Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity

Program

We are pleased to announce that the outline of the science programme is  now available!


Kona Workshop Program
  

Registration and Reception: Sunday, December 8
17:00-19:30        Registration (17:30-19:30 Reception)

 

Day 1: Monday, December 9

Session: From Disks to Planets
7:30-                 Registration (cont.)
8:30-8:40           Opening by Nobuo Arimoto (Subaru Director)
8:40-9:10           Nienke van der Marel (Leiden Observatory)
                        Resolved gas and dust observations of a transitional disk and its cavity
9:10-9:40           Jeroen Bouwman (MPIA)
                        Solids in protoplanetary disks
9:40-10:10         Jun Hashimoto (Oklahoma Univ.)
                        NIR observations of protoplanetary disks
10:10-10:30        Break

10:30-10:45        Satoshi Okuzumi (TITECH)
                        The fate of planetesimals in turbulent protoplanetary disks
10:45-11:00        Karl Stapelfeldt (Goddard)
                        HST Imaging of New Edge-on Circumstellar Disks
11:00-11:15        Shu-ichiro Inutsuka (Nagoya Univ.)
                        The Fate of the Rings in Protoplanetary Disks
11:15-11:30        Michihiro Takami (ASIAA)
                        Vertical structures of protoplanetary disks inferred from near-IR imaging                                    polarimetry
11:30-11:45        Carol Grady (Eureka Scientific and GSFC)
                        Transitional Disks Associated with Intermediate-Mass Stars:Results of
                        the SEEDS Intermediate-Mass Star
11:45-12:00        Flavien Kiefer (IAP)
                        New insights on beta Pictoris comets: discovery of two different populations
12:00-14:00        Lunch

14:00-14:30        Masahiro Ikoma (TITECH)                       
                        Composition and Origin of Short-Period Low-Mass Planets: The Importance of
        Observation of Their Atmospheres


14:30-15:00        Masao Saito (JAO/NAOJ)
                        Recent Progress of Observations of Protoplanetary Disks at mm - submm
15:00-15:30        Nagayoshi Ohashi (Subaru)
                        Disk formation revealed with ALMA
15:30-16:00        Break

16:00-16:30        Andrew N. Youdin (Univ. of Colorado)
                       The Origin and Early Evolution of Planetesimals in Gas Disk
16:30-16:45        David Wilner (CfA)
                        Imaging the CO Snow Line in the TW Hya Disk
16:45-17:00        Takayuki Muto (Kougakuin Univ.)
                        ALMA Observations of the Asymmetrically Gapped Disk around HD 142527
17:00-17:15        Yuri Aikawa (Kobe Univ.)
                        Water in protoplanetary disks
17:15-17:30        Wlad Lyra (Caltech)
                        Vortex theory meets observations: is ALMA seeing vortices in transitional disks?
17:30-17:45        Akimasa Kataoka (NAOJ)
                        Fluffy dust forms icy planetesimals by static compression
17:45-18:00        Kyoko Tanaka (ILTS, Hokkaido Univ.)
                        Evaporation of icy planetesimals and recondensation of icy particles due to bow
shocks

20:00-22:00        Bar & Poster

 

 


Day 2: Tuesday, December 10

Session: From Disks to Planets (cont.)
8:30-9:00           Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya Univ.)
                        Critical Effects of Collisional Fragmentation on Planet Formation
9:00-9:30           Mark C. Wyatt (Cambridge Univ.)
                        Observations and theory of debris disks

Session: Planets and Disks Imaging
9:30-10:00         Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH)
                        Project 1640: Results and Status of the Planet Characterization Survey
10:00-10:30        Break

10:30-10:45        Michael Liu (UH)
                        The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign
10:45-11:00        Thayne Currie (Univ. Toronto)
                        Properties of the First Directly-Imaged Planets
11:00-11:15        Olivier Absil (Univ. Liege)
                        Hitting the diffraction limit: first results of the AGPM-VORTEX project
11:15-11:30        Sasha Hinkley (Caltech)
                        An AO Survey Spanning Two Hemispheres of the First Sample of Debris Disk

           Stars from WISE
11:30-11:45        Timothy Rodigas (Arizona/Carnegie DTM)
                        High-Contrast LBTI/MagAO Images of Debris Disks at 2-4 microns
11:45-12:00        Beth Biller (MPIA)
                        Statistical Analysis of Exoplanet Populations from Large-Scale Direct Imaging                         Survey
12:00-14:00        Lunch

14:00-14:30        Masayuki Kuzuhara (TITECH)
                        SEEDS Direct Imaging Survey for Exoplanets
14:30-15:00        Markus Feldt (MPIA)
                        The Status of the VLT Planet Finder Instrument SPHERE
15:00-15:10        Short Break
15:10-15:40        Tyler Groff (Princeton)
        The CHARIS High Contrast Imaging Spectrograph
15:40-16:10        Christian Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
                       The Tools of High-Contrast Imaging

