1-4 August 2017
Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Invited speakers

Invited speakers

  • Georges Alecian (Obs Paris, France): "On the importance of atomic data and opacities in evaluating the effects of atomic diffusion in stars"
  • France Allard (ENS-Lyon, France)
  • Sarbani Basu (Yale University, USA): "What helioseismology has taught us about opacities and EOS"
  • Peter F. Bernath (Old Dominion U, USA): "An overview of molecular opacities"
  • Nuria Calvet (U Michigan, USA): "The role of opacity in calculating the structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks"
  • Arnaud Colaitis (CNRS/CEA/LLNL): "Measuring iron spectral opacities in solar conditions using a double ablation front scheme"
  • Franck Delahaye (Obs. Paris, France): "A quantitative comparison of opacities calculated using the distorted-wave and R-Matrix methods"
  • Doron Gazit (RIP/HUJ, Israel): "Solar opacities, their uncertainties and the standard solar model" 
  • Iouli Gordon (CfA, USA): "HITRAN and HITEMP databases: the quest for accuracy and completeness of reference molecular spectroscopic data"
  • Stephanie Hansen (SNL, USA): "Balancing completeness and accuracy in opacity calculations"
  • Xinchuan Huang (SETI/NASA Ames, USA): "Prediction accuracy, consistency, and limitations of IR computations based on ab-initio theory and high-resolution experimental data"
  • Shashi M. Kanbur (SUNY, USA): "The role of opacities in stellar pulsation"
  • Robert L. Kurucz (CfA, USA): "Including all the lines -- data releases for spectra and opacities"
  • David P. Kilcrease (LANL, USA): "Equations of state for opacity calculations"
  • Caroline Morley (CfA, USA): "Aerosol optical properties in exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres"
  • Taisuke Nagayama (SNL, USA): "Systematic measurements of opacity dependence on temperature, density, and atomic number at stellar interior conditions"
  • Sultana N. Nahar (OSU, USA): "Recalculation of astrophysical opacities: overivew, methodology and atomic calculations (Part 2)"
  • Jean-Christophe Pain (CEA, France):  "Radiative-opacity calculations for stellar astrophysics"
  • Ted S. Perry (NIF/LANL, USA)L “Update on the iron opacity experiments on the NIF”
  • Anil K. Pradhan (OSU, USA): "Recalculation of astrophysical opacities: overivew, methodology and atomic calculations (Part 1)"