Cosmic Dust: origin, applications & implications

Scientific Programme

What is dust?

1. Observational constraints on dust properties
2. Laboratory studies of cosmic dust
3. Molecules and dust

The creation and evolution of dust

1. Dust production by massive stars and supernovae
2. Dust production in lower-mass stars
3. Non-stellar dust production and the dust cycle in the ISM

Dust as a tool

1. Dust in the early universe
2. Dust as a probe in galaxies
3. Dust in AGN
4. Dust as a tracer in the Milky Way and local galaxies

Dust in planet-forming disks

1. Grain growth and planet formation and debris disks
2. Dust in the Solar System