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Day 1
1 September 2026
1 September 2026
Bus from Peterskirche - 8:15
Registration and Welcome
8:30 - 9:00
Session: Invited Talks
Chair: Catherine Walsh
9:00 - 10:30
9:00 - 9:30
Christian Ginski - The high-resolution revolution - (slightly more than) a decade of protoplanetary disk observations (online)
Christian Ginski - The high-resolution revolution - (slightly more than) a decade of protoplanetary disk observations (online)
9:30 - 10:00
Valentin Christiaens - Finding it: direct and indirect signatures of protoplanets
Valentin Christiaens - Finding it: direct and indirect signatures of protoplanets
10:00 - 10:30
Claudia Toci - How to (theoretically) go from discs to protoplanets
Claudia Toci - How to (theoretically) go from discs to protoplanets
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Session: Invited Talks
Chair: Catherine Walsh
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 11:30
Linda Podio - The astrochemical tale of planets
Linda Podio - The astrochemical tale of planets
11:30 - 12:00
Domenico Barbato - Finding new worlds
Domenico Barbato - Finding new worlds
12:00 - 12:30
Tim Pearce - Debris discs
Tim Pearce - Debris discs
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Session: Invited Talks
Chair: Eleonora Bianchi
14:00 - 15:30
14:00 - 14:30
Yapeng Zhang - From exoplanet atmosphere observations to planet formation
Yapeng Zhang - From exoplanet atmosphere observations to planet formation
14:30 - 15:00
Lorena Acuna - Exoplanet Interiors: The Missing Link between Atmospheric Modelling and Planet Formation
Lorena Acuna - Exoplanet Interiors: The Missing Link between Atmospheric Modelling and Planet Formation
15:00 - 15:30
Caroline Dorn - Interior-atmosphere coupling shapes observed sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
Caroline Dorn - Interior-atmosphere coupling shapes observed sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Session: Invited Talks
Chair: Dmitry Semenov
16:00 - 16:30
16:00 - 16:30
Bertram Bitsch and Anders Johansen - Growing it: How planets grow in protoplanetary discs
Bertram Bitsch and Anders Johansen - Growing it: How planets grow in protoplanetary discs
Session: Protoplanetary Disc Theory
Chair: Dmitry Semenov
16:30 - 17:30
16:30 - 16:45
Vardan Elbakyan - From Cloud to Disk: Early Dust Growth and Observational Biases in Young Protoplanetary Systems
Vardan Elbakyan - From Cloud to Disk: Early Dust Growth and Observational Biases in Young Protoplanetary Systems
16:45 - 17:00
León-Alexander Hühn - Late Infall onto Protoplanetary Disks: Reshaping our Interpretation of Substructures
León-Alexander Hühn - Late Infall onto Protoplanetary Disks: Reshaping our Interpretation of Substructures
17:00 - 17:15
Jiaqing Bi - Substructures Induced by Dust Drag in Protoplanetary Disks
Jiaqing Bi - Substructures Induced by Dust Drag in Protoplanetary Disks
17:15 - 17:30
Antoine Schneeberger - Stellar Energetic Particles, a significant source of ionization for protoplanetary disks
Antoine Schneeberger - Stellar Energetic Particles, a significant source of ionization for protoplanetary disks
Bus from MPIA - 18:00
Day 2
2 September 2026
2 September 2026
Bus from Peterskirche - 8:30
9:00 - 10:10
Invited talks Q&A
Invited talks Q&A
10:10 - 10:30
ePoster Lightning Talks - Aurora Moore, Andrew Winter, Eduard Vorobyov
ePoster Lightning Talks - Aurora Moore, Andrew Winter, Eduard Vorobyov
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Session: From Protoplanets to Exoplanets: A Detailed View
Chair: Bertram Bitsch
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 11:15
Paolo Simonetti - How much oxygen are we missing? Assessing the impact of vertical mixing and condensation on the O partition in gas giant atmospheres
Paolo Simonetti - How much oxygen are we missing? Assessing the impact of vertical mixing and condensation on the O partition in gas giant atmospheres
11:15 - 11:30
Eugenio Schisano - The OPAL project: Creating synthetic exo-planetary atmospheres for spectral characterisation in the era of JWST and Ariel space missions
Eugenio Schisano - The OPAL project: Creating synthetic exo-planetary atmospheres for spectral characterisation in the era of JWST and Ariel space missions
