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ISIMA 2011: Star and Planet Formation

Student participants



Ruobing Dong Name:
Ruobing Dong		 Afilliation:
Princeton
 Project Title:
Modeling the scattered light disk images for proplanetary disks
PhD Advisor:
R. Rafikov, Jim Stone
 Research Interests:
Exoplanet and protoplanetary disc
Marina Galvagni Name:
Marina Galvagni		 Afilliation:
University of Zurich
 Project Title:
Improving the grain growth model in the outer part of circumstellar disks
PhD Advisor:
L. Mayer, P. Saha
 Research Interests:
Planet formation
Nathan Goldbaum Name:
Nathan Goldbaum		 Afilliation:
UC Santa Cruz
 Project Title:
Disk Dynamos in Simulations of Collapsing Cores
PhD Advisor:
Mark Krumholz
 Research Interests:
Molecular cloud formation; galactic dynamics
Munan Gong Name:
Munan Gong		 Afilliation:
Tsinghua University
 Project Title:
From transitional disks to stellar systems
PhD Advisor:
Doug Lin
 Research Interests:
Planet formation
Chelesa Huang Name:
Chelesa (Xu) Huang 		Afilliation:
Princeton

 Project Title:
Ohmic heating in the interior of hot Jupiters
PhD Advisor:
J. Goodman, Jim Stone, Doug Lin
 Research Interests:
Initial Star Mass Function and planet formation
Peng Jiang Name:
Peng Jiang		 Afilliation:
Univ. of Science & Technology of China

Project Title:
Destroying resonance between Neptune and its resonant Kuiper Belt Objects by stochastic planetesimal scatterings
PhD Advisor:
Junxian Wang
 Research Interests:
RV survey of exoplanets; QSO absorption lines
Guangxing Li Name:
Guang-Xing Li		 Afilliation:
Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy

 Project Title:
Multi-phase turbulent ISM: Theory Confronting Observations
PhD Advisor:
F. Wyrowski, K. Menten, P. Kroupa
 Research Interests:
Star formation
Jacques Masson Name:
Jacques Masson		 Afilliation:
ENS/ENS Lyon

Project Title:
Planetesimal formation: shear instabilities at the dust-rich mid-plane
PhD Advisor:
G. Chabrier, P. Hennebelle
 Research Interests:
low mass star formation, non ideal MHD
Eva Ntormousi Name:
Eva Ntormousi		 Afilliation:
Universitaets-Sternwarte Muenchen

Project Title:
Analytical studies of fragmentation during gravitational collapse
PhD Advisor:
Andreas Burkert
 Research Interests:
Formation of molecular clouds, ISM turbulence
Vivien Parmentier Name:
Vivien Parmentier		 Afilliation:
Observatoire de la cote d'azur

Project Title:
Day-night cold traps for TiO in hot Jupiter atmospheres
PhD Advisor:
Tristan Guillot, Olivier Grasset
 Research Interests:
Composition and evolution of giant planets and super earth
Daniel Perez-Becker Name:
Daniel Perez-Becker		 Afilliation:
UC Berkeley

 Project Title:
A simple model for understanding the day-night temperature constrast on Hot Jupiters
PhD Advisor:
Eugene Chiang
 Research Interests:
Protoplanetary Disks
Zhao Sun Name:
Zhao Sun		 Afilliation:
Purple Mountain Observatory

 Project Title:
Planetary dynamics in collisional particle disks
PhD Advisor:
Jianghui Ji
 Research Interests:
Exoplanet transit, planetary atmosphere
Pascal Tremblin Name:
Pascal Tremblin		 Afilliation:
Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay

 Project Title:
Charge exchange in the colliding winds of Hot Jupiters and their host stars
PhD Advisor:
Edouard Audit
 Research Interests:
Triggered star formation, HII regions
Jiwei Xie Name:
Jiwei Xie		 Afilliation:
Nanjing University

 Project Title:
Abundance and evolution of gas around Beta Pictoris
PhD Advisor:
Ji-Lin Zhou
 Research Interests:
Planet formation in binary systems
Xi Zhang

Name:
Xi Zhang

Afilliation:
Caltech

 Project Title:
Convectively generated zonal jets by thunderstorms on Jupiter
PhD Advisor:
Yuk L. Yung
 Research Interests:
Planetary atmosphere and evolution