Variable Stars Meeting 2007

Michigan State University will host a meeting on variable stars on March 31, 2007. This continues a series of informal meetings on this topic aimed at fostering communications among researchers in the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana area.

Time: Starting at 1pm on Saturday March 31, 2007

Place: Room 1400 in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building on the MSU campus. A map showing the campus and the location of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building can be found here:

http://www.pa.msu.edu/reference/msupa_map.html

Parking is available either west of Abrams Planetarium or in the parking ramp on Shaw Lane, located east of Abrams Planetarium. Parking is free on Saturday.

Presentations: Oral presentations are welcome on any topic related to variable stars. It is hoped to have 20 minutes available for each presentation, 15 minutes for the presentation itself with some time for questions. An overhead projector and a projector for powerpoint presentations will be available.

If you are interested in presenting, please contact Horace Smith, email address: smith@pa.msu.edu.

Schedule as of March 20:

Horace Smith (MSU): Welcome

Nathan De Lee (MSU): RR Lyrae Stars in the SDSS-II Supernova Stripe

Andy Layden (Bowling Green): The Space Interferometry Mission: Globular Cluster Ages and the RR Lyrae Luminosity Calibration

Jessie Taylor (Calvin College): The Eclipsing Binary PPM 706067: System Parameters and the Starspot Period

Larry Molnar (Calvin College): The Eclipsing Binary PPM 706067: Interpretation of the Starspot Period

Chris Beaumont (Calvin College): Evolution of the Accretion Disk of U Gem Between Outbursts

Andrew Butler (Calvin College): Lightcurves of the Trapezium Stars

Nancy D. Morrison, Sara J. Rother, and Nicole Kurschat (Univ. of Toledo): H alpha Line Profile Variability in the B8Ia-Type Supergiant Rigel

Katherine Rabidoux (MSU): Type II Cepheids in the Globular Clusters M3 and M5

Charles Kuehn (MSU): Variable Stars in the LMC Globular Cluster NGC 1754