11:30 - 11:45
Ignacio Mendigutía - Metallicity and Lithium as Tracers of Planet Formation Beyond Solar Mass
Ignacio Mendigutía - Metallicity and Lithium as Tracers of Planet Formation Beyond Solar Mass
11:45 - 12:00
Joe Williams - Planetesimal Formation across the Stellar Mass Spectrum and why M-Dwarf Planets may be Barren
Joe Williams - Planetesimal Formation across the Stellar Mass Spectrum and why M-Dwarf Planets may be Barren
12:00 - 12:15
Gabriel-Dominique Marleau - Accreting exoplanets: high-spectral-resolution observations and theory
Gabriel-Dominique Marleau - Accreting exoplanets: high-spectral-resolution observations and theory
12:15 - 12:30
Luyao Zhang - Hydrodynamical simulations of planet formation within close binary systems: connections to Free Floating Planets
Luyao Zhang - Hydrodynamical simulations of planet formation within close binary systems: connections to Free Floating Planets
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:15
ePoster Lightning Talks - Sohaib Ali, Kaan Kaplan, Gwendolyn Meeus
ePoster Lightning Talks - Sohaib Ali, Kaan Kaplan, Gwendolyn Meeus
14:15 - 15:30
Discussion Session - WG2 + WG3
Discussion Session - WG2 + WG3
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Session: Exoplanet Populations
Chair: Ondřej Chrenko
16:00 - 17:15
16:00 - 16:15
Gregory Houlihan - A new origin of the orbital instabilities of super-Earth systems
Gregory Houlihan - A new origin of the orbital instabilities of super-Earth systems
16:15 - 16:30
Arianna Nigioni - The first population synthesis of planets in binaries (S-type)
Arianna Nigioni - The first population synthesis of planets in binaries (S-type)
16:30 - 16:45
Kai Wu - SCULPT: Star-cluster and planetary-system dynamics as physically motivated prescriptions in planetary systems
Kai Wu - SCULPT: Star-cluster and planetary-system dynamics as physically motivated prescriptions in planetary systems
16:45 - 17:00
Eric Gaidos - Connecting the disks: unifying inner disk structures, evolution and planet formation
Eric Gaidos - Connecting the disks: unifying inner disk structures, evolution and planet formation
17:00 - 17:15
Miguel Vioque - WG7: Towards the first database on planet-forming discs
Miguel Vioque - WG7: Towards the first database on planet-forming discs
Bus from MPIA - 18:00
Day 3
3 September 2026
3 September 2026
Bus from Peterskirche - 8:30
Session: Protoplanetary disk chemistry models
Chair: Jenny Noble
9:00 - 10:30
9:00 - 9:15
Till Kaeufer - JWST/MIRI spectra of protoplanetary disks: Connecting observed trends to evolutionary processes
Till Kaeufer - JWST/MIRI spectra of protoplanetary disks: Connecting observed trends to evolutionary processes
9:15 - 9:30
Zuzanna Jonczyk - Vertical Mixing, MHD Winds and Chemistry: Linking Surface Observables to Midplane Compositions
Zuzanna Jonczyk - Vertical Mixing, MHD Winds and Chemistry: Linking Surface Observables to Midplane Compositions
9:30 - 9:45
Melissa McClure - Forged in fire: Revealing the start of rocky planet formation in embedded protoplanetary disks
Melissa McClure - Forged in fire: Revealing the start of rocky planet formation in embedded protoplanetary disks
09:45 - 10:00
Diego Turrini - Genetic links and compositional connections between stars, their circumstellar disks and their planets
Diego Turrini - Genetic links and compositional connections between stars, their circumstellar disks and their planets
10:00 - 10:15
ePoster Lightning Talks - Miguel Vioque, Sergei Nayakshin, Ondřej Chrenko
ePoster Lightning Talks - Miguel Vioque, Sergei Nayakshin, Ondřej Chrenko
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00
Session: From Protoplanetary Disks to Exoplanet Chemistry
Chair: Ágnes Kóspál
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 11:15
Danai Polychroni - The impact of stellar composition on planet formation by pebble accretion
Danai Polychroni - The impact of stellar composition on planet formation by pebble accretion
11:15 - 11:30
Pratishtha Rawat - Triggered Fragmentation in Self-Gravitating Protoplanetary disks: Cooling, Mass Movement and Instability
Pratishtha Rawat - Triggered Fragmentation in Self-Gravitating Protoplanetary disks: Cooling, Mass Movement and Instability
