Missing Links in Planet Formation
| Monday November 9, 2026 | |
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| 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) |
| Tuesday November 10, 2026 | |
| Chair: Akimasa Kataoka | |
| 2. Dust Growth from Clouds to Disks (continued) | |
| 09:00~09:20 | A Polarization-Based Framework for Constraining Dust Mass in Optically Thick Class 0/I Disks Naoya Kitade (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
| 09:20~09:40 | Submillimeter dust self-scattering in the PDS 70 disk Hauyu Baobab Liu (NSYSU) |
| 09:40~10:00 | Dust Properties of the HD 163296 Disk from High-Resolution Multi-Wavelength Observations Including ALMA Band 9 (0.45 mm) Kiyoaki Doi (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) |
| 3. From Pebbles to Planetesimals | |
| 10:00~10:30 | Invited Early planetesimal formation Daniel Carrera (New Mexico State University) |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~11:30 | Invited A shared origin for exoplanet demographics and Solar System
architecture Anders Johansen/Beibei Liu (Zhejiang University) |
| 11:30~12:10 | Poster Flash Session |
| 12:10~13:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Anders Johansen | |
| 13:30~13:50 | Super-Earth formation in systems with cold giants Claudia Danti (UC Chile) |
| 13:50~14:10 | Formation of Multiple Dynamical Classes in the Kuiper Belt via Disk Dissipation Tommy Chi Ho Lau (University of Chicago) |
| 14:10~14:30 | Dust Diffusion as a Driver of Planetesimal Formation: Instabilities, Efficiencies, and Neural Models Konstantin Gerbig (University of Chicago) |
| 14:30~14:50 | Effects of dust collisions in Streaming Instability: properties of resulting clumps and dust evolution inside them Shiori Iwano (The University of Tokyo) |
| 14:50~16:00 | Poster Session and Coffee Break |
| 16:00~16:20 | Accretion flows promote strong dust clumping in protoplanetary disks Shiang-Chih Wang (NTHU/ASIAA) |
| 16:20~16:40 | Runaway Planetesimal Formation in Turbulent Dust Rings Driven by a Dust Growth-Concentration Feedback Loop Ziyan Xu (University of Copenhagen) |
| 16:40~17:00 | Rapid Rocky Planetesimal Formation Driven by Dust and Temperature Coevolution in Early Inner Disks Ryo Kato (Institute Science of Tokyo) |
| 18:00 | Banquet |
| Wednesday November 11, 2026 | |
| Chair: Jes Jørgensen | |
| 4. Accretion, Winds, and Chemical Evolution | |
| 09:00~09:30 | Invited From Ices to Crystals: How Accretion Bursts Reveal and Process Planet-Forming Materials Jeong-Eun Lee (Seoul National University) |
| 09:30~10:00 | Invited Chemistry in embedded disks: setting the stage for the formation of Earth-like planets Merel van't Hoff (Purdue University) |
| 10:00~10:30 | Invited Icy and gaseous content of planet-forming material with JWST and ALMA Pooneh Nazari (University of Cambridge) |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~11:20 | The Icy Chemical Origin of Protostellar Disks Probed by JWST Yao-Lun Yang (RIKEN) |
| 11:20~11:40 | From Young to Older Disks: JWST/MIRI Evidence for Fading Molecular Emission and Hints for Elevated C/O in Upper Scorpius Chengyan Xie (Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona) |
| 11:40~12:00 | From Dust Processing to Planet Formation: Exploring Crystalline Silicates and Silicon Redistribution in Young Protostars RUPAM KUNDU (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) |
| 12:00~12:30 | Community poll: What will be required for the future? Chair: Coco Zhang |
| 12:30 | Lunch Box and Free Afternoon |
| Thursday November 12, 2026 | |
| Chair: Patrick Koch | |
| 09:00~09:30 | Invited Magnetic Fields and Angular Momentum Transport: What Is ALMA Really Measuring? Leslie Looney (University of Illinois) |
| 5. Infall, Streamers and Environmental Regulation | |
| 09:30~10:00 | Invited Magnetohydrodynamic Evolution of Young Disks and Planet-Formation Environments Shoji Mori (Tsinghua University) |
