This is the first announcement of the workshop ‘New Heights in Planet Formation’, to be held at ESO – Garching between 15 and 19 July 2024. In the past decade, facilities such as ALMA and VLT/SPHERE have transformed the field of planet formation, enabling both moderate resolution statistical disk surveys and high resolution imaging studies of disks. Today this field is driven by observations, and it seems to be continuing along this path with JWST and the many recently accepted Large Programs at different facilities. Theory and models are faced with the task of explaining much more complex scenarios of disk evolution, planet formation, planet-disk interaction. This workshop will bring together observers with expertise in different wavelength regimes, theorists, and modellers, to review the state of the art, pin-point the main open questions, and explore new venues.
First Announcement of Workshop ‘New Heights in Planet Formation’
Published: 17 Dec 2023
The main topics that we plan to address are the following:
- How, when and how fast do planets form? What observational constraints exist and how do they compare with predictions from different planet formation theories?
- Can forming planets be detected through direct imaging and high-resolution kinematical studies? What are the strengths and limitations of such techniques?
- Planet-disk interaction: do theoretical predictions match the observations?
- Planets form in evolving disks: what has been learned from disk population studies and what is still missing, both in the models prediction and in the observations? What is driving disk evolution all the way to disk dispersal?
- How important is the effect of the environment both on disk evolution, and on the process of planet-formation? What are the prospects of studying planet forming disks in further away and harsher environments?
- How can chemistry be used as a tool to constrain planet-formation by comparing observations of molecular tracers in disks and around exo-planets? What is the fundamental contribution of JWST and what are the prospects?
Scientific Organising Committee (SOC):
- Phil Armitage (Stony Brook University)
- Myriam Benisty (IPAG/Observatory of the Cote d'Azur)
- Cathie Clarke (IoA, University of Cambridge)
- Giuseppe Lodato (Università degli Studi di Milano)
- Enrique Macias (ESO Garching)
- Anna Miotello (ESO Garching)
- Daniel Price (Monash University)
- Laura Perez (Universidad de Chile)
- Leonardo Testi (Università di Bologna)
Important dates:
Call for abstracts and registration open: March - April 2024
Deadline for abstract submission: To be decided