Program

Session Format

This splinter session consists of:

  • One invited review talk (20+3 minutes each)
  • Contributed talks (10+2 minutes each, 10 talks selected from submissions)
  • 1-minute Poster Pop-ups (10 quick-presentations with 1 slide)
  • Panel Discussion (25 minutes) - Brief summary and open discussion on the topics related to the splinter

Panel Discussion - Meet the Panelists

  • Prof. Kevin R. Covey — Western Washington University, USA
  • Prof. David Montes — UCM, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and IPARCOS-UCM, Spain
  • Dr. Stephanie T. Douglas — Lafayette College, USA
  • Dr. Loredana Prisinzano — INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy

    • Tentative Schedule

    Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
    14:00 – 14:02 Brief Introduction
    14:02 – 14:25 Kevin R. Covey Western Washington University Review on Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of Open Clusters
    14:25 – 14:37 Phil Van-Lane University of Toronto Age inference from photometric light curves using open clusters as calibrators
    14:37 – 14:49 Emily Pass Massachusetts Institute of Technology The spindown of fully convective M dwarfs: the view from clusters and binaries
    14:49 – 15:01 Andrew Boyle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Uncovering the Greater Pleiades Complex with the TESS All-Sky Rotation Survey
    15:01 – 15:13 Mackenna L. Wood Museum of Science & Innovation, Tampa The Age of the Volans-Carina Moving Group
    15:13 – 15:25 Federica Chiti Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii Do K-Dwarfs Really Stop Spinning Down? Insights from Zeeman Doppler Imaging of Hyades Stars
    15:25 – 15:30 Poster pop-ups set 1
    15:30 – 16:00 — Coffee Break —
    16:00 – 16:12 Fábio Carneiro Wanderley Observatório do Valongo Magnetic Fields of M Dwarfs Across Different Ages: The Pleiades, Hyades, and Planet-Hosting Stars
    16:12 – 16:24 Lyra Cao Vanderbilt University Time Evolution of Magnetic Starspots in Open Clusters
    16:24 – 16:36 Natalie R. Myers Johns Hopkins University No Universal Chemical Clock: Testing Age–Abundance Relationships with Subgiant Stars
    16:36 – 16:48 Lagarde Nadège Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux Red giants as stellar clocks: are [C/N] ratios misleading us?
    16:48 – 17:00 Leslie Moranta Université de Montréal Discovering Nearby Open Clusters with Gaia: New Benchmarks for Stellar Age and Rotation
    17:00 – 17:05 Poster pop-ups set 2
    17:05 – 17:30 Panel Discussion and Wrap-up

    Posters

    Poster No. [ePoster] Speaker Affiliation Poster Title
    — Poster pop-ups set 1 —
    P1185 David Gruner Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) Rotational ages for 300'000 stars from Kepler, Gaia, ASAS-SN, and NGTS
    P1178 Amanda Ash Ohio State University Old Partially-Convective Stars disagree with Solar Scalings
    2047 Daniela Muñoz Giraldo Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Tübingen (IAAT) Volans-Carina, An X-ray Bridge Between Younger and Older Stellar Populations
    P1008 Yaguang Li University of Hawaii Mass Loss on the Red Giant Branch Decreases with Metallicity Suggesting an Operating Interior Magnetic Dynamo
    P2010 Desmond Dsouza Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) Wide binaries as "mini-clusters" to study the intrinsic scatter of activity in cool stars
    — Poster pop-ups set 2 —
    2048 João Victor Corrêa-Rodrigues Institut für Astronomie & Astrophysik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen New insights on the Canis Major star-forming region: an eROSITA view
    P1039 Loredana Prisinzano INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy Dating Cool Stars with Neural Networks and Spotted Models. Tracing the Star Formation History in the Local Bubble
    P1005 George Dufresne Dartmouth College The Absolute Age of NGC 6791: An Old, Metal-Rich Benchmark ​for Galactic Archaeology and Asteroseismology
    P2227 Dominic Couture University of Montreal Kinematic Ages of the Tucana–Horologium, Columba, and Carina Associations
    P1049 Beatrice Caccherano Queen Mary University of London Pushing gyrochronology to younger ages using open clusters
    — Other Posters related to the Splinter session —
    P1173 Deepak Chahal Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Photometric Activity Cycles in Open Clusters
    P2230 Alex Hughes Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Rotation in seven young open clusters within the LOPS2 PLATO field
    P1207 Natalie R. Myers Johns Hopkins University Characterizing Galactic Neutron Capture Gradients with Open Clusters
    P1169 Andrew Boyle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Uncovering the Greater Pleiades Complex with the TESS All-Sky Rotation Survey