Schedule
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17:30 - 20:30
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Welcome reception - Gentle Ben's |
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Monday, November 10, 2025
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09:00 - 09:10
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Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT |
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09:10 - 10:10
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SESSION 1: ISM dust in the Milky Way / Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Frédéric GALLIANO |
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09:10 - 09:40 |
› Multi-wavelength dust extinction in the Milky Way and Local Group - Marjorie Decleir, ESA/STScI |
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09:40 - 10:10 |
› 3D Extinction Maps - Gregory Green, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
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10:10 - 10:30
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Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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11:00 - 12:30
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SESSION 1: ISM dust in the Milky Way / Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Frédéric GALLIANO |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
› Dust Emission - Els Peeters, Western University in Ontario |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
› Overview of dust depletion measurements in the Local Group - Julia Roman-Duval, Space Telescope Science Institute |
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12:00 - 12:15 |
› On the carbonaceous nature of the enigmatic carriers of diffuse interstellar bands - Chuanyu Wei, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
› Correlations between Extinction Features across Wavelength Scales: Realizing DIBs as Chemical Tracers - Andrew Saydjari, Princeton University |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 16:00
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SESSION 1: ISM dust in the Milky Way / Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Marjorie DECLEIR |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
› Polarization Extinction / Emission - B.-G. Andersson, McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
› Tracing silicates from interstellar dust to planetary materials - Tushar Suhasaria, Max Planck Institute für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
› Carbonaceous Dust in the Laboratory - Cornelia Jäger, Laboratory Astrophysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, and Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
› The Interstellar Dust Experiment (IDEX) onboard NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission - Mihaly Horanyi, LASP and Department of Physics, University of Colorado (CU), Boulder |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
› A JWST View of the Dynamic ISM with Thermal Dust Echoes of Cas A - Jacob Jencson, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center |
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16:00 - 16:20
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Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters |
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16:20 - 17:30
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Event |
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09:00 - 09:10
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Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT |
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09:10 - 10:10
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SESSION 2: Circumstellar dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Annalisa DE CIA |
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09:10 - 09:40 |
› Dust Production in Supernovae: Outstanding Questions and Recent Insights from JWST - Tea Temim, Princeton University |
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09:40 - 10:10 |
› Dust from evolved stars - Greg Sloan, Space Telescope Science Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [NC, USA] |
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10:10 - 10:30
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Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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11:00 - 12:30
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SESSION 2: Circumstellar dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Annalisa DE CIA |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
› Protoplanetary Dust: from Grain to Planet - Til Birnstiel, LMU |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
› Dust Storms and Condensate Clouds in Extrasolar Atmospheres - Daniel Apai, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona |
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12:00 - 12:15 |
› Spectroscopic observation of WR140 dust shells by JWST/MIRI LRS - Riko Senoo, Institute of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
› New experiments on the growth of dust aggregates in young protoplanetary disks - Jürgen Blum, TU Braunschweig |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 16:00
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SESSION 2: Circumstellar dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Kate SU |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
› Unveiling Dust in Planet-Forming Disks: A Multiwavelength Observational and Modeling Perspective - Ryo Tazaki, University of Tokyo |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
› Presolar Cosmic Dust in the Laboratory - Larry Nittler, Arizona State University |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
› How laboratory ice experiments enable observational analysis of star and planet formation - Melissa McClure, Leiden Observatory [Leiden] |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
› Searching for sources of carbonaceous dust grains with JWST spectroscopy - Sam Rose, California Institute of Technology |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
› Strange Dust Properties and Super-Extended Dust Shells: Stacking Evolved Stars with Planck & IRAS - Christopher Clark, STScI / ESA |
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16:00 - 16:20
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Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters |
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16:20 - 17:30
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Breakout discussions (Grand ballroom) - Organizers: Marjorie DECLEIR, Brandon HENSLEY, Annalisa DE CIA |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A1: Dust formation processes - Mikako Matsuura, Cardiff University |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A2: Interpreting PAH emission - Elizabeth Tarantino, STScI, Baltimore |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A3: What's in a name? Nomenclature of dust species / molecules - Meriem El Yajouri, STScI, Baltimore |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A4: The UV bump - Irene Shivaei, CAB, Madrid |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A5: Combining results from laboratory, theory and observations - Thomas Henning, MPIA, Heidelberg |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A6: Priorities for incorporating dust in simulations - Maarten Baes, Ghent University |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A7: Evolution of dust properties in different environments and physical conditions - Andrew Saydjari, Princeton University |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
› Discussion A8: Dust and galaxy evolution - Chian-Chou Chen, ASIAA |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Session A discussion reporting (Grand ballroom) |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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11:00 - 12:00
