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Institute of Astronomy

 
Monday, 13 July
08:30 - 09:15 Registration @Hoyle Building
09:15 - 09:30 Opening Remarks

 

Birth of Debris Disks 1

09:30-10:00

Ilaria Pascucci Protoplanetary disk dispersal and debris disk demographics
10:00-10:15 Karolina Szewczyk Disc caught at the transition from protoplanetary to debris stage
10:15-10:30 Wataru Ooyama Secret of Longevity: Protoplanetary Disks as a Source of Gas in Debris Disks
10:30-10:45 Catherine Sarosi Bringing the HD 141569 Transition Disk into Focus with High Resolution ALMA CO Observations
10:45-11:00 Susanne Pfalzner From Protoplanetary to Debris Discs: Disc Lifetime Distributions as a Function of Stellar Mass

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

 

Birth of Debris Disks 2

11:30-12:00 Mario Flock Streaming instability in proto-planetary disks.
12:00-12:15 Heather Johnston Debris Disc Formation via External Photoevaporation
12:15-12:30 Aoife Brennan First Vertically Resolved ALMA Observations of C I Emission in a Debris Disk
12:30-12:45 Olja Panic Emergence of the youngest debris discs

 

Poster Pop-ups (Morning)

12:45-12:46 Hiroto Mitani Primordial gas as an origin of gas rich debris disks: Thermochemical modelling of CO, CI and HCO+
12:46-12:47 Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz A Stellar Flyby in Action: Untangling the Dynamics of HD141569's Hybrid Disc
12:47-12:48 Catherine Sarosi A First-of-Its-Kind ALMA Investigation of Gas Origins in the 49 Ceti Debris Disk
12:48-12:49 James Miley ALMA Resolves A 400-au ExoKuiper Ring
12:49-12:50 TBC TBC
12:50-12:51 TBC TBC
12:51-12:52 Elisabeth Matthews A Scorpius-Centaurus sample of scattered light debris disks
12:52-12:53 Wing Yu Siu At the Dawn of Planet Formation: Radiative Transfer Modelling of the Class 0 Protostellar Disk IRAS 04166+2706
12:53-12:54 Maria Semerkina Population Synthesis for White Dwarf Debris
Disk Observables
12:54-12:55 Alexander Mustill Debris discs round white dwarfs
12:55-12:56 Kate Su Highly Processed Dust Revealed by the 10 Micron Silicate Complex in Rejuvenated Exoplanetary Systems around White Dwarfs

 

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch @ Churchill College

 

Post-main sequence 1

14:00-14:30 Boris Gaensicke Review of white dwarf planetary systems: circumstellar gas and transits
14:30-14:45 Érika Le Bourdais From Absorption to Emission: The role of disk self-emission in white dwarf exocomet modelling
14:45-15:00 Eric Gaidos Through a (Debris?) Disk Darkly
15:00-15:15 Rafael Martinez-Brunner Gas-Dust-Planetesimal Interplay in White Dwarf Debris Discs with Multi-Fluid Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics
15:15-15:30 Mark Walker Debris disks around RCB stars

 

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

 

Post-main sequence 2

16:00-16:30 Laura Rogers Review of white dwarf planetary systems: dust
16:30-16:45 Ayaka Okuya Toward Explaining Infrared Variability in Polluted White Dwarf Disks: The Combined Role of Collisions and Phase Changes
16:45-17:00 Hiba tu Noor Dynamically Active White Dwarf Debris Disks
17:00-17:15 Tim Cunningham Debris disk response and accretion in the benchmark system G29‑38

 

Poster Pop-ups (Afternoon)

17:15-17:16 Zoe Parker Searching for Unusual Planetary Systems with Massive Debris Disks Using Herschel-ATLAS and Gaia
17:16-17:17 Quincy Bosschaart How reliable are scattering phase functions derived from debris disc images?
17:17-17:18 Sorcha Mac Manamon Mapping the Vertical Distribution of CO in the HD32297 Debris Disc
17:18-17:19 TBC TBC
17:19-17:20 Brenda Matthews Detection of Gaseous Components of the Epsilon Eridani Debris Disk with SITELLE
17:20-17:21 Diana Harrison Scattered Light in Gaia DR4
17:21-17:22 Alessandro Bressani Modeling Disk Architecture with Low-Resolution ACA Visibilities
17:22-17:23 Kevin Smith Exocometary molecules at the epoch of volatile delivery
17:23-17:24 Cicero Lu Tentative Detection of Ice in the HD 32297 Disk with the Newly Commissioned Gemini/GNIRS ShortRed Camera
17:24-17:25 Julien Milli Is the narrow exocometary belt of HR4796 made of devolatilized particles with dark opaque minerals ?
17:25-17:26 Patricia Luppe Evidence for Vertical Flaring and Elevated Optical Depth in the HD 32297 Debris Disc
17:26-17:27 David Wilner A JWST 25 micron Imaging Survey of Nearby Sun-like Stars with Debris Disks

