Okay, it's Sunday just after lunchtime. I'm driving down to the airport for Coolstar's 20. It's the last big meeting I have this year and I'm giving a talk to a pretty big audience. So I got to make sure that lands right I need to practice today and tomorrow. I've been prepping for this meeting for a few weeks, writing my talk, getting some work done. But my mental prep begins here, begins on my drive to the airport. This is the moment when I start getting my game face on. After I've left home, the suitcase is around the car. Until I land back home, I'll be in work mode. This is going to be a good meeting. I love Boston. It's a great town. We mostly over at Boston University. A ton of amazing astronomers work at Boston. Friends of mine I haven't seen in a long time. It's going to be fun. Once again, welcome. This is Coolstar's 20 hour hour and actually started sound checking the microphone. Now we'll move on to the last talk of this session before the coffee break. Rotating stars from Kepler observed the guy at DR2 by James Damienport University of Washington. I landed it in the night last night and I followed that score. Okay, well done, Brad. So in the long list of superlatives you can use to describe three models failed to reproduce and no more observation of properties for like my stars and young customers. Most of these problems actually could be solved by an hypothesis and be calculated by the hypothesis that they are inflated, possibly by magnetic fields. So it's up right down here. It's a calcium T-line. The black curve here is in the rotational phase which started from where it meant to. So it's your moment. Let me think, let me think, let me think, let me think, let me think, let me think. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of a really exciting Coolstar's moment is and the Coolstar's Seattle meeting when David Kirkpatrick gave the plenary talk and it was announced there. Wide works were a thing. They've been discovered. We've broken the T-dorf boundary. My name is Sarah James Schmidt. I'm a postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics and Potsdam and I study the smallest stars but I'm most interested in their magnetic fields and how they evolve over time and how they cause flares and other sorts of activity. My name is Brett Morris. I work on stellar activity and exoplanets. My 10 second advice to you. So if you're a grad student and you're going to a conference, don't go to every talk. That's it. I'm Sarah Ballard. I'm at MIT and I'm here to learn about how to figure out the ages of embers. Hi, my name is Stephanie Douglas. I'm an NSF fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and I study stellar rotation in open clusters both how it correlates with magnetic activity and multiplicity. I'm looking at this one because I have a good plan for it. I know a lot of plans. We're finding some very, very recent centers for the miners. Good morning. We are here in Boston, Massachusetts for the Cool Stars 20. The Cool Stars 20 meeting. So it's Wednesday, the middle day of the week and today's schedule is a full slate of talks in the morning with a coffee break. And then in the afternoon, instead of the topical sessions we've been having all week, they have time for excursions. For those of us who've been to Boston a bunch, a bunch of us are going to hide out in a coffee shop and get some work done. So it's Wednesday. I gave a talk on Monday, the first day of the conference and I posted the full video of that talk on this channel a couple days ago. So if you want to see that talk, go check out that video. I'll put the link below. One thing the conference organizers have done this now, which is really cool, is they've put these little images on your bed. So I put one of the graphs from my talk. On the other side, I put one of the graphs that represents the gender survey that we've been doing, which I've talked about on this channel before. And I'll put another link to below. Cool Stars was my very first meeting. Cool Stars 14, way back in 2006, when I first like a real astronomy conference. So it's always good to come back. It is a cool meeting to talk at. If you go to the WAS meeting, which I showed in January on this channel, if you get one of the big talks, the plenary talks, you could be speaking to a couple of thousand astronomers. It's a big audience. But if you get one of the normal sort of session talks like I did, then you're talking to like 50, maybe 100. So the main session in Cool Stars is about 500 people, which is a really big meeting for being such a small focused topic. Oh yeah, one of the things that started becoming a tradition of Cool Stars meetings is swag. A tradition now in the last few ones is like coffee bugs or team bugs. So I think I have four of these so far from various meetings and they're usually pretty nice. I'm Mark Veit and I find out what small stars are made out of. Hi, I'm Julie Skinner and I'm measuring distances and looking for planets around the very smallest stars. Hi, I'm Carl Schmidt. I'm a research scientist at Boston University and I study escape and planetary atmospheres. Hi, my name is Phil Mirhead. I'm an assistant professor of astronomy here at Boston University and I'm on the scientific organizing committee for this conference and I decided to do a presentation on tests, the small stars that test will observe and search for planets. And for some thoughts about how these two different scenarios could influence what you're observing? Yeah, absolutely. Both the majority of the measurements on the past 40 years have been in high spectral resolution over very narrow spectral band pass or they've been integrated over fairly broad band pass and similarly with the extreme wash of other images that we've obtained from SDOAA, particularly the 94 ancient channel. Two other points before we do the picture of one. And James and I will edit ourselves in and see what's up. Hi, I'm Serge Dietrich. I work at Carnegie's Department of Chorester Magnetism. The main cool thing about cool stars is to just see the complexity evolve in the field. My name is Meredith Joyce. I am currently at Dartmouth, though I just defended three weeks ago and I will be changing soon. What this poster is on is optimizing mixing length calibrations for systems which are sufficiently well constrained. Hi, I'm Dr. Rachel Routenbacher and I imagine that the surfaces of active stars with a variety of different techniques. Hi, my name is Laura Mallorca and I'm here at Cool Stars for my brown dwarfs because I'm interested in studying the diversity of exoplanet atmospheres and they're very similar to giant planets. That's what I came to say. I'm mic drop. And now for a true cool stars tradition, the banquet. It's like we're there! Well, we've just finished with the banquet. It's been another good week. You can get in here if you want. Very good cool stars. It's been a great one. Next one. You were on the SLC, right? I was on the SLC. Thank you for a great meeting. Oh, thank you so much. The banquet is always one of the biggest highlights of the meeting. They always have good food. They always pick a cool location and the most exciting part is they tell you when the next cool stars and where it will be. So in two years we will be in Toulouse France, which is really cool. I'm on a 9am flight back to Seattle. It's been a good meeting.