COSPAR 2016 EVENT B0.5 “PLANETARY FORMATION: FROM DUST TO GIANT EXOPLANETS” – DEADLINE APPROACHING

Istanbul, Turkey, 30 July – 7 August 2016

Abstract submission deadline: 19 February 2016

This event, currently planned to take place over two half-day sessions, is jointly organized by Commission B “Space Studies of the Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System” and Commission E “Research in Astrophysics from Space”.

https://www.cospar-assembly.org/

The aim of COSPAR 2016 event is to offer to all involved communities a common space for discussing new theoretical, observational and laboratory results about the formation and evolution of planetary systems and of their formation environments, the protoplanetary
disks.

Confirmed solicited speaker (at the time of writing):

Katherine Kretke (Southwest Research Institute, USA)

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Diego Turrini (Main Scientific Organizer, INAF-IAPS, Italy),
Sho Sasaki (Deputy Organizer, Osaka University, Japan),
Francesca Altieri (INAF, Italy),
Gennaro D’Angelo (SETI Institute, USA),
Francesco Marzari (University of Padova, Italy),
Motohide Tamura (National Astronomical Observatory, Japan),
Mark Wyatt (University of Cambridge, UK),
Hajime Yano (JAXA, Japan)

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