11:30 - 11:45
Luke Morriss - Dust Trapping and Disc Evolution: How Giant Planet Formation Sculpts Disc Composition and Shapes Subsequent Planet Formation
Luke Morriss - Dust Trapping and Disc Evolution: How Giant Planet Formation Sculpts Disc Composition and Shapes Subsequent Planet Formation
11:45 - 12:00
Giovanni Sabatini - A new proxy to observationally derive the N abundance in protostellar environments
Giovanni Sabatini - A new proxy to observationally derive the N abundance in protostellar environments
12:00 - 12:15
Guoyang Chen - Characterizing the volatiles and solids around protostars with JWST
Guoyang Chen - Characterizing the volatiles and solids around protostars with JWST
12:15 - 12:30
Pablo Rivière Marichalar - Signatures of chemical evolution in protoplanetary disks (online)
Pablo Rivière Marichalar - Signatures of chemical evolution in protoplanetary disks (online)
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Discussion Session - WG2 + WG3
Discussion Session - WG2 + WG3
15:15 - 15:30
ePoster Lightning Talks - Lindita Hamolli, Jip Matthijsse, Riley Thorner
ePoster Lightning Talks - Lindita Hamolli, Jip Matthijsse, Riley Thorner
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Session: Planet Formation Theory
Chair: Anders Johansen
16:00 - 17:30
16:00 - 16:15
Richard Booth - Towards empirically-constrained models of planet formation
Richard Booth - Towards empirically-constrained models of planet formation
16:15 - 16:30
Maya Tatarelli - Dust Dynamics in Disk Dust Traps and Late Planetesimal Formation
Maya Tatarelli - Dust Dynamics in Disk Dust Traps and Late Planetesimal Formation
16:30 - 16:45
Tom Konijn - A multifluid approach to pebble accretion
Tom Konijn - A multifluid approach to pebble accretion
16:45 - 17:00
Maria de Juan Ovelar - Sandwiched Planet Formation in Action: a mulitwavelength diagnostic for two-planet systems in protoplanetary discs
Maria de Juan Ovelar - Sandwiched Planet Formation in Action: a mulitwavelength diagnostic for two-planet systems in protoplanetary discs
17:00 - 17:15
Ewa Szuszkiewicz - On the dust substructures triggered by super-Earths migrating in low-viscosity disks
Ewa Szuszkiewicz - On the dust substructures triggered by super-Earths migrating in low-viscosity disks
17:15 - 17:30
Elena Viscardi - Searching for SI-gnatures of planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks
Elena Viscardi - Searching for SI-gnatures of planetesimal formation in protoplanetary disks
Bus from MPIA - 18:00
Day 4
4 September 2026
4 September 2026
Bus from Peterskirche - 8:30
Session: Protoplanetary disks observations
Chair: Miguel Vioque
9:00 - 10:30
9:00 - 9:15
Ágnes Kóspál - Mid-infrared spectral variability to trace the time-dependent initial conditions of planet formation
Ágnes Kóspál - Mid-infrared spectral variability to trace the time-dependent initial conditions of planet formation
9:15 - 9:30
Hans Lee - Runaway accretion on disc fragmentation planets: accretion feedback and metallicity correlations
Hans Lee - Runaway accretion on disc fragmentation planets: accretion feedback and metallicity correlations
9:30 - 9:45
Sebastiaan Krijt - Cosmic Cascades and Beyond
Sebastiaan Krijt - Cosmic Cascades and Beyond
9:45 - 10:00
Prachi Vaijanath Chavan - Multi-frequency analysis of protoplanetary disks: Constraining dust properties across evolutionary classes
Prachi Vaijanath Chavan - Multi-frequency analysis of protoplanetary disks: Constraining dust properties across evolutionary classes
10:00 - 10:15
Zoe Roumeliotis - When worlds collide: Characterizing post-impact molecular gas in the terrestrial region of HD 172555
Zoe Roumeliotis - When worlds collide: Characterizing post-impact molecular gas in the terrestrial region of HD 172555
10:15 - 10:30
ePoster Lightning Talks - Eleonora Bianchi, Lucy Evans, Jenny Noble
ePoster Lightning Talks - Eleonora Bianchi, Lucy Evans, Jenny Noble
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Discussion and Wrap Up Session - WG2 + WG3 + WG7
Discussion and Wrap Up Session - WG2 + WG3 + WG7
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
Discussion Session - WG2 + WG3
Discussion Session - WG2 + WG3
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