Planetary Origins and Frontiers of Exploration, May 27 - June 3 - 2012, The David Lopatie Conference Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Program
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
Sunday May 27 |
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| 5:00 PM | Afternoon Welcome Reception |
Monday May 28 |
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Solar system formation: Early Dynamics and Proto-Chemistry |
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| 8:00AM | Coffee |
| 8:30 AM | Oded Aharonson: Opening remarks |
| 8:45 AM | Daniel Zajfman: Weizmann President's Welcome |
| 9:00 AM | Re'em Sari: Planet formation and evolution |
| 9:30 AM | Kevin Walsh: Shaping of the inner solar system by the gas-driven migration of Jupiter |
| 10:00 AM | William Bottke: Exploring the early bombardment of the inner solar system |
| 10:30 AM | Discussion |
| 11:15 AM | Coffee |
| 11:30 AM | Lindy Elkins-Tanton: Crusts and atmospheres of terrestrial planets during and just after accretion |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Akiva Bar Nun: What can we learn on the solar nebula from cometary volatiles and dust |
| 1:30 PM | Alan Gersch: Modeling Optically Thick Cometary Comae |
| 2:00 PM | Discussion |
| 2:45 PM | Wrap up |
| Afternoon/Evening: Tel Aviv | |
Tuesday May 29 |
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Moons and Icy Objects as Keystones |
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| 8:00 AM | Coffee |
| 8:30 AM | Kaveh Pahlevan: What do the moons of the terrestrial planets tell us about their origins? |
| 9:00 AM | Alberto Saal: D/H ratios of the lunar volcanic glasses |
| 9:30 AM | Carolyn Crow: Are Apollo zircons witness to a lunar cataclysm |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee |
| 10:15 AM | Discussion |
| 11:00 AM | Mark Wieczorek: Lunar magnetism: Impacts and dynamos |
| 11:30 AM | Margaret Rosenburg: Understanding the power spectra of cratered terrains |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Jerry Schubert: Outer planet moons: Present states and origins |
| 1:30 PM | Robert Pappalardo: Icy satellite tectonics: More primitive than thou |
| 2:00 PM | Kevin Hand: Spacecraft observations and laboratory constraints on the chemistry of ocean worlds of the outer solar system |
| 2:30 PM | Discussion / Coffee |
| 3:00 PM | Lijie Han: On the formation of Enceladus' hemispheric dichotomy |
| 3:30 PM | Eran Ofek: Search for small KBOs |
| 4:00 PM | Paul Hayne: Effects of topography on the stability of water ice and other volatiles on Ceres |
| 4:30 PM | Nicolas Rambaux: Rotational and dissipative behavior of Phobos and constraints on its origin |
| 5:00 PM | Wrap up |
| Evening: Education & Public Outreach Session | |
Wednesday May 30 |
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Gas giants, What do they Reveal Regarding Origins? |
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| 8:00 AM | Coffee |
| 8:30 AM | David Stevenson: Origin and evolution of giant planets |
| 9:00 AM | Morris Podolak: Modeling Uranus and Neptune |
| 9:30 AM | Discussion |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee |
| 10:30 AM | Yohai Kaspi: Structure and atmospheric dynamics of giant planets |
| 11:00 AM | Ravit Helled: Giant planets: Interior structure, formation and evolution and the connection between solar and extrasolar planets |
| 11:30 AM | Yoav Yair: Updated view of planetary lightning |
| 12:00 PM | Therese Encrenaz: Giant planets' composition and structure: from the solar system to exoplanets |
| 12:30 PM | Discussion |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | Wrap up |
| Afternoon/Evening: The Old City, Jerusalem | |
Thursday May 31 |
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Exoplanets |
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| 8:30 AM | Coffee |
| 9:00 AM | Adam Showman: Atmospheres of extrasolar planets |
| 9:30 AM | Doris Breuer: Mantle dynamics and magnetic field evolution of rocky exoplanets |
| 10:00 AM | William Nellis: Possible magnetic fields of Super Earths generated by metallic oxides and universal equation of state of metals |
| 10:30 AM | Discussion |
| 11:15 AM | Coffee |
| 12:00 PM | Frank Sohl: Structure, composition and mass-radius relationships of rocky exoplanets |
| 12:30 PM | Ofer Cohen: Extreme space weather on close-in planets |
| 1:00 PM | Heike Rauer: Detection of habitable planets and habitability |
| 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | Barbara Stracke: The inner boundary of the habitable zone |
| 3:00 PM | Giovanna Tinetti: What are exoplanets made of? |
| 3:30 PM | Avi Shporer: The Kepler space mission: Looking for Earth-like planets |
| 4:00 PM | Coffee |
| 4:15 PM | Erez Ribak: New tools for imaging exoplanets |
| 4:45 PM | Yifat Dzigan: Detection of transiting Jovian exoplanets by Gaia photometry |
| 5:15 PM | Discussion |
| 6:00 PM | Wrap up |
| Free evening | |
Friday June 1 |
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Planetary Surface Environments & Early Life |
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| 8:00 AM | Coffee |
| 8:30 AM | Tilman Spohn: Life and the Evolution of Planetary Interiors |
| 9:00 AM | Itay Halevy: Planetary surfaces as host for life: A geochemical perspective |
| 9:30 AM | Discussion |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee |
| 10:15 AM | Aharon Oren: The Dead Sea: Microbial community dynamics at low water activity and implications for astrobiology |
| 10:45 AM | Daniel Stolper: Growth of E. coli at nanomolar concentrations of oxygen |
| 11:15 AM | Discussion / Concluding remarks, Tilman Spohn |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | Wrap up |
| 1:00 PM | Field trip departure |
Poster Presentations |
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| Erik Hennings: Low temperature Crystallization of ferric sulfate hydrates | |
| Frank Sohl: Dissipation of tidal energy in planetary satellites | |
| Daria Dubrovin: Sprite brightness on Earth, Saturn and Jupiter: Laboratory simulations | |
| Allona Vazan: On the evolution and survival of a Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a disk | |
| Erez Ribak: Spectral detections of habitable exoplanets | |
| Erez Ribak: Exoplanets from supernova explosions | |
| Muriel Gargaud: The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology: An efficient tool for Planetary Origins and Fronteirs of Exploration | |
| Uri Malamud: New evolution model of Enceladus including serpentinization and anti-freeze |