KITP Conference: The Milky Way and its Stars: Stellar Astrophysics, Galactic Archaeology, and Stellar Populations

KITP Conference: The Milky Way and its Stars: Stellar Astrophysics, Galactic Archaeology, and Stellar Populations
(Feb 2-6, 2015)
Coordinators: Jo Bovy, Charlie Conroy, Juna Kollmeier, Marc Pinsonneault


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Monday, February 02, 2015
	Stars: Inside, Out, Around, and About, Chair: Jo Bovy (IAS)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP Director)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Andrey Kravtsov (Univ. Chicago)	The Milky Way in the cosmological context[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)	Stellar populations in the Milky Way and galaxy formation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am		Discussion
10:30am	Morning Break
	Stars: Inside, Out, Around, and About
11:00am	Léo Girardi (INAF)	Stellar evolution and stellar populations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Daniel Huber (Sydney)	Asteroseismology with red giants[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm		Discussion
12:30pm	LUNCH Break
	Stars: Forming, Exploding, Colliding, Streaming, Chair: Charlie Conroy (Harvard)
2:00pm	Johannes Andersen (NBI)	Early enrichment mechanisms of the heaviest and lightest elements[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:15pm	Steven Bloemen (Radboud Univ.)	Gravitational wave sources and the hunt for their electromagnetic counterparts using the BlackGEM array[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	David Nidever (Univ. Michigan)	Tracing chemical evolution over the extent of the Milky Way's disk with APOGEE red clump stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Diane Feuillet (NM State Univ.)	Unraveling the chemical history of the solar neighborhood with giants[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Alexia Lewis (Univ. Washington)	The spatially-resolved recent star formation history of M31[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
3:15pm		Discussion
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
	Stars: Forming, Exploding, Colliding, Streaming
4:00pm	Branimir Sesar (MPI)	Orbit of the Ophiuchus stream[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:15pm	Denis Erkal (Univ. Cambridge)	The growth of gaps in tidal streams[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Andres del Pino Molina (Copernicus)	Stellar populations and kinematics of the Fornax dSph galaxy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm		Discussion
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
	Current Surveys and What We Hope to Learn From Them: I
9:00am	Anthony Brown (Leiden Univ.)	The Gaia mission[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Dennis Stello (Sydney)	The K2 mission[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am		Discussion
10:30am	Morning Break
	Current Surveys and What We Hope to Learn From Them: I
	Stars: Inside, Out, Around, and About
11:00am	Conny Aerts (Univ. Leuven)	Asteroseismology of dwarfs and massive stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Nadege Lagarde (Birmingham)	Star quakes in NGC6819: a new tool to understand stellar and galactic evolution[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Peter Papics (Univ. Leuven)	Calibrating the stellar structure and evolution models of massive stars with asteroseismology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Valentina Schmid (Univ. of Leuven)	A mixture of tidally-excited and kappa-driven p and g modes in the Kepler eccentric binary KIC10080943[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm		Discussion
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Rare Stars: Finding them, Exploiting them, Chair: Connie Aerts (Leuven)
2:00pm	Judith Cohen (Caltech)	Outward bound with RR Lyrae stars: Studies of the outer halo of the Milky Way[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:15pm	Kevin Schlaufman (MIT)	The best and brightest metal-poor stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	Presenters	Poster Summaries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
	Rare Stars: Finding them, Exploiting them
4:00pm	Ralph Schoenrich (Univ. Oxford)	Chemo-dynamical modeling of the Milky Way[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Jonathan Bird (Vanderbilt Univ.)	Connecting observed z=0 stellar kinematics and disk formation scenarios with simulated galaxies[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Elena D'Onghia (UW-Madison)	Phase wrapping the Galactic disk and formation of the thick disk[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm		Discussion
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
	Turtles All the Way Down? Chair: Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie Observatories)
9:00am	Anna Frebel (MIT)	The First Stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	James Bullock (UC Irvine)	The Milky Way's halo[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am		Discussion
10:30am	Morning Break
12:30pm	LUNCH Break
2:00pm	FREE AFTERNOON SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, February 05, 2015
	Current Surveys and What We Hope to Learn From Them: II, Chair: Andy Gould (OSU)
