Program June 22 - 27, 2008.
Sunday June 22
18:00-20:00 Welcoming reception
And registration in the park of the old observatory where the
Astronomy department was located until the year 2000.
Monday June 23
Symposium location: Auditorium Minus at the University Museum Gustavianum.
Time alotted is 40 minutes for "Review" talks and 25 minutes for
other talks. This includes time for follow-up questions. The titles of some talks are preliminary.
08:30 Registration
09:00 Session 1, Retrospective, Chair: Bengt Edvardsson
| Martin Asplund | | Welcoming remarks (SOC chair) | 10 |
| David Lambert | | BG's Stellar Journey | 40 |
09:50 Session 2, Stellar atmospheres, Chair: Bengt Edvardsson
| Bertrand Plez | | MARCS model atmospheres | 40 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee | |
11:00 Session 2, continued, Chair: Uffe Graae Jørgensen
| Åke Nordlund | | Stellar (magneto-)convection | 40 |
| Remo Collet | | 3D models of metal-poor stars | 25 |
| Bernd Freytag | | Models of surface convection and dust clouds in brown dwarfs | 25 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 Session 2, continued, Chair: Anja Andersen
| Wolfgang Hayek | | First 3D radiative transfer with scattering for domain-decomposed MHD simulations | 25 |
| Susanne Höfner | | Hydrodynamical AGB models | 40 |
| Lee-Anne Willson | | Formula, recipe or prescription: Mass loss and stellar evolution | 25 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | |
16:00 Session 3, Solar/stellar spectroscopy, Chair: Kjell Eriksson
| Andreas Korn | | Non-LTE line formation | 40 |
| Frederic Thevenin | | Stellar spectroscopy in preparation for Gaia | 25 |
| Bengt Edvardsson | | Observed vs predicted stellar flux distributions | 25 |
17:30 End of day 1
Tuesday June 24
09:00 Session 3, continued, Chair: Rainer Wehrse
| Mats Carlsson | | 3D radiative transfer | 40 |
| Maria Bergemann | | Non-LTE abundances of Mn and Co | 25 |
| Carlos Allende Prieto | | Observational take on 3D + non-LTE effects | 25 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee | |
11:00 Session 3, continued, Chair: Jeff Linsky
| Göran Scharmer | | Observations of the solar atmosphere | 40 |
| Dan Kiselman | | 3D solar models vs observations | 25 |
| Nikolai Piskunov | | Doppler imaging | 25 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 Session 4, Anything but astrophysics, Chair: Sigbritt Ernald (program in Swedish)
| Claes-Bertil Ytterberg | Biskop | Varför tystade Hedenius teologerna? | 30 |
| Anna Schytt | Vetenskapsjournalist | Kosmos i "dumburken" - om att visualisera det komplexa och abstrakta för TV. | 30 |
| Gunnar Eriksson | Idé- och lärdomshistoriker | Gudar, stjärnor och atomer från Epikuros till Flammarion. Om hur vetenskapsmän och andra använt dem. | 30 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | |
16:00 Session 4, continued, Chair: Nils Bergvall (program in Swedish)
| Merete Mazzarella | Författare och litteraturvetare | Linjer mellan stjärnor. Att berätta liv. | 30 |
| Chrichan Larson | Cellist och kompositör | Musik av Iannis Xenakis, Presentation om musikens struktur och Etos i förhållande till Xenakis musik.
| 30 |
| Joakim Palme | Sociolog och statsvetare | Framtidsstudier på Institutet för framtidsstudier. | 30 |
18:00 Bengt's and Sigbritt's Reception in the Botanical Gardens
(just west of the Castle). Small concert with Mats Bergström, guitar.
20:00 End of day 2
Wednesday June 25
09:00 Session 5, Stellar parameters, Chair: Roger Bell
| Mike Bessell | | Photometric methods for stellar parameter determinations | 40 |
| Luca Casagrande | | Infrared flux method and colour calibrations | 25 |
| Anna Önehag | | Strömgren photometry from MARCS models | 25 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee | |
11:00 Session 5, continued, Chair: Johannes Andersen
| Poul Erik Nissen | | Spectroscopic methods | 40 |
| Paul Barklem | | Hydrogen lines | 25 |
| Leen Decin | | Spectrophotometric calibration from optical to IR | 25 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 Session 6, Stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, Chair: Francesca Primas
| Achim Weiss | | Stellar nucleosynthesis | 40 |
| Don VandenBerg | | Temperatures, colors, and ages from stellar evolutionary computations | 25 |
| Lars Mattsson | | Origin of carbon revisited: Winds of carbon stars | 25 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | |
16:00 Session 6, continued, Chair: Harm Habing
| Hans Olofsson | | Observations of circumstellar matter | 40 |
| Kjell Eriksson/Rurik Wahlin | | Carbon stars | 25 |
| Patrick de Laverny | | AGB carbon stars and RCrB variables | 25 |
17:30 End of day 3
Thursday June 26
09:00 Session 7, Stellar populations, Chair: Ulrike Heiter
| Sofia Feltzing | | Galactic disk | 40 |
| Beatriz Barbuy | | Abundances in the galactic bulge | 40 |
| Nils Ryde | | The galactic bulge: the VLT/CRIRES perspective | 25 |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee | |
11:15 Session 6, continued, Chair: Alejandra Recio-Blanco
| Norbert Christlieb | | Galactic halo | 40 |
| Anna Frebel | | The chemical composition of the first stars | 25 |
| 12:20 - 12:45 | Transport to the river | |
13:00 NEW departure time! Boat/bus excursion to
Skokloster and Sigtuna, brown-bag lunch at self-cost price on board, dinner at
Sigtunastiftelsen and buses back to Uppsala.
~22:00 End of day 4
Friday June 27
09:00 Session 7, Stellar populations, continued, Chair: Anne Boesgaard
| Ana Garcia Perez | | A new sample of extremely metal-poor stars | 25 |
| Hans-Guenter Ludwig | | Extremely metal-poor stars from the SDSS | 25 |
| Torgny Karlsson | | Early cosmic chemical evolution | 25 |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Coffee | |
11:00 Session 7, continued, Chair: Martin Asplund
| Rolf Kudritzki | | Extragalactic astronomy with the brightest stars in the Universe | 40 |
11:40 Session 8, Summary, Chair: Martin Asplund
| Bengt Gustafsson | | Symposium summary | 40 |
12:20 End of symposium
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