Schedule
Friday, October 2, 2009
Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302 [map]
8:00 |
Start of sign-in |
8:30 |
Introduction Bill Cochran |
8:35 |
Opening Remarks Neal Evans |
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PLANET FORMATION & EVOLUTION |
8:45 |
Three Species of Giant Planets [pdf] Sally Dodson-Robinson |
9:00 |
The Dynamics of Ring-Satellite and Disk-Planet Interactions [pdf] Joe Hahn |
9:15 |
Partial melting and melt migration in planetary bodies [pdf] Marc Hesse |
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SOLAR SYSTEM - EXPLORATION / TECHNIQUES |
9:30 |
Problems to address in planetary seismology [pdf] Yosio Nakamura |
9:45 |
Energy Resources in the Solar System [pdf] William Ambrose |
10:00 |
Applications of High Resolution X-ray CT to Planetary Science [pdf] Romy Hanna |
10:15 |
Break |
10:30 |
Planets from the Ground Up [pdf] Patricia Dickerson |
10:45 |
Outer Planet Research Larry Trafton |
11:00 |
Brief Overview of Projects on Circumstellar Disks [pdf] Neal Evans |
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SOLAR SYSTEM - MARS |
11:15 |
Martian salt tectonics? [pdf] Martin Jackson |
11:30 |
Orbital Radar Sounding of Ice on Mars Jack Holt |
11:45 |
A Stratigraphic Look at Spiral Troughs on the Northern Ice Cap, Mars Isaac Smith |
12:00 |
Lunch |
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SOLAR SYSTEM - MOONS, COMETS, ASTEROIDS |
13:00 |
Rarefied Atmospheric Flow [pdf] 21MB David Goldstein |
13:15 |
Radar Sounding of Europa's Subsurface Properties and Processes: The View from Earth [pdf] Donald Blankenship |
13:30 |
Comets: What do they tell us about the early Solar System? [pdf] Anita Cochran |
13:45 |
Asteroid Characteristics from Light Curves [pdf] Judit Ries |
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ASTROGEOBIOLOGY |
14:00 |
Nannobacteria on Mars? NOT too small for Life! [pdf] Robert Folk |
14:15 |
Large impacts as a geologic process with biologic implications: Insights from the 65.5 Ma Chicxulub Impact [pdf] 12MB Sean Gulick |
14:30 |
Break |
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DISKS |
15:00 |
Infared spectroscopy of atmospheres of planets and protoplanetary disks [pdf] John Lacy |
15:15 |
Circumstellar Disk Mineralogy in Nearby Clouds: Spitzer and the Herschel Followup [pdf] Joel Green |
15:30 |
Silicate Grains in the Disks of Young Free Floating Planetary Mass Objects [pdf] Michael Gully-Santiago |
15:45 |
Young Planets and Jupiter-Mass Brown Dwarfs [pdf] Dan Jaffe |
16:00 |
Observations of water and other molecules in protoplanetary disk atmospheres [pdf] Colette Salyk |
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EXTRASOLAR PLANETS |
16:15 |
Finding Extra-Solar Earths with Kepler [pdf] William Cochran |
16:30 |
Strategies for detecting Earth-like planets around nearby stars [pdf] Michael Endl |
16:45 |
Update on the McDonald Observatory Search for Planets Around White Dwarf Stars: Dying Stars, Living Planets [pdf] Don Winget |
17:00 |
Discussion |
18:00 |
The End Go directly to drinks, dinner at The Clay Pit [map] |