9:00am	Sofia Feltzing (Lund Univ.)	Spectroscopic analysis in the context of large surveys[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Maria Bergemann (MPIA)	Chemical abundance analysis in the era of large surveys[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am		Discussion
10:20am	Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (AU)	SONG[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
	Current Surveys and What We Hope to Learn From Them: II
11:00am	Steven Majewski (Univ. Virginia)	The APO Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Martin Smith (Shanghai Ast. Obs.)	The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Birgitta Nordström (NBI)	Stellar archeology in the solar neighborhood[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Luca Casagrande (ANU)	Asteroseismology for Galactic archeology: Bridging two fields[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm		Discussion
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Stars as Probes: Accretion, Ages, Enrichment, Chair: Judy Cohen (Caltech)
2:00pm	Andrew Gould (Ohio State Univ.)	Precision CMDs in the Gaia era[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	Aldo Serenelli (ISS / UAB)	Bayesian Age Estimation From Asteroseismology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Jieun Choi (Harvard)	MIST: MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney)	GALAH and Chemical tagging[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:15pm		Discussion
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
	Stars as Probes: Accretion, Ages, Enrichment
4:00pm	Jennifer van Saders (Carnegie Obs.)	Gyrochronology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Carlo Morossi (INAF/Obs. Trieste)	Bayesian determination of ages of open cluster stars as a method to constrain the MW SFR history[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Sanjib Sharma (Sydney)	Kinematic modeling of the Milky Way using the RAVE and GCS stellar surveys[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm	Andrea Miglio (Birmingham)	Asteroseismology and Galactic populations[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm		Discussion
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, February 06, 2015
	Learning from Debris: Galactic and Metallic, Chair: Joss Bland-Hawthorne (ANU)
9:00am	Julio Navarro (Univ. Victoria)	Cosmological puzzles of the Local Group[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Josh Simon (Carnegie Obs.)	The Milky Way satellites[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am		Discussion
10:30am	Morning Break
	Learning from Debris: Galactic and Metallic
11:00am	Martin Asplund (ANU)	The oldest objects in the Universe: extremely metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge (via telecon)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:15am	David Nataf (Mount Stromlo Observatory)	Correcting for the variable effects of interstellar extinction[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Daniel Weisz (Univ. Washington)	An HST Census of M31 Satellites[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Thomas de Boer (Univ. Cambridge)	The star formation history of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy and streams[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Evan Kirby (Caltech)	Carbon in dwarf spheroidal galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	What Did We Learn Here? Chair: Andrey Kravtsov (Univ. Chicago)
2:00pm	Jo Bovy, Charlie Conroy Juna Kollmeier, Marc Pinsonneault	Summary and discussion[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	CONFERENCE END
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POSTERS
B. Anguiano		Exploring the orbits of the stars via chemical tagging techniques[Poster]
J. Goldstein el al.		Extreme Angular Momentum Transport by Gravity Modes in Slowly Pulsating B Stars[Poster]
Neda Hejazi et al.		Metallicity Distribution of M Dwarfs and Local Galactic Evolution[Poster]
D. Lee et al.		Reconstructing the Stellar Accretion History of the Galactic Halo[Poster]
W. Ngan et al.		Dispersion of tidal debris in the Via Lactea II Halo[Poster]
J. Sobeck et al.		APOGEE-2: The Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment in SDSS-IV[Poster]
C. Wheeler et al.		Hunting for the Smallest Substructures: Ultrafaint Galaxies as Satellites of Known Local Group Dwarfs[Poster]

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Monday, February 02, 2015

Stars: Inside, Out, Around, and About, Chair: Jo Bovy (IAS)

Stars: Forming, Exploding, Colliding, Streaming, Chair: Charlie Conroy (Harvard)

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Rare Stars: Finding them, Exploiting them, Chair: Connie Aerts (Leuven)

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Turtles All the Way Down? Chair: Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie Observatories)

Thursday, February 05, 2015

Current Surveys and What We Hope to Learn From Them: II, Chair: Andy Gould (OSU)

Stars as Probes: Accretion, Ages, Enrichment, Chair: Judy Cohen (Caltech)

Friday, February 06, 2015

Learning from Debris: Galactic and Metallic, Chair: Joss Bland-Hawthorne (ANU)

What Did We Learn Here? Chair: Andrey Kravtsov (Univ. Chicago)

POSTERS