Conference Program
 
ORIGINS OF SOLAR SYSTEMS

June 17-22, 2001
Connecticut College
New London, CT

Chair:
David J. Stevenson

Vice Chair:
Patrick M. Cassen

SUNDAY, June 17
7:30pm - 9:30pmDisks
Discussion Leader: Pat Cassen
Lynne Hillenbrand
" Observational Constraints on the Evolution of Circumstellar disks"
Eugene Chiang
" Disk Structure and Angular Momentum Transport"
MONDAY, June 18
9:00am - 12:30pmExtrasolar Planets
Discussion Leader: Tim Brown
Debra Fischer
"Observational Properties of Extrasolar Planetary Systems"
Maria Osorio Zapatero
"Observations of Brown Dwarfs and Isolated Planetary Objects"
David Charbonneau
"Transit observations of extrasolar planets"
7:30pm - 9:30pmStability and Migration of Planets
Discussion Leader: Martin Duncan
Renu Malhotra
"Stability of Planetary systems"
Joe Hahn
" Planet and Planetesimal migration in the Early Solar system "
TUESDAY, June 19
9:00am - 12:30pmFormation of Solid Bodies
Discussion Leader: Robin Canup
John Chambers
" Formation of asteroids "
Shigeru Ida
"Formation of Terrestrial planets"
Alex Halliday
" Isotopic constraints on the Formation of terrestrial Bodies"
7:30pm - 9:30pmGiant Planets and Disk Dispersal
Discussion Leader: Bill Ward
Morris Podolak
" Models of Giant planet Formation"
David Hollenbach
" Energetic Processes and Disk Dispersal "
WEDNESDAY, June 20
9:00am - 12:30pmInterstellar Matters
Discussion Leader: Joe Nuth
Larry Nittler
" Preservation of Interstellar Material in the Solar system "
Don Clayton
"Origin and survival of supernova grains"
7:30pm - 9:30pmIsotopes
Discussion Leader: Stein Jacobsen
Laurie Leshin
"Isotopic Heterogeneity in the Solar system"
Kevin McKeegan
" Short lived Radionuclides in the Solar System"
THURSDAY, June 21
9:00am - 12:30pmKuiper Belt
Discussion Leader: Norm Murray
Jane Luu
" Observations of the Kuiper Belt "
Hal Levison
" Dynamics of the Kuiper Belt "
Panel Discussion: Outstanding problems. What do we have to observe, measure and compute?
Organized by Dave Stevenson
7:30pm - 9:30pmComets and Icy BOdies
Discussion Leader: Stu Weidenschilling
Anita Cochran
" Cometary Observations: Implications for Outer Solar Nebular Composition"
Alessandro Morbidelli
" Distribution of Water in the Solar System"
FRIDAY, June 22
(People depart Friday morning)

Last Updated: May 4, 2006