July 29 - Aug 3 2018, Boston / Cambridge, USA

The "Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research.

Video recordings and slides for most talks are posted. See links for each abstract on the abstract page.

Please submit proceedings until November 15th (deadline extended). Check out our detailed instructions.

View abstracts Abstract booklet (pdf)

Splinter sessions are going to be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday afternoon (we have not yet decided which session will take place on which day). There will be three splinter sessions in paralell. These sessions are organized separately from the main conference. Each splinter session will have its own website with contact information for contributors. The websites will be linked from the splinter session title in the list below when they are available. Splinter session organizers can set their own deadlines for contributions to their sessions. Typically the deadlines will be in May.

• Monday
  • Benchmarks, and How to Benchmark Them: Cutting-Edge Science and a Data Challenge for Eclipsing Binary Systems
    Adam Kraus (UT Austin), Leslie Hebb (Hobart & William Smith), Andrew Mann (Columbia), Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt), Guillermo Torres (CfA)
  • Brown Dwarfs, Low–Mass Stars, and Directly Imaged Exoplanets in the Era of Gaia
    Jackie Faherty (AMNH), John Bochanski (Rider), Jonathan Gagne (Carnegie/ DTM)
  • From light curves to rotation periods, and then ages via gyrochronology - where do we stand, and where do we go from here?
    Sydney Barnes (AIP Potsdam), Soeren Meibom (CfA), Jose Dias do Nascimento (UFRM), Silva Jarvinen (Potsdam)
• Tuesday
  • Advances in Computational Astrophysics and the Solar-Stellar-Planetary Connection
    Mark Giampapa (NSO), Madhulika Guhathakurta (NASA/HQ), Marc DeRosa (Lockheed), Jay Bookbinder(NASA/AMES), Derek Buzasi (FGCU)
  • Know Thy Starspot, Know Thy Star
    Garrett Somers (Vanderbilt University), Rachael Roettenbacher (Stockholm University), James Davenport (Western Washington University, University of Washington), Michael Gully-Santiago (NASA Ames)
  • Meter- to Millimeter Emission from Cool Stellar Systems: Latest Results, Synergies Across the Spectrum, and Outlook for the Next Decade
    Peter Williams (CfA) Jan Forbrich (Hertfordshire), Edo Berger (CfA), Manuel Gudel (Vienna), Rachel Osten (HST)
• Thursday
  • Stellar Brightness Variations: building on the solar knowledge
    Gibor Basri (Berekeley), Natalie Krivova (MPS), Alexander Shapiro (MPS), Sami Solanki (MPS), Yvonne Unruh (Imperial), Veronika Witzke (MPS)
  • Solar Physics with the DKIST
    Adam Kowalski (NSO), Gianna Cauzzi (NSO), Valentin (NSO), Pillet (NSO), Mark Rast (CU/LASP), Thomas Rimmele (NSO)
  • Formation and evolution of star clusters in the Gaia Era
    G.G. Sacco (Arcetri) E.Alfaro (CSIC), R. Jeffries (Keele), M. Mapelli (Innsbruck, INAF), E. Moraux (Grenoble), R.J.Parker (Sheffield) N. Wright (Keele), E. Zari (Leiden)

Splinter sessions were solicited from the community in January 2018. This process is now closed, but the original solicitation can be found below for reference

The CS20 SOC invites the community to propose splinter sessions on current hot topics. Proposals for splinter sessions can be made by individuals or groups of individuals. At this time, we are planning on 9 splinter sessions of 180 minutes each to be accommodated in our schedule. The splinter organizers will have access to abstracts of potential contributions submitted on the abstract form.

Splinter organizers should be prepared to produce and maintain a website that includes the schedule and speakers, and describes opportunities for people to participate in the session. The splinter websites will be linked from the main CS20 website, so all meeting participants are aware of the splinter sessions and can make informed choices about which sessions they wish to attend. A complete program for each splinter should be online six weeks prior to the meeting, that is by June 15th, 2018 - and hopefully earlier.

Any splinter session proposal should include the following:

1. Title
2. Names of the session organizers with primary contact information; names of co-organizers if appropriate
3. Two page summary of the goal of the session, including discussion on why this is a timely and relevant topic for CS20
4. List of potential speakers, and a plan for how additional speakers will be solicited (Note that CS20 follows a "one person - one talk" rule. Plenary speakers cannot give a talk in a splinter session, nor can one person talk in more than one splinters session.)
5. Proposed Splinter format that includes a description on how the audience will be involved
6. Commitment to set up a website in support of the splinter, with a complete program online by June 15th, 2018
7. Commitment to contribute a summary of the session for the proceedings

Deadline for splinter session proposals is January 31, 2018. Please submit proposals by mailing a plain text file to cs20@cfa.harvard.edu with the subject line 'Splinter Session Proposal'.

We plan to announce accepted splinter sessions by February 19, 2018, and will provide links to your splinter session website for attendees to submit contributions to your splinter as soon as possible.