The life cycle of dust
Principal contact: A. Zijlstra (albert.zijlstra@manchester.ac.uk)
Organisers: M. Barlow (UCL, UK), T. Henning (MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany), I. Lyon (Manchester, UK), A. Zijlstra (Manchester, UK), H. Kruger (Max-Planck Inst., Ketlenburg-Lindau, Germany), J. Duprat (CSNSM, Orsay, France), P. Hoppe (Max-Planck Inst., Mainz, Germany)
Dust plays an important role in the evolution of the Universe. It is formed from the winds and ejecta of stars and supernovae and has been a major component of the interstellar medium from the very earliest galaxies, through the evolution of the proto-solar nebula to the present day galactic environment. Interplanetary, interstellar and extragalactic dust are traditionally studied by different disciplines using very different tools, ranging from laboratory analyses of extra-terrestrial samples, space craft collection/in-situ analysis, astronomical spectroscopy to sub-mm photometry and theoretical modelling. There is usually little overlap between knowledge gained by the different disciplines and this symposium will focus on dust in all of its guises: interplanetary, circumstellar, interstellar, intra-galactic and early-Universe dust. The goal is to link the different disciplines in order to cross-fertilize areas and build new understanding of the life cycle of dust. Symposium themes will include: dust origins and evolution; dust and galaxy evolution; dust compositions: silicates, carbon/organics, isotopic content; Solar System dust; circumstellar and interstellar dust; and dust in the early Universe.
Keynote review talks will be given by Xander Tielens, on dust formation, and Ernst Zinner, on the laboratory analysis of interstellar grains. Contributions to the symposium in the form of talks and/or posters are invited on any area of research that can illuminate the Life Cycle of Dust.
Scientific Programme
| Tuesday 21st April | ||
| 16:00 | The Technology of Laboratory Astrophysics | Ian Lyon |
| 16:15 | In-Situ Measurements of Interstellar Dust in the Solar System | Harald Krueger |
| 16:30 | Extreme Deuterium- Rich Organic Matter Revealed by Antarctic Ultra-Carbonaceous Micrometeorites from CONCORDIA Collection | Jean Duprat |
| 16:45 | Ultra- Primitive Interplanetary Dust Particles from the Comet 26P/Grigg- Skjellerup Dust Stream Collection | Henner Busemann |
| 17:00 | The Fine Detail of Comet Wild 2: TEM And Synchrotron Characterisation | John Bridges |
| 17:10 | First Detections of Interstellar Ethyl Formate and NPropyl Cyanide: Dust-Grain Chemistry Strikes Again | Robin Garrod |
| 17:20 | PAHs as carriers of DIBs and AIBs | Peter Sarre |
| Wednesday 22nd April | ||
| 11:00 | The Cosmic Journey of Dust (Keynote) | Xander Tielens |
| 11:45 | Observational constraints on dust production | Jacco van Loon |
| 12:00 | Cassini CAPS-ELS Observations of Enceladus's Plume | Geraint Jones |
| 12:10 | Trajectories of Charged Icy Dust Grains in the Plume of Enceladus: Modelling and Cassini CAPS Observations | Chris Arridge |
| 12:20 | Experimental and Theoretical Research on the Dust Cloud around Europa and its Application to the Design of a New Hybrid Dust Detector for an Orbiter | Katarina Miljkovic |
| Wednesday 22nd April | ||
| 14:00 | Stardust in the Laboratory (Keynote) | Ernst Zinner |
| 14:45 | Crystallization of Silicates in Stellar Winds | Ciska Kemper |
| 15:00 | Looking Inside Presolar Silicon Carbide Grains | Torsten Henkel |
| 15:10 | TOFSIMS Analysis of Gently Separated Presolar Graphite | Ashley King |
| 15:20 | Investigating Presolar Silicate and Oxide Grains in Primitive Solar System Materials: A NanoSIMS Study | Jan Leitner |
| Wednesday 22nd April | ||
| 16:00 | IR Spectroscopy of Dust: a View from the Laboratory Bench | Monica Grady |
| 16:20 | Origin of Dust and Gas in the Local Group Galaxies | Mikako Matsuura |
| 16:30 | Molecules and Dust in the Early Universe: the Supernova Connection | Isabelle Cherchneff |
| 16:40 | Galaxy Zoo: Inclination Dependent Dust Attenuation in Visually Classified Spirals | Karen Masters |
| 16:50 | The Dust Shell around SN2008S | Roger Wesson |
| 17:00 | Dusty Discs around Evolved Stellar Objects | Claire Lykou |
| 17:10 | Debris Discs Around the Oldest Stars in the Galaxy | Christopher Sheehan |
| 17:20 | Dust from AGB Stars and its Survival in the ISM | Svitlana Zhukovska |
| Thursday 23rd April | ||
| 11:00 | An Update on SCUBA-2 | Wayne Holland |
| 11:15 | Studying large-Scale Galactic Star Formation using the Sub-mm | Toby Moore |
| 11:30 | Observational Constraints on Interstellar Grain Alignment | B-G Andersson |
| 11:40 | Cassiopeia A: Dust Factory Revealed via Submillimeter Polarimetry | Loretta Dunne |
| 11:50 | The Role of Supernovae in the Interstellar Dust Budget | Haley Gomez |
| 12:00 | Anomalous Radio Emissivity of Dust | Richard Davis |
| 12:10 | Spitzer Analysis of the Perseus Cloud: Constraining the Anomalous Microwave Emission | Christopher Tibbs |
| 12:20 | Dust Input from AGB Stars in Local Group Galaxies | Eric Lagadec |
