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Missing Links in Planet Formation: From Embedded Disks to Planets
November 9(Mon)-13(Fri), 2026
ASIAA, Taipei

Program

Monday November 9, 2026
08:40~09:00 Registration and coffee
Chair: Nagayoshi Ohashi
09:00~09:15 Welcome
SOC/LOC
09:15~09:50 Opening Remarks From Embedded Disks to Planets
Jonathan Williams (University of Hawaii)
1. Disk Assembly from Core Collapse to Embedded Disks
09:50~10:20 Invited Disk formation during collapse and beyond
Michael Küffmeier (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
10:20~10:50 Invited Disk Formation and Evolution in the Earliest Stages
Hsi-Wei Yen (ASIAA)
10:50~11:20 Coffee Break
11:20~11:40 Multi-method Protostellar Mass Measurements in eDisk
Yusuke Aso (KASI)
11:40~12:00 Obtaining a Sample of Protostellar Masses via Radiative Transfer Modeling.
Blake Drechsler (University of Virginia)
12:00~13:30 Lunch
Chair: Zhaohuan Zhu
13:30~13:50 From Infall to Keplerian Rotation: The Envelope–Disk Transition Zone (EnDTranZ) in Star and Disk Formation
Indrani Das (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA))
13:50~14:10 Accretion across scales: Streamers, surface-layer transport, and rapid replenishment in young protoplanetary discs
Christian G. Holm (Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen)
14:10~14:30 The messy left-overs of star formation: Morphological, kinematic, and chemical signatures of infall
Josh Calcino (Tsinghua University)
14:30~14:50 Nonthermal Velocity Dispersion in the Outer Disk of HL Tau
Jinshi Sai (Kagoshima University)
14:50~15:10 Planet Formation in Warped Discs: Gravitational Instability and Misaligned Infall
Sahl Rowther (University of Warwick)
15:10~15:40 Coffee Break
2. Dust Growth from Clouds to Disks
15:40~16:10 Invited Dust Rings as Probes and Cradles of Planet Formation
Haochang Jiang (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
16:10~16:40 Invited Gas and Dust Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks
Anibal Sierra Morales (Instituto de Astronomía - UNAM)
16:40~17:00 From cores to the inner envelope: Tracing variations in the dust emissivity index of the L1448 protostars
Zuleta Andres (Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC))
17:00~17:20 Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk): 3 mm Continuum Observations and Radiative Transfer Modeling
Youngwoo Choi (Seoul National University)
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