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
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 | Federica Chiti | Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii | Do K-Dwarfs Really Stop Spinning Down? Insights from Zeeman Doppler Imaging of Hyades Stars |
| 15:01 – 15:13 | Andrew Boyle | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Uncovering the Greater Pleiades Complex with the TESS All-Sky Rotation Survey |
| 15:13 – 15:25 | Mackenna L. Wood | Museum of Science & Innovation, Tampa | The Age of the Volans-Carina Moving Group |
| 15:25 – 15:30 | Poster pop-ups | ||
| 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 | ||
| 17:05 – 17:30 | Panel Discussion and Wrap-up | ||