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

Registration

How is the heritage from Niels Bohr reflected in modern day Astrochemistry?

1 Welcome and Introduction

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

2 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)

3 Radiative transfer challenges and molecular data needs for studies of star and planet formation

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

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

Speaker: Jonathan Tennyson (University College London)

12:00 Lunch

How is the heritage from Niels Bohr reflected in modern day Astrochemistry?

5 Energy Dissipation in Interstellar ices

Speaker: Herma Cuppen (Radboud University)

6 Molecular excitation in star forming regions

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

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

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

8 AGB outflows as testbeds for dust-gas chemistry

Speaker: Marie van de Sande (University of Leeds)

14:40 Coffee

What is the origin of chemical complexity in star- and planet-forming regions?

9 Is our solar system chemically unique?

Speaker: Ilse Cleeves (University of Virginia)

10 Synthesis of COMs in Star-forming Regions

Speaker: Eric Herbst (University of Virginia)

11 Cooking with the stars: Making a hot corino molecular soup

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

12 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)

13 Laboratory Ice Astrochemistry at Large Scale Facilities

Speaker: Sergio Ioppolo (Aarhus University)

Poster session and reception with tapas

Tuesday, 11 October

What is the origin of chemical complexity in star- and planet-forming regions?

14 Atomistic insight into molecular complexity in interstellar ices

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

15 Linking molecular complexity in ice and gas

Speaker: Giulia Perotti (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

16 Complex organic molecules toward low- and high-mass protostars

Speaker: Pooneh Nazari (Leiden Observatory)

10:10 Coffee

What is the origin of chemical complexity in star- and planet-forming regions?

17 Formation and inheritance of icy organics

Speaker: Jenny Bergner (University of Chicago)

18 Chemical evolution during the formation of a protoplanetary disk

Speaker: Audrey Coutens (IRAP)

19 Laboratory Ice Research in the Era of the James Webb Space Telescope

Speaker: Harold Linnartz (Leiden Observatory)

12:00 Lunch

Is chemistry inherited from clouds to disks to planets?

20 Early results from JWST observations of star- and planet formation

Speaker: Klaus Pontoppidan (Space Telescope Science Institute)

21 Are Hazes Common in Exoplanets Formed Inside the Water Ice Line?

Speaker: Geoffrey Blake (California Institute of Technology)

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

Speaker: Helen Fraser (The Open University)

23 JWST's view on ices: IceAge ERS first results

Speaker: Melissa McClure (Leiden University)

15:00 Coffee

Is chemistry inherited from clouds to disks to planets?

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

Speaker: Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden University)

25 Interstellar Genesis of Cometary Molecules

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

26 Water from star-forming regions to planets and moons

Speaker: Eva Wirström (Chalmers)

27 Correlating the prebiotic inventory of meteorites to astrochemical observations

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

Public talk: Ewine van Dishoeck

Wednesday, 12 October

How are the properties of exoplanet systems shaped within protoplanetary discs?

28 The impact of icy dust transport on disk chemistry and exoplanet atmospheres

Speaker: Nienke van der Marel (Leiden Observatory)

29 Extremely flat protoplanetary disks: a favorable environment for planetary growth

Speaker: Marion Villenave (NASA/JPL)

30 Observing the origins of planetary systems: insights and questions

Speaker: Michiel Hogerheijde (Leiden University)

10:20 Coffee

How are the properties of exoplanet systems shaped within protoplanetary discs?

31 Planetary systems shaped by pebble accretion in planet-forming discs

Speaker: Michiel Lambrechts (University of Copenhagen)

32 Characterizing the Environments of Terrestrial Exoplanets

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

33 Connecting protoplanetary disk and planetary atmosphere chemistries

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

34 The Distributions of Molecules in Planet-Forming Disks

Speaker: Karin Öberg (Harvard University)

12:40 Lunch