Program & Proceedings
Day 1 (Aug. 27):
10:00 Opening Remarks
Session-I: COMICS and future MIR instruments
10:05 Project "COMICS" Kataza (ISAS)
10:20 COMICS: observations and results Fujiyoshi (Subaru)
10:45 Panel Discussion:Lesson learned from COMICS
11:15 Latest status of TAO/MIMIZUKU Kamizuka (IoA/UT)
11:45 MICHI - A Future Instrument for the next Decade(s) of Thermal IR Astronomy Packham (UTSA)
Session-II: Planets and Exoplanets
13:30 Current and Future Mid-Infrared Observations of Planetary Atmospheres Orton (JPL/NASA)
14:00 The past, today, and the future of the ground-based mid-IR spectroscopy of comets Ootsubo (ISAS)
14:30 Search for Water on Asteroids with TAO/MIMIZUKU Usui (Kobe U.)
15:00 Thermal IR Photometry of Small Bodies in the Solar System Sekiguchi (Hokkaido Univ of Education)
15:20 (Break)
15:40 MIR Observations of Water and Organic Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks Nomura (NAOJ)
16:00 Debris disks and Zodiacal light - Synergy with SPICA Ishihara (ISAS)
16:30 Time Variation of Silicate Compositions in Low-Mass Protoplanetary Disks Takami (ASIAA)
17:00 Infra-red observations for exoplanets of particular interest from theoretical points of view Ikoma (DoE/UT)
17:30 Expected mid-infrared science for exoplanets Narita (ABC)
18:30 WS dinner @ Cosmos Lodge, NAOJ
Day 2 (Aug. 28):
Session-III Stars and ISM
9:30 Formation of deeply embedded proto-clusters in molecular clouds;
the importance of the spatially resolved observations Ohnishi (Osaka Prefecture Univ)
10:00 Mid-IR Imaging Survey for High-Mass Protostars Hsieh/Takami (ASIAA)
10:30 NIR-MIR-Radio Spectroscopic Study of Astrochemistry at Low Metallicity Shimonishi (Tohoku Univ)
11:00 New cosmochemistry from mid-infrared astronomy Tachibana (UTOPS/UT)
11:30 Probing the formation and destruction processes of dust with large MIR telescopes Nozawa (NAOJ)
12:00 Investigation of Interstellar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon molecules
as carriers for mid-infrared emission bands: combined approach Buragohain (DoA/UT)
14:00 An American Perspective on Ground, Airborne, and Space-based Mid-IR Astronomy Lau (ISAS)
14:30 Understanding the properties of dust and organics formed in novae Sakon (DoA/UT)
Session-IV: AGN
15:00 High resolution MIR study on AGN Izumi (NAOJ)
16:00 Discussion: What's the key of future MIR observations?