From Atoms to Stars:

the impact of Spectroscopy on Astrophysics

26th-28th July 2011, Oxford, UK

Programme

Click on the talk or poster title to see the abstract.

Monday 25th July
19:00Welcome reception in College
Tuesday 26th July
9:00-9:30Registration/coffee
9:30-9:35Welcome on behalf of Organising Committee
9:35-10:20Invited talk - P. Judge "Professor Dame Carole Jordan DBE, FRS, FInstP, ... a remarkable career"
10:20-11:00Coffee (Physics Department)
11:00-11:45Invited talk - George Doschek "Atomic Physics, UV - X-ray Solar Spectroscopy, and Carole Jordan" - Presentation
11:45-12:30Invited talk - Juliet Pickering "Laboratory spectroscopy for astrophysics applications" - Presentation
12:30-13:45Lunch (Physics Department, buffet)
13:45-14:10Brian Fawcett "Contributions to a Renaissance of Research from an Oxfordshire Research Group."
14:10-14:55Invited talk - Vincenzo Andretta "Helium line emission - Its relation to atmospheric structure" - Presentation
14:55-15:20Giulio Del Zanna "Spectroscopic plasma diagnostics for the XUV" - Presentation
15:20-16:00Tea (Physics Department)
16:00-16:45Invited talk - Jan-Uwe Ness "Application of X-ray Plasma Diagnostics to Nova Winds" - Presentation
16:45-17:30Jan Robrade "Neon and oxygen in stellar coronae - a unification with the Sun" - Presentation
Wednesday 27th July
9:00-9:45Invited talk - Tom Ayres "Those Cool Stars: So Hot Right Now" - Presentation
9:45-10:30Invited talk - Rachel Osten "Sleuthing the Sun and Stars Using A Multi-Wavelength Spectroscopic Approach"
10:30-11:10Coffee(Physics Department)
11:10-11:35Terry Forbes "Theoretical Predictions for the Spectral Evolution of EUV Flare Emissions" - Presentation
11:35-12:00Helen Mason "Active Region Observations with Hinode/EIS" - Presentation
12:00-12:25Jaroslav Dudik "Impact of nonthermal tails and nonthermal distributions on solar flare plasma diagnostics" - Presentation
12:25-13:30Lunch (Physics Department, buffet)
Group Photograph to be taken
13:30-14:15Invited talk - Louise Harra "The structure of the solar atmosphere" - Presentation
14:15-15:00Invited talk - Viggo Hansteen "3D models and loop observables from the Transition Region and Corona"
15:00-15:40Tea (Physics Department)
15:40-16:25Invited talk - G. Harper "From emission measures to line formation, from fluorescence to structure, and from energy balance to physics: red giant atmospheres revealed - Carole Jordan style." - Presentation
16:25-16:50Keiichi Ohnaka - "Spatially resolved high-resolution spectroscopy of the CO first overtone lines in the red supergiant Betelgeuse with VLTI/AMBER" - Presentation
Conference Dinner
19:00Conference dinner in Somerville College
After dinner speaker: Len Culhane
Thursday 28th July
09:00-09:25Gaitee Hussain: "Stellar magnetospheres and magnetic braking" - Presentation
09:25-10:10Invited talk - Alex Brown "FUV-Fluoresced Molecular Hydrogen Emission: From Simple Beginnings on the Sun and T Tauri to an Exceptional Physical Diagnostic of Protoplanetary Structure and Evolution" - Presentation
10:10-10:40Coffee(Physics Department)
10:40-11:25Invited talk - Jeff Linsky "Results from the Deepest UV Spectra of Pre-main Sequence Stars" - Presentation
11:25-12:10Invited talk - Summary/perspective - A. Dupree - Presentation
12:10Concluding remarks
Buffet lunch in Physics Department
Conference Ends at Lunchtime

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