Conference Description
The Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Solar Systems brings together a diverse group of scientists to discuss research at the frontier of understanding how planets and planetary systems form. Invited speakers from the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmochemistry, and planetary science will present their latest findings. A particular focus at this meeting will be the latest results from the Hayabusa2, Osiris-Rex, and New Horizons missions to primitive solar system bodies, exoplanet results from the TESS space telescope, and results from ground-based astronomical facilities like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. Discussions will include how theory, spacecraft and astronomical observations, and meteoritic analyses provide complementary constraints on a range of topics, including the birth environment of the Solar System, how gas and dust may rapidly be converted into planetary bodies in disks, the origin and evolution of carbon and other volatiles in disks and the diversity of planetary system architectures and compositions in the Galaxy. The 2019 meeting will continue the tradition of past meetings by promoting cross-disciplinary conversations, and invites all attendees to present posters on their latest work. Support for early career researchers will be available.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by February 23, 2019. Please check back for updates.
Birth Environments of Solar Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Shogo Tachibana (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Speakers
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Åke Nordlund (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Kevin McKeegan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Rapid Growth of Planets
Discussion Leaders
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Laura Perez (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Speakers
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Megan Ansdell (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Sean Andrews (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, USA)
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Seth Jacobson (Northwestern University, USA)
Dust and Pebbles in the Solar System and Protoplanetary Disks
Discussion Leaders
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Steven Desch (Arizona State University, USA)
Speakers
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Philip Carter (University of California, Davis, USA)
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Maria Schönbächler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Carbon from the Interstellar Medium to Planets
Discussion Leaders
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Lydie Bonal (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Speakers
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Yuri Aikawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Karin Oberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA)
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Corentin Le Guillou (Université de Lille, France)
Star-Disk-Planet Interactions
Discussion Leaders
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Jacob Simon (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Speakers
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Henner Busemann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Zhi-Yun Li (University of Virginia, USA)
Spacecraft Exploration of Primitive Solar System Bodies
Discussion Leaders
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Jessica Sunshine (University of Maryland, USA)
Speakers
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Dante Lauretta (The University of Arizona, USA)
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Jeff Moore (Ames Research Center, NASA, USA)
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Tomoki Nakamura (Tohoku University, Japan)
Volatile Evolution and Transport in Protoplanetary Disks
Discussion Leaders
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Olivier Mousis (Aix-Marseille University, France)
Speakers
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Melissa McClure (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
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Adam Sarafian (Corning, USA)
Compositional Diversity Within and Between Planetary Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Johanna Teske (Carnegie Observatories, USA)
Speakers
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Cayman Unterborn (Arizona State University, USA)
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Megan Bedell (Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, USA)
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Kevin Heng (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Brendan Bowler (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Speakers
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Chelsea Huang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Mercedes Lopez-Morales (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA)
Power Hour
Organizers:
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Maria Schönbächler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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Larry Nittler (Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA)
