14th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in
Maryland
"The Search for Other Worlds"
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Monday, October 13, 2003
8:30
Session #1: Introduction
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Virginia Trimble -- The Quest for Other Worlds -350 to +1995
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David Spergel -- Future Plans and the Emerging
Overall International Program
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Session
#2: Statistics of Planetary Systems
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Debra Fischer -- Characteristics of Planet Search Stars
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Chris McCarthy -- Discussion/Analysis of Observed
Systematics
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Hugh Jones -- What is Still Unknown About
the Statistics of Planetary Systems
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
12:30 Lunch
(provided
at the conference site and included in registration fee)
2:00
Session #3: The Early Solar System I: Establishing the Environment
for
Planet Formation
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Francois Menard -- Observations of Gaseous
Disks
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Steve Balbus -- Protostellar Disk Structure
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Mike Mumma -- Chemical Gradients in the
Early Solar System
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
4:00 Tea
Break
4:30
Session #4: The Early Solar System II: Dusty Disks and Unseen
Planets
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John Wood -- Timescales for Planetary Formation
from Cosmochemistry
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Alycia Weinberger -- Observatons of Dusty
Disks
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Mark Wyatt -- Modeling the Structures
of Dusty Disks: Unseen Planets?
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
6:30 Poster
Session with Refreshments (until 9:30 pm)
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
8:30
Session #5: Giant Planets
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Dave Stevenson -- Formation Theory
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Dave Charbonneau -- Transits: Observations,
Searches, and Theory
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Adam Burrows -- EGPs: Direct Detection and
Characterization
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Session
#6: Terrestrial Planets
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John Chambers -- Formation Theory
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Jurgen Blum -- Laboratory Experiments on
Protoplanetary Dust Aggregation
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Sara Seager -- Extrasolar Earths: Direct
Detection and Characterization
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
12:30 Lunch
(provided
at the conference site and included in registration fee)
2:00
Session #7: Dynamics and Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems
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Caroline Terquem -- Planet-disk Interactions
and Orbital Migration
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Scott Tremaine -- Extrasolar Planet Orbits
and Eccentricities
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Matt Holman -- Resonances in Multiple Planetary
Systems
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
4:00 Tea
Break
4:30
Session #8: Programs and Techniques for Detection and Characterization
of Extrasolar Planets (plus theoretical motivation)
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Marc Kuchner -- Ground-based Programs
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Chas Beichman -- Space Missions
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Michael Perryman -- Future Proposed Missions
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Poster Summaries and Discussion
7:00 Banquet
(provided
at conference site and included in registration fee)
october@astro.umd.edu