“The Warm Universe: Astrochemistry at Intermediate and
Elevated Temperatures”
Scientific programme
Monday, May 28, 2012
14:00 - 19:00
19:00 – 21:00
Registration of participants
Buffet dinner
Tuesday, May 29 2012
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:30
Registration
Warm Chemistry in Interstellar and Circumstellar Clouds
José Cernicharo, Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain
Session 1: The diffuse interstellar medium (Chair: Wolf Geppert)
09:30 - 10:00
New insights into the chemistry of the diffuse interstellar medium
Maryvonne Gerin, Observatoire de Paris Meudon, France
10:00 - 10:30
Possible detection of non-polar ions in diffuse clouds via magnetic dipole
transitions
John P. Maier, Universität Basel, Switzerland
10:30 - 11:00
Nitrogen hydrides in interstellar gas
Carina Persson, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
Session 2: Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei (Chair: Susanne Höfner)
11:30 - 12:00
A New Chemical Network for Sustained High Temperature Chemistry
Eric Herbst, University of Virginia, USA
12:00 - 12:30
Molecules as tracers of galaxy evolution
Susanne Aalto, Chalmers Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Session 3 : Cosmic ray and photon-dominated regions (Chair: David Williams)
14:00 - 14:30
Chemistry in cosmic ray dominated regions
Estelle Bayet, University of Oxford, UK
14:30 - 15:00
Chemistry induced by supernova enhanced cosmic ray ionisation in
molecular clouds
Cecilia Ceccarelli, Grenoble Observatory, France
15:00 - 15:30
Hot News from Orion
David Field, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
15:30 - 16:15
Coffee break
Session 3 (continued): Cosmic ray and photon-dominated regions
16:15 - 16:45
Impact of PAH evolution on the physics and chemistry of photondominated regions
Christine Joblin, Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
16:45 - 17:15
Molecular Observations in Photon-dominated regions
J. Goicoechea, Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain
17:15 - 19:00
Break
19:00 – 21:30 Dinner with Poster session
Wednesday, May 30 2011
Session 4: Star-forming regions (Chair: Cecilia Ceccarelli)
09:00 - 09:30 Hot Cores – the Chemistry of High-Mass Protostars
Karl Menten, MPI für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
09:30 - 10:00 Complex Molecules towards Low-Mass Protostars
Karin Öberg, University of Virginia, USA
10:00 - 10:30 Molecular diagnostics of shock temperatures
Serena Viti, University College London, UK
10:30 – 11:15 Coffee break
Session 4: (continued)
11:15 - 11:45 Two different sources of water for the early solar nebula
Carmen Tornow, Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtszentrum, Berlin
11:45 - 12:15 Deuterium fractionation and the degree of ionisation in massive clumps
within infrared dark clouds
Oskari Miettinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
12:15 – 12:45 Deuterated water in low-mass protostars
Audrey Coutens, IRAP – Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Modelling deuterium fractionation in cold and warm molecular
environments
Dimitri Semenov, MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
15:00 - 15:30 Observations of water in molecular outflows and shocks with Odin and
Herschel
Per Bjerkeli, Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
15:30 - 16:00 Photodissociation of molecules in astrophysical environments
Ruud Visser, University of Michigan, USA
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
Session 5: Protoplanetary disks (Chair: Karl Menten)
16:30 - 17:00 Chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks
Tom Millar, Queen’s University Belfast
17:00 - 17:30 Planet formation and metallicity
Anders Johansen, Lund Universitet, Sweden
17:30 - 18:00 Gas Emission from Debris Disks
Alexis Brandeker, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden
19:00:00
Dinner
Thursday, May 31, 2011
Session 6: Comets (Chair: Ekkehard Kürth)
09:00 - 09:30
Comets as Carriers of Cosmic Information – An Emerging Taxonomy based
on Composition
Michael Mumma, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, USA
09:30 - 10:00
Chemical and hydrodynamical models of cometary comae
Steven Charnley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, USA
10:00 - 10:30
New Insights from the EPOXI and Stardust-NExT Missions
Karen Meech, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA
10:30 - 11:15
Coffee Break
Session 7: Planetary and exoplanetary atmospheres (Chair: Alexis Brandeker)
11:15 - 11:45
Cosmic Ray Induced Ionization and Earth’s climate
Ilya Usoskin, Oulun Yliopisto, Finland
11:45 - 12:15
Doubly charged ions in solar system atmospheres
Roland Thissen, Université J. B. Fourier, Grenoble, France
12:15 - 12:45
Structural Analysis of Titan's Tholins by Ultra-High Resolution
Mass Spectrometry
Veronique Vuitton, Université J. B. Fourier, Grenoble, France
12:45 - 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 - 14:45
Anions of polyynes: dynamics of fragmentation and stabilization in
planetary atmospheres after metastable electron attachment
Franco Gianturco, Universitá La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
14:45 - 15:15
Modelling of exoplanetary atmospheres
Catherine Walsh, Queen’s University Belfast
15:15 - 15:45
Could Jupiter be a carbon-rich planet?
