Rationale of the workshop:
In recent years the interest in theoretical modeling of protoplanetary disks from various perspectives has experienced a great surge. Many of these theoretical efforts are motivated by the enormous increase in detailed observations of these disks: from spatially resolved imaging with the HST, detailed ISO spectra, resolved (sub)mm line and continuum maps, (near-) infrared ro-vibrational molecular lines, to observations with new technologies such as the VLT interferometer (MIDI/AMBER) and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Interested in trying to interpret this wealth of new data, astrophysicists of various sub-disciplines (astrochemistry, hydrodynamics, astromineralogy, radiative transfer, planet formation/migration, etc etc) all now seem to converge on this fruitful topic of protoplanetary disks.
The workshop brought together experts in all of these sub-fields of astrophysics, and discussed the future perspectives of theoretical modeling and how modeling efforts in all these various aspects can be coupled together to form a unified picture. The workshop focused on disks around T Tauri stars, Herbig Ae/Be stars and Brown Dwarfs. The key questions during this meeting were: what is our theoretical understanding of these disks, how can we model them, and how do the models connect to the observations and vice-versa?

International Scientific Organizing Committee:
N. Calvet
E. van Dishoeck
C. Dominik
Th. Henning
D. Hollenbach
G. Morfill
A. Natta
L.B.F.M. Waters

Local Scientific, and Local Organizing Committee:
C.P. Dullemond
I. Kamp

Photos:
You can visit the PHOTO WEB PAGE to download photos from the workshop (including group photos). If anyone else has nice photos who she/he is willing to put on the web site, please send them to us (Email: dullemon@mpa-garching.mpg.de or kamp@stsci.edu)!