TASC5/KASC12 workshop

22-26 July 2019, MIT / Cambridge, USA

• Registration deadline: 11 July 2019


• Welcome reception and badge pick-up: 21 July 2019
• TASC5/KASC12 Workshop dates: 22-26 July 2019
• TESS Science Conference, also at MIT the following week starting 29 July 2019

Time	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	21 July 2019	22 July 2019	23 July 2019	24 July 2019	25 July 2019	26 July 2019
Morning		talks, posters	talks, posters	talks, posters	talks, posters	talks, posters
Afternoon		talks, posters	talks, posters	free time for tourism and TESS tours	talks, posters
Evening	Welcome reception	Astronomer mixer			Conference dinner

29 July to 2 Aug: TESS Science conference: This conference also takes place at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA and might be of interest for TASC5/KASC12 attendees.

A pdf of the schedule can be downloaded here.

Sunday: 7/21/2019

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title
17:30			Registration and Welcome Reception in Ting Foyer at MIT
19:30			End of Welcome Reception

Monday: 7/22/2019

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title
8:30			Registration
9:00	TESS Mission	George Ricker	Searching Near and Far: Transits and Transients from TESS
9:30	TESS Mission	Jon M. Jenkins	TESS Science Processing Operations Center Pipeline and Data Products
9:45	Interactive software demo	Clara E. Brasseur	Accessing TESS Data Programmatically: A MAST case study
10:10			coffee break
10:45	Early TESS observations	Daniel Huber	Solar-Like Oscillators with TESS: First Results
11:15	Early TESS observations	Marc Hon	First results of the solar-like oscillator yield from TESS Full Frame Images
11:30	Early TESS observations	Timothy R. White	The brightest stars observed by TESS
11:45	Early TESS observations	Warrick H. Ball	What sort of variable is HR2562?
12:00			lunch on your own (e.g. at local restaurants)
13:30	Early TESS observations	Earl P. Bellinger	Experimental tests of stellar pulsation and evolution with TESS and SONG
14:00	Evolutionary diagnostics	Joel Ong	Structural and Evolutionary Diagnostics from Asteroseismic Phases
14:15	Evolutionary diagnostics	James S. Kuszlewicz	Clumpiness: Time-domain classification of Kepler red giant evolutionary states
15:00			coffee break
15:30	Binary benchmarks	Daniel R. Hey	Forward modelling of pulsating star in binaries
15:45	Binary benchmarks	Jean McKeever	Comparison between asteroseismic and dynamical masses of a sample of red giants
16:00	Binary benchmarks	Nathalie Themeßl	Is it time to retire the Sun as the reference star for determining red giant stellar parameters
16:15	Binary benchmarks	Sanjay Sekaran	An eclipse to build a dream on: Detecting g-mode period spacing patterns in eclipsing binaries with pulsating components
16:30	Interactive software demo	Andrew Tkachenko	TESS Data for Asteroseismology (TD'A): a machinery for data processing and variability classification
16:55			end of conference

Tuesday: 7/23/2019

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title
8:30	Intermediate-mass stars	Donald Kurtz	Results and prospects for the TESS main mission studies of main-sequence A to mid-F stars
9:00	Intermediate-mass stars	Vichi Antoci	The zoo of delta Sct and gamma Dor stars observed with TESS
9:15	Intermediate-mass stars	Filiz Kahraman Alicavus	Unexpected presence of hot Gamma Doradus and A-F type hybrid pulsators
9:30	Intermediate-mass stars	Juan Carlos Suárez	Estimating large separation and rotational splittings of $\delta$ Scuti stars with neural networks
9:45	Intermediate-mass stars	Antonio García Hernández	The period-luminosity-color diagram: identifying the fundamental radial mode in A/F stars with Kepler and Gaia
10:05			coffee break
10:45	Intermediate-mass stars	Tim Bedding	High-frequency $\delta$ Scuti stars with TESS
11:15	Intermediate-mass stars	Gang Li	Gravity and Rossby modes in 600 Kepler $\gamma$ Doradus stars
11:30	Intermediate-mass stars	Joey S. G. Mombarg	Improving stellar evolution models with atomic diffusion from asteroseismology of intermediate-mass stars
11:45	Intermediate-mass stars	Kuldeep Verma	Helium settling in F stars: Constraining turbulent mixing using observed signature of helium ionization
12:00			lunch at your own (e.g. at local restaurants)
13:30	Tides	Zhao Guo	Tidal Asteroseismology: Opportunities and Challenges
13:45	Tides	P. G. Beck	Testing tidal theory for evolved stars from red-giant binaries observed by Kepler
14:00	Tides	Cole Johnston	High tide as seen by TESS: What TESS can do for tidal asteroseismology and pulsating binaries
14:15	Massive stars	May Gade Pedersen	What TESS can do for massive stars
14:45	Massive stars	Dominic M. Bowman	Low-frequency gravity waves in blue supergiants revealed by high-precision K2 and TESS photometry
15:00			coffee break
15:30	Massive stars	Derek Buzasi	Multi-Epoch Asteroseismology: A Window Into Evolution of Massive Stars
15:45	Massive stars	Tao Wu	A New C-D-like Diagram and the Evolution of SPB Stars
16:00	Massive stars	Lucas Viani	Testing Convective Overshoot Using Asteroseismology
16:15	Interactive software demo	Jessie Dotson	The Lightkurve package for Kepler & TESS data
16:40	Interactive software demo	Oliver J. Hall	Accessible asteroseismology with `lightkurve`
17:05			end of conference

