Cool Stars 23
15 – 19 June 2026, TOC Ariake, Tokyo Bay Area, Japan
The "Cambridge Workshops on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research.
The next edition of the Cool Stars conference, Cool Stars 23, will be held in a hybrid format (both in-person and online) in Tokyo in 2026, from the 15th to the 19th of June. Please join the Google Group mailing list if you wish to receive news and updates about the conference.
- Summer 2025: call for splinter sessions
- Autumn 2025: deadline for splinter session proposals
- Winter 2025-2026: list of selected splinter sessions announced
- Winter 2025-2026: abstract submission for main conference and travel grant requests open
- Winter 2025-2026: registration opens
What is "Cool Stars"?
The next edition of the conference series "Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" (CS 23) will be held in a hybrid format in Tokyo Bay Area from June 15 to 19 2026, 46 years after its first edition in Cambridge (USA). This first edition was shortly followed that same year by a workshop on "Solar Phenomena in Stars and Stellar Systems" that took place in the southern French countryside, in a small village called Bonas. Both meetings are often considered as the starting point of this exceptionally successful conference series, where approximately 500 international experts in Low-Mass Stars, Solar Physics, and Exoplanets meet every other year to exchange ideas in a cross-disciplinary and friendly environment. We will have CS 23 first time in Asia. Tokyo will be hosting the next Cool Stars, jointly among U.Tokyo, ABC, ISAS-JAXA, and the other researchers based in Japan.
Venue
The conference venue will be TOC Ariake Convention Hall, located in the Tokyo Bay Area. Further information on logistics will be available soon!
SOC
To contact the SOC or LOC, write to: coolstars23tokyo@gmail.com
- TBD - Institute
LOC
- SUZUKI, Takeru (Chair) - University of Tokyo
- HIRANO, Teruyuki (Co-Chair) - ABC
- YAMAMURA, Issei (Co-Chair) - ISAS-JAXA
- MATSUNAGA, Noriyuki (Co-Lead) - University of Tokyo
- ASAI, Ayumi - Kyoto University
- FUKUI, Akihiko - University of Tokyo
- HONDA, Satoshi - University of Hyogo
- HOTTA, Hideyuki - Nagoya University
- IKUTA, Kai - University of Tokyo
- ITA Yoshifusa - Tohoku University
- KUNITOMO, Masanobu - Kurume University
- MAEHARA, Hiroyuki - NAOJ
- MASUDA, Kento - Osaka University
- MORI, Mayuko - ABC
- NAMEKATA, Kosuke - Kyoto University
- NOGAMI, Daisaku - Kyoto University
- NOTSU, Yuta - University of Colorado, Bolder
- SHODA, Munehito - University of Tokyo
- TAKASAO, Shinsuke - Osaka University
- TANIGUCHI, Daisuke - NAOJ
- TOKUNO, Takato - University of Tokyo
- TORIUMI, Shin - ISAS-JAXA
- WASHINOUE, Haruka - Osaka University
- YAMASHITA, Mai - ISAS-JAXA
Code of Conduct
The Cool Stars 23 organizers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:
- Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate or unwelcome physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, physical appearance, body size, ethnicity, or religion.
- All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience of people from many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
- Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.
Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behavior are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge. The full Cool Stars 23 Code of Conduct will be available soon as a PDF.
Acknowledgements
- Website template design by Veselka for andreasviklund.com
- Website development based on CS20, CS21 and CS22 website source code on github
- The main image was created using generative AI (Adobe Firefly) based on copyright-free images and photographs taken by the organizers.
Previous Meetings
- CS 22 - San Diego, USA, June 2024
- CS 21 - Toulouse, France, July 2022
- CS 20.5 - online, March 2021
- CS 20 - Boston, USA, July 2018
- CS 19 - Uppsala, Sweden, June 2016
- CS 18 - Flagstaff, USA, June 2014
- CS 17 - Barcelona, Spain, June 2012
- CS 16 - Seattle, USA, August 2010
- CS 15 - St Andrews, UK, July 2008
- CS 14 - Pasadena, USA, November 2006
- CS 13 - Hamburg, Germany, July 2004
- CS 12 - Boulder, USA, July 2001
- CS 11 - Tenerife, Spain, October 1999
- CS 10 - Cambridge, USA, 1997
- CS 9 - Florence, Italy, 1995
- CS 8 - Athens, USA, 1993
- CS 7 - Tucson, USA, 1991
- CS 6 - Seattle, USA, 1989
- CS 5 - Boulder, USA, 1987
- CS 4 - Santa Fe, USA, 1985
- CS 3 - Cambridge, USA, 1983
- CS 2 - Cambridge, USA, 1981
- CS 1.5 - NATO Advanced Study Institute, Bonas, France, 25 Aug - 5 Sep 1980
- The original CS (later renamed CS 1) - Cambridge, USA, Jan 1980