The Origins of Stars and Their Planetary Systems

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/06/2012 - 15/06/2012
12:00 am

This interdisciplinary conference explored the deep links between the processes of star and planet formation, highlighting recent advances in observations (Kepler, Herschell), theory, and computation

The conference featured 9 interdisciplinary and interleaved sessions, each with an invited Review Speaker, who set up the session with a true review of the current state of that field, as well as a Keynote Speaker who focused more on their own contributions to the subject. Three days also featured Discussion sessions at day’s end, meant to provide a stimulating forum for the key results and issues raised in the presentations.

Event Poster

Conference booklet

Local Organizing Committee

Ralph Pudritz (chair), James Wadsley, and Christine D. Wilson — Origins Institute (OI), McMaster University

Scientific Organizing Committee

Acknowledgments:

Financial support for this conference was provided by the Origins Institute at McMaster. We also wish to thank the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) for a conference grant that helped support this meeting.