Wednesday: 7/24/2019

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title
8:45	Stellar activity	Rachael Roettenbacher	Continuing the Stellar Activity Revolution with Space-Based Photometry
9:15	Stellar activity	Ângela R. G. Santos	Surface rotation, photometric activity, and active region lifetimes for Kepler targets
9:30	Stellar activity	Alexandra E. L. Thomas	Asteroseismic constraints on active latitudes of solar-type stars
9:45	Stellar activity	Savita Mathur	Where are the modes? - Studying the non detection of acoustic modes in solar-like stars observed by Kepler
10:00			coffee break
10:45	Compact pulsators	S. Charpinet	First steps toward TESSting ultimate stages of stellar evolution
11:15	Compact pulsators	M. H. Montgomery	The effect of a variable convection zone on coherence and damping of modes in pulsating white dwarfs
11:30	Compact pulsators	Weikai Zong	Spaceborne photometry revolution: oscillation mode variability in pulsating hot B subdwarfs and white dwarfs
11:45	Compact pulsators	Zach Vanderbosch	Observing Outbursting White Dwarfs in the post-Kepler Era
12:00			lunch and free afternoon on your own
12:30			TESS tour (limited space: sign-up on Monday required)
13:30			TESS tour (limited space: sign-up on Monday required)
14:30			TESS tour (limited space: sign-up on Monday required)
15:30			TESS tour (limited space: sign-up on Monday required)

Thursday: 7/25/2019

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title
8:30	Galactic archaeology	Cristina Chiappini	Asteroseismology with CoRoT, Kepler, K2 and TESS: impact on Galactic Archaeology
9:00	Galactic archaeology	Dennis Stello	Galactic archaeology with TESS and K2
9:15	Galactic archaeology	Ditte Slumstrup	The origin of the young alpha-rich stars: The view from Kepler, K2 and CoRoT
10:00			coffee break
10:45	Galactic archaeology	Marc H. Pinsonneault	Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Testing Asteroseismic Radii with Gaia and Understanding the Differences
11:00	Galactic archaeology	Samuel Grunblatt	Definitive Effective Temperature and Radius Scales for Asteroseismic Red Giants
11:15	Galactic archaeology	Tanda Li	Good ages in subgiants determined by the asteroseismic modelling
11:30	Galactic archaeology	Katrien Kolenberg	The wonderful world of classical pulsators, seen by TESS
12:00			lunch on your own (e.g. at local restaurants)
13:30	Rotation	Jamie Tayar	The Evolution of Stellar Rotation
14:00	Rotation	Sébastien Deheuvels	Seismic inference on the radial rotation profile within the envelopes of subgiants and red giants
14:15	Rotation	Timothy Van Reeth	Measuring differential rotation and magnetic fields in A/F-type stars with gravity-mode pulsations
14:30	Rotation	Andres Moya	Asteroseismology and machine learning for stellar aging using gyrochronology
14:45			coffee break
15:30	Maximizing the Data	Keaton J. Bell	Fully automated solar-like oscillation detections with the coefficient of variation method
15:45	Maximizing the Data	Javier Pascual-Granado	Extraction of pulsation frequencies: separating the wheat from the chaff with fractal analysis
16:00	Maximizing the Data	Enrico Corsaro	FAMED: A new pipeline for fast and automated peak bagging of stellar oscillations. Application to Kepler and TESS GI proposal stars
16:15	Maximizing the Data	Guy R. Davies	PBjam: The Open Source Peak Bagging Tool
16:30	Interactive software demo	Daniel Foreman-Mackey	Gaussian Processes for time series analysis
16:55			end of conference
19:00			conference dinner in Samberg Center at MIT

Friday: 7/26/2019

Time	Topic	Speaker	Title
9:00	3D Models	Andreas Christ Sølvsten Jørgensen	Improving 1D stellar evolution codes using 3D simulations of stellar envelopes
9:15	3D Models	Yixiao Zhou	Asteroseismology of Solar-type Stars with 3D Hydrodynamical Stellar Modelling
9:30	Interactive software demo	Adina D. Feinstein	Using eleanor, an open-source Python package, to extract light curves from the TESS Full-Frame Images
9:55	Interactive software demo	Andras Pal	Accurate methods for differential image analysis on TESS FFIs
10:20			coffee break
10:45	Finding and exploring red giants	Isabel Colman	Image subtraction photometry on Kepler open clusters
11:00	Finding and exploring red giants	Anthony Noll	Probing the extension of convective cores with subgiants observed by Kepler and TESS
11:15	Finding and exploring red giants	Nevin N. Weinberg	Nonlinearly damped oscillation modes in red giants
11:30	Asteroseismology of planet hosts	Vincent Van Eylen	Asteroseismology of planet host stars in the TESS era
12:00			lunch on your own (e.g. at local restaurants)
13:30	Asteroseismology of planet hosts	Tiago Campante	TESS's first asteroseismic known hosts
13:45	Asteroseismology of planet hosts	Ashley Chontos	A Systematic Search for Asteroseismic Host Stars in Kepler, K2, and TESS Data
14:00	Asteroseismology of planet hosts	Martin B. Nielsen	TESS Asteroseismology of λ² Fornacis
14:15	Asteroseismology of planet hosts	Charlotte Gehan	Large-scale analysis of red giant inclinations
14:30	Closing	Sara Seager	TESS Era Astronomy
15:00			end of conference