Cosmic Abundances  
6/17/04-6/19/04  


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—Last revised June 15


Thursday, June 17th

7:45-8:30
Registration   map
Hyatt Hill Country Room
8:30-9:00
Welcoming Remarks
Hyatt Hill Country Room
President, Provost & Dean of the College of Natural Sciences

S e s s i o n  1  (chair Frank Bash)
9:00-9:30
Introduction, Historical Remarks   abstract
Nicolas Grevesse
9:30-10:00
Solar Photospheric Elemental Abundances: That was Then, This is Now   abstract
Christopher Sneden & James E. Lawler
10:00-10:30
Solar Abundances: Model Atmospheres, Line Formation and Other Obstacles   abstract
Martin Asplund
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break, Poster Viewing
Hyatt Big Bend Room

S e s s i o n  2  (chair Johannes Andersen)
11:00-11:30
Light Elements in Main Sequence Stars: Li, Be, B, C, O   abstract
Ann Merchant Boesgaard
11:30-12:00
Trends and Scatter of Abundance Ratios Among Metal-Poor Turnoff Stars   abstract
Poul-Erik Nissen
12:00-12:30
Status of Abundance Determinations for Low Mass Dwarfs and Subdwarfs   abstract
Suzanne Hawley
12:30-14:00
LUNCH BREAK
Hyatt Big Bend Room

S e s s i o n  3  (chair Sunetra Giridhar)
14:00-14:30
Massive Stars: Chemical Abundances and Yields in Models with Rotation and Magnetic Fields   abstract
André Maeder
14:30-15:00
Rotational Mixing in Massive Stars   abstract
Kim Venn
15:00-15:15
Poster Session Overview
Caty Pilachowski (Chair)
15:15-16:00
Coffee, Poster Viewing

S e s s i o n  4  (chair Tom Barnes)
16:00-16:30
Galactic Metallicity Gradients Derived from OB Stars   abstract
Katia Cunha
16:30-17:00
Anomalous Abundances in Red Giant Stars   abstract
Suchitra C. Balachandran
18:30-22:00
Buses to Dinner Party hosted by
Prof. and Mrs. David Lambert

 
   

Friday, June 18th

S e s s i o n  5  (chair Chris Sneden)
8:45-9:15
Mixing Along the Red Giant Branch: Where do we Stand?   abstract
Corinne Charbonnel
9:15-9:45
Stellar Abundances Along the Horizontal Branch   abstract
Bradford Behr
9:45-10:15
Nagging Problems in the Structure and Nucleosynthesis in AGB Stars   abstract
John Lattanzio
10:15-11:00
Coffee, Poster Viewing

S e s s i o n  6  (chair Howard Bond)
11:00-11:30
AGB Stars: The Atmospheric View   abstract
Bertrand Plez
11:30-12:00
Mapping Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars via High-Resolution Spectroscopy   abstract
Verne V. Smith
12:00-12:30
Observing Binary Star Evolution at the AGB and Beyond   abstract
Kenneth Hinkle
12:30-14:00
LUNCH BREAK

S e s s i o n  7  (chair Inese Ivans)
14:00-14:30
Surface Compositions of RCRBs and Extreme Helium Stars - Some Connections   abstract
Kameswar Rao
14:30-15:00
Results and Prospects for Distance Measurement by Means of Binary Stars   abstract
Jocelyn Tomkin
15:00-15:30
The Binary Scenario for Chemical Peculiarities in Stars: History, Successes and Challenges   abstract
Alain Jorissen
15:30-16:00
Coffee, Poster Viewing

S e s s i o n  8  (chair John Lattanzio)
16:00-16:30
The Composition of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, and Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution   abstract
Andrew McWilliam
16:30-17:00
Progress on the Lambert Problem   abstract
David Arnett
17:00-17:30
Asymmetric Supernovae: New Physics and Implications for Nucleosynthesis   abstract
J. Craig Wheeler
18:30-19:30
Reception
Foot Hills II Room
19:30-21:00
Banquet
Foot Hills II Room
 
   

Saturday, June 19th

S e s s i o n  9  (chair Caty Pilachowski)
9:00-9:30
Neutron Cross Sections: Clues for s-Process Nucleosynthesis   abstract
Franz Käppeler
9:30-10:00
The Lambert-Bridge Between Stars and Molecules   abstract
Uffe Graae Jörgensen
10:00-10:30
Coffee, Poster Viewing

S e s s i o n  10  (chair Verne Smith)
10:30-11:30
General Discussion
11:30-12:00
Conclusions; Future Perspectives
David Arnett, David Lambert




POSTER PAPERS

  1. Abundance Survey of M and K Dwarf Stars
    Vincent M. Woolf & George Wallerstein

  2. AGB stars in the LMC and SMC
    Jennifer McSaveney, Peter Wood, John Lattanzio, Kenneth Hinkle and David Lambert

  3. The Milky Way as Seen from Apache Point
    C. Allende Prieto, T.C. Beers, R. Wilhelm, H.J. Newberg, & B. Yanny

  4. Neutron-Capture Element Abundances in Halo Stars
    J.J. Cowan and C. Sneden

  5. Infalling Planetesimals in Young Star Clusters
    H.R. Jacobson & C.A. Pilachowski

  6. The Solar Neighborhood in 4 Dimensions
    J. Andersen, B. Nordstrom & M. Mayor

  7. Tc and Other Unstable Elements in Przybylski's Star
    William P. Bidelman

  8. Chemical Compositions of Newly Discovered Extremely Metal-Poor Giants
    Jaehyon Rhee, Inese I. Ivans & Andrew McWilliam

  9. Metallicity of the Monoceros Stream from A/F-type Stars
    R. Wilhelm, T.C. Beers, C. Allende Prieto, H.J. Newberg & B. Yanny

  10. An Infrared Survey of Neutron-Capture Elements in Planetary Nebulae
    Nick Sterling & Harriet Dinerstein

  11. The Ratio of Blue to Red Supergiants in Sextans A from HST Imaging
    Robbie Dohm-Palmer and Evan Skillman

  12. Spectroscopic Equilibrium of Iron in Metal-Rich Dwarfs
    Jorge Melendez and Ivan Ramirez

  13. On the Galactic Chemical Evolution of Sulfur
    Nils Ryde and David L. Lambert

  14. Lithium Abundance Survey of Galactic Thin Disk
    David L. Lambert and Bacham E. Reddy

  15. A Large-Sample Sodium and Magnesium Abundance Study in the Globular Cluster M3
    C.I. Johnson

  16. La and Eu Abundances in Galactic Disk and Halo Stars
    J. Simmerer, C. Sneden, J.J. Cowan, J. Collier, V.M. Woolf and J.E. Lawler

  17. The Distance to the Pleiades from HST/FGS Measurements
    B. McArthur, D. Soderblom, E. Nelan, F. Benedict, W. Spiesman, I. Ramirez, B.F. Jones, M. Pinsonneault, G. Torres, D. Latham, O. Franz, and L. Wasserman

  18. A Manganese Abundance Survey of Globular Clusters and Halo Field Stars
    Jennifer Sobeck

  19. The Magnesium Abundances in 52 B Stars: A Test of Metallicity
    L.S. Lybimkov et al.

  20. The Spectrum of Arcturus from the Infrared through the Ultraviolet
    L. Wallace and K. Hinkle