Programme

SUNDAY

5.00-8.00pm: Registration
6.00-8.00pm: Reception

 

MONDAY

9.10-9.30: Welcome from Rosemary Mardling and Loretta Baldassar, Director of the Monash Prato Centre
9.30-10.15: Sandy Faber: From Darkness into Light: Illuminating the Role of Dark Matter in Galaxy Formation
10.15-11.00: Avishai Dekel: What I learned from Doug on galaxy formation: cold streams, clumpy disks and compact spheroids

11.00-11.30: COFFEE

11.30-12.15: Donald Lynden-Bell: Dynamics without inertial frames
12.15-1.00: Jerry Sellwood: New developments in spiral structure theory

1.00-2.00: LUNCH

2.00-2.45: Chas Beichman: "Youth is hot and bold, age Is weak and cold:" searching for hot young planets
2.45-3.30: Frank Shu: Magnetized star formation and accretion disks around young stellar objects


TUESDAY

9.30-10.15: Pascale Garaud: Whatever happened to the other Mohicans
10.15-11.00: Hubert Klahr: Turbulence in protoplanedougy disks and planetesimal formation

11.00-11.30: COFFEE

11.30-12.15: Zoe Leinhardt: Forming protoplanets from planetesimals
12.15-1.00: Makiko Nagasawa: Sweeping secular resonance and its role in forming terrestrial planets from protoplanets

1.00-2.00: LUNCH

2.00-2.45: Shigeru Ida: Planetesimal dynamics and theoretical modeling for formation of extrasolar planets
2.45-3.30: Michel Mayor: The mass-semimajor axis distribution of planetary systems from super-earths to gaseous giant planets

3.30-4.00: COFFEE

4.00-4.45: Ji-Lin Zhou: Migration and final location of hot super-Earths in the presence of gas giants
4.45-5.30: SHORT POSTER PRESENTATIONS

5.30-7.00: Poster viewing with wine and cheese.

7.00: Public lecture by Albert Lin: A Noninvasive Search for the Tomb of Genghis Khan; Modern Tools to Solve an Ancient Mystery


WEDNESDAY

9.30-10.15: Peter Bodenheimer: Protoplanetary accretion disk models and the formation of giant planets
10.15-11.00: John Papaloizou: Disk planet Interaction and orbital migration

11.00-11.30: COFFEE

11.30-12.15: Willy Kley: Forming resonant planetary systems
12.15-1.00: Alessandro Morbidelli: Origin of the orbital architecture of the planets of the solar system

1.00-2.00: LUNCH

2.15: Train trip to Florence: Galileo telescope exhibition

6.45: BUS FROM PRATO TO VILLA MEDICIA FOR CONFERENCE DINNER


THURSDAY

9.30-10.15: Rainer Spurzem: Dynamics of planetary systems in star clusters
10.15-11.00: Pawel Artymowicz: "Strange theories"

11.00-11.30: COFFEE

11.30-12.15: Geoff Bryden: Constraints on planet formation from debris disk observations
12.15-1.00: Derek Richardson: The dynamics of small body satellite formation

1.00-2.00: LUNCH

2.00-2.45: Ian Dobbs-Dixon: Atmospheric Dynamics of Irradiated Planets
2.45-3.30: Greg Laughlin: Probing the physical properties of Extrasolar Planets
3.30-4.15: Tristan Guillot: Evolution and compositions of extrasolar planets


FRIDAY

9.30-10.15: Douglas Gough: Asteroseismology after planet consumption
10.15-11.00: Debra Fischer: The planet-stellar metallicity connection

11.00-11.30: COFFEE

11.30-12.15: Gordon Ogilvie: Tidal interactions of planets and stars
12.15-1.00: Harvey Richer: Kicked white dwarfs and the dynamical evolution of globular star clusters

1.00-2.00: LUNCH

2.00-2.45: Rosemary Mardling: Chaotic scattering in massive eccentric systems from first principles
2.45-3.30: Doug Lin
3.30-4.15: Greg Laughlin (conference summary)

END OF CONFERENCE