Preliminary Agenda 

From Young Disks to Planets: 
New Observations, Models and Theories 

March 7 - 10, 2005 
Pasadena, California, USA 



Monday: Large scale disk structure 
Tuesday: The inner disk 
Wednesday: Disk evolution and lifetimes 
Thursday: From disks to planets 

overview/review talks:   45 mins including 10 mins for questions
invited talks:           30/45 mins including 5-10 mins for questions
contributed talks:       20 mins including 5 mins for questions
poster pop-ups:          1 min/ 1 viewgraph


All meeting events are at the Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena
Sunday

6:00 - 9:00    Registration and opening reception


Monday: Large scale disk structure

7:30    Registration and continental breakfast

Morning session: 8:30 to 12:30
8:30    Welcome and meeting logisitics - Akeson/Millan-Gabet
8:50     Overview of star and planet formation - S. Strom
9:50      Review: Envelopes, collapse and early disks -  N. Evans
10:35    Coffee
11:00    Millimeter/radio dust observations - L. Testi
11:30    Millimeter/radio gas observations -  C. Ceccarelli
12:00    SMA observations of the circumstellar disk of Herbig Ae star AB Aur - S-Y. Lin 
12:20    5 Poster pop-ups
 
12:30 - 1:50    Lunch

Afternoon session: 1:50 to 5:25
1:50    Optical/IR imaging/AO/polarization - F. Menard 
2:35    Observations and modelling of dust startification in T Tauri circumstellar disks - G. Duchene 
2:55    Subaru coronographic imaging of young intermediate-mass stars - M. Fukagawa 
3:15    Coffee
3:45    Disk models and theory - C. Terquem
4:15    Monte-Carlo radiative transfer models of protoplanetary disks - K. Wood
4:35    Planet-disk interaction in FU Orionis objects - G. Lodato
4:55    15 Poster pop-ups


Tuesday: The inner disk

8:00    Registration and continental breakfast    

Morning session: 8:45 to 12:20
8:45    Logisitcs - Akeson/Millan-Gabet
8:55    Review: the inner disk - C. Dullemond
9:40    Near-infrared interferometry - J. Monnier
10:10  Probing sub-AU radii of young circumstellar disks: Observations with the KI and the PTI - J. Eisner
10:30  Coffee
10:50  Mid-infrared interferometry - R. Waters
11:20  A 10 micron spectroscopic survey of Herbig Ae star disks: grain growth and crystallization - R. van Boekel
11:40  Mid-infrared imaging of YSOs using sparse-aperture interferometry - A. Tannirkulam
12:00  15  Poster review pop-ups
 
12:30 - 1:50   Lunch

Afternoon session: 1:50 to 5:45
 1:50  Inner disk models - P. D'Alessio 
 2:20  The near-infrared bump as a signature of a dusty halo around the inner disk regions - D. Vinkovic
 2:40  The inner 0.1 AU of T Tauri disks: Accretion onto the stellar magnetosphere - J. Bouvier 
 3:00  Observing inner disks where planets form - R. Lachaume
 3:20  12 Poster pop-ups
 3:40  Extended poster session/coffee
 4:55  Gaseous inner disk (spectroscopy, veiling, xrays) - J. Carr
 5:25  High-resolution near infrared spectroscopy of circumstellar CO around young stars - S. Brittain


Wednesday: Disk evolution and lifetimes

8:00   Continental breakfast

Morning session: 8:45 to 12:35
8:45     Logistics - Akeson/Millan-Gabet
8:55     Review: disk evolution and lifetimes - L. Hartmann
9:40     Frequency and lifetimes of disk - E. Lada
10:10   HST/ACS observations of debris disks around solar-type stars - Krist
10:30   Coffee
10:50   Spitzer imaging and spectroscopy results - L. Hillenbrand
11:35   Spitzer space telescope imaging of spatially resolved debris disks - K. Stapelfeldt
11:55   Infrared spectroscopy of disks around low-mass stars with Spitzer - J. Kessler-Silacci
12:15   Frequency of disks in the nearest young clusters, as seen by Spitzer - L. Allen
  
12:35 - 2:00    Lunch

Afternoon session: 2:00 to 5:30
2:00   Disk chemistry - T. Millar
2:30   Gas physics and chemistry in transition phase disks around M, G, and A-type stars - I. Kamp
2:50   OI emission in Herbig Ae/Be stars: signatures of disk rotation - B. Acke
3:10   From dust to planetesimals - J. Blum
3:40   Coffee
4:00   Grain growth in protoplanetary disks - T. Henning
4:20   Vertical size-sorting of grains in disks - C. Dominik
4:40   Gas disk evolution and disk dispersal - E. van Dishoeck
5:10   Photoevaporation of protoplanetary disks - I. Matsuyama

 7:00 - 9:00 Conference dinner at Gordon Biersch


Thursday: From disks to planets

8:00   Continental breakfast
 
Morning session: 8:45 to 12:20
8:45    Logistics - Akeson/Millan-Gabet
8:55    Review: planetary formation (architectures, theory) - S. Ida
9:40    Disk hydrodynamics - R. Nelson  
10:10  Transport and diffusion of grains and molecules in 3D-MHD simulations of protoplanetary accretion - H. Klahr
10:30  Coffee
10:50  Critical tests of magnetospheric accretion theory - C. M. Johns-Krull  
11:10  Disk/planet interactions, migration - W. Kley/G. Bryden
11:40  How shadowing and illumination in disks affects planet formation - H. Jang-Condell
12:00  Eccentric disks due to a large embedded planet - G. Dirksen

12:20 - 1:40    Lunch

Afternoon session: 1:40 to 3:30
1:40   Overview of extra-solar planet observations - D. Fischer
2:10   Constraining the origin of high metallicity in planet host stars - A. M. Cody
2:30   Conference summary - A. Sargent
3:30   Adjourn


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updated Jan 26, 2005