Conference Program
Program of the IAU Symposium 249 Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics. Those names and titles in blue are invited talks. More details of talks, their abstracts, can be found here. All the poster contributions are divided into two sessions. The first Poster Session begins from the beginning of the conference to 10:00AM of Oct.24, and the second one starts from then on to the end of the meeting. A list of all posters and their show time can be found here.
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007: Registration
19:00Welcome cocktail

1st day: Monday, Oct. 22, 2007
08:00-08:30Registration (Conference room)
08:30-08:50Open ceremony (Chair: Y.-S. Sun)

Session I.1 Chair: P. Barge
08:50-09:20M. Mayor: Introductory Lecture: The Quest for Very Low Mass Planets
09:20-09:40T. Schmidt: Direct imaging of exoplanets around young stars - status and updates
09:40-10:00J. Ge: The Multi-object APO Radial-Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey and Its Early Scientific Results
10:00-10:20J. Setiawan: Planets around young stars

 
10:20-10:50Coffee break, Registration (conference room)

Session I.2 Chair: F. Allard
10:50-11:20G. Marcy: Surveying 2000 Nearby Stars: Planet Properties and Multiple Systems
11:20-11:40S. Marchi: Unveiling exoplanet families
11:40-12:00T. Wang: Planet Hunting with LiJET

Session I.3 Chair: M. Mayor
14:00-14:30 P. Barge: CoRoT: Pioneer Space Mission for Exoplanet Transit Search
14:30-14:50 D. Koch: Finding Habitable Planets: The Kepler Mission
14:50-15:10 K. Sahu: SWEEPS Results on Transiting Planets in the Galactic Bulge
15:10-15:30 A. Alapini: Reconstruction of the transit signal in the presence of stellar variability

15:30-16:00Coffee break, Registration (conference room)

Session I.4 Chair: G. Marcy
16:00-16:30 S. Mao: Extrasolar planet detections with Gravitational Microlensing
16:30-16:50 T. Sumi: Exoplanet Candidates from the MOA-II Microlensing Survey in 2007
16:50-17:10 A. Cassan: Microlensing search for extrasolar planets
17:10-17:30 D. Bennett: Gravitational Microlensing Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog Planetary System

19:00-An evening tour in town (The Master-of-Nets Garden, Chinese music performance)

2nd day: Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007
Session II.1 Chair: S. Mao
08:30-08:50 D. Ségransan: Extrasolar planet search and characterisation using astrometry
08:50-09:10 T. Roell: Search for extrasolar planets with micro-arc-second relative astrometry by ground based single-aperture observations
09:10-09:30 R. Launhardt: Astrometric Exoplanet Search with PRIMA - goals and prospects
09:30-09:50 J. Monnier: Imaging Extrasolar Planets using Ground-Based Interferometers

 
09:50-12:00 Coffee break + Poster Session

Session II.2 Chair: D. Lin
14:00-14:30 L. Pasquini: Testing planets formation theories with G and K giants
14:30-14:50 A. Niedzielski: Planets Around Evolved Stars
14:50-15:10 A. Quirrenbach: Planets around Giant Stars

 
15:10-15:40Coffee break

Session II.3 Chair: L. Pasquini
15:40-16:10 D. Lin: Dynamical atmosphere of close-in gas giant planets
16:10-16:30 C. Helling: Silicates, ruby, opal - Why gas giants keep their jewels in the atmosphere
16:30-16:50 E. Shkolnik: The On/Off Nature of Star-Planet Interactions
16:50-17:10 M. Cuntz: First Observation of Planet-Induced X-ray Emission: The System HD 179949

3rd day: Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007
Session III.1 Chair: S. Ida
08:30-09:00 E. Ford: Dynamics and Instabilities in Exoplanetary Systems
09:00-09:20 I. Dobbs-Dixon: Tidal Barrier and the Asymptotic Mass of Proto Gas-Giant Planets
09:20-09:40 S. Ferraz-Mello: Tidal Friction in close-in planets. Consequences of Darwin’s theory
09:40-10:00 B. Jackson: Tidal Evolution of Close-in Extra-Solar Planets

 
10:00-10:30 Coffee break

Session III.2 Chair: K. Gozdziewski
10:30-11:00 S. Ida: Planetary migration and mass and semimajor axis distributions of extrasolar planets
11:00-11:20 J. Zhou: Formation and migration of Short-Period Earth-like Planets
11:20-11:40 K. Zhang: Secular Eccentricity Damping in Extrasolar Planetary systems
11:40-12:00 C. Varvoglis: Interaction of free-floating planets with a star-planet pair

AfternoonA half-day tour in Suzhou (The Humble Administrator's Garden and the Tiger Hill)

19:00Banquet

4th day: Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007
Session IV.1 Chair:  E. Ford
08:30-09:00 S. Raymond: Terrestrial planet formation
09:00-09:30 W. Kley: Planet forming in binary systems
09:30-09:50 E. Kokubo: Formation of Terrestrial Planets from Protoplanets: Effects of Conditional Accretion
09:50-10:10 S. Kitsionas: SPH simulations of star/planet formation triggered by cloud-cloud

 
10:10-12:00 Coffee break + Poster Session

Session IV.2 Chair: S. Raymond
14:00-14:30 F. Allard: On the nature of short-period extrasolar planets
14:30-14:50 X. Bonfils: Planets around M dwarfs: New statistical properties and first habitable super Earths
14:50-15:10 R. Montgomery: Formation and Detection of Terrestrial Planets around the Nearest M-dwarfs

 
15:10-15:40 Coffee break

Session IV.3 Chair: A. Moro-Martin
15:40-16:10 F. Masset: Planetary Migration
16:10-16:30 C. Baruteau: Type I migration in self-gravitating disks
16:30-16:50 R. Barnes: Extrasolar Planet Interactions

19:00-21:30 An evening tour in Suzhou River

5th day: Friday, Oct. 26, 2007
Session V.1 Chair: R. Dvorak
08:30-09:00 C. Beauge: Stability and Dynamics of Resonant Exoplanetary Systems
09:00-09:20 M. Sidlichovsky & E. Gerlach: Secular evolution of exoplanetary systems and close encounters
09:20-09:40 M. Lee: Planetary Migration and Eccentricity and Inclination Resonances in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
09:40-10:00 L. Zhou: On the formation and transformation of the 3:1 mean motion resonance in the 55 Cancri

 
10:00-10:30 Coffee break

Session V.2 Chair: C. Beauge
10:30-11:00 K. Gozdziewski: Stability constraints in modeling of multi-planet extrasolar systems
10:00-11:20 R. Baluev: Several problems of exoplanetary orbits determination from radial velocity observations
11:20-11:40 R. Dvorak: On the dynamics of Trojans in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
11:40-12:00 N. Haghighipour: Habitable Planet Formation in Extreme Planetary Systems

Session V.3 Chair: F. Masset
14:00-14:30 A. Moro-Martin: Debris disks
14:30-14:50 P. Plavchan: New Debris Disks Around Young Solar Analogs Discovered With The Spitzer Space Telescope
14:50-15:10 J. Gonzalez: Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks

 
15:10-15:40 Coffee break

Session V.4Chair: W. Kley
15:40-16:00M. Cuntz: Astrobiological Effects of F, G, K and M Main-Sequence Star
16:00-16:20M. Nagasawa: The formation of close-in planets by the slingshot model
16:20-16:40G. Takeda: Secular Evolution of Planets in Stellar Binary Systems

6th day: Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007: A one-day tour to Zhou Zhuang (optional)
We will have lunch in Zhou Zhuang.

The conference closes after we come back to Suzhou (hotels) at 15:00.