Join us for the 21st Sagan Summer Workshop!
The 2021 Sagan Summer Workshop will focus on young planets and the circumstellar disks from which they form during the first few million years of a star's lifetime. As a protoplanet accretes material from the disk, dynamical interactions drive migration and produce disk substructures such as the gaps, rings and spirals now detected in high-resolution optical, near-infrared, and submillimeter images. Over the next 100 million years, planetary systems continue to evolve through processes such as collisions, differentiation, and scattering. These late-epoch evolutionary processes are reflected in the structure and distribution of secondary dust disks. These debris disks, formed as the result of planetesimals stirring, serve as signposts for the presence of planetary systems.
The workshop will address how transformational new datasets are allowing us to address key questions about the formation and evolution of planets and their potential habitability; topics will include:
As with last year, we expect that the 2021 workshop will be fully virtual. However we will post updates to this page should that change.
The Sagan Summer Workshops are aimed at advanced undergraduates, grad students, and postdocs, however all are welcome to attend. There is no registration fee for these workshops.
Attendees will also participate in hands-on tutorials and have the chance to meet in smaller groups with our speakers.
We ask all participants to follow this Code of Conduct.
Twitter: #sagan2021View presentations from previous summer workshops on the Sagan Summer Workshop YouTube Channel.
Sagan_Workshop@ipac.caltech.edu: for questions or to be added to our email list for the 2021 workshop:
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