Agenda

March 4

 

March 4, Sunday
18:00 - 21:00 Registration and Welcome cocktail

March 5, Monday
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Session 1: From Disks to Planets
co-Chairs: Pierre-Olivier Lagage (ESS), Hans Ulrich Kaeufl (SS)
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome (F. Mirabel)
09:15 - 10:00 F. Ménard: "Observations and Models of Circumstellar Disks" (Invited Review)
10:00 - 10:20 O. Absil: "Exozodiacal Disks with IR Interferometry"
10:20 - 10:40 D. Barrado y Navascués: "Transition Disks in Lambda Orionis"
10:40 - 11:10
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30 A. Hales: "Protoplanetary Disks around A-stars"
11:30 - 11:50 O. Mousis: "Formation Conditions of Planetesimals"
11:50 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 C. Telesco: "Observing Planetesimal Collisions in Disks" (Invited Review)
14:15 - 14:35 A. Lecavelier: "The Beta Pic Disk and its Comets"
14:35 - 14:55 C. Snodgrass: "Properties of Short Period Cometary Nuclei"
14:55 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15 A. Morbidelli: "Dynamical Processes in the Early Solar System" (Invited Review)
16:15 - 16:35 C. Fuentes: "The Edge of the Kuiper Belt"
Session 2, part 1: Search for Planets
co-Chairs: Stéphane Udry (ESS), Rita Schulz (SS)
16:35 - 17:20

O. Hainaut: "Finding the Big Outer Solar System Bodies" (Invited Review)

17:20 - 17:35 G. Tancredi: "Who are the dwarfs in the Solar System?"
17:35 - 18:00 Discussion Day 1 / Poster PopUps
Session 1: Disks / Dynamics / Formation & Collisions

March 6, Tuesday
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Session 1, cntd': From Disks to Planets
co-Chairs: Pierre-Olivier Lagage (ESS), Hans Ulrich Kaeufl (SS)
09:00 - 09:20 A. Wootten: "ALMA's View of Planetary Systems"
09:20 - 09:40 E. Pantin:"Flaring Disk around HD97048"
Session 2, cntd': Search for Planets — small and big / here and there / indirect and direct
co-Chairs: Stéphane Udry (ESS), Rita Schulz (SS)
09:40 - 10:25 D. Queloz: "Status and Prospect of RV Surveys" (Invited Review)
10:25 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20 J. Setiawan: "Planets around Nearby, Young Stars"
11:20 - 11:40 A. Sozzetti: "Planets around Metal-Poor Dwarfs"
11:40 - 12:00 X. Bonfils: "Planets around M-dwarfs"
12:00 - 12:20 A. Quirrenbach: "Planets around Giants"  
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 B. Enoch & D. Wilson: "SuperWASP"
14:20 - 14:40 G. Piotto: "Transits in Super-Metal-Rich Clusters"
14:40 - 15:00 S. Vauclair: "Astroseismology of Host Stars"
15:00 - 15:20 C. Melo/C. Torres: "Search for Young Associations"
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 D. Mouillet: "Direct Detections of Exoplanets: Planetfinder" (Invited Review)
16:45 - 17:05 G. Chauvin: "Companions of Exoplanet Host Stars"
17:05 - 18:00 Discussion Day 2 / Poster PopUps
Session 2: Search for Exoplanets & Small Solar System Objects
20:00 Buses leave from ESO
20:30 Conference dinner

March 7, Wednesday
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Session 2, cntd': Search for Planets — small and big / here and there / indirect and direct
co-Chairs: Stéphane Udry (ESS), Rita Schulz (SS)
09:00 - 09:20 H. Zinnecker: "Substellar Companions of WD"
09:20 - 09:40 S. Mohanty: "Planets around BDs"
09:40 - 10:00 A. Seifahrt: "Astrometric and photometric monitoring of the GQ Lup companion"
10:00 - 10:20 E. Mamajek: "Mid-infrared Imaging of Cool Companions"
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10 S. Metchev: "BD Companions to Young Solar Analogs"
11:10 - 11:30 G. Montagnier: "BD Desert with NACO-SDI"
11:30 - 11:50 M. Schoeller: "Planets with the VLTI"
Session 3: Planetary Chemistry
co-Chairs: Andreas Quirrenbach (ESS), Olivier Mousis (SS)
11:50 - 12:35 I. Kamp: "Astrochemistry: From Disks to Protoplanets" (Invited Review)
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 M. Mumma: "Comets as Messengers" (Invited Review)
14:45 - 15:05 R. Schulz: "Comet Composition and Chemistry: Promise of ROSETTA"
15:05 - 15:25 E. Jehin: "What do Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Abundance Ratios tell us on comets origin?"
15:25 - 15:45 C. Dumas: "What are Dwarf Planets made of?"
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:00 D. Charbonneau: "Probing Atmospheres of Exoplanets" (Invited Review)
17:00 - 17:20 G. Tinetti: "Transmission Spectra of Hot Jupiters"
17:20 - 17:40 G. Hébrard: "Evaporation of Hot Jupiters"
17:40 - 18:00 Discussion Day 3 / Poster PopUps
Session 3: Chemistry of Planets & Small Solar System bodies, Astrochemistry

March 8, Thursday
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
Session 4: Towards Other Earths
co-Chairs: Wolfgang Gieren (ESS), Hermann Boehnhardt (SS)
09:00 - 09:45 L. Kaltenegger: "Biomarkers of Other Earths" (Invited Review)
09:45 - 10:05 G. Villanueva: "IR Signatures of Biomarkers"
10:05 - 10:25 H. Boehnhardt: "Comets and Life"
10:25 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20 M. Hartung:"Titan"
11:20 - 11:40 E. Palle: "Atmospheric Signatures of Earthlike Planets"
11:40 - 12:00 M. Sterzik: "Chiral Signatures in the Earthshine"
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 M. Fridlund: "Transits from COROT and the Darwin Mission" (Invited Review)
14:15 - 14:35 D. Minniti: "mmag Photometry of Transits"
14:35 - 14:55 J.P. Beaulieu: "Microlensing"
14:55 - 15:15 D. Kubas/A. Cassan: "Planet frequencies from Microlensing"
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 P. Lawson: "Roadmap to Other Earths" (Invited Review)
16:30 - 16:50 G. Tinetti: "Super-Earth Explorer"
16:50 - 17:30 Poster PopUps
Session 4: Earth-size Planets Finding Machines and Biomarkers
D. Minniti: Concluding remarks
17:30
Good-Bye Cocktail

March 9, Friday
6:00 - 22:00 Full Day Excursion to the VLT/Paranal Observatory

 

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