Florida Star and Planet Formation Days


These one day workshops bring together the Florida star formation community. Meetings are held every few months and alternate between the University of Florida (UF) in Gainesville and the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, with occasional meetings at ERAU in Daytona.

UF Star Formation Research Group
UF Exoplanet Observational Group
UF Exoplanet Theory Group
UCF Star and Planet Formation Research Group



Friday 30th Jan 2009 --- Gainesville --- Bryant 217


UF-UCF Star & Planet Formation Day, Fri, Jan 30th 2009 at UF

10:00-10:05 Welcome (Eric Ford, Jonathan Tan)

10:05-10:35 Sarah Dodson-Robinson (JPL/U Texas): Detecting the CO Ice Line with ALMA

10:35-10:50 Peter Barnes (UF): Extreme Star Formation - Global Collapse of a Possible Massive Protostellar Cluster

10:50-11:00 --Break--

11:00-11:20 Kaitlin Krater (U Toronto): Formation of Distant Giant Planets Around A Stars

11:20-11:50 Ruth Murray-Clay (CfA): Atmospheric Escape from Highly Irradiated Planets

11:50-12:00 --Break--

12:00-12:30 Journal Club (Bryant room 3): Scott Fleming (UF): "Not Just Astro Bycatch: Detached Eclipsing Binaries and the Mass:Radius Relationship" (Mercedes Lopez-Morales, 2007, ApJ, 660, 732)

12:30- 1:50 --Lunch Break--

2:00- 2:30 Andrew Youdin (CITA): The Clumping of Solids in Turbulent Protoplanetary Disks

2:30- 3:00 Joe Harrington (UCF): Photometry and Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres

3:00- 3:10 --Break--

3:10- 3:25 Althea Moorhead (UF): Type II Migration of Planets on Eccentric Orbits

3:25- 3:40 Dimitri Veras (UF): Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Exoplanets Beyond 100 AU

3:40- 4:00 Scott Fleming (UF): MARVELS Target Selection & Spectroscopic Pre-Selection Opportunities

4:00- 4:10 --Break--

4:10- 4:40 Ruth Murray-Clay (CfA): Using Kuiper Belt Resonances to Probe Planetesimals

4:40- 5:00 Naibi Marinas (UF): NIR spectroscopic survey of NGC2264

5:00- 5:10 Michele Montgomery (UCF): Future Meetings




Friday 24th October 2008 --- Daytona --- ERAU

10am Welcome, Bob Fleck (ERAU), Eduardo Martin (UCF)

10.05am Eduardo Martin (UCF/IAC) - A Study of Low-Mass Protostar Prompted by a UCF-UF formation day

10.35am Mike Butler (UF) - Mid-IR Extinction Mapping of Infrared Dark Clouds

11.00am Jian Ge (UF) - MARVELS Status and Early Results

11.30am Alan Boss (CIW) - Disk Instability: Theory vs. Observations

12.00pm Lunch

1.30pm Florian Rodler (IAC) - The Search for Starlight Reflected from Hot Jupiters

2.00pm Michele Montgomery (UCF) - Retrograde Precession in Accretion Disks

2.30pm Nadia Gorlova (UF) - Adding Spectroscopic Dimension to the Study of the Young Embedded Clusters: Serpens Cloud

3.00pm Katia Matcheva (UF) - Clouds and Haze Layers on Jupiter and Saturn

4.00pm Alan Boss (CIW) - The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets


Friday 25th April 2008 --- Gainesville --- Bryant 217

10.00am Herve Bouy (IAC) - A detailed study of a disk around a brown dwarf

10.30am John Bally (Colorado) - The Bolocam 1.1 mm Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS): 10^4 cores in 150 Square Degrees

11.00am Todd Bradley (UCF) - An Overview of Bolocam and GBT Observations of Galactic Plane Dense Cores

11.15am Audra Hernandez (UF) - Comparison of 13CO and Extinction Mass Estimators of Infrared Dark Clouds

11.30am Jonathan Tan (UF) - The Dynamical Ejection of the Becklin-Neugebauer Object

11.45am Jason Ybarra (UF) - Evidence of a Precessing Jet Excavating a Protostellar Envelope

12.00pm Lunch

1.40pm Robert Fleck (ERAU) - A magnetic mechanism for halting inward protoplanet migration: Necessary conditions and angular momentum transfer timescales

1.55pm Suvarath Mahadevan (UF) - Update from UF Planet Search Group

2.15pm Alaina Shelden (UCF) - Improved Instrumentation for EXPERT

2.30pm Rohit Deshpande (UCF) - A search for planets around late-M dwarfs

2.45pm Ramarao Tata (UCF) - Polarization in L dwarfs

3.00pm Nicolas Lodieu (IAC) - UKIDSS discoveries of very low-mass objects in the Upper Sco OB association

3.30pm Coffee break

4.00pm Colloquium - John Bally (Colorado) - Star and Planet Formation in Nearby Regions

5.00pm Reception -> Dinner


Friday 1st February 2008 --- Orlando ---

Meeting schedule


Tuesday 23rd October 2007 --- Gainesville --- Bryant 217

11.00am Jonathan Tan (UF) - Star Cluster Formation

11.30am Audra Hernandez (UF) - Infrared Dark Clouds

12.00pm Paola Caselli (Leeds) - Deuterium Fractionation and the Early Stages of Star Formation

12.30pm Lunch

2.00pm Marcos Huerta (UF) - A New Effective Temperature Scale for T Tauri Stars

2.15pm Ramarao Tata (UCF) - Search for VLM stars and BDs in Upper Sco OB association and in NGC6823 open cluster

2.30pm Rohit Deshpande (UCF) - The Keck/NIRSPEC Search for Giant Exoplanets Around Late M Dwarfs

2.45pm Nadia Gorlova (UF) - NIR Spectroscopy of YSOs in the Serpens Dark Cloud

3.00pm Michele Montgomery (UCF) - How Accretion Disks Can Tilt

3.30pm Coffee break

4.00pm (Colloquium FLG 285) Paola Caselli (Leeds) - Astrochemistry and Star Formation: A Fertile Link

5.00pm General Discussion -> Dinner