your as MESA user are likely to be 
> interested in:
> Stars (including stellar structure and evolution), Stellar populations 
> (including galaxy evolution and open clusters), or Exoplanets, which are all 
> themes of the next Kepler conference held in Sydney 23-28 June 2013.
>
> Apologies if you have received this announcement more than once.
>
> Please forward this announcement to colleagues and students at your
> institution that might be interested in attending this Kepler conference.
>
> ======================>   ANNOUNCEMENT   <========================
>
> Registration is now open for the conference, KASC6: 'A New Era of Stellar 
> Astrophysics with Kepler'.  Early-bird registration fees will apply to all 
> payments made before the end of 30 March 2013.  For more information please 
> go to kasc6.com.
>
> For your convenience our first announcement is included in this email (see 
> below).
>
> We have received significant sponsorship deals which has resulted in 
> substantial subsidies towards registration fees (especially for students) and 
> tickets for the conference dinner.
>
>
> One of our sponsors (White Dwarf Research Corp.) has made a special 
> initiative aimed at supporting postdocs/early-career researchers (<5 years 
> since PhD).
>
> -------------White Dwarf Research Corp. ECR Sponsorship--------------
> White Dwarf Research Corp. is proud to co-sponsor KASC6 in Sydney.  With your 
> help, WDRC will provide additional sponsorship to KASC6 to support partial 
> reimbursement of registration fees for non-student early-career scientists 
> (<5 years since PhD).
>
> As you may know, WDRC sponsorship is funded by the Pale Blue Dot project 
> (http://whitedwarf.org/palebluedot). Much of the revenue from this program 
> (~$1000/mo.) comes from keyword-based advertising sponsored by Google.
> For the period March 1 - April 30, all revenue collected by the Pale Blue
> Dot project through a unique link that is unrelated to Google advertising
> will be used to provide partial reimbursement of registration fees for
> early-career scientists who give a talk or poster at the meeting. Please
> register at the regular rate, and you will be partially reimbursed at the
> meeting.
>
> There are two things that you can do to promote the Pale Blue Dot project
> during this period: (1) recommend the program through your offline and
> online social networks, noting that you will be a direct beneficiary of
> the funds raised; and (2) contact your local media outlets, using the
> recent example of Kepler-37 to describe the Kepler mission and how this
> non-profit program will help you attend the annual KASC meeting.
>
> If you would like to establish such a unique link that you can use to
> promote the project (and claim the resulting revenue), please
> contact Travis Metcalfe (travis at whitedwarf.org) to set one up.
> Thanks, and good luck!  Travis Metcalfe (WDRC)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Dennis Stello (chair LOC)
> Tim Bedding
> Othman Benomar
> Charles Kuehn
> Simon O'Toole
> Tim White
>
> -------------------------------
> DENNIS STELLO | Senior Lecturer
> School of Physics A28 | Faculty of Science
>
> THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
> Rm225, K90 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
> T +61 2 9036 5108  | F +61 2 9351 7726
> E stello at physics.usyd.edu.au  | W http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~stello/
>
>
>
> -------------------------- FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ---------------------------
>
> Dear all,
>
> KASC6: A New Era of Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler
> 23-28 June 2012 Novotel Sydney Central (ex Citigate), Sydney
>
> We are please to announce that the next big Kepler conference will be in
> Sydney, 23-28 June 2013.  The conference will be open to anyone (no
> membership of particular science teams required), and we particularly
> welcome participants from the Australian astronomical community.
>
> The main themes of the conference will be Stellar structure and evolution,
> Stellar activity and rotation, Binary stars, and connections to Extrasolar
> planets, but we welcome any abstracts submission that are related to Kepler 
> data.  We seek abstract submissions on both theoretical and observational 
> aspects.
>
> This event offers a great opportunity to establish new links within
> research fields that have experienced dramatic progress in recent years
> due to space missions like Kepler, particularly stellar astrophysics
> and planet science.
>
> Conference website: kasc6.com
>

-- 
Dennis Stello