| 10:00~10:30 | Invited Unsteady Accretion: A Theoretical Perspective Zhaohuan Zhu (University of Nevada Las Vegas) |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~11:20 | Is there a relationship between the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate / Ionization Fraction and Protostellar Disk Radius? Travis Thieme (ASIAA) |
| 11:20~11:40 | Enhanced Ionization in Protostellar Envelopes Kamber Schwarz (University of Georgia) |
| 11:40~12:10 | Poster Flash Session |
| 12:10~13:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Leslie Looney | |
| 13:30~13:50 | Constraining 3D structures of streamers through radiative transfer modeling of polarized dust thermal emission Hanju Nam (Seoul National University) |
| 13:50~14:10 | Magnetic-Field-Induced Inspiral of Protostellar Binaries Accreting from a Circumbinary Disk Tomoaki Matsumoto (Hosei University) |
| 14:10~14:30 | Constraining MHD Disk Wind Mass Loss Rates from Multiple Molecular Lines: An Application to HH30 Sophie Clark (University of Arizona) |
| 14:30~14:50 | From core collapse to observable streamers: synthetic signatures of asymmetric accretion Vianey Camacho (NTNU) |
| 14:50~15:10 | Infall Onto Protoplanetary Disks Across Evolutionary Stages León-Alexander Hühn (Peking University) |
| 15:10~16:10 | Poster Session and Coffee Break |
| 16:10~16:30 | Dynamical Impacts of Accretion Streamers on Circumstellar Disks Han-Gyeol Yun (Seoul National University) |
| 16:30~16:50 | The interplay of late infall onto planet formation Ya-Wen Tang (ASIAA) |
| 16:50~17:10 | Chemical differentiation from the streamer, disk, and envelope in B5-IRS1 Yu-Ru Chou (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik) |
| Friday November 13, 2026 | |
| 6. Substructures and Direct Signposts of Planet Formation | |
| Chair: Jonathan Williams | |
| 09:00~09:30 | Invited Following the Gas into the Disk: Thick, Massive and Hot Protostellar Disks Jaime Pineda (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik) |
| 09:30~10:00 | Invited The (sub)structures of Class II disks Jane Huang (Columbia University) |
| 10:00~10:30 | Invited How Disk Formation Sets the Initial Conditions for Planet Formation Takahiro Ueda (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~11:20 | Kinematic Signatures of Warps in Disks Elouan Spaan (PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) |
| 11:20~11:40 | Axisymmetric Modeling of DSHARP Dusty Disks: Asymmetric Structures and Inner-Disk Dispersal Masataka Aizawa (Ibaraki University) |
| 11:40~12:00 | Inclination-Induced Minor-Axis Brightness Asymmetries Reveal Limited Dust Settling in Embedded Protostellar Disks Sidhant Kumar Suar (University of Virginia) |
| 12:00~12:20 | Azimuthal Asymmetries Reveal the Vertical Structure of Protoplanetary Disks Yansong Qian (University of Toronto) |
| 12:20~13:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Jane Huang | |
| 13:30~13:50 | Multi-band Analysis of Non-axisymmetric Structures in the Protoplanetary Disk around TW Hya Riho Mabe (Ibaraki University) |
| 13:50~14:10 | Inside the gap: star-wind disk or dust emission within transitional disks' cavities Armante Mélanie (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) |
| 14:10~14:30 | First K-band interferometric survey of previously unresolved Herbig~Ae/Be stars with VLTI/GRAVITY and CHARA Anuroop Dasgupta (European Southern Observatory) |
| 14:30~14:50 | Substructure evolution from protoplanetary to debris disks Yinuo Han (Caltech) |
| 14:50~15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20~16:40 | Discussion: "What is the consensus picture of the evolution of structures in planet-forming disks from the earliest to late stages? What are the next important steps in the field? Moderators: Doug Johnstone and Troels Haugbølle |
| 16:40~17:00 | Final remarks |