The meeting will take place over three days, from Monday 8 September to Wednesday 10 September. To accommodate arrivals, the programme will begin later in the morning on Monday, while Tuesday and Wednesday will feature a full schedule of sessions.

A PDF version of the programme may be downloaded here. The talk abstracts will be here, and the poster abstracts will be here.

Meeting Schedule

Please note that the meeting begins at 10:15 am on Monday, and at 9:15 am on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

Day 1 – Monday 8th September

10:15–10:45 Welcome Tea & Coffee

10:45–12:30 Introduction & Review Talks — Chair: Tim Pearce

  • 10:45–11:00 Introduction (Welcome, Code of Conduct, Logistics) — Phil Lucas (Herts)
  • 11:00–11:30 Review Talk: Protoplanetary Discs — John Ilee (Leeds)
  • 11:30–12:00 Review Talk: Debris Discs — Minjae Kim (MSSL, UCL)
  • 12:00–12:30 Review Talk: White Dwarf Discs — Amy Bonsor (Cambridge)

12:30–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:00 Disc Structure and Evolution 1 - Chair: Anibal Sierra

  • 14:00–14:15 Insights into early stages of disk evolution — Fabiola Antonietta Gerosa (UCL)
  • 14:15–14:30 The fate of the 2nd circumbinary disc — post-AGB binaries — Anna Penzlin (LMU Munich)
  • 14:30–14:45 Debris-disc masses: first constraints from narrow discs — Tim Pearce (Warwick)
  • 14:45–15:00 The Secret Lives of Disks: the earliest stages — Maria Jose Maureira (MPE)

15:00–15:30 Tea Break

15:30–16:30 Disc Structure and Evolution 2 - Chair: Maria Koutoulaki

  • 15:30–15:45 (Sub)mm Analysis of HD 32297’s Edge-on Debris Disk — Patricia Luppe (Trinity)
  • 15:45–16:00 The ODISEA Project: Planet Formation in 𝜌 Ophiuchi — Camilo González-Ruilova (USantiago)
  • 16:00–16:15 Asymmetric debris disks: how do eccentric rings glow? — Joshua Lovell (CfA Harvard-Smithsonian)
  • 16:15–16:30 Non-Thermal Radio Variability in YSOs: A VLBA Census of the ONC — Eoin O’Kelly (Herts)

16:30–17:00 Poster Pop-ups – Chair: Mike Kuhn

17:00–18:30 Poster Session & Drinks

Day 2 – Tuesday 9th September

09:15–10:30 Disc Structure and Evolution 3 - Chair: Till Käufer

  • 09:15–09:30 The transition from protoplanetary to debris discs — Benjamin Homewood (Exeter)
  • 09:30–09:45 VLTI reveals the inner disc of a massive protostar — Maria Koutoulaki (Leeds)
  • 09:45–10:00 Planetesimals in debris discs and dust grain sizes — Jonathan Marshall (ASIAA)
  • 10:00–10:15 Spiral Arms in a Nearly Broken Protoplanetary Disc — Sahl Rowther (Leicester)
  • 10:15–10:30 Planets and Substructure Feedbacks on Disk Thermal Structure — Kan Chen (UCL)

10:30–11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–11:45 Irradiated Discs - Chair: Belinda Damian

  • 11:00–11:15 Externally irradiated planet-forming disks — Thomas Haworth (QMUL)
  • 11:15–11:30 The Lifetimes and Evolution of Discs in Starburst Environments — Matt Cusack (Cardiff)
  • 11:30–11:45 Role of Cluster Environment on Protoplanetary Disks — Saumya Gupta (QMUL)

11:45–12:00 Disc Processes 1 - Chair: Belinda Damian

  • 11:45–12:00 High angular resolution evidence of dust traps from deep ALMA Band 3 observations of LkCa15 — Anibal Sierra (UCL)

12:00–13:30 Lunch

13:30–15:00 Disc Processes 2 - Chair: Richard Booth

  • 13:30–13:45 Planet migration in Turbulent Disc — Yinhao Wu (Leicester)
  • 13:45–14:00 Gone with Wind: CO depletion in MHD-wind driven discs — Zuzanna Jonczyk (Leeds)
  • 14:00–14:15 Breaking of warped accretion disks in the local model — Loren Held (DAMTP Cambridge)
  • 14:15–14:30 Dust dynamics in the inner regions of protoplanetary disks — Thomas Jannaud (DAMTP Cambridge)
  • 14:30–14:45 Gas Heating & Cooling in Debris Discs: Insights from β Pic — Sana Ahmed (Trinity)
  • 14:45–15:00 A mechanism to form radially compact protoplanetary discs — Simin Tong (Leicester)

15:00–15:30 Tea Break

15:30–16:45 Time Domain Studies of Discs 1 - Chair: Andrew Swan

  • 15:30–15:45 WD Debris Disks: Variability Incompatible with Canonical Model — Hiba Tu Noor (UCL)
  • 15:45–16:00 Characterising a WD with transiting debris in the habitable zone — Akshay Robert (UCL)
  • 16:00–16:15 Temporal variation of warps & shadows in protoplanetary discs — Katie Milsom (Exeter)
  • 16:15–16:30 Eruptive Variables in Nearby Star-Forming Regions with VVV — Hariharan Muthu (Herts)
  • 16:30–16:45 Unveiling the variability of massive YSOs with the VVV/X survey — Gabriella Zsidi (Herts)