Olivier Mousis, Observatoire de Besançon, France
15:45 - 16:30
Break
16:30
Departure by bus to Rocca al Mare Open Air Museum
Guided tour, Dinner
Friday, June 1, 2012
Session 8: Impacts (Chair: Wolf Geppert)
09:00 - 09:30 Shock metamorphism and impact ejection of Martian meteorites
Jörg Fritz, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
09:30 - 10:00 Secondary minerals in the nakhlites: result of an impact hydrothermal
event?
Nele Muttik, Tartu Ülikool, Estonia
10:00 - 10:30 Ecological consequences of meteorite impacts
Siim Veski, Tallina Tekhnikaülikool, Estonia
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
Session 9: Circumstellar envelopes (Chair: Tom Millar)
11:15 - 11:45 Molecules in evolved planetary nebulae
Lucy M. Ziurys, University of Arizona, USA
11:45 - 12:15 Modelling of Mass Loss of AGB stars
Susanne Höfner, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 9: (continued)
14:00 - 14:30 Chemical composition of evolved stars
Grazina Tautvaisiene, Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania
14:30 - 15:00 Probing chemistry in AGB stars
Hans Olofsson, Chalmers Tekniska Universitet, Göteborg, Sweden
15:00 - 15:30 Growth of anions in circumstellar envelopes: insights from the laboratory
Ludovic Biennier, Université de Rennes 1, France
15:30 - 16:15 Coffee break
Session 10: Chemistry at intermediate and elevated temperatures (Chair: Eric Herbst)
16:15 - 16:45 Molecular nitrogen formation in the interstellar medium: atom + radical
reactions between 50 and 300K
Astrid Bergeat, Université Bordeaux 1, France
16:45 - 17:15 The reactions of atomic oxygen with unsaturated hydrocarbons the break-up
of carbon atom skeleton
Nadia Balucani, Universitá de Perugia, Italy
18:00
City walk through medieval Tallinn
Dinner at Olde Hansa Restaurant
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Session 10: Chemistry at intermediate and elevated temperatures (continued)
09:00 - 09:30
Collisional excitation of interstellar molecules
Laurent Wiesenfeld, Université J. B Fourier, Grenoble
09:30 - 10:00
Adsorption of organic molecules on the successive layers of interstellar grains
Yves Ellinger, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
10:00 - 10:30
Dust and molecules in Supernovae and their remnants
Arkaprabha Sarangi, Universität Basel, Switzerland
10:30 - 11:15
Coffee Break
Session 12: Molecules and the Origin of Life (Chair: TBD)
11:15 - 11:45
Selective enrichment of chiral molecules on chiral surfaces – a statistical
approach
Françoise Pauzat, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
11:45 - 12:15
Isotopic Resonance Hypothesis of the Origin of Life and its Testing
Roman Zubarev, Karolinska Institut, Stockholm, Sweden
12:15 - 12:45
Origin of cellular life: The earliest genome was of eukaryotic type
Kirsi Lehto, Turun Yliopisto, Finland
12:45:00
Lunch and departure of participants