Program (preliminary)
Monday, June 22, 2026
13:00: Arrival and Welcome - coffee
Session: Early phases of star formation
13:40 Welcome: Silvia & Henrik
13:50 - 14:20 van Dishoeck, Ewine Intro and Protostellar systems with JWST
14:20 - 14:40 Megeath, Tom Surveying Low-mass Star Formation in the Infrared: from HOPS to HEFE
14:40 - 15:00 Gieser, Caroline A song of ice and fire: Linking ice and gas-phase chemistry in the high-mass hot core IRAS 18089
15:00 - 15:20 Bhandare, Asmita Go with the Flow: Probing the Dynamics of Streamlined Infall During Protostellar Disc Formation
15:20 - 15:40 Stecklum, Bringfried Disentangling Variability in YSOs: Shadows, Binaries, and Accretion Bursts
15:40 - 16:30 Coffee break
Session: Early phases of star formation
16:30 - 16:50 Xu , Fengwei A Forming Quadruple Massive Stellar System
16:50 - 17:10 Puravanakara, Manoj Probing the Earliest Phases of Star Formation with JWST: Results from the IPA and HEFE Programs
17:10 - 17:30 Kuiper, Rolf Modeling Star and Planet Formation
17:30 - 17:50 Kainulainen, Jouni Density structure of star-forming gas from clouds to galaxies
17:50 - 18:10 Zhang, Qizhou Fragmenting Clumps and Forming Clusters: High-Resolution Views of Massive Star Birth
~18:30 Bus departure
Tuesday
08:32 Public bus departure station Peterskirche (details)
Session: Planet formation
09:00 - 09:20 Johansen, Anders Planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs
09:20 - 09:40 Testi, Leonardo From dust to pebbles and planets: dust evolution during star and planet formation
09:40 - 10:00 Birnstiel, Til New Paradigms in Planet Formation
10:00 - 10:20 Mordasini, Christoph Confronting planet formation theory and observations via planetary population synthesis
10:20 - 10:40 Klahr, Hubert Planetesimal formation and pebble accretion at MPIA: Past and Future
10:40 - 11:30 Coffee break
Session: Planet formation
11:30 - 11:50 Stapper, Lucas A census of Herbig disk masses
11:50 - 12:10 Winter, Andrew Getting Herbig-ger: Lessons from the Herbig lifetime problem
12:10 - 12:30 Zallio, Luigi Bulk properties of protoplanetary disks using ALMA visibilities. New constraints on PMS evolutionary tracks and stellar ages.
12:30 - 12:50 Doi, Kiyoaki Dust Properties of the HD 163296 Disk from High-Resolution Multi-Wavelength Observations Including ALMA Band 9 (0.45 mm)
12:50 - 13:10 Ábrahám, Péter Optical-infrared variability as a new tool to explore inner disk structure and dynamics around young stars
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
Session: Planet formation
14:30 - 14:50 Pudritz, Ralph Planetary Properties and the Fingerprints of Formation
14:50 - 15:10 Lienert, Julia Do MHD winds change the composition of the inner disc?