 

 

 

Tuesday, 14 July

Observations 1

09:00-09:30 Meredith Hughes Observations of Exo-Kuiper Belts
09:30-09:45 Joshua Lovell Asymmetric planet-debris disk interactions: New views on eccentric debris rings from ALMA & JWST
09:45-10:00 Raphael Bendahan-West Constraining the origin of gas in debris discs: Extreme dust size segregation in HD 21997 with JWST and ALMA
10:00-10:15 Brianna Zawadzki Probing the Collisional Cascade in AU Mic with Resolved
Vertical Structures at Multiple ALMA Wavelengths
10:15-10:30 Paul Kalas Direct imaging of catastrophic planetesimal collisions in the Fomalhaut system
10:30-10:45 Oier Baraibar Debris Disks Around Three Nearby Gyr-old M dwarfs
10:45-11:00 Mark Booth Debris Disc Science in 2040: The Promise of Future Telescopes

 

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

 

Observations 2

11:30-12:00 Christine Chen Debris disk observations: the JWST perspective
12:00-12:15 Jake Byrne A JWST/MIRI and ALMA view of the dust within the Eta Crucis debris disk
12:15-12:30 Yinuo Han A JWST view of a radially broad collisional cascade in the debris disk of γ Ophiuchi
12:30-12:45 Isabel Rebollido Vázquez More and more complex: new MIRI/JWST observations of Beta Pic
12:45-13:00 Schuyler Wolff Water ice in debris disks with panchromatic JWST/NIRCam coronography

 

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch @ Churchill College

 

Theory 1

14:00-14:30 Eugene Chiang Origin of the debris disk morphologies
14:30-14:45 Philipp Weber Hydrodynamics in the Debris Disc scenario
14:45-15:00 Tobias Stein How hard is dust in debris disks?
15:00-15:15 Rossella Anania A Hierarchical Bayesian Framework for Debris Disc Populations
15:15-15:30 Arin Avsar Constraints on the Fomalhaut Main Belt Planetesimal Population from Observed Collisional Remnants

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

 

16:00-17:30 Workshop 1

Wednesday, 15 July

 

Theory 2

09:00-09:30 Tim Pearce Planet-debris interactions
09:30-09:45 Shivam Joshi Rethinking Dust–Gas Coupling in Gas-Rich Debris Discs: The Case of HD 131488 in Scattered Light and Thermal Emission
09:45-10:00 Sana Ahmed Resolving Degeneracies in NLTE Excitation of Gas in Debris Disks: Constraints from β Pictoris
10:00-10:15 Antranik Sefilian The vertical structures of debris disks and the role of disk gravity
10:15-10:30 Olga Oleynik Migration of Earth-Mass Planets in Outer Planetesimal Disks and the
Formation of Debris Disks

 

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

 

Debris delivery to planets

11:00-11:30 Hilke Schlichting Debris' sculpting of early planetary atmospheres
11:30-12:00 Zoe Todd Debris delivery and the seeds of life and climate
12:00-12:15 Dominic Samra Disk-Planet Connection Through Microphysical Cloud Modelling
12:15-12:30 Amy Bonsor Cometary delivery and the origin of life on Earth
12:30-12:45 Eli Sofovich Volatile Delivery in Multi-Planet Systems via Impactors
12:45-13:00 Paul Huet Water gas discs in exo-asteroid belts

 

Group Photo

Thursday, 16 July

Poster Pop-ups

 

09:20-09:21 Vasuda Trehan SPECTRA: A Bayesian Machine Learning Framework for Modeling and Predicting Exoplanetary Atmospheric Absorption Spectra to predict habitability

09:21-09:22

Uttam Banik The perspective of threat and security compliance of solar system debris
09:22-09:23 Moshikkeeran Senthilnathan Flare‑Driven Erosion vs. Debris Replenishment: Competing Timescales for Habitability of M‑Dwarf Rocky Planets.
09:23-09:24 Mor Rozner Why don't moons have rings?
09:24-09:25 Raphael Bendahan-West Searching for planets & finding discs: JWST NIRCam’s sensitivity to debris discs
09:25-09:26 Nishargo Nigar What the Absence of Debris Disks Can Tell Us About Exoplanet Populations
09:26-09:27 Katsiaryna Tsishchankava Close-in faint companions mimicking interferometric hot exozodiacal dust observations
09:27-09:28 Max Sommer Exozodi imaging with ELT/METIS
09:28-09:29 Juliana Ehrhardt Early type stars missing stellar companions in the ARKS sample
09:29-09:30 Vito Squicciarini Where Are the Planets? JWST Limits on Wide-Orbit Giants in Nearby Systems
09:30-09:31 Akshay Robert Diverse dust compositions from scattered light observations of debris disks
09:31-09:32 Deniz Akansoy DebrisPy and Secularly Driven Structures of Debris Discs
09:32-09:33 Briley Lewis GPU-Enabled Debris Disk Modeling with GRaTeR-JAX
09:33-09:34 Shane Hengst Stardust: a new hope for modelling grain dynamics in dusty discs
09:34-09:35 Johan Olofsson Gas dust interactions and radial offsets
09:35-09:36 Tatjana Novaković MRI-driven viscous evolution of gas in debris discs
09:36-09:37 Tuhin Ghosh The fate of Mercury's ejected mantle

