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Schedule

Friday, October 2, 2009

Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302 [map]

8:00

Start of sign-in

8:30

Introduction

Bill Cochran
Jack Holt

8:35

Opening Remarks

Neal Evans
David Lambert
Sharon Mosher

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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]