PSF Retreat 2018 - Scientific Program

Here you can find the detailed scientific program: PSF Retreat 2018 Program (PDF).

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 Monday and Tuesday afternoon.

Monday

The scientific program on Monday ends at 15:30. Then we have a coffee break, and at 16:00 everyone interested can join for a hike along the Rhine.

We re-gather at 18:30 for the ''who is who'' session: each participant introduces her/him-self with a 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.

Tuesday

On Tuesday afternoon there will be a boat trip on the river Rhine.

Workshop schedule

Check here for the ABSTRACTS in pdf form.

Monday 08.10.2018
08:00 find the big bus at the parking lot behind Crowne Plaza
08:10 latest departure time of bus (travel: ~170 km, ~02:30 hours drive)
10:30 - 11:15 Arrival + check-in
11:15 - 11:20   Roy van Boekel: Welcome + logistics
11:20 - 12:20   Thomas Henning: Overview of PSF research
12:20 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30 Session 'Astrochemistry' (chair: Lizxandra Flores)
14:00   Chuan-Peng Zhang: Gas dynamics and NH2D chemistry in massive clumps
14:15   Caroline Gieser: Chemical Complexity of AFGL 2591
14:30   Ko-Ju Chuang: The formation of complex organic molecules in dense clouds
14:45   Dimitry Semenov: Detection of new organic species in protoplanetary disks
15:00   Sergiy Krasnokutskiy: Experimental Characterization of Low-temperature Surface Reactions for Astrochemistry
15:15   Gaël Rouillé: Photodissociation of the 1-ethynylpyrene cation
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:30 hiking tour
18:30 - 19:30 who is who: 1-slide self-introductions in 1-minute cadence
19:30 Dinner
>20:30 Free evening

Tuesday 09.10.2018
08:00 - 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 - 10:30 Session 'Exoplanets' (chair: Fei Yan)
09:30   Olga Zhakhozhay: Radial Velocity Survey for Planets around Young stars RV-SPY.
09:45   Niall Deacon: Searching for cold giant planets in wide orbits with Spitzer
10:00   Matthias Samland: Application of transit light curve methods to direct imaging exoplanet detection
10:15   Bertram Bitsch: Conditions for giant planet formation
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 10:30 Session 'Clouds and Star Formation' (chair: Hendrik Linz)
11:15   Miaomiao Zhang: Near-infrared extinction mapping in the Galactic plane
11:30   Yuan Wang: Studying atomic hydrogen during cloud formation by means of HI self absorption
11:45   Manuel Riener: Going beyond cloud segmentation: Unveiling the detailed velocity structure of the CO gas in the Galactic plane
12:00   Aida Ahmadi: Core Fragmentation and Disk Stability in High-Mass Star Formation: The link between observations and simulations
12:15   Gesa Bertrang: Magnetic fields in Bok globules: Multi-wavelength polarimetry as tracer across large spatial scales.
12:30   Hendrik Schwanekamp: GPU acceleration for interactive simulation and high performance computing
12:45 Lunch break
14:15 boat trip
19.00 dinner
>20:00 Free evening

Wednesday 10.10.2018
08:00 - 09:15 Breakfast
09:15 - 10:30 Session 'Protoplanetary Disks | Chair' (chair: Eduard Bopp)
09:15   Hans Baehr: Core and Planetesimal Formation in Self-Gravitating Disks
09:30   Marcelo Barraza: Hydrodynamical simulations of dust traps in protoplanetary disks
09:45   Natascha Manger: Observational Signatures of the Vertical Shear Instability
10:00   Yao Liu: The Ring Structure in the MWC 480 Disk Revealed by ALMA
10:15   Miriam Keppler: ALMA observations of PDS 70
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15 Session 'Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres' (chair: Ludmila Carone)
11.15   Lucia Klarmann: The inner regions of protoplanetary disks
11:30   Shoji Mori: Inefficient Heating by Wind-driven Accretion in Protoplanetary Disks
11:45   Patrick Barth: Coupled Atmosphere-Interior Model for Rocky Exoplanets
12:00   Néstor Espinoza: Looking for clear and cloudy skies in transiting extrasolar worlds
12:15 Lunch break
13:45 - 14:45 Job Application in Academia
Short overview talk by Henrik Beuther on how to write a proper job application followed by open time to ask staff members Henrik Beuther, Hubert Klahr and postdoc Jonathan Henshaw about their experience.
14:45 - 15:00   Thomas Henning: Adjourn
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee
~15:30 departure
~17:30 Arrival in Heidelberg