Niels Bohr Gold Medal Symposium in Astrochemistry

10 Oct 2022, 00:01 → 12 Oct 2022, 23:59 Europe/Copenhagen

Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters)

Monday 10 October

09:00 → 10:00 Registration

10:00 → 12:00 How is the heritage from Niels Bohr reflected in modern day Astrochemistry?

10:00 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Jes Kristian Jørgensen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen), Liv Hornekær (University of Aarhus)

10:30 The legacy of Niels Bohr in astrochemistry: how the correspondence principle leads from the largest atoms to the smallest molecules in space

Speaker: John Black (Chalmers University of Technology)

11:00 Radiative transfer challenges and molecular data needs for studies of star and planet formation

Speaker: Floris van der Tak (SRON / U Groningen)

11:30 The ExoMol project: molecular line lists for exoplanets and other hot atmospheres

Speaker: Jonathan Tennyson (University College London)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:40 How is the heritage from Niels Bohr reflected in modern day Astrochemistry?

13:00 Energy Dissipation in Interstellar ices

Speaker: Herma Cuppen (Radboud University)

13:30 Molecular excitation in star forming regions

Speaker: Agata Karska (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy / Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun)

13:50 Photoionization and photodissociation in space: from the ISM to exoplanetaty atmospheres

Speaker: Helgi Hrodmarsson (Laboratory for Astrophysics, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)

14:10 AGB outflows as testbeds for dust-gas chemistry

Speaker: Marie van de Sande (University of Leeds)

14:40 → 15:10 Coffee

15:10 → 17:40 What is the origin of chemical complexity in star- and planet-forming regions?

15:10 Is our solar system chemically unique?

Speaker: Ilse Cleeves (University of Virginia)

15:40 Synthesis of COMs in Star-forming Regions

Speaker: Eric Herbst (University of Virginia)

16:10 Cooking with the stars: Making a hot corino molecular soup

Speaker: Niels Ligterink (Space Research & Planetary Sciences department, University of Bern)

16:40 The role of dust for chemical complexity

Speaker: Cornelia Jäger (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

17:10 Laboratory Ice Astrochemistry at Large Scale Facilities

Speaker: Sergio Ioppolo (Aarhus University)

17:40 → 19:30 Poster session and reception with tapas

Tuesday 11 October

09:00 → 10:10 What is the origin of chemical complexity in star- and planet-forming regions?

09:00 Atomistic insight into molecular complexity in interstellar ices

Speaker: Thanja Lamberts (Leiden Institute of Chemistry & Leiden Observatory)

09:30 Linking molecular complexity in ice and gas

Speaker: Giulia Perotti (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

09:50 Complex organic molecules toward low- and high-mass protostars

Speaker: Pooneh Nazari (Leiden Observatory)

10:10 → 10:40 Coffee

10:40 → 12:00 What is the origin of chemical complexity in star- and planet-forming regions?

10:40 Formation and inheritance of icy organics

Speaker: Jenny Bergner (University of Chicago)

11:10 Chemical evolution during the formation of a protoplanetary disk

Speaker: Audrey Coutens (IRAP)

11:30 Laboratory Ice Research in the Era of the James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker: Harold Linnartz (Leiden Observatory)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Is chemistry inherited from clouds to disks to planets?

13:00 Early results from JWST observations of star- and planet formation

Speaker: Klaus Pontoppidan (Space Telescope Science Institute)

13:30 Are Hazes Common in Exoplanets Formed Inside the Water Ice Line?

Speaker: Geoffrey Blake (California Institute of Technology)

14:00 Before planets: the ice/dust journey through pre-stellar cores and snow lines

Speaker: Helen Fraser (The Open University)

14:30 JWST's view on ices: IceAge ERS first results

Speaker: Melissa McClure (Leiden University)

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee

15:20 → 17:00 Is chemistry inherited from clouds to disks to planets?

15:20 First JWST-MRS results on gas phase lines in disks from the MINDS GTO team

Speaker: Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University)

15:40 Interstellar Genesis of Cometary Molecules

Speaker: Maria Drozdovskaya (Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), Universität Bern)

16:00 Water from star-forming regions to planets and moons

Speaker: Eva Wirström (Chalmers)

16:30 Correlating the prebiotic inventory of meteorites to astrochemical observations

Speaker: Elishevah van Kooten (StarPlan, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen)

19:30 → 21:00 Public talk: Ewine van Dishoeck

Wednesday 12 October

09:00 → 10:20 How are the properties of exoplanet systems shaped within protoplanetary discs?

09:00 The impact of icy dust transport on disk chemistry and exoplanet atmospheres

Speaker: Nienke van der Marel (Leiden Observatory)

09:30 Extremely flat protoplanetary disks: a favorable environment for planetary growth

Speaker: Marion Villenave (NASA/JPL)

09:50 Observing the origins of planetary systems: insights and questions

Speaker: Michiel Hogerheijde (Leiden University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee

10:50 → 12:40 How are the properties of exoplanet systems shaped within protoplanetary discs?

10:50 Planetary systems shaped by pebble accretion in planet-forming discs

Speaker: Michiel Lambrechts (University of Copenhagen)

11:20 Characterizing the Environments of Terrestrial Exoplanets

Speaker: Lars Buchhave (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark)

11:50 Connecting protoplanetary disk and planetary atmosphere chemistries

Speaker: Alex Cridland (L'Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)

12:10 The Distributions of Molecules in Planet-Forming Disks

Speaker: Karin Öberg (Harvard University)

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch