PSF Retreat 2012 - Scientific Program

The detailed scientific program, including abstracts, is now available here: PSF Retreat 2012 Program (PDF). Note that we will bring hardcopies to Hoechst, so it is not necessary to print this yourself.

Social Program

Instead of trying to accommodate a talk for every participant, we have chosen a format with a relatively relaxed program of talks, with long coffee breaks and a lot of time to interact in between sessions. In addition, lots of time to talk informally is available on Monday and Tuesday afternoon.

Monday

The scientific program on Monday ends after the afternoon coffee (16:00). There will then be a short guided tour of the Monastery, followed by ~1 hour of free time. We re-gather at 17:45 for the who is who session: each participant introduces her/him-self with 1 slide 'business card' (example linked here), saying who you are, where you are from, what you are interested in and what you are working on, without any details. We aim at a 1-minute cadence so you should speak no longer than ~45 secs. Likely, this is shorter than you think ...
We will gather all business cards in the week before the workshop, and put them all in a single presentation.

Tuesday

The scientific program on Tuesday ends at lunch. The afternoon can be spent freely, there are excellent hiking possibilities all around Hoechst.

Workshop schedule

Monday 12.11.2012
08:30 find the big bus at the parking lot behind Crowne Plaza
08:45 latest departure time of bus (travel: 83 km, ~1:30 hours)
10:15 - 11:00 Arrival + check-in
11:00 - 12:00 Welcome + overview: Thomas Henning
12:00 - 12:30 Session 'Galactic Center' (chair: Nils Lippok)
12:00   Wolfgang Brandner: A close view of Galactic starburst clusters
12:15   Elisabeth Mills: The fate of the Galactic center Circumnuclear Disk
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session 'Clusters / Star Formation' (chair: Arjan Bik)
14:00   Bertrand Goldman: The Hyades mass function with PanSTARRS1
14:15   Joshua Schlieder: The CASTOFFS Survey: First Results From a Search for New, Nearby Young Stars
14:30   Rolf Kuiper: Accretion physics in the formation of massive stars
14:45   Taisiya Kopytova: Photometry and High-Resolution Spectroscopy of CHXR 20: origin of the variability
15:00   Mykola Malygin: Gas opacities for Massive Star Formation
15:15   Zoltan Balog: The extraordinary infrared variability of the young protostar LRLL54631
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:15 Guided tour of the Monastery
17:15 - 17:45 free time / informal discussion
17:45 - 19:00 who is who: 1-slide self-introductions in 1-minute cadence
19:00 Dinner
>20:30 Free evening

Tuesday 13.11.2012
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 Session 'Young Systems I' (chair: Christoph Mordasini)
09:00   Hubert Klahr: How frequent are Disk Fragmentation Planets?
09:15   Amelia Bayo: Disk fraction evolution and dependence on the central object's mass
09:30   Natalie Raettig: Vortices in baroclinic disks and their implication on planet formation
09:45   Casey Deen: The Effect of Magnetic Fields on the Physical Parameters of Young Stellar Objects
10:00   Jonathan Menu: TW Hydrae: a multi-wavelength interferometric study of a transitional disk
10:15   Karsten Dittrich: Planetesimal Formation in Zonal Flows
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 Session 'Young Systems II' (chair: Natalie Raettig)
11:15   Dmitry Semenov: Molecules in protoplanetary disks
11:30   Clement Surville: Vortex families in protoplanetary disks
11:45   Christine Koepferl: Disk Dispersal of YSOs
12:00   Aiara Lobo-Gomes: Planets spawning vortices in Baroclinic Disks
12:15   Kai-Martin Dittkrist: Global effects of updated migration models
12:30   Jeroen Bouwman: Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars - The Herschel View
12:45 Lunch break
14:00 - 19:00 free afternoon / hike
19:00 Dinner
>20:30 Free evening

Wednesday 14.11.2012
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:30 Session 'Interstellar Medium' (chair: Svitlana Zhukovska)
09:00   Jouni Kainulainen: Revealing the column density structure of IRDCs with high-dynamic-range dust extinction mapping
09:15   Simon Bihr: Kinematics, Temperature and Turbulence of Infrared Dark Clouds
09:30   Siyi Feng: Submillimeter Synthesis Study of 3 high mass star formation sources:IRAS 05358+3543, NGC7538IRS1 and NGC7538S
09:45   Markus Nielbock: B68 - The Herschel view
10:00   Thomas Gerner: The chemical evolution in the early phases of massive star formation
10:15   Sarah Ragan: Resolving the seeds of massive stars and clusters with Herschel and SABOCA
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Session 'Exoplanets & Brown Dwarfs I' (chair: Ian Crossfield)
11:15   Adrian Glauser: Overview of the instrument study for ECHO
11:30   Patricio Cubillos: Exoplanet characterisation with Spitzer secondary eclipses
11:45   Simona Ciceri: A lower mass and radius for HAT-P-8; exoplanet characterisation
12:00   Zhao Sun: A simple model of exoplanetary atmosphere retrieval
12:15   Joseph Harington: Evaluating Potential Causes of the Two Observational Classes of Exoplanets
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45 Session 'Exoplanets & Brown Dwarfs II' (chair: Paul Boley)
14:00   Yan Betremieux: Biosignatures in the ultraviolet spectra of a transiting Earth-like planet
14:15   Niall Deacon: Probing the local low-mass population
14:30   Viki Joergens: Outflows and disks of brown dwarfs
14:45 - 15:00 Adjourn (Henning)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee
~15:30 departure from Hoechst
~16:45 - 17:15 Arrival in Heidelberg