Transformational Science with ALMA:

Through Disks to Stars and Planets

A workshop held at the
North American ALMA Science Center
located at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
in Charlottesville, Virginia

June 22-24, 2007



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Program with PDF links to talks

(About 1/4 of the talks are still missing; movies are located after the talk titles)

Friday, 22 June

Session 1 - Chair: Crystal Brogan

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome - Fred K. Y. Lo
09:10 - 09:40 (I) "ALMA: Project Overview & Status'' - Tony Beasley
09:40 - 10:10 (I) "Keynote" - Anneila Sargent

 Session 2 - Chair: Doug Johnstone

10:10 - 10:40 (W) "Observations of Cores, Fragmentation and the Earliest Observable Stages of Protostellar Disks" - Jes Jorgensen
BREAK 10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:25 (C) "Tricks of Resolution and Dynamics: A Disk-Like Object that Isn't" - Brenda Matthews
11:25 - 11:55 (W) "Unraveling the Envelope and Disk: The ALMA Perspective" - Leslie Looney
11:55 - 12:10 (C) "Understanding the Disk-Envelope Connection" movie1 - Shantanu Basu
12:10 - 12:30 Group Discussion
LUNCH 12:30 - 13:45 (on site in the 3rd Floor Library)

Session 3 - Chair: John Bally

13:45 - 14:15 (W) "The Origin of Outflows" - Stephane Guilloteau
14:15 - 14:30 (C) "Massive Outflows from the Submillimeter Array and Spitzer Infrared Observations" - Keping Qui
14:30 - 15:00 (W) "The Dynamics of Competitive Accretion"   movie1 - Paul Clark
15:00 - 15:15 (C) "Massive Protoclusters: Keys to Understanding Massive Star Formation" - Todd Hunter
BREAK 15:15 - 15:45

Session 4 - Chair: Dick Crutcher

15:45 - 16:15 (W) "Accretion, Mixing, and Grain Growth in Protostellar Disks: Observing Magnetized Turbulence with ALMA"   movie1   movie2 - Neal Turner
16:15 - 16:30 (C) "Magnetic Braking and Protostellar Disk Formation" - Zhi-Yun Li
16:30 - 17:00 (W) "Molecular Lines and Thermal Dust Emission as Tools to Investigate the Physical Structure of Disks" - Anne Dutrey
17:00 - 17:15 (C) "Observations of Disks Associated with High Mass Young Stars" - Qizhou Zhang
17:15 - 17:45 Group Discussion
18:15 - 20:30 Reception at NTC hosted by NRAO Director. Includes tour of North America ALMA Front End Integration Center (FEIC)

Saturday, 23 June

Session 5 - Chair: Lynn Matthews

09:00 - 09:30 (W) "Massive Protostellar Disks: Formation, Properties, and Observables"   movie1   movie2 - Mark Krumholz
09:30 - 09:45 (C) "MHD Waves as a Source of Heating in Accretion Disks" - Aline Vidotto
09:45 - 10:15 (W) "ALMA Observations of Irradiated Proto-Planetary Disks" - John Bally
10:15 - 10:30 (C) "X-rays and Protoplanetary Disks" movie1 - Eric Feigelson
BREAK 10:30 - 11:00

Session 6 - Chair: Remy Indebetouw

11:00 - 11:30 (W) "Tracing the Role of Magnetic Fields in Protostellar Disks: the Zeeman Effect, Dust Polarization, and Line Linear Polarization" - Dick Crutcher
11:30 - 11:45 (C) "Understanding the Role of Magnetic Fields in the Star Formation Process through Polarimetry" - Ram Rao
11:45 - 12:10 Group Discussion
12:10 - 12:30 Poster Advertisements - 1 min/1 slide each
LUNCH 12:30 - 13:45 (on site in the 3rd Floor Library)

Session 7 - Chair: Anthony Remijan

13:45 - 14:15 (W) "Chemistry in Disks -- an Observational Perspective" - Chunhua Qi
14:15 - 14:30 (C) "Distributions of Hot Molecules in Young Circumstellar Disks" - Hideko Nomura
14:30 - 14:45 (C) "On the Kinematics of Photoevaporating Disks: The Case of MWC349" - Jesus Martin-Pintado
14:45 - 15:15 (W) "Complex Carbon Chemistry in Disks" - Paul Woods
15:15 - 15:30 Group Photo in Front of NRAO Building
BREAK 15:30 - 16:00

Session 8 - Chair: Leonardo Testi

16:00 - 16:30 (W) "Debris Disks - Structure and Evolution" - Jane Greaves
16:30 - 16:45 (C) "The Solar System: the Closest Debris Disk" - Dave Jewitt
16:45 - 17:00 (C) "Spitzer Space Telescope Debris Disks" - Michael Werner
17:00 - 17:15 (C) "A Resolved Molecular Gas Disk around 49 Ceti" - David Wilner
17:15 - 17:45 Group Discussion
17:45 - 18:45 Drinks and Poster Viewing at NRAO
19:00 - 21:00 Workshop Dinner at the Garden Room sponsored by the UVa Astronomy Department - After Dinner Talk by Paul Vanden Bout

Sunday, June 24

Session 9 - Chair: Claire Chandler

09:00 - 09:15 "Introduction to the NAASC" - Crystal Brogan
09:15 - 09:30 "Introduction to ALMA User Software" - Debra Shepherd
09:30 - 10:00 "UVa Computing/Simulation Initiative Discussion" - Nicole Radziwill

Session 10 - Chair: Al Wootten

10:00 - 10:15 (C) "Young Brown Dwarfs and ALMA" - Subhanjoy Mohanty
BREAK 10:15 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:15 (W) "Signatures of Planets and Their Formation in Circumstellar Disks" - Sebastien Wolf
11:15 - 11:30 (C) "Core Accretion vs. Disk Instability: Observable Discriminants" movie1 - Hannah Jang-Condell
11:30 - 11:45 (C) "Extra Solar Planet Detection with ALMA" - Alice Quillen
11:45 - 12:10 (I) "ALMA and the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)" - Mike Skrutskie
12:10 - 12:30 Group Discussion
LUNCH 12:30 - 13:40 (on site in the 3rd Floor Library)

 

Session 11 - Chair: Lee Mundy

13:40 - 14:10 (W) "Setting the Stage for Planet Formation: Grain Growth in Circumstellar Disks" - Leonardo Testi
14:10 - 14:35 (I) "Observations of Disks with the EVLA: What Will It Do for You?" - Claire Chandler
14:35 - 15:00 (I) "Synergy with Herschel" - Brenda Matthews
15:00 - 14:25 (I) "Synergy with JWST" - Alycia Weinberger
BREAK 15:25 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:30 Closing Discussions

Legend: (I) = Invited talk, (W) = Wish List talk, (C) = Contributed talk

Scientific Organizing Committee:
  • C. Brogan (Chair) (NRAO, Charlottesville)
  • J. Bally (U. Colorado)
  • M. Hayashi (NAOJ)
  • M. Hogerheijde (Leiden)
  • D. Johnstone (HIA)
  • Z. Li (UVa)
  • L. Mundy (U. of Maryland)
  • J. Williams (U. Hawaii)
  • A. Wootten (NRAO, Charlottesville)
Local Organizing Committee:
  • C. Brogan (Chair) (NRAO, Charlottesville)
  • L. Clark (NRAO)
  • A. Hales (NRAO)
  • T. Hunter (NRAO)
  • R. Indebetouw (UVa)
  • J. Neighbours (NRAO)
  • A. Remijan (NRAO)