Scientific program

The abstracts book is available here.

Program scheme

Sessions will start around 9h and will finish around 18h30 with two hours for lunch in between from 13h to 15h approximately. On Wednesday 7th September, there will be no sessions in the afternoon. The conference will finish on Friday 9th around 14h.
 

Monday 5 September

Session 1 "The poor agreement between observed and predicted frequencies":
Why is so difficult to match predicted and observed oscillation frequencies for most stars? Is theory the only responsible? Might the observation technique be also responsible? In this session, discussion will be opened within two different approaches to the same physical phenomenon.

Tuesday 6 September

Session 2  "Giant stars"
Recent progress on Giant stars, in particular the presence of both radial and non-radial oscillations in such stars, deserve specific attention.

Wednesday 7 September

Session 3  "New instrumentation from the ground and space"
Space missions like SOHO, MOST, CoRoT & Kepler, as well as new ground-based instrumentation have been (and are being) built in order to attain very high precision of the asteroseismic data required. Do the results fulfill the expectations? A controversial example might be the g modes in the Sun and other stars. In this session, latest and relevant results of space missions and ground-based instrumentation will be presented. As well, we will discuss the relevance and necessity of new techniques and instrumentation.

Thursday 8 September

Session 4 "Mode identification"
Mode identification, either individual or by means of regular patterns, is crucial for asteroseismology. Despite the progress on this issue during the last decades, the comparison between observations and models remains unclear. This session is devoted to the main problems and prospects of empirical and theoretical approaches for the mode identification.

Session 5  "Oscillations vs Activity plus planet transits"
Activity and rotation are two physical phenomena that might mimic stellar oscillations (or viceversa). In any case, all these phenomena are exhibited simultaneously by the star, and need to be disentangled. This includes the presence of planets transiting the host star.

Friday 9 September

Session 6 "Early type stars. Oscillations vs other agents (mainly regular/rotational variations of B stars)"
The particular phenomenon of B stars is one of the most controversial nowadays in the field. In this session, two different views of the problem will open the discussion 

Context and Scope

Is Asteroseismology close to really unveil the internal structure of stars? Do we need to reconsider the observational techniques, data analysis and/or to develop new theoretical approaches? After the recent results of space photometic light curves, is really meaningful the current classification of pulsating stars? Which are the primary unsolved problems that Asteroseismology must solve to make a step forward in understanding stellar evolution?

The present edition of the Stellar Pulsation Conference Series is intended to tackle these and other unsolved problems in stellar seismology.
 

Sessions, Talks & Discussion

In this context, the conference will be organized in six sessions distributed in four and a half days. Each session has a guiding topic (those given here below are orientative) which put in context one or several issues to be discussed in the session.

Invited speakers will present their personal view about the topic of the corresponding session. In order to encourage discussions on controversial points, round tables after each session will be organized.

Posters viewing will be available permanently. No specific session for poster viewing/presentation is foreseen.