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The Second TPF/Darwin International Conference
Agenda

Sunday, July 25
  600-900 pm Opening reception, Islandia Grill
registration desk open

Monday, July 26
  8:00 Opening Remarks
(slides)
  Chas Beichman, Malcolm Fridlund, Steve Unwin
  Properties of Young Disks
  8:15 From Cores to Disks with Spitzer
(abstract)
Invited Neal Evans
  8:45 Chemistry of Disks
(abstract | slides)
Invited Ewine van Dishoeck
  9:15 Gas in dusty disks around main-sequence stars
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Alexis Brandeker
  9:30 An Oort cloud analogue in an extrasolar protoplanetary region?
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Glenn White
  9:45 Break
  Composition of Young Disks
  10:15 The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: First Results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program
(abstract)
Invited Michael Meyer
  10:45 Evolution of protoplanetary disks and the formation of planets: first results from the Spitzer Space Telescope
(abstract)
Invited Dan Watson
  11:15 Mineralogy of Disks
(abstract)
Invited Rens Waters
  11:45 Spitzer Cores to Disks Legacy Observations of Weak-line T Tauri Stars
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Deborah Padgett
  12:00 Posters (1 minute and 1 viewgraph)
  12:15 Lunch
  Structure of Young Disks
  13:30 Millimeter/Submillimeter Observations
(abstract | slides)
Invited David Wilner
  14:00 Size Matters: Clear Signs of Dust Grain Growth in Disks Around T Tauri Stars
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Jens Rodman
  14:15 A Nulling Survey of Nearby Herbig Stars
(abstract)
Invited Phil Hinz
  14:45 First Look at YSOs using Closure Phases
(abstract)
Contributed John Monnier
  15:00 Spitzer IRS observations of class I protostars: the composition and temperature of circumstellar ices
(abstract)
Contributed Ciska Kemper
  15:15 Break
  Formation of Giant Planets
  15:45 Overview of Planet Search Efforts
(abstract)
Invited Penny Sackett
  16:15 Debate on the Formation of Planets
  16:15    Formation of Giant Planets
   (abstract)
Invited Doug Lin
  16:45    Formation of Giant Planets
   (abstract | slides)
Invited Alan Boss
  17:15    Discussion
  17:30 Evaporation of Hot-Jupiters. Observations and models.
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Alain Lecavelier des Etangs
  17:45 Chronometry of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
(abstract)
Contributed Eric Gaidos
  18:00 Adjourn

Tuesday, July 27
  Exo-zodiacal Emission and TPF/Darwin
  8:15 ExoZodi and a Science RoadMap for TPF
(abstract | slides)
Invited Charles Beichman
  8:45 High Resolution Spectral Mapping of ExoZodi Disks
(abstract | slides)
Invited Tom Herbst
  9:15 Properties of TPF/Darwin Target Stars
(abstract | slides)
Invited Maggie Turnbull
  9:45 Brown dwarf disks: possible targets for TPF/DARWIN?
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Ilaria Pascucci
  10:00 Break
  Properties of Debris Disks
  10:30 MIPS Observations of Disks
(abstract)
Invited George Rieke
  11:00 Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy to Probe Disk Composition and Structure
(abstract)
Contributed Alycia Weinberger
  11:15 Evolution of EZ disks
(abstract | slides)
Invited Scott Kenyon
  11:45 Signatures of Planets in Spatially Unresolved Disks
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Amaya Moro-Martin
  12:00 HST/ACS Coronagraphic Imaging of Debris Disks
(abstract)
Contributed John Krist
  12:15 Posters (1 minute and 1 viewgraph)
  12:30 Lunch
  Composition of Debris Disks
  13:45 All Roads Lead to TPF Invited Anne Kinney
  14:00 Composition of Debris Disks
(abstract | slides)
Invited Carsten Dominik
  14:30 High-Resolution Thermal Imaging with Gemini of the Beta Pic Central Disk
(abstract)
Contributed Charles Telesco
  14:45 The Disk around the Young M Dwarf GL 803 (AU Mic)
(abstract)
Contributed Michael Liu
  15:00 Direct images of nearby debris disks using present-day coronagraphy
(abstract)
Contributed Paul Kalas
  15:15 Break
  Structure of Debris Disks
  15:45 Origin of Structure in Disks
(abstract)
Invited Pawel Artymowicz
  16:15 Submillimeter Observations of Disks
(abstract | slides)
Invited Jane Greaves
  16:45 Limits on Primordial Gas in the AU Microscopii Disk from Far-UV Spectroscopy
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Aki Roberge
  17:00 Discovery of planetesimal belts in the beta Pictoris system
(abstract)
Contributed Yoshiko Okamoto
  17:15 Posters (1 minute and 1 viewgraph
  17:30 Adjourn
  20:00 Popular Evening Talk - Spitzer: NASA's Newest Great Observatory
(abstract | slides)
Mike Werner