15:10 - 15:30 Kaufmann, Nicolas Disk Population Synthesis of structured disks with external photoevaporation
15:30 - 15:50 Penzlin, Anna 3-body hydrodynamics, Planets in circumbinary discs
15:50 - 16:10 Kóspál, Ágnes Accretion variability and multiplicity in Sun-like young stars
16:10 - 17: 00 Coffee break
Session: Planet formation
17:00 - 17:20 Bitsch, Bertram Constraining planet formation via atmospheric abundances
17:20 - 17:40 Savvidou, Sofia A giant solution to the disk mass budget problem of planet formation
17:40 - 18:00 Burn, Remo The Journey of Carbon from the ISM to Planets and Disks
~18:15 Bus departure
Wednesday
08:32 Public bus departure station Peterskirche (details)
Session: Planet formation
09:00 - 09:20 Kamp, Inga JWSTs view on the inner rocky planet forming region
09:20 - 09:40 Ramirez-Tannus, MC Planet formation in extreme environments
09:40 - 10:00 Somigliana, Alice JWST reveals disc diversity, ice features, and extended H2 emission in the binary system HK Tau
10:00 - 10:20 Gasman, Danny Using CO2 isotopologues to trace inner disk enhancement due to drifting ices
10:20 - 10:40 Varga, Jozsef MINDS survey of silicates in T Tauri disks
10:40 - 11:30 Coffee break
Session: Instrumentation - ground and space
11:30 - 11:50 Krause, Oliver Roman and PRIMA: MPIA's next space missions
11:50 - 12:10 Chauvin, Gael Imaging New Worlds: SPHERE, SPHERE+, and the PCS Pathway to the ELT
12:10 - 12:30 Feldt, Markus Novel Types of Wavefront Sensors for the ELT Planetary Camera and Spectrograph (PCS)
12:30 - 12:50 Scheithauer, Silvia METIS - one of the first instruments for the ELT
13:00 - 14:00 Lab visits, details will follow
14:00 - 18:00 Lunch and social afternoon
~18:15 Bus departure
Thursday
08:32 Public bus departure station Peterskirche (details)
Session: Kinematics, astrochemistry & laboratory
09:00 - 09:20 Teague, Richard The Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks
09:20 - 09:40 Izquierdo, Andres Beyond Keplerian Rotation: Molecular-Line Tomography of Planet-Forming Discs
09:40 - 10:00 Walsh, Catherine Chemical complexity in planet-forming disks: insights from ALMA and future prospects
10:00 - 10:20 Paneque-Carreño, T. Limits on turbulence from multi-molecular ALMA observations
10:20 - 10:40 Semenov, Dmitry PRODIGE project: Physics and chemistry of T Tau disks in Taurus
10:40 - 11:30 Coffee break
Session: Kinematics, astrochemistry & laboratory
11:30 - 11:50 Leemker, Margot A fish out of water: unique observations of water in planet-forming disks
11:50 - 12:10 Suhasaria, Tushar Exploring Prebiotic Chemistry in Cosmic Ice Analogues through Laboratory Studies
12:10 - 12:30 Trapp, Oliver From Molecules to Life
12:30 - 12:50 Chen, Yuan Systematic quantification of weak COM ice bands in protostars with JWST
12:50 - 13:10 Schlemmer, Stephan Missing Ions in Laboratory and in Space
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch
Session: Exoplanets & debris disks
14:30 - 14:50 Zagaria, Francesco A deep dive into PDS 70's mm emission
14:50 - 15:10 Zhu, Zhaohuan Circumplanetary Disk Formation
15:10 - 15:30 Marleau, Gabriel-D. Accreting exoplanets: high-spectral-resolution observations and theory
15:30 - 15:50 Bayo, Amelia Young isolated planetary mass objects: then and now
15:50 - 16:10 Fedele, Davide Searching for protoplanets with VLT/ERIS
16:10 - 17:00 Coffee break
Session: Exoplanets & debris disks
17:00 - 17:20 Apai, Daniel Alien Earths, Project EDEN, and the Search for Exoplanets around Nearby Stars
17:20 - 17:40 Jordan, Andres The obliquities of warm Jupiters
17:40 - 18:00 Launhardt, Ralf RVSPY: How the lessons learned paved the road to success
~18:15 Bus departure
Friday
08:32 Public bus departure station Peterskirche (details)
Session: Exoplanets & debris disks
09:00 - 09:20 Mancini, Luigi Unveiling the Diverse Architectures and Evolutionary Pathways of Neptune-sized Planets: Results from GAPS and HONEI
09:20 - 09:40 Quirrenbach, Andreas Terrestrial planets orbiting low-mass stars
09:40 - 10:00 Reiners, Ansgar Opening up the near-infrared for rocky planet discoveries and ground based atmospheres: science with CARMENES
10:00 - 10:20 Marino, Sebastian The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS)
10:20 - 10:40 Roccatagliata, V. Planet-disk interaction in solar system analogs: looking for planets and substructures in debris disk systems.
10:40 - 11:30 Coffee break
Session: Exoplanets & debris disks
11:30 - 11:50 Olofsson, Johan A look back on warm debris disks
11:50 - 12:10 Samland, Matthias Debris Disk in the Era of JWST: collisions, dust, gas, and comets
12:10 - 12:30 Sanchez, Mariana Planet formation around M dwarfs
12:30 - 13:00 Pascucci, Ilaria Summary and Inside the Snowline: What Infrared Spectra Reveal About Disks Around Young TRAPPIST-1 analogues
13:00 Farewell snack
13:48 Public bus departure to station Friedrich-Ebert Platz