Programme

RATIONALE

The meeting will consist of invited reviews, and contributed talks, and posters aims to review:

• The new results from the powerful observing facilities, such as the IRAM-NOEMA, ALMA and VLA interferometers, and the chemical composition during the youngest phases of Solar-like planetary systems, from prestellar cores to protoplanetary disks, with particular emphasis on the interstellar complex organic molecules;

• The recent progresses due to the enhancement of high-performance computing facilities combined with efficient quantum chemistry algorithms, which allow for the in-silico simulation of many chemical processes occurring both in gas-phase and at grain surfaces;

• The latest laboratory experiments which have provided new insights on the possible processes occurring in the interstellar conditions;

• The new generation astrochemical models as well as the innovative tools to interpret the astronomical observations that have seen the light in the last few years;

• The most recent results on the chemical composition of the small bodies of the Solar System.

This will naturally pave the way for discussing the future developments in front of us.

Four sessions have been planned. Each session includes two invited speakers either from Laboratory and Theoretical Computations or Astronomical observations and Modeling

SESSIONS

1. INTERSTELLAR ICES

2. MOLECULAR COMPLEXITY

3. MOLECULAR FRACTIONATION

4. COMETARY ICES

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

A. BOOGERT (University of Hawaii, USA)

M. McCOUSTRA (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)

J. CERNICHARO (Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

R. MARTÍN-DOMENECH (CfA, Cambridge, USA)

P. CASELLI (MPE, Garching, Germany)

N. BALUCANI (University of Perugia, Italy)

D. BOCKELÉE-MORVAN (Observatoire de Paris, France)

S. Tachibana (University of Tokyo, Japan)