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ISIMA 2011: Star and Planet Formation

KIAA Beijing, June 27th - August 5th, 2011

From Week 2 to 5 of the program, ISIMA will be hosting one talk per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and two talks per day on Tuesday and Thursday. The week-by-week program will be updated as the summer progresses. For the Week 1 program, see the conference website.

Student talks will be during week 6 .

Week 2 (July 4th - July 8th)

  • Monday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Subhanjoy Mohanty, Imperial College London: "Population inference with upper limits, Bayesian analysis as applied to disk masses in very low mass stars and brown dwarfes"
    • 12:00 - 1:00: KIAA Astro Lunch Ruobing Dong: Numerical study of linear and nonlinear density wave evolution in protostellar disks
    • 3:00 - 4:30: Student presentations.
  • Tuesday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Zhaohuan Zhu, U. Mich: "Transitional disks: gap opening by planets?; and Disk fragmentation by Gravitational Instabilities"
    • 3:30 - 4:30: NOTE CHANGE OF TIME Gregory Herczeg, MPIE: "Observational constraints on disk truncation around young stars"
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Pascale Garaud, UC Santa Cruz: "Thermo-compositional convection and its relevance to planet formation and evolution"
  • Friday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Aigen Li, U. Missouri: "Diffuse Interstellar Bands: A Nine-decade Mystery in Interstellar Astrophysics" (CANCELLED)
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Yongyun Hu, PKU: "The habitability of Gl581c and Gl581di; and Equatorial super-rotation in terrestrial tidally-locked planets"

Week 3 (July 11th - July 15th)

  • Monday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Nicolas Peretto, CEA Saclay "The dark ages of star formation in the Galaxy"
  • Tuesday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Shude Mao "Extrasolar planets with microlensing: principles and discoveries" (Note: seminar in small seminar room on first floor)
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Stephanie Walch, U. Cardiff "The turbulent fragmentation of the interstellar medium: the impact of metallicity" (Note: seminar in small seminar room on first floor)
  • Wednesday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Hanno Rein, Princeton "Migration of propellers in Saturn's rings"
  • Thursday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Farzana Meru, U. Tuebingen "The rapid inward migration of planets formed by gravitational instabilities"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Robert Wittenmyer "Exoplanetary science with the Anglo-Australian Telescope"
  • Friday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Hua-Bai Li, MPIA Heidelberg "Magnetic fields in the ISM from scale 103 to 10-3 pc: Observations confront simulations"

Week 4 (July 18th - July 22nd)

  • Monday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Yuefang Wu, PKU "Gravitational Collapse in high-mass star forming regions"
  • Tuesday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Takayuki Muto, Tokyo Inst. Tech. "Disk-planet interaction: spiral arms, gap-opening, observational prospects "
  • Wednesday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Doug Lin, UC Santa Cruz, KIAA-PKU "Stellar magnetosphere, inner disk structure, destiny of hot Jupiters and super-Earths"
  • Thursday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Matthias Gritschneder, KIAA-PKU "Simulations of ionization and triggered star formation"
  • Friday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Alexis Brandeker, U. Stockholm "Distinguishing left from right: the origin of homochirality in life"

Week 5 (July 25th - July 29th)

  • Monday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Christoph Olczak, ARI U. Heidelber "Star clusters: mysterious galactic building blocks"
  • Tuesday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Thijs Kouwenhoven, KIAA-PKU "Constraining the outcome of star formation: from star clusters to planetary systems"
  • Wednesday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Adam Showman, U. Arizona "Scaling laws for convection and jet speeds on the giant planets"
  • Thursday:
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Mike Shao, JPL "NEAT (Nearby Earths Astrometric Telescope)"
  • Friday
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Andrew Cumming, McGill : "Compositionally-driven convection"

Week 6 (August 1st - August 5th)

  • Monday:
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Aigen Li, U. Missouri : "Dust in the Interstellar Medium"
  • Tuesday: NO SEMINAR
  • Wednesday: NO SEMINAR
  • Thursday:
    • 9:00 - 9:30: Eva Ntormousi : "Analytical studies of fragmentation during gravitational collapse"
    • 9:30 - 10:00: Peng Jiang : "Destroying resonance between Neptune and its resonant Kuiper Belt Objects by stochastic planetesimal scatterings"
    • 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break
    • 10:30 - 11:00: Chelsea Huang : "Ohmic heating in the interior of hot Jupiters"
    • 11:00 - 11:30: Pascal Tremblin : "Charge exchange in the colliding winds of Hot Jupiters and their host stars"
    • 11:30 - 2:00: Lunch Break
    • 2:00 - 2:30: Marina Galvagni : "Improving the grain growth model in the outer part of circumstellar disks"
    • 2:30 - 3:00: Munan Gong : "From transitional disks to stellar systems"
    • 3:00 - 3:30: Coffee Break
    • 3:30 - 4:00: Nathan Goldbaum : "Disk Dynamos in Simulations of Collapsing Cores"
    • 4:00 - 4:30: Jacques Masson : "Planetesimal formation: shear instabilities at the dust-rich mid-plane"
  • Friday:
    • 9:00 - 9:30: Ruobing Dong : "Modeling the scattered light disk images for proplanetary disks"
    • 9:30 - 10:00: Xi Zhang : "Convectively generated zonal jets by thunderstorms on Jupiter"
    • 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee Break
    • 10:30 - 11:00: Jiwei Xie : "Abundance and evolution of gas around Beta Pictoris"
    • 11:00 - 11:30: Guang-Xing Li : "Multi-phase turbulent ISM: Theory Confronting Observations"
    • 11:30 - 2:00: Lunch Break
    • 2:00 - 2:30: Daniel Perez-Beker : "A simple model for understanding the day-night temperature constrast on Hot Jupiters"
    • 2:30 - 3:00: Shangfei Liu (invited speaker): "Rebound: An open-source collisional N-Body Tree Code"
    • 3:00 - 3:30: Coffee Break
    • 3:30 - 4:00: Sun Zhao : "Planetary dynamics in collisional particle disks"
    • 4:00 - 4:30: Vivien Parmentier : "Day-night cold traps for TiO in hot Jupiter atmospheres"
    • 4:30: Concluding Remarks, End of Program Party