International planetary meetings calendar
List compiled in the weekly Planetary Exploration Newsletter (PEN)
http://planetarynews.org/meetings.htmlAdditionnal meetings
In order to best inform the Europlanet community, in addition to the comprehensive list compiled in the PEN, we provide below an additional list of meetings that we are aware of, but which are not listed in PEN.
When a meeting mentionned in the additional list will get included in the PEN list, we shall remove it from the list.
Do not hesitate to bring to our attention meetings that we are not aware of in order to keep the list as complete and informative as possible.
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Additionnal list of meetings
- April 25-30, 2010: ESF-FWF Conference in partnership with LFUI, Universitätszentrum Obergurgl (Ötz Valley, near Innsbruck), Austria
Putting our Solar System in context: origin, dynamical and physical evolution of multiple planet systems
The present-day catalogue of extrasolar planets includes a panoply of astoundingly diverse systems containing more than one planetary companion. The observational data on multiple systems (orbital architectures, mass distributions, stellar host properties) have important implications for the proposed models of formation and early evolution of planetary systems, provide important clues on the relative role of several proposed mechanisms of dynamical interactions between forming planets, gaseous/planetesimals disks, and distant companion stars, and allow to measure the likelihood of formation and survival of terrestrial planets in the Habitable Zone of the parent star. Multiple-planet systems are thus clearly excellent laboratories to search for fossil evidence of formation and dynamical evolution mechanisms. However, given the present theoretical limitations to elucidate in an unified manner the complex processes of planet formation and evolution, some of the key questions on the physical architecture of planetary systems still await a definitive answer. To this end, help from future data, obtained with a variety of techniques, over a wide range of wavelengths, both from the ground and in space, will prove invaluable.
This conference will aim at reaching two overarching goals. First, it will strive to create a global picture of the origin, dynamical and physical evolution of multiple-planet systems, as well as of extrasolar planets orbiting stars in multiple stellar systems, by comparing the latest observational findings with new theoretical developments in the field. This could help in the design of incipient ESA and NASA exoplanet research programs and could also help guide future ground-based and space-borne observing campaigns. Second, and perhaps more important, would be the further integration of Solar-system science into the astronomy of exoplanets. To date, exoplanet research has been driven by astronomers, while planetary scientists have by and large focused almost exclusively on our Solar System. However, the expertise in planetary science is vast, and merging such knowledge with the new discoveries outside the Solar System would greatly enrich both.
Closing date for applications: 31 January 2010.
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More information here
ESF Contact: Ms. Alessandra Piccolotto Email
Conference Officer
Phone +32 (0)2 533 2023
Fax +32 (0)2 538 8486
- September 15-17, 2010: 7th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions (PREVII)
Graz, Austria
Registration and Abstract submission for PREVII will be open in February 2010.
More information here
- September 19-25, 2010: European Planetary Science Congress, EPSC#5
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy
