Origins of Stars and their Planetary Systems

Programme

THE ORIGINS OF STARS AND THEIR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

June 10-15, Origins Institute, McMaster University

The conference venue is the Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery (MDCL) building, Room 1105

Final Programme

Note: (R) = Review (45 min including questions); (K) = Keynote (30 min. including questions); and (C) = Contributed (20 min. including questions)

Sunday June 10, MDCL Lobby

5:30pm - 8:30pm -- Registration / Reception

Monday June 11:

7:30am: Mounting of Posters available - MDCL lobby
7:30am: Conference Registration (cont'd) - MDCL lobby
8:00am: Morning Coffee - for conferees not staying at residence.
8:20am: Welcome and conference notes

Session 1: Star Formation in Clusters

8:30am: (R) Charlie Lada -- Embedded Clusters As Laboratories for Star and Planet Formation Studies | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:15am: (C) Jason Ybarra -- The Progression of Star Formation in the Rosette Molecular Cloud | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:35am: (C) Pamela Klaassen -- Ionized and Molecular Gas Dynamics in K3-50A | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:55am: (C) Mikhail Klassen -- Simulating Protostellar Evolution and Radiative Feedback in Stars and Clusters | PDF of powerpoint presentation
10:15am: COFFEE + Poster Mounting
10:50am: (K) Cathie Clarke -- The imprint of formation in clusters on the field | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:20am: (C) Philip Myers -- Evolution, ages, and birthrates of YSOs in clusters | PDF of powerpoint presentation

Session 2: Planets-Statistical Properties

11:40am: (C) Jason Rowe -- The Reflective and Thermal Properties of Transiting Extrasolar Planets | PDF of powerpoint presentation
12:00pm: LUNCH, Centro@Commons
1:30pm: (R) Dimitar Sasselov --Planetary Architectures: From Interior Design to Urban Planning | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:15pm: (C) Brendan Bowler -- A High Contrast Adaptive Optics Imaging Search for Giant Planets Around Young M Dwarfs | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:35pm: (C) Michael Liu -- The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign
2:55pm: (C) Sebastian Elser -- The origin of elemental abundances of the terrestrial planets | PDF of powerpoint presentation
3:15pm: COFFEE
3:50pm: (K) Shigeru Ida -- The theoretically predicted distributions of mass and orbital elements of exoplanets | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:20pm: (C) Yasuhiro Hasegawa -- Planet traps and the origin of the observed mass-period relation | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:40pm: (C) Mariangela Bonavita -- Clues on the frequency of circumbinary planets in wide orbits | PDF of powerpoint presentation
5:00pm: Ralph Pudritz: -- PDF of discussion
6:00pm: End

6:30pm: SOCIAL at Slainte Irish Pub. Bus departure from residence

Tuesday June 12:

8:00am: Conference Registration (cont'd) - MDCL lobby
8:00am: Morning Coffee - for conferees not staying at residence
8:25am: Conference notes

Session 3: Planets in Cluster Context

8:30am: (R) Fred Adams -- Effects of the Cluster Environment on Forming Planetary Systems
9:15am: (C) Richard Parker -- The effects of dynamical evolution on planets in young substructured clusters | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:35am: (K) John Bally -- Planet Formation in Clusters: From Orion to Starbursts
10:05am: COFFEE

Session 4: Young, gas-rich disks

10:35am: (R) Nuria Calvet -- The gas-rich disks: structure and evolution | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:20am: (C) Sean Andrews -- Millimeter-Wave Observations of Protoplanetary "Transition" Disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:40am: (C) Ruobing Dong -- The missing cavities in the polarized NIR scattered light images of transitional protoplanetary disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
12:00pm: LUNCH, Centro@Commons
1:30pm: (K) Kaitlin Kratter -- How young disks shape the growth of stellar systems | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:00pm: (C) Myriam Benisty -- Unveiling the structure of pre-transitional disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:20pm: (C) Chunhua Qi -- Resolving the CO snow line in protoplantary disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:40pm: (C) Jacob Simon -- Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks: Defining the Environment for Planet Formation | PDF of powerpoint presentation
3:00pm: COFFEE
3:40pm: (C) John Carpenter -- Observational Constraints on Spatial Variations of Grain Growth in Circumstellar Disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:00pm: (C) Marina Galvagni -- An improved model for grain growth in the outer part of a protoplanetary disc | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:20pm: (C) Francois Menard -- Radial dust migration in the TW Hydra protoplanetary disk
4:40pm: (C) Xuening Bai -- Launching of Magetocentrifugal Winds in the Inner Region of Protoplanetary Disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
5:00pm: POSTER SESSION + WINE AND CHEESE -- MDCL lobby
6:30pm: End

8:00pm: 2012 Whidden / OI Public Lecture: by Ray Jayawardhana -- Rocks, Ice and Penguins: Searching for Clues to Planetary Origins in Antarctica. Chester New Hall (CNH) 104

Wednesday June 13:

8:00am: Conference Registration (cont'd) - MDCL lobby
8:00am: Morning Coffee - for conferees not staying at residence.
8:25am: Conference notes
8:30am: Session 4 (cont'd) (C) Mark Wardle -- The magnetically-active surface layers of protoplanetary discs | PDF of powerpoint presentation
8:50am: Session 4 (cont'd) (C) Raquel Salmeron -- Formation of chondrules in disk winds | PDF of powerpoint presentation

