Final Agenda


Proceedings are here

Sunday:

10:00 Huntington Gardens and Library tour departs
3:30 Huntington tour returns
4:00 Reception and Introductory Poster Session
7:00 Reception ends

Monday: Census of Young Disks in the Galaxy

7:30 Coffee
8:15 Deborah Padgett - Welcome and Logistics
8:30 Neal Evans - "Initial Conditions - Transition from Cores to Disks"
9:20 Jes Jørgensen - "Observations of the Earliest Stages of Protostellar Disks"
9:40 Dan Watson - "Rainfall from Protostellar Envelopes onto Protoplanetary Disks"
10:00 Coffee Break and Posters
10:30 Thomas Henning - "Role of Disks in Massive Star Formation"
11:20 Thomas Robitaille - "Spitzer Observations of Young Stellar Objects Throughout the Milky-Way"
11:40 Joseph Hora - "The Spitzer Legacy Survey of the Cygnus-X Region"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Tom Megeath - "Disk Frequency and Distribution in OB Associations"
2:20 Jonathan Williams - "Disk masses in the Orion Trapezium Cluster"
2:40 Scott Wolk - "Spitzer and X-ray Observations of Star Forming Regions"
3:00 Aleks Scholz - "Brown Dwarf Disks in the Spitzer Era"
3:20 Coffee Break and Posters
4:00 Lori Allen - "Disks in Nearby Low Mass Star-forming Regions"
4:50 Fernando Comerón - "What Spitzer Missed: New Members of Lupus 3 That Don't Boast Their Youth"
5:10 Poster Session with cash bar

Tuesday: Characterization of Young Stellar Disks

8:00 Coffee
8:30 Nuria Calvet - "Issues in Disk SED modeling"
9:20 Shantanu Basu - "The Formation and Evolution of Protostellar Disks"
9:40 Neal Turner - "Understanding Spitzer Observations of Protostellar Disks Using 3-D MHD Calculations"
10:00 Coffee Break and Posters
10:30 Bruno Merin - "The Observed Diversity of YSO Disk Properties"
11:20 Colette Salyk - "IRS Detections of Water Vapor in Protoplanetary Disks"
11:40 William Forrest - "High Temperature Silica in Protoplanetary Disks"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Jeroen Bouwman - "Disk Composition from Spectra"
2:20 Johan Olofsson - "Coagulation and Crystallization of Silicates in Protoplanetary Disks: A c2d Spitzer/IRS Survey"
2:40 Klaus Pontoppidan - "Imaging of molecular gas in Protoplanetary Disks on 1 AU Scales Using Spectro-astrometry"
3:00 Coffee Break and Posters
3:40 David Wilner - "Spatially Resolved YSO Disk Studies - Present and Future"
4:30 Andrea Isella - "CARMA Observations of Protoplanetary Disks: Initial Conditions and Evolution"
4:50 Sean Andrews - "Protoplanetary Disk Structure with the SMA"
5:20 Poster Session with cash bar

Wednesday: Transition Disks and Disk Evolution

8:00 Coffee
8:30 Eugene Chiang - "From T Tauri disks to Transitional Disks: accretion and planetesimal formation"
9:20 Jesus Hernandez - "Disk Census in the Star-Forming Regions of the Orion OB Associations"
9:40 Adam Kraus - "The Role of Multiplicity in Protoplanetary Disk Evolution"
10:00 Coffee Break and Posters
10:30 Richard Alexander - "Gas Phase Processes in Disk Evolution"
11:20 Manuel Guedel - "Is Mid-Infrared [Ne II] Emission a Tracer for X-Ray Ionized and Heated Gas in Protoplanetary Disks?"
11:40 Sean Brittain - "The Observation of Warm Gas in Transitional Disks Around Herbig Ae/Be Stars"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Joan Najita - "Gas in YSO and Transition Disks"
2:20 Elise Furlan - "Disk Evolution in Taurus, Ophiuchus, and Chamaeleon I"
2:40 James Muzerolle - "Spitzer Census of Transition Disks"
3:30 Coffee Break and Posters
4:10 Thayne Currie - "Debris Disks and the Formation of Terrestrial and Icy Planets"
4:30 Panel Discussion: Nomenclature for Young Disks
Moderator: Neal Evans
6:30 Bar opens, Twin Palms Restaurant
7:30 Banquet, Twin Palms Restaurant

Thursday: Debris Disks

8:00 Coffee
8:30 John Carpenter - "Debris disk census from 5 Myrs to 5 Gyrs"
9:20 Ben Zuckerman - "Planetary Systems Around Close Binary Stars: the Case of the Very Dusty, Sun-like, Spectroscopic Binary BD+20 307"
9:40 Clio Gielen - "Dust grain processing in Keplerian Discs Around Post-AGB Binaries"
10:00 Coffee Break and Posters
10:30 Mark Wyatt - "Debris Disk Dynamical Theory"
11:20 Torsten Löhne - "How Extrasolar Planetesimals Show Up in Spitzer Data"
11:40 Kate Su - "Diversity of Debris Disk Structures - Combining Resolved Imaging and Spectral Energy Distribution Models"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Karl Stapelfeldt - "Spatially Resolved Debris Disk Studies - Present and Future"
2:20 Holly Maness - "Exploring Planetary Debris Disks at Millimeter Wavelengths: First Detection & Mapping with CARMA"
2:40 Rachel Akeson - "Hot Dust in Debris Disks"
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Steve Strom - "Studies of Star Formation and Circumstellar Disks with the Spitzer Warm Mission"
4:05 Ewine van Dishoeck - "Future prospects: Future Science Directions in the Study of Circumstellar Disks"
4:40 End of conference