Invited Talks and Outline of Agenda


Monday: Census of Young Disks in the Galaxy

Neal Evans - "Initial Conditions - Transition from Cores to Disks"
Thomas Henning - "Role of Disks in Massive Star Formation"
Tom Megeath - "Disk Frequency and Distribution in OB Associations"
Lori Allen - "Disks in Nearby Low Mass Star-forming Regions"

Tuesday: Characterization of Young Stellar Disks

Nuria Calvet - "Issues in Disk SED modeling"
Bruno Merin - "The Observed Diversity of YSO Disk Properties"
Panel Discussion: Nomenclature for young disks
Moderator: Neal Evans
Jeroen Bouwman - "Disk Composition from Spectra"
David Wilner - "Spatially Resolved YSO Disk Studies - Present and Future"

Wednesday: Transition Disks and Disk Evolution

Eugene Chiang - "Solid Particle Processing in Disk Evolution"
Richard Alexander - "Gas Phase Processes in Disk Evolution"
James Muzerolle - "Spitzer Census of Transition Disks"
Joan Najita - "Gas in YSO and Transition Disks"

Thursday: Debris Disks

John Carpenter - "Debris disk census from 5 Myrs to 5 Gyrs"
Mark Wyatt - "Debris Disk Dynamical Theory"
Karl Stapelfeldt - "Spatially Resolved Debris Disk Studies - Present and Future"
Steve Strom - "Studies of Star Formation and Circumstellar Disks with the Spitzer Warm Mission"
Ewine van Dishoeck - "Future prospects: Future Science Directions in the Study of Circumstellar Disks"