PSF Retreat 2014 - Scientific Program

Here you can find the detailed scientific program: PSF Retreat 2014 Program (PDF). Note that we will bring hardcopies to Schöntal, so it is not necessary to print this yourself.

Social Program

Instead of trying to accommodate a talk for every participant, we have chosen a format with a relatively relaxed program of talks, with long coffee breaks and a lot of time to interact in between sessions. In addition, lots of time to talk informally is available on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. As we are staying in a beautiful and historic place, we can use the opportunity to explore it. Schöntal Abbey was founded in the 12th century and is famous as one of the most impressive pieces of Baroque architecture in northern Württemberg. This region was home to Götz von Berlichingen a medieval knight who became famous due to a book by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. His grave is in the cloister of Schöntal Abbey.

Wednesday

The scientific program on Wednesday ends at 16.15 h. Free time from 16.15 - 17.45 h. We recommend this year's special event: live coverage of Philae landing on Comet 67P/Tschurjumow-Gerasimenko The mission's lander, Philae, will be deployed on 12 November at 08:35 GMT / 09:35 CET from a distance of 22.5 km from the centre of the comet. It will land about seven hours later, with confirmation expected to arrive at Earth at around 17:00 CET. We will display the ESA livestream with the projector. Alternatively, you can go for a small hike around Schöntal Abbey (2.5 km, 45 min, 65 m altitude difference) along the monastery walls to the river Jagst. Continue along the monastery garden up to a viewing point with amazing view to Schöntal Abbey and the Jagst valley. Do not miss to take a look at the impressive monastery complex with its beautiful Baroque church and gardens.

We re-gather at 17:45 for the ''who is who'' session: each participant introduces her/him-self with 1 slide 'business card' (example linked here), saying who you are, where you are from, what you are interested in and what you are working on, without any details. We aim at a 1-minute cadence so you should speak no longer than ~45 secs. Likely, this is shorter than you think ...
We will gather all business cards in the week before the workshop, and put them all in a single presentation, so please provide your slide in PDF-format!

Thursday

The scientific program on Thursday ends at lunch. On Thursday afternoon we plan for a longer hiking tour. Depending on the weather conditions we can choose between two hikes: The first option is a round trip via Jagsthausen and Berlichingen (12 km, 3h, 170 m altitude difference) to the castle in Jagsthausen where Götz von Berlichingen lived. The second option is a shorter hike (7.5 km, 2h, 140 m altitude difference) to Rossach via the small castle ruin Storchenturm.

Workshop schedule

Wednesday 12.11.2014
08:30 find the big bus at the parking lot behind Crowne Plaza
08:45 latest departure time of bus (travel: 107 km, ~01:45 hours drive)
10:30 - 11:15 Arrival at Schöntal + check-in
11:20 - 11:30   Silvia Scheithauer: Welcome + logistics
11:30 - 12:30   Thomas Henning: Overview of PSF research
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:15 Session 'Instrumentation' (chair: Jeroen Bouwman)
14:00   S. Scheithauer: JWST MIRI - Performance from Cryo-Vacuum Testing
14:15   O. Krause: The SPICA mission
14:30   H. Linz: IRASSI: a feasibility study for a far-infrared space interferometer
14:45   R. Köhler: Image reconstruction of circumstellar disks with MATISSE
15:00   D. Kopon: The LINC-NIRVANA Pathfinder, Status and Results
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Session 'PSF coffee discussion' (chair: Amy Stutz)
15:45   C. Deen and R. Teague: How to improve PSF coffee?
16:15 - 17:45 free time; special event: ESA live stream of Philae landing on Comet 67P/Tschurjumow-Gerasimenk will be displayed on projector (landing confirmation expected around 17.00 CET)
17:45 - 19:00 who is who: 1-slide self-introductions in 1-minute cadence
19:00 Dinner
>20:00 Free evening

Thursday 13.11.2014
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:15 - 10:00 Session 'ISM / Cosmochemistry' (chair: Hendrik Linz)
09:15   C. Jäger: Ion-induced erosion of carbon grains: Implication of CO and CO2 formation in molecular clouds and protoplanetary disks
09:30   S. Krasnokutski: Ultra-Low-Temperature Reactions of C(3PJ) Atoms with PAH Molecules in Helium Droplets and in the Interstellar Medium
09:45   G. Rouillé: Growth of silicate grains in the ISM: an experimental study
10:00 - 12:00 Session 'Clouds, Cores, and Blobs' (chair: Jouni Kainulainen)
10:00   J. Abreu-Vicente: Relationship between density structure and evolutionary class of molecular clouds
10:15   S. Bihr: THOR - The HI, OH, Recombination Line Survey of the Milky Way - HI observations of the giant molecular cloud W43
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15   E. Keto: The dynamics of collapsing cores and star formation
11:30   S. Sadavoy: Exploring Core Formation in the Perseus B1-E Clump
11:45   A. Stutz: Protostars and Gas
12:00 - 12:45 Session 'From low to very low mass stars' (chair: Oliver Krause)
12:00   E. Buenzli: Cloud structure of a neighboring brown dwarf binary
12:15   E. Manjavacas: Physical characterization of brown dwarfs
12:30   B. Goldman: Nearby star sample with PS1
12:45 Lunch break
14:00 - 18:30 free afternoon / hiking tour (2h or 3h)
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Wine-tasting (preregistration required; has to be paid individually) / free evening

Friday 14.11.2014
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 Session 'Stars: young and old' (chair: Markus Feldt)
09:00   Th. Robitaille: Modeling young stellar objects and forming clusters throughout the Milky Way
09:15   E. Morales: Towards a hierarchical multi-wavelength catalog of Galactic young stellar objects
09:30   M. Nielbock: The FIR variability of AGB stars as witnessed by Herschel
09:45 - 11:45 Session 'Disks' (chair: Dima Semenov)
09:45   R. Teague: DCO+ and HCO+ in DM Tau
10:00   M. Malygin: First maps of thermal relaxation time in vertically isothermal passive disks
10:15   A. Schreiber: Planetesimal Formation via Streaming Instabilities
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15   A. Pohl: Analyzing spiral arms in scattered light images of protoplanetary disks
11:30   A. Gomes: Vortex formation and evolution in discs under thermal relaxation and with a high mass planet embedded
11:45 - 12:30 Session 'Planets I' (chair: Christoph Mordasini)
11:45   P. Mollière: A new code for atmospheric structures and spectral calculations
12:00   M. Schulik: Inflating Hot Jupiters with ohmic dissipation
12:15   S. Ciceri: KOI-1299b: a massive planet in a highly eccentric orbit transiting a red giant
12:30 Lunch break
13:45 - 14:30 Session 'Planets II' (chair: Esther Buenzli)
13:45   T. Kopytova: Chemical abundance as a key to formation scenario of exoplanets
14:00   L. Mancini: The HATSouth project
14:15   Ch. Obermeier: Preliminary Results of Pan-Planets
14:30 - 14:45   Thomas Henning: Adjourn
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee
~15:15 departure from Schöntal
~17:00 - 17:15 Arrival in Heidelberg