Scientific Program

Monday Morning
Bus leaves Munich airport at 10:30am, with a stop at Ismaning, arrives for lunch at Ringberg at 12:30.

Monday Afternoon: Introduction+magnetospheric accretion (chair: Tim Harries)
1:50-3:00: Antonella Natta (invited) Introduction+discussion
3:00-3:30: Jerome Bouvier: Magnetospheric accretion in classical T Tauri stars
3:30-4:00: Coffee:
4:00-4:30: Chris Johns-Krull (invited):
4:30-5:00: Scott Gregory: The star-disk interaction as a function of spectral type
5:00-5:20: 1-minute poster round, part I
5:10-6:00: Buffer/Discussion
6:30: Dinner

Tuesday Morning: Funnel flows and inner disks (chair: Chris Johns-Krull)
9:00-9:20 Ryuichi Kurosawa: Line Profile Models of H and He from Inner Wind and Accretion Funnels of CTTSs
9:20-10:40 Silvia Alencar: The inner disk structure of young stellar systems in NGC 2264
9:40-10:10 Stefan Kraus: Resolving the gas distribution/kinematics in the accretion & outflow-launching region of YSOs
10:10-10:30 John Monnier: Imaging the star-disk connection with long-baseline interferometry
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:20 Myriam Benisty: The 2008 outburst in the young stellar system Z CMa
11:20-12:30 Buffer discussion
12:30-1:50 Lunch

Tuesday Afternoon: Disks (chair: Mario van den Ancker)
1:50-2:30 Kees Dullemond, Invited
2:30-2:50 Catherine Espaillat: Exploring the Dust-Gas Connection in Transitional Disks
2:50-3:10 Barbara Ercolano: Protoplanetary disc evolution/dispersal: Models versus observations
3:10-3:30 1-minute poster round, part II
3:30-4:30 Coffee+Posters
4:30-6:00 Panel Discussion: inner disk/funnel flows

Wednesday Morning: MRI in Disks (chair: Sebastien Fromang)
9:00-9:40 Geoffroy Lesur: Invited
9:40-9:55 Eugene Chiang: Surface Layer Accretion by the MRI: The Threat of Ambipolar Diffusion
9:55-10:10 Xuening Bai: Non-ideal MHD Effects in Protoplanetary Disks
10:10-10:25 Neal Turner: Heating and Cooling Protostellar Disks
10:25-10:55 Coffee
10:55-11:10 Hubert Klahr: Patchwork turbulence in disks: interplay of magnetic, baroclinic and self gravitional instabilities
11:10-11:25 Meredith Hughes: Observational Constraints on Accretion Processes from mm Interferometry
11:25-12:45 Buffer/discussion
12:45 LUNCH

Wednesday Afternoon: FREE

Thursday Morning: Accretion-Outflow Connection (chair: Catherine Dougados)
9:00-9:20 Claudio Zanni: MHD models of accretion/ejection phenomena in Young Stellar Objects
9:20-9:40 Raquel Salmeron: Magnetocentrifugal jets and accretion in weakly-ionized protostellar disks
9:40-10:00 Marina Romanova: Global Simulations of Accretion and Outflows in Young Stars
10:00-10:40 Sylvie Cabrit, Invited
10:40-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Panel Discussion: outflows

Thursday Afternoon: Measuring Accretion (chair: Jerome Bouvier)
2:00-2:40 Nuria Calvet, Invited
2:40-3:00 Leonardo Testi: Photometric and spectroscopic surveys of accretion in VLMS and BDs in nearby SF regions.
3:00-3:15 Elisabetta Rigliaco: Comparison between different mass accretion rate diagnostics in the sigma Orionis region
3:15-3:30 Sean Brittain: Measuring the Accretion rate of Herbig Ae/Be stars
3:30-4:00 Coffee
4:00-4:15 Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar: Accretion in evolved and transitional disks
4:15-4:30 Richard Alexander: The accretion histories of T Tauri stars
4:30-6:00 Buffer/Discussion

Friday Morning: Outbursts and Accretion (chair: Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar)
9:00-9:35 Peter Abraham, Invited
9:35-9:50 Agnes Kospal, Accretion-related variability in the inner disks of highly accreting young stellar objects
9:50-10:05 Harold Yorke: The Evolution of Intermittently Accreting (Proto-)Stars
10:05-10:20 Eduard Vorobyov: The burst mode of accretion and its impact on the early evolution of (sub-)solar-mass stars
10:20-10:35 Mike Dunham: Mass Accretion in the Embedded Phase of Low-Mass Star Formation
10:35-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:30 Buffer/Discussion
11:45-12:30 END OF WORKSHOP DISCUSSION: led by Thomas Henning
12:30-1:45 Lunch
Bus will leave Ringberg around 1:30 and arrive back in Munich around 4:00 on Friday afternoon. Please keep in mind that poor weather may delay the arrival.