Scientific Program

                       

Monday 3/Aug.

 

11:00 - 11:10 : Welcome address

 

OS 1 - FORMATION CONDITIONS OF ICY BODIES

11:10 - 11:40 : M. Podolak "The location of the snowline in protostellar disks" (invited talk)

11:40 - 11:55 : E. Seperuelo Duarte et al. "Heavy ion irradiation of astrophysical ice analogs"

11:55 - 12:10 : N. Takato et al. "Ultra-violet photon irradiation on crystalline water-ice: Temperature and wavelength dependence of amorphization efficiency"

12:10 - 12:25 : K. de Souza Torres & O. Cabo Winter "Compound model to analyze water in terrestrial planets formation"

 

OS 2 - PHYSICAL PROCESSES OF ICES AND DYNAMICS

14:15 - 14:30 : E. Dartois et al. "Low temperature CH4 and CO2 clathrate hydrate near to mid-IR spectra"

14:30 – 15:00 : M. Fouchard "Galactic environment and cometary flux from the Oort cloud" (Invited talk)

15:00 - 15:15 : J.A. Fernández "The discovery rate of new comets in the age of large surveys: Trends, statistics, and an updated evaluation of the comet flux"

15:15 - 15:30 : N.A. Kaib "A leaky Jupiter-saturn barrier and its implications for the inner Oort cloud"

15:30 - 15:45 : A.S. Guliyev & A.S. Dadashov "On hyperbolic comets"

 

Coffee break

 

OS 3 - DYNAMICS OF ICY BODIES

16:15 - 16:30 : A. Sosa & J.A. Fernandez "Non-gravitational forces and masses of some long-period comets"

16:30 - 16:45 : G. Sarid & D. Prialnik "Centaurs as dynamically and thermally evolving objects"

16:45 - 17:00 : M. Broz & D. Vokrouhlicky "On the dynamics of Trojan and outer main belt families"

17:00 - 17:15 : R.P. Di Sisto et al. "Dynamical evolution of escaped Plutinos"

17:15 - 17:30 : E.L. Schaller "Centaur physical properties and dynamical lifetimes"

 

Tuesday 4/Aug.

 

9:00 - 10:00 : Jewitt D. "The new solar system" (key general review)

 

OS 4 - DYNAMICS OF ICY BODIES

11:00 - 11:30 : R. Gomes "Sedna, 2004 VN112 and 2000 CR105: the tip of an iceberg" (Invited talk)

11:30 - 11:45 : E.S. Pitjeva "Influence of trans-neptunian objects on motion of major planets and limitation on the total TNO mass from planet and spacecraft ranging"

11:45 - 12:00 : P.G. Benavidez & A. Campo Bagatin "Coupling collisional and dynamical mass depletion of TNO populations"

12:00 - 12:15 : N. Haghighipour "Dynamical modeling of the origin and activation mechanism of main belt comets"

12:15 -12:30 : G.C. de Elia et al. "Cratering rate in the Pluto-Charon system"

 

Wednesday 5/Aug.

 

OS 5 - DELIVERY OF WATER AND ICY SURFACES

11:00 - 11:30 - A. Morbidelli "Delivery of water during the formation and evolution of the Earth" (Invited talk)

11:30 - 11:45 - K.J. Meech & M. Mottl "Origin of Earth's water"

11:45 - 12:00 - S.K. Atreya "Icy satellites with gas: a complex interplay between interior, surface, atmosphere, and beyond"

11:00 - 12:15 - D. Prialnik "Long-term evolution of small icy bodies of the solar system"

12:15 - 12:30 - A.R. Hendrix & C.J. Hansen "Surface compositions of the icy Saturnian moons: Clues from the ultraviolet"

 

OS 6 - ICY SATELLITES - TITAN

14:15 - 14:45 - D. Bockelee-Morvan "Recent results on the molecular and isotopic composition of comets" (Invited talk)

14:45 - 15:00 - S. Ferraz-Mello et al. "New darwinian models to study tidal dissipation in Titan"

15:00 - 15:15 - M. Fulchignoni et al. "Titan's dunes laboratory analogues"

 

Poster Session 1  (and coffee break)

 

OS 7 - ICY SATELLITES - TITAN

16:45 – 17:00 - R.M. Nelson "Ammonia reported on Saturn's moon Titan: The case for cryovolcanism"

17:00 - 17:15 - R.V. Yelle et al. "The effect of ion chemistry on Titan's atmosphere"

17:15 - 17:30 - I. Toth "Effect of the tensile strengh on the stability against rotational breakup of icy bodies"

 

Thursday 6/Aug.

 

OS 8 - ICY SATELLITES AND KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

9:00 - 9:30 : F. Sohl "Interior models of icy satellites and prospects of investigation" (Invited talk)

9:30 - 9:45 : S.E. Schoder & H.U. Keller "Triton revisited"

9:45 - 10:00 : M.D. Melita "Collisions, cosmic radiation and the colors of the Trojans"

10:00 - 10:15 : C.A. Trujillo & S.S. Sheppard "Primordial ices in the Kuiper belt"

10:15 - 10:30 : R. Stevenson et al. "Transient sub-nuclei in outbursting comet Holmes"

 

Coffee break

 

OS 9 - ICY SATELLITES AND KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

11:00 - 11:30 : A. Coradini et al. "Icy satellites of the outer planets: general characteristics and link with their origin" (Invited talk)

11:30 - 11:45 : M.A. Barucci et al. "Surface properties of the icy bodies beyond Neptune"

11:45 - 12:00 : C. Dumas et al. "Haumea: A crystalline water-ice multiple TNO system"

12:00 - 12:15 : P. Lacerda "The dark spot on KBO Haumea"

 

OS 10 - KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

14:00 - 14:30 : M. Brown "Haumea and her children" (Invited talk)

14:30 - 14:45 : K. Muinonen et al. "Transneptunian-object characterization with polarimetry and photometry"

14:45 - 15:00 : N. Pinilla-Alonso et al. "Haumea's buddies: The concern of water-ice surfaces in the TNb"

 

Poster Session 2  (and coffee break)

 

OS 11 - ICY DWARF PLANETS, OBSERVATION OF COMETS

16:30 - 17:00 : G. Tancredi "Physical and dynamical properties of icy "dwarf planets" (plutoids)" (Invited talk)

17:00 - 17:15 : P.R. Weissman et al. "Observations of distant Jupiter-family comet nuclei from Palomar observatory"

17:15 - 17:30 : C. Snodgrass et al. "The size distribution of Jupiter family nuclei"

 

Friday 7/Aug.

 

OS 12 - ACTIVITY IN COMETS

9:00 - 9:30 : M.J.S. Belton "Cometary activity: A post-Deep Impact view" (Invited talk)

9:30 - 9:45 : A. Ivanova "Photometric study of rich CO+ and N2+ distant comets: C/2002 VQ94 (LINEAR) and 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1"

9:45 - 10:00 : J.-Y. Li et al. "Comparisons of the photometric properties of comets 19P/Borrelly, 9P/Tempel 1, and 81P/Wild 2"

 

Poster Session 3 (and coffee break)

 

OS 13 - TRANSITION OBJECTS

11:30 - 11:45 : J. Licandro et al. "Are the main belt comets, comets?"

11:45 - 12:00 : J. Borovicka et al. "Material properties of transition objects 3200 Phaethon and 2003 EH1"

12:00 - 12:15 : H. Campins et al. "Confirming water ice on the surface of asteroid 24 Themis"

12:15 - 12:30 : J.M. Ferreira Carvano & S. Lorenz-Martins "Modeling the effects of a faint dust coma on asteroid spectra"

 

OS 14 : OBSERVATIONS AND PHYSICAL MODELS OF COMETS

14:15 - 14:30 : K. Ibadinov "Some active processes in cometary nuclei: Nucleus splitting and antitail formation"

14:30 - 14:45 : A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd et al. "Recent polarimetric observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko"

14:45 - 15:00 : A. Gilbert "Observations of cometary activity using the CTIO and CFHT Legacy survey"

15:00 - 15:15 : I. Ferrin "Secular lightcurves of comets"

15:15 - 15:30 : D.C. Boice & S.E. Martinez "Modeling the coma of comet Machholz"

 

Coffee break

 

OS 15 : SPACE MISSIONS TO ICY BODIES. PROJECTS AND RESULTS

16:00 - 16:30 : S.A. Stern "New Horizons: Exploring Pluto and KBOs" (Invited talk)

16:30 -16:45 : R. Schulz "The Rosetta mission: Comet and asteroid exploration"

16:45 - 17:00 : R.M.C. Lopes et al. "Geology of Titan: Latest results from Cassini"

17:00 - 17:15 : O. Mousis et al. "Origin of the atmospheric methane of Titan: New insights from Cassini INMS measurements"

 

Definition:

OS : Oral Session