Wednesday, July 28
  Structures in Debris Disks
  8:00 The Kuiper Belt as a Debris Disk
(abstract)
Invited Renu Malhotra
  8:30 Resonant structures due to planets
(abstract | slides)
Invited Mark Wyatt
  9:00 How Low Can the ExoZodi Go?
(abstract | slides)
Invited Dana Backman
  9:30 Science with Pegase
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Alain Leger/Marc Olivier
  9:45 Gas in Beta Pictoris-like disks.
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Alfred Vidal-Madjar
  10:00 Break
  High Resolution Imaging of Disks
  10:30 High Contrast/High Resolution Scattered Light Imaging of Circumstellar Disks
(abstract | slides)
Invited Glenn Schneider
  11:00 Observing the inner disk structure: VLT/NACO and HST/NICMOS observations
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Daniel Apai
  11:15 Interferometric Imaging (Keck-I)
(abstract | slides)
Invited Rachel Akeson
  11:45 Interferometric Imaging (VLTI)
(abstract)
Invited Bruno Lopez
  12:15 Posters (1 minute and 1 viewgraph)
  12:30 Lunch
  Formation of Terrestrial Planets
  13:30 Growth of Rocky Planets
(abstract)
Invited John Chambers
  14:00 Ocean Planets: A NEW FAMILY OF PLANETS?
(abstract | slides)
Invited Alain Leger
  14:30 Geochemistry of the Early Solar Nebula
(abstract | slides)
Invited Ross Taylor
  15:00 A Snowball's Chance in Hell
(abstract)
Contributed Kevin Zahnle
  15:15 A Polarized View on Terrestrial Exoplanets
(abstract)
Contributed Daphne Stam
  15:30 Extended Poster viewing Session
  15:45 - 18:00 Snacks and no-host bar
  19:00 Banquet at Sea World: Nautilus Pavilion
Park is open until 2300.
Transportation is not provided.

Thursday, July 29
  Status of TPF/Darwin
  8:00 Structural connected Interferometer
(abstract | slides)
Invited Ken Johnston
  8:30 Formation Flying Interferometer
(abstract | slides)
Invited Malcolm Fridlund
  9:00 The TPF Coronagraph
(abstract | slides)
Invited Wes Traub
  9:30 Laboratory Validation of Technologies for the Eclipse Coronagraphic Telescope
(abstract | slides)
Contributed John Trauger
  9:45 Wide-field Imaging Interferometry: Enabling General Astrophysics
(abstract | slides)
Contributed David Leisewitz
  10:00 Break
  Astrobiology
  10:30 Where Does the Water Come From?
(abstract | slides)
Invited Jonathan Lunine
  11:00 Where does the carbon come from?
(abstract)
Invited Ed Young
  11:30 A Shifting Snow Line Could Have Delivered the Earth's Water
(abstract | slides)
Contributed Marc Kuchner
  11:45 Evolution of oxygen isotopes in the solar nebula
(abstract)
Contributed James Lyons
  12:00 Conference Summary
(slides)
Frank Shu
  12:45 Adjourn

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