Session 5: Atmospheres and Evolutionary Models

9:10am: (R) Isabelle Baraffe -- A review on the structure and evolutionary properties of substellar objects: from brown dwarfs to exoplanets | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:55am: (C) Takashi Hosokawa -- On the reliability of stellar ages and age spreads inferred from pre-main-sequence evolutionary models | PDF of powerpoint presentation
10:15am: COFFEE
10:50am: (K) Jonathan Fortney -- Examing the Structure of Transiting Planets, from Super Earths to Gas Giants | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:20am: (C) Ian Dobbs-Dixon -- Atmospheric Dynamics of Short Period Planets | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:40am: (C) James Owen -- The Evaporation of Close in Planets
12:00pm: LUNCH, Box Lunches

12:45pm: Bus departure for Excursion on: Niagara Falls and Maid of the Mist + tasting and conference

Thursday June 14:

8:00am: Conference Registration (cont'd) - MDCL lobby
8:00am: Morning Coffee - for conferees not staying at residence.
8:25am: Conference notes

Session 6: Cores and Small Scale Collapse:

8:30am: (R) Phillipe Andre -- From the filamentary structure of molecular clouds to the formation and properties of prestellar cores | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:15am: (C) Jaime Pineda -- Direct Observation of the Transition to Coherence and Isothermal Filaments in a Dense Core | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:35am: (C) Joseph Mottram -- Herschel water observations: revealing envelope dynamics in low-mass protostars | PDF of powerpoint presentation
9:55am: (C) Scott Schnee -- An Observed Lack of Substructure in Starless Cores | PDF of powerpoint presentation
10:15am: COFFEE (POSTER Session)
10:50am: (K) Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka -- From Cloud Cores to Protostars and Protoplanetary Disks
11:20am: (C) Benoit Commercon -- Theoretical and observational predictions of collapsing dense cores using 3D radiation-magneto-hydrodynamics | PDF of powerpoint presentation

Session 7: Planet Formation - Early Stages in Disks:

11:40am: (C) Christian Gräfe -- Constraints on the early stages of planet formation from multi-wavelength observations and modeling of the circumstellar disk of the Butterfly Star | PDF of powerpoint presentation
12:00pm: LUNCH, Centro@Commons
1:30pm: (R) Kees Dullemond -- From dust to planetary embryos | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:15pm: (C) Farzana Meru -- SPH simulations of dust aggregate collisions: the effects of aggregate porosity and mass on the threshold velocities for fragmentation | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2.35pm: (C) Jean-Philippe Berger -- First PIONIER-VLTI images of protoplanetary disks inner dusty rim | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:55pm: (C) Paola Pinilla -- Trapping dust particles in the outer regions of protoplanetary and transitional disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
3:15pm: COFFEE
3:50pm: (K) Anders Johansen -- From pebbles to planetesimals and beyond | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:20pm: (C) Fredrik Windmark -- Planetesimal formation by sweep-up: How the bouncing barrier can aid growth | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:40pm: (C) Wladimir Lyra -- Vortex excitation at dead zone boundaries in 3D resistive magnetohydrodynamical global models of protoplanetary disks | PDF of powerpoint presentation
5:00pm: Ralf Klessen: -- Discussion
6:00pm: End

6:45pm. Dine Around Town -- Selected restaurants

Friday June 15:

8:00am: Morning Coffee - for conferees not staying at residence.
8:25am: Conference notes
8:30am: (Session 7 cont'd) (C) Jarrett Johnson -- The First Planets: the Critical Metallicity for Planet Formation | PDF of powerpoint presentation
8:50am: (Session 7 cont'd) (C) Zhaohuan Zhu -- Transitional Disks: multiple planets, dust filtration or dust growth? | PDF of powerpoint presentation

Session 8: Planet Formation - Late Stages

9:10am: (R) Willy Kley -- Planet-disk interaction and orbital evolution
9:55am: (C) Bertram Bitsch -- Implications of the disc structure on planetary migration | PDF of powerpoint presentation
10:15am: COFFEE
10:50am: (C) Cristobal Petrovich -- New developments in the old problem: revisiting disk-planet tidal interaction | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:10am: (K) Brenda Matthews -- Herschel surveys of debris disks: incidences, outcomes and surprises | PDF of powerpoint presentation
11:40am: (C) Andrew Shannon -- Growth of Debris Disks
12:00pm: LUNCH BBQ: 1280 Bistro
1:30pm: (C) Geoffrey Bryden -- SKARPS: The Search for Kuiper belts Around Radial-velocity Planet Stars | PDF of powerpoint presentation

Session 9: Brown Dwarfs

1:50pm: (K) Matthew Bate -- The formation and properties of stars and brown dwarfs | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:20pm: (C) Patrick Rogers -- Forming Gas-Giants Through Gravitational Instability: 3D Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations and the Hill Criterion | PDF of powerpoint presentation
2:40pm: (R) Gilles Chabrier -- Brown dwarf and star formation and the bottom of the IMF: a critical look | PDF of powerpoint presentation
3:25pm: COFFEE (unmount Posters)
4:00pm: (C) Shantanu Basu -- A Hybrid Scenario for the Formation of Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:20pm: (C) Luca Ricci -- Testing the models of early evolution of solids in disks through sub-mm interferometry | PDF of powerpoint presentation
4:40pm: END CONFERENCE

6:30pm: Evening Event -- for those staying on: OI / McMaster 3D theatre (MDCL 1110): Special showing of 3D feature "Extreme Alien Worlds"

Acknowledgments:

Financial support for this conference was provided by the Origins Institute at McMaster. We also wish to thank the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) for a conference grant that helped support this meeting.