Day 2 Program

8:45 - 9:30 am OUTSIDE: COVID TESTING, Coffee and Croissants

9:30am LECTURE THEATRE:

Moderator : Ana Bonaca

20 Z Zdenek Prudil Z Shocks in photometric light curves of fundamental-mode RR Lyrae stars (video link)

25 Z Marcella Marconi Z Predicted pulsation properties of RR Lyrae as standard candles and stellar population tracers (video link)

25 Z Robert Szabo Z RR Lyrae stars and the Kepler mission's heritage (video link)

10:40 - 11:10am OUTSIDE COFFEE BREAK

Moderator: Karen Kinemuchi

25 Z Laszlo Molnar Z Recent and upcoming results from the Kepler, TESS and Gaia missions (video link)

25 Andrea Kunder A Chemodynamical Study of 50 Inner Galaxy RR Lyrae Stars (video link)

12:00 - 1:30pm OUTSIDE LUNCH

Moderator: Alistair Walker

25 Abhijit Saha Using RR Lyraes as ``standard crayons'': non-standard reddening and extinction towards the Galactic Bulge (video link)

25 Mike Rich The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey: A Panchromatic Window on the Galactic bulge (video link)

25 Tim Beers The Photometric Revolution -- 500,000 VMP Stars and Counting! (video link)

2:45pm - 3:05pm OUTSIDE COFFEE BREAK

Moderator: Wendy Freedman

15 Ian Roederer The astrophysical r-process: What it took to move beyond the remarkable star CS 22892-052 (video link)

15 Yutaka Hirai Numerical models of the r-process (video link)

15 Ana Bonaca Milky Way halo as viewed by Gaia and the H3 spectroscopic survey (video link)

25 Mario Mateo+ GWP Stories and Antics (video link)

5 George Preston Preston Responds ! (video link)

4:20pm -- ??? pm OUTSIDE BIRTHDAY CAKE AND WELL WISHES