How ALMA will Impact our
Perspectives on:
- Cores, Fragmentation and the Earliest
Observable Stages of Protostellar Disks
- The Disk-Envelope-Outflow Connection
- Low and High Mass Disk Structure
- Flaring, Spiral Density Waves, Turbulence, and
Magnetic Fields in Protostellar Disks
- Disk Chemistry, Kinematics, Isotopic Anomalies,
Grain Growth, and Sedimentation
- Debris Disks
- Planet Formation: Fragmentation and Gaps
- Synergy between ALMA and Upcoming Optical,
Infrared and Radio Facilities
Meeting Philosophy:
In order to encourage ALMA focused presentations and set the
stage for a well balanced program, the SOC has developed a "wish list"
of talk topics that we would like to see given at the meeting. This
list is appended below. You are free to propose to give a talk topic
from this list or give a contributed talk or poster on a topic of your
choice (as space permits). This format is loosely modeled after the
successful "Protostars and Protoplanets" meeting format (we are not
inviting speakers so much as selecting them). The speakers selected to
give the "wish list" talks will be exempt from the registration fee.
The "wish list" talks will be 30 min. and contributed talks 15
min.
Wish List Topics:
- The Formation of Disks
- Cores, fragmentation, and the earliest observable stages of
protostellar disks
- Understanding the disk-envelope connection - how to determine the
angular momentum and mass accumulation in accretion disks
- Connection between disks and outflows - jet/wind launching
from disk, and disk-stellar magnetosphere interaction
- Disks in clustered environments - fragmentation, interaction, and
competition for materials
- The Physics of Disks
- Theory based guide to observing accretion disks - flaring, spiral
density waves, turbulence, and the role of magnetic field
- Observational techniques to determine disk structure - density,
temperature profiles, and sizes
- Comparative predictions of the expected size scales, temperatures and
chemical composition of massive disks based on current models
- Photoevaporating disks in HII regions
- Theory based guide to the kinematics of protostellar disks
- Tracing the role of magnetic fields in protostellar disks - the
Zeeman effect, dust polarization, and line linear polarization
- Disk Chemistry
- Chemical composition and distribution of molecules in low mass protostellar disks
- Disentangling chemical differentiation, opacity effects, and
depletion in disks from disk kinematics
- Origin of isotopic anomalies in protostellar disks
- Late Stages
- Debris disks - structure and evolution
- Theory based guide to observing planets - fragmentation and gaps
- Grain growth and sedimentation