The Lives of Low-Mass Stars and Their Planetary Systems

The Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposium

All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus

General Director: David Gross, University of California at Santa Barbara

Co-directors: 
Lars Bildsten, KITP
Tsvi Piran, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Within the last decade, more than 100 planets have been found around nearby stars, revealing worlds quite different than our own and challenging our notions about planet formation. Simultaneous breakthroughs in our knowledge of distant bodies in our own Solar System, the Kuiper Belt Objects, and detailed studies of the lowest mass stars and brown dwarfs provide probes of the environments conducive to star and planet formation. This diversity arises during the formation of a star and the subsequent accumulation of matter in a proto-planetary disk around it. This school brings together lecturers across the breadth of this scientific endeavour, from the properties of the 'host' stars where planets are formed to the studies of the planets themselves.

 

Speakers:
Lars Bildsten, KITP
Adam Burgasser, MIT
Adam Burrows, University of Arizona
Eugene Chiang, University of California, Berkeley
Ralf Klessen, University of Heidelberg
Tsevi Mazeh, Tel Aviv University
Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University
Re'em Sari, Caltech
Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University