Speakers

Partial list of confirmed invited speakers and tentative titles of their talks

Charles (Chick) Woodward (University of Minnesota) "Spitzer, Novae, Cross-Sections, and Reaction Rates"

Matthew Richter (University of California, Davis) "SOFIA's Spectroscopy Capabilities"

Keith Olive (University of Minnesota) "Testing the variation of fundamental constants with astrophysical and spectroscopic data"

Nicolas Grevesse (University of Liège) "The New Solar Chemical Composition"

Huirong Yan (Peking University) "Atomic Alignment- A New Diagnostic of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields"

Walter Johnson (University of Notre Dame) "Hyperfine Quenching: a Review of Experiment and Theory"

Juliet Pickering (Imperial College) "Laboratory measurements of oscillator strengths and their astrophysical applications"

Glenn Wahlgren (NASA-GSFC/CUA) "Atomic data for stellar astrophysics from the UV to the IR"

Ulysses Sofia (American University)"Mining for Rare Elements in Interstellar Spectra"

Yasuyuki Ishikawa (University of Puerto Rico) "Relativistic multireference many-body perturbation theory for open-shell ions with multiple valence shell
electrons"

Eliot Quataert (University of California, Berkeley) "Astrophysical Transients Powered by the Decay of R-process Nuclei"

Martin Simon (MPI Heidelberg/TRIUMF) "Photoionization of Fe14+: An EBIT-measurement at a modern light source"

Jean-Francois Wyart (University of Paris-Sud) "Interpretation of complex spectra of present interest with the support of the parametric method and Cowan codes"

Alexander Kramida (NIST) "Recent progress in the spectroscopy of tungsten"

Jim Dunn (LLNL) "Determining Plasma Core Conditions in Magnetic Fusion Devices using X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Highly Ionized Tungsten"

Yuri Podpaly (MIT) "Tungsten Research at Alcator C-Mod and EBIT for Future Fusion Reactors"

Taiichi Shikama (Kyoto University) "Plasma polarization spectroscopy of atomic and molecular emission from magnetically confined plasmas"

Alex Graf (LLNL) "Visible Magnetic Dipole Emission from Ar X and Ar XIV in Alcator C-Mod Tokamak Plasmas"

Aleksander Urnov (P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute) "Verification and application of atomic polarization and spectral data for diagnostics of coronal plasma by their XUV spectra and spectral images"

Joel Clementson (Lund University/LLNL) "Tungsten spectroscopy at the Livermore EBIT and SSPX facilities"

Thomas Lennartson (Lund University) "Time-resolved Spectroscopy of the Electrode Region in a Fluorescent Lamp"

Sultana Nahar (Ohio State University) "High Accuracy Radiative Data for Plasma Opacities"

Victor Kantsyrev (University of Nevada, Reno) "X-ray spectropolarimetry at the Z-pinch generator at UNR: past and future"

Victor Flambaum (University of New South Wales) "Space-time variation of fundamental constants and accurate measurements of atomic spectra"

Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) "Atomic calculations for tests of fundamental physics"

Robert Kurucz (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) "Including All the Lines"

Nicholas Sterling (Michigan State University) "New Atomic Data for Trans-Iron Elements and Its Application to Abundance Determinations in Planetary Nebulae"

Zoltan Harman (Max Planck Institut Heidelberg) "Cross section enhancement in correlated resonant recombination processes"

Stuart Loch (Auburn University) "Testing and improving the dielectronic recombination data used in fractional abundance calculations of tungsten"

Djamel Benredjem (University of Paris-Sud) "Radiative power losses in fusion plasmas"

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Elmar Träbert (Ruhr University Bochum) & Larry Curtis (University of Toledo) "Indrek Martinson - Life of a spectroscopist"