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Breakout discussions (Grand ballroom) - Organizers: Marjorie DECLEIR, Brandon HENSLEY, Annalisa DE CIA |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B10: Dust destruction - Arianna Long, University of Washington |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B11: Supernova dust properties - Jacob Jencson, IPAC |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B12: Dust and PAHs in AGN environments - Thomas Lai, IPAC |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B13: Dust grain modeling - Frédéric Galliano, UMR Astrophysique, Instrumentation-Modelisation, à Paris-Saclay |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B9: Connecting Solar System observations to ISM dust - Aki Takigawa, University of Tokyo |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B14: Dust extinction/attenuation curves in galaxies - Samir Salim, Indiana University |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B15: High redshift dust - Jed McKinney, The University of Texas at Austin |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
› Discussion B16: The future of studying dust - J.D. Smith, University of Toledo |
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12:00 - 12:30
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Session B discussion reporting (Grand ballroom) |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 16:30
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Free / Tours - Nearby astronomical facilities including the UA Mirror Lab and Kitt Peak National Observatory. |
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17:00 - 21:00
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Conference dinner - Prima Air & Space Museum |
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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Event |
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09:00 - 09:10
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Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT |
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09:10 - 10:10
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SESSION 3: Dust in galaxies beyond the Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Brandon HENSLEY |
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09:10 - 09:40 |
› Dust Attenuation in Galaxies - Samir Salim, Indiana University |
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09:40 - 10:10 |
› Dust Emission in Galaxies - Karin Sandstrom, University of California [San Diego] |
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10:10 - 10:30
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Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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11:00 - 12:30
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SESSION 3: Dust in galaxies beyond the Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Brandon HENSLEY |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
› Extragalactic ISM Metal and Dust Elemental Abundances - Annalisa De Cia, European Southern Observatory |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
› Dust grains in attenuation and emission from cosmic noon to the early Universe - Irene Shivaei, CAB, Madrid |
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12:00 - 12:15 |
› Unveiling the correlation between the UV 2175 Å bump, PAH emission, and gas-phase metallicity at cosmic noon: a multi-wavelength study with JWST, VLT, and Keck - Leonor Arriscado, Centro de Astrobiologia |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
› Attenuation Curve of Galaxies at 2 < z < 7: perspectives for PRIMA - Giulia Rodighiero, University of Padova |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 16:00
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SESSION 3: Dust in galaxies beyond the Local Group (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Karl MISSELT |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
› The zoo of dust grain models - Ilse De Looze, Department of physics and astronomy, Ghent University |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
› Dust radiative transfer in galaxies - Maarten Baes, Universiteit Gent |
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15:00 - 15:15 |
› An Investigation of the Variations of Silicate Dust Grain and Ice Properties Between the Dense and Diffuse Interstellar Medium at z~1 - Monique Aller, Georgia Southern University |
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15:15 - 15:30 |
› Dust Survival in the M82 Wind with JWST NIRCam and MIRI - Serena Cronin, University of Maryland [College Park] |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
› Dust removal timescale in galaxies across cosmic time - Aleksandra Leśniewska, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen], Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu = Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
› Fantastic Grains and Where to Find Them: How unusual dust shapes galaxy evolution - Jed McKinney, The University of Texas at Austin |
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16:00 - 16:30
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SESSION 4: Lifecycle of dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Karl MISSELT |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
› Modeling Dust in Galaxy Simulations - Desika Narayanan, University of Florida [Gainesville] |
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16:30 - 17:30
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Event |
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09:00 - 09:10
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Welcome & Logistics - Karl GORDON & Karl MISSELT |
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09:10 - 10:10
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SESSION 4: Lifecycle of dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Thomas HENNING |
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09:10 - 09:40 |
› The Role of AGB Stars in the Lifecycle of Dust - Martha Boyer, Space Telescope Science Institute |
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09:40 - 10:10 |
› Lifecycle of dust: Supernova dust formation and destruction - Mikako Matsuura, Cardiff University |
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10:10 - 10:30
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Poster flash (Grand ballroom) - Poster presenters |
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10:30 - 11:15
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Coffee break & posters (Poster room) |
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11:15 - 12:30
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SESSION 4: Lifecycle of dust (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Thomas HENNING |
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11:15 - 11:45 |
› The Life Cycle of Interstellar Dust - Bruce Draine, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1001, USA |
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11:45 - 12:00 |
› Modeling Cosmic Dust Evolution Atom-by-Atom in a Multiphase ISM - Clarke Esmerian, Chalmers University of Technology [Gothenburg, Sweden] |
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12:00 - 12:15 |
› When two worlds collide: what happens when silicate and carbonaceous dust grains meet? - Alexandros Kyriazis, Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
› Simulating the Dusty Universe: Frontiers in Our Understanding of the Source and Nature of Extragalactic Dust - Helena Richie, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:00
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SESSION 5: Needs for the future (Grand ballroom) - Chair: Karl GORDON |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
› Exploring our Icy, Dusty Galaxy with SPHEREx - Roberta Paladini, Caltech / IPAC |
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14:30 - 15:00 |
› Following the Rise of Dust and Metals with PRIMA - John-David Smith, University of Toledo |
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15:00 - 15:45
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Interactive summary session (Grand ballroom) - Brandon Hensley |
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15:45 - 16:00
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Closing remarks (Grand ballroom) - Karl Gordon |
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16:30 - 18:00
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Free / Tours - Mirror lab tour |
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