16:10-               Free Time

 

 


Day 3: Wednesday, December 11

Session: Planet Characterization and New Developments
8:30-9:00           Travis Barman (Lowell Observatory)
                        Exoplanet Atmospheres and Direct Spectroscopy


9:00-9:30           Kevin C. France (Univ. of Colorado)
                        Molecular Gas in the 0.1-10 AU Circumstellar Environments around Young Stars
9:30-10:00         Matteo Brogi (Leiden Observatory)
                        Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution
10:00-10:30        Break

10:30-10:45        Vincent Bourrier (IAP/CNRS)
                        3-D model of atmospheric escape: hot Jupiters characterization and beyond
10:45-11:00        Kiyoshi Kuramoto (Hokkaido Univ.)
                        Hydrodynamic escape of hydrogen from early Earth atmosphere
11:00-11:15        Pedro Figueira (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto)
                        Spectroscopic Direct Detection of an Exoplanet's Reflected Light
11:15-11:30        Thomas Henning (MPIA)
                        From protoplanetary gas disks to exoplanet atmospheres
11:30-11:45        Deborah Padgett (NASA/GSFC)
                        HST Imaging of WISE Debris Disks
11:45-12:00        Jean-Charles Augereau (IPAG, U. Grenoble)
                        Exozodiacal dust around nearby stars
12:00-14:00        Lunch

14:00-14:30        Andreas Seifahrt (Univ. Chicago)
                        Near infrared radial velocities - current state and future prospects
14:30-15:00        Masahiro Ogihara (Nagoya Univ.)
                        Crowding Out of Giants by Dwarfs: an Origin for the Lack of Companion Planets                         in Hot Jupiter Systems
15:00-15:30        Nader Haghighipour (UH)
                        Dynamics of planet formation - in binaries and outside
15:30-16:00        Break

16:00-16:30        Olivier Guyon (Arizona/Subaru)
                        AO for direct imaging from ground and space
16:30-16:45        Takashi Onaka (UTokyo)
                        Disk lifetime and the disk fraction
16:45-17:00        Tobias Schmidt (Astrophysical Institute and University-Observatory Jena)
                       Mass determination of young directly imaged planet candidates and brown dwarfs
17:00-17:15        Takayuki Kotani (NAOJ)
                       IRD: InfraRed Doppler Instrument for Subaru Telescope
17:15-17:30        Erika Nesvold (University of Maryland)
                       SMACK: A New Algorithm for Modeling Collisions and Dynamics of Planetesimals                         in Debris Disks
17:30-17:45        Shin-ichi Takehiro (Kyoto Univ.)
                       Diversity of atmospheric circulations of synchronized rotating Jovian type planets
17:45-18:00        Norio Narita (NAOJ)
                       Transiting Exoplanet Search and Characterization with Subaru's New Infrared                         Doppler Instrument (IRD)

19:00-21:00        Banquet

 


Day 4: Thursday, December 12

Session: Earth-like, Habitable Planets and Future Missions
8:30-9:00           Keiko Hamano (UTokyo)
                        Emergence of two types of terrestrial planet on solidification of magma ocean
9:00-9:30           Ravi K. Kopparapu (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
                        Habitable Zone Limits and the Occurrence of Potential Habitable Planets
9:30-10:00         Taro Matsuo (Kyoto Univ.) 30-m class telescope direct imaging instruments
10:00-10:30        Break

10:30-10:45        Yutaka Abe (UTokyo)
                        Variety of water planets
10:45-11:00        Jay Farihi (Univ. of Cambridge)
                       Archaeology of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planetary Systems
11:00-11:15        Eiichiro Kokubo (NAOJ)
                       Formation of Terrestrial Planets from Protoplanets: Effects of System Size
                         and Position
11:15-11:30        Ramon Brasser (Acdemia Cinica)
                       Long-term insolation variations on habitable exoplanets
11:30-11:45        Jeremy Kasdin (Princeton)
        WFIRST coronagraph
11:45-12:00        Takahiro Sumi (Osaka Univ.)
                       Current and Future of Microlensing Exoplanet Search
12:00-14:00        Lunch

14:00-14:30        Mark Clampin (STScI)
JWST
14:30-15:00        Wesley Traub (JPL)

                         Future Coronagraph Missions
15:00-15:10        Short Break
15:10-15:40        Keigo Enya (JAXA)
                         Exoplanet studies with SPICA mission
15:40-16:10        David Bennett (Univ. of Notre Dame)
WFIRST
16:10-               Closing Remark and adjourn

 

A Printer Friendly version (PDF) of the scientific program and a list of poster presentations is here
List of accepted Poster presentation is available here

We also apologize to those who have submitted oral presentations but
are not given time. 
The scientific organizing committee tried to schedule as many talks as possible, 
but could only select one-third of the nominated presentations.
We sincerely ask the participants to present posters.