Solar System 1

09:45-10:15 David Nesvorny The history of the Solar System as a debris disk
10:15-10:30 Rogerio Deienno production of debris during the formation of the terrestrial planets of the Solar System
10:30-10:45 Tobias Morgner Unraveling the "True" Kuiper Belt: Mass, Structure, and Radial Profile
10:45-11:00 Michael Kreuziger Mars's Dust Accretion History: How debris discs shape planetary climates

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 

Solar System 1

11:30-12:00 Miroslav Broz Out of equilibrium dust production: what asteroid families teach us
12:00-12:15 Bryce Bolin Synthesis of solar system, debris disk, and interstellar object physical properties

 

Exozodis 1

12:15-12:45 Thomas Stuber Exozodis: debris in the habitable zone
12:45-13:00 Philippe Priolet Multiwavelength Interferometric Observations of Hot Dust in Three Extreme Debris Disks: HD172555, HD113766, and Eta Corvi

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch @Churchill College

 

Exozodis 2

14:00-14:15 Michael Elston Automatic exocomet detection in spectra and light curves of β Pictoris
14:15-14:30 Kate Su Extreme Debris Disks: Insights into Violent Collisions in Planet Formation and Destruction
14:30-14:45 Gabriella Zsidi Tracing hidden gas in the disk of RZ Psc
14:45-15:00 Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis Probing Catastrophic Giant Impact Collisions in the Time-Domain
15:00-15:15 Matthias Samland Chemical Diversity in the JWST MINDS Debris Disk Sample: From Hydrocarbons to Evaporating Asteroids
15:15-15:30 Cicero Lu JWST/NIRSpec Detects Warm CO Emission in the Terrestrial-Planet Zone of HD 131488

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

 

Exozodis 3

16:00-16:30 Max Sommer Exozodis: Dynamically induced structures
16:30-16:45 Zoe Roumeliotis When worlds collide: Characterising post-impact molecular gas in the terrestrial region of HD 172555
16:45-17:00 Karl Stapelfeldt Debris Disk and Exozodi Imaging with the Roman Coronagraph Instrument:
Observing Program for the First Six Months and Beyond
17:00-17:15 Alexis Li Time Variability and Inner Disk Geometry of eta Corvi from JWST MIRI MRS
17:15-17:30 Margot Courtoux JWST/MIRI reveals a new inner ring in the HD 181327 debris disk

 

Gala dinner @Clare College

Friday,17 July

Exoplanet demographics as told by DDs 1

09:15-09:45 Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer Constraints from exoplanet searches in debris disks
09:45-10:00 Sebastian Marino Half full or half empty: A narrow gap in 2MASS J0227’s debris disc revealed by JWST/NIRCam
10:00-10:15 Célia Desgrange A complex morphology of the young debris disk around HD 120326
10:15-10:30 Aislyn Bell New Constraints on Hidden Planets in Fomalhaut from Both Belts
10:30-10:45 Veronica Roccatagliata PLANET-DISK INTERACTION IN SOLAR SYSTEM ANALOGS: LOOKING FOR PLANETS AND SUBSTRUCTURES IN YOUNG DEBRIS DISK SYSTEMS
10:45-11:00 Claire McLellan-Cassivi Comparisons of Silicate Mineralogy of Debris Disc Dust and Host Star Abundances

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 

Exoplanet demographics as told by DDs 1

11:30-12:00 Katie Crotts New Debris Disk + Exoplanet Insights From the JWST NIRCam Instrument: TWA 7 b and More!
12:00-12:15 Elisabeth Matthews Are planets responsible for gaps and eccentricities in debris disks?
12:15-12:30 Andrew James Hidden Sculptors: Constraining the presence of massive planets shaping exoKuiper belts with JWST/MIRI coronagraphy
12:30-12:45 TBC TBC
12:45-13:00 Sasha Hinkley Results from a Coronagraphic Survey of 130 Debris Disk Stars at Keck Observatory

 

13:00-14:30 Workshop 2 & Lunch @IoA

 

14:30-15:00 Closing Remarks