PROGRAMME
Monday :: Tuesday :: Wednesday :: Thursday :: Friday

 
Monday, July 1
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10:10 Opening session
   SESSION 1: Present Observational Status
Space and Ground Based Data
10:10 - 10:40 'Space and ground based data for Asteroseismology' - H. Kjeldsen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Present Status for Different Pulsators
10:40 - 11:00 'Present Observational Status of Solar-type stars' - F. Bouchy, Observatoire de Geneve, Switzerland
11:00 - 11:20 'Present Observational Status of the Intermediate Mass Stars: Sct stars, Dor stars and roAp stars' - Don Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire, U.K.
11:20 - 11:40 'Present observational status of high mass pulsating stars' - P. De Cat, University of Leuven, Belgium
11:40 - 12:00 'Advanced post-main Sequence stars' - S. O'Brien, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 ' Scuti pulsations in intermediate mass pre-main sequence stars' - C. Catala, Observatoire de Paris, France
14:20 - 14:35 'Discovery of A New Class of Pulsating Stars: Gravity-mode Pulsators among Subdwarf B Stars' - E.M. Green, Steward Observatory, USA
14:35 - 14:50 'STARE results on a single field: tens of new pulsating stars' - R. Alonso, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Spain
The Sun as a Star
14:50 - 15:10 'The sun as a star' - P. Palle, Institute de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain
15:10 - 16:00 Tea break
   SESSION 2: Asteroseismic Techniques
Mode Identification and Frequency Determination
16:00 - 16:30 'Multicolour photometry for mode identification' - M. Reed, Southwest Missouri State University, USA
16:30 - 17:00 'High-resolution spectroscopy for mode identification' - J. Telting, Nordic Optical Telescope, Spain
17:00 - 17:15 'Mode identification from line profiles using the direct fitting technique' - L.A. Balona, South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa
17:15 - 17:30 'Revisiting the Moment Method as a Mode Identification Technique' - J. De Ridder, Institute of Astronomy Leuver, Belgium
17:30 - 17:45 'An improved photometric mode identification method: applications to Slowly Pulsating B stars, Cephei, Scuti and Doradus stars.' - M.A. Dupret, Université de Liège, Belgium
19:30 Welcome Reception - Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto

 

 
Tuesday, July 2

09:30 - 10:00 'Theoretical clues for mode identification - instability ranges and rotational splitting patterns'
- A. Pamyatnykh, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland
10:00 - 10:30 'Peakbagging for solar-like stars' - T. Appourchaux, ESA, Holand
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:30 'Photometric nonadiabatic observables in rotating Cephei models ' - J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, Astronomical Institute of the Wroclaw University, Poland
11:30 - 11:45 ' Solar-like oscillations in red giants ' -T.R. Bedding
University of Sydney , Australia
11:45 - 12:00 'Are gravity modes found in –Scuti stars?' - M. Breger,
Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 'A new approach to the multiperiodic analysis of massive time series' - M.Bossi, NAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy
Inferring Information from the Frequencies
14:15 - 14:45 'Seismic inference using Monte Carlo explorations of model space' - T. Metcalfe, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
14:45 - 15:15 'Stellar inversions' - S. Basu, Yale University, USA
15:15 - 16:00 Tea break
16:00 - 16:30 'Asteroseismic inference' - D. Gough, Cambridge University, U.K.
16:30 - 16:45 'Inversions for the internal structure of stars using the differential response technique' - I.W. Roxburgh, Queen Mary University of London, U.K.
16:45 - 17:00 'p-mode oscillations of -Cen A: the need for space asteroseismology' - A.Thoul, Université de Liege, Belgium
17:30 Porto City Tour (optional - see details)

 

 
Wednsday, July 3

09:00 - 20:00 Douro Vintage Programme (optional - see details)

 

 
Thursday, July 4

   SESSION 3: Asteroseismic Constraints on Stellar Structure and Evolution
Solar-like and near-main sequence stars
09:30 - 10:00 'Stellar convection' - P. Demarque, Yale University, U.S.A.
10:00 - 10:30 'Stellar Rotation and Internal Angular Momentum Transport' - M. Pinsonneault, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:45 'Are pulsation and magnetic axes aligned in roAp stars?' - L. Bigot, Niels Borh Institute - Astronomical Observatory, Denmark
11:45 - 12:00 'Seismic diagnostics on stellar convection treatment from oscillation amplitudes of p-modes ' - M.J. Goupil, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 'Mixing and diffusion in stars' - S. Vauclair, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, France
14:30 - 14:45 'Of Variability, or its Absence, in HgMn stars' - S. Turcotte, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
14:45 - 15:00 'A study of the solar-like properties of -Hydri' - M.P. Di Mauro , INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy
15:00 - 15:15 'Giant vibrations in dip' - T.C. Teixeira, Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
15:15 - 15:30 'Stochastic excitation of gravity waves by overshooting convection in solar-type stars' - B. Dintrans, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France
15:30 - 16:20 Tea break
Away from the main sequence (childhood and old age)
16:20 - 16:50 'Outstanding issues for post-main sequence evolution' - G. Fontaine, University of Montreal, Canada
16:50 - 17:05 'Hot Subdwarfs: magnetic, oscillatory and other physical properties ' - A. Ulla, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
17:05 - 17:20 'Nonlinearity of nonradial modes in evolved stars' - R.M. Nowakowski, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland
19:00 Conference Banquet

 

 
Friday, July 5

09:30 - 10:00 'Outstanding Issues for Pre-Main Sequence Evolution' - F. Palla, Observatorio de Arcetri, Italy
10:00 - 10:15 'New observational results on PMS Scuti stars' - V. Ripepi, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Italy
10:15 - 10:30 'PMS -Scuti stars: theory versus observations' - M. Marconi, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Italy
10:30 - 10:35 'The Eddington Mission' - I.W. Roxburgh, Queen Mary University of London, U.K.
10:35 - 11:15 Coffee break
   SESSION 4: Closing Section
11:15 - 12:00 'Summary: problems, connections and expectations' - J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark