CALL FOR PAPERS for Protostars and Planets VI ============================================= Deadline 15th September 2012 ------------------------- Protostars and Planets VI 15 - 20 July 2013, Heidelberg Germany Web-site: www.ppvi.org The Protostars and Planets series has served the community for more than three decades with state of the art compilations of the current knowledge in the fields of star and planet formation. The previous volume PPV was published in 2007. Since then, the field of protostars and planets has advanced tremendously, from a theoretical as well as observational point of view. The next Protostars and Planets conference will take place in Heidelberg, Germany, July 15 - 20, 2013. For more details about schedule and location, please visit the conference web-page www.ppvi.org. A primary outcome of the conference will be the Protostars and Planets VI book of review articles. Although the meeting is still more than one year ahead, the logistics of preparing excellent overview articles and getting them into print in due time requires timely organization. Therefore, we ask you to submit proposals for review chapters and associated talks by September 15th 2012. The respective deadlines and dates are: April 16th, 2012: Call for review chapter and talk proposals Sept. 15, 2012: Submit your proposals Nov. 15th, 2012: Decision on review chapters and talks April 15th, 2013: Extended skeleton papers to be submitted to the board. December 1st, 2012: Registration to conference opens (including posters) May 15th, 2013: End of early registration Late registration (at elevated registration fee) afterwards will be possible. July 15th, 2013: Submission of the final article We encourage different groups to join forces and present combined reviews where the competing schools of thoughts are discussed in context and where common grounds as well as controversies are explored in an unbiased and objective way. We see this as a very important aspect of the scientific value of the conference and the resulting book. We aim for about 30 chapters with about 30 pages each, and invite everybody in the community to propose a chapter and associated talk for Protostars and Planets VI. As done during previous incarnations of Protostars and Planets, each review chapter will be presented by a talk during the conference. The speaker may be the PI of the chapter but it may also be a Co-I to increase the visibility of various members of the teams. The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) encourages such a split approach. As guideline for the structure of the conference and book, the SAC and the editors found it useful to compile the following topics/chapters. We note that this list is not binding and further suggestions and proposals are welcome. Star Formation - Formation of molecular clouds and global conditions for star formation e.g., converging flows, turbulence, HI to H2 conversion, magnetic fields filamentary structures - Formation of individual stars and clusters e.g., low- and high-mass star formation, core fragmentation, origin of IMF, magnetic fields - Origin of stellar multiplicity e.g., binaries and higher order systems, core fragmentation - Importance of stellar feedback e.g., winds, outflows, radiation - Collapse and formation of protostellar disks e.g., chemical evolution, main protostellar accretion phase (class 0), outflows, accretion rates, episodic accretion, magnetic fields environmental conditions - Formation of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and free-floating planets - A unified picture from low- to high-mass and "isolated" to clustered" star formation? Formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks - Physical characteristics of disks e.g., disk sizes, masses, structure, characteristics, transition disks environmental conditions - Gas evolution in disks e.g., initial conditions, chemistry, effects of stellar type - Dust evolution in disks - Protoplanetary disks in cluster environment e.g., radiation from O stars, dynamic interaction - Cosmochemical constraints on disk evolution e.g., isotopes in solar system, crystals, mixing, stardust - Disk dynamics e.g. dead zone, viscosity, stability, turbulence, instabilities - Disk dissipation e.g., photoevaporation, disk winds, transition disks Planet formation and planetary systems - Planetesimal formation e.g., dust growth, gravoturbulence - Terrestrial planet formation - Giant planet formation e.g., core accretion and disk instabilities - Planet-disk interaction e.g., migration, gaps - Structure and evolution of debris disks - Long term dynamical evolution of planetary systems e.g., isolated and in clusters - Chemical evolution of planetary systems e.g., primitive matter in the solar system (refractory, ices, vapor), meteoritics - Planetary system architecture e.g. observations, size, mass, composition, orbits, resonances, misalignment - The solar system in context of planet formation e.g., asteroids, comets, KBOs, planets: orbits, masses - Dating of major events in the solar system by isotope studies - Planetary internal structures e.g., terrestrial and giants, bloated, core masses, envelope structures - Planetary atmospheres e.g., terrestrial and giants - Population synthesis Astrophysical conditions for life - Habitability e.g., stellar distance to get water, moon, UV/X-rays - Geochemical landscape for the formation of life e.g., geochemical cycles, tectonics - Formation of life e.g., formation of cells and astrophysical signatures, left-right amino-acids Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC): Philippe Andre, Javier Ballesteros-Paredes, Isabelle Baraffe, Alan Boss, John Bradley, Nuria Calvet, Gael Chauvin, Therese Encrenaz, Guido Garay, Tristan Guillot, Nader Haghighipour, Shigeru Ida, Ray Jayawardhana, Willy Kley, Alexander Krot, Katharina Lodders, Karl Menten, Michael Meyer, Alessandro Morbidelli, Ralph Pudritz, Bo Reipurth, Dimitar Sasselov, Motohide Tamura, Ewine van Dishoeck, Stephane Udry, Alycia Weinberger Looking forward to exciting proposals! Henrik Beuther, Ralf Klessen, Kees Dullemond, Thomas Henning