16:45–17:00 Conference Photo

17:00–17:30 Time Domain Studies of Discs 2 - Chair: Andrew Swan

  • 17:00–17:15 The Missing YSO Outbursts: Mid-IR Selected Eruptive YSOs — Calum Morris (Valparaíso)
  • 17:15–17:30 𝜌 Ophiuchi and the hidden mass reservoir — Isaac Radley (Leeds)

17:30–18:00 Discussion

Day 3 – Wednesday 10th September

09:15–10:30 Disc Composition - Chair: Patricia Luppe

  • 09:15–09:30 Dust compositions in white dwarf disks — Andrew Swan (Warwick)
  • 09:30–09:45 Inside the water snowline: connecting disk evolution to JWST spectra — Till Käufer (Exeter)
  • 09:45–10:00 Pebble Drift and Volatile Entrapment: Impact on Planet Formation Chemistry — Joe Williams (Exeter)
  • 10:00–10:15 Chemical co-evolution of dust and gas in protoplanetary discs — Tamara Molyarova (Leeds)
  • 10:15–10:30 Chemical Compositions of Disk-instability planets — George Blaylock-Squibbs (UCLan)

10:30–10:45 Formation of Planets & Brown Dwarfs 1 - Chair: Patricia Luppe

  • 10:30–10:45 V960 Mon b: a dust-embedded substellar object formed by GI? — Anuroop Dasgupta (ESO)

10:45–11:15 Coffee Break

11:15–12:30 Formation of Planets & Brown Dwarfs 2 & EDI session - Chair: Thomas Jannaud

  • 11:15–11:30 Planet formation by disc fragmentation: the impact of dust growth on opacity — Hans Lee (Leicester)
  • 11:30–11:45 Planet formation sculpted by infall: the importance of multi-scale turbulence — Andrew Winter (QMUL)
  • 11:45–12:15 Equity and Inclusivity Practices in Academia — Amena Faruqi (Warwick)
  • 12:15–12:30 Sandwiched planet formation: restricting the mass of a middle planet — Farzana Meru (Warwick)

12:30–14:00 Lunch

14:00–14:45 Formation of Planets & Brown Dwarfs 3 - Chair: Jay Farihi

  • 14:00–14:15 Towards a population synthesis study of increasingly realistic protoplanetary discs — Adam Koval (Edinburgh)
  • 14:15–14:30 Testing planet formation via GI: FU Ori outbursts and Free-Floating Planets — Sergei Nayakshin (Leicester)
  • 14:30–14:45 Planet formation in spontaneous dust traps in magnetized disks — Timmy Delage (Imperial)

14:45–15:45 Exoplanet discs & planetesimal signatures - Chair: Jay Farihi

  • 14:45–15:00 Exocomets Overview — Daniela Iglesias (Leeds)
  • 15:00–15:15 The search for Exorings and a Short Period Circumsecondary Disk Candidate — Niamh Mallaghan (QUB)
  • 15:15–15:30 Discs around planetary-mass objects: new insights from JWST — Belinda Damian (St Andrews)
  • 15:30–15:45 When Worlds Collide: Imaging post-impact debris in HD172555 — Zoe Roumeliotis (Trinity)

15:45 Closing remarks

Poster Presentations

  • Triggered fragmentation in self-gravitating protoplanetary disks — Pratishtha Rawat (Warwick)
  • Dust trapping in protoplanetary discs after stellar flybys — Vasundhara Prasad (Cambridge)
  • Unusual Planetary Systems with Massive Debris Disks — Zoe Parker (Leeds)
  • Tracking the evolution of gas clumps in gravitational instability discs — Luyao Zhang (Leicester)
  • Dust Entrainment in External Photoevaporative Winds: Theory and Observation — Sébastien Paine (QMUL)
  • Planetesimal formation in weakly turbulent protoplanetary disks — Fabiola Gerosa (UCL)
  • Tracing Galactic Rotation with GAIA DR3: Dynamical Mapping in the Extended Solar Vicinity Using Young Stellar Kinematics — Simran Singh (Herts)
  • Signatures of terrestrial planets in exozodiacal disks — Max Sommer (Stuttgart)
  • Dipping Giants in the Nuclear Disc: eclipses by foreground YSO discs in the Central Molecular Zone? — Philip Lucas (Herts)
  • Collision velocities of dust grains in self-gravitating discs — Cat Leedham (Cambridge)
  • Supermassive star maser discs with multiple flybys — Martin Krause (Herts)
  • Wave damping in (proto-planetary) discs: The relative importance of viscous, thermal and non-linear wave damping — Amelia Cordwell (Cambridge)
  • The effect of disc photoevaporation on the evolution of migrating giant planets — Emmanuel Greenfield (ICL)
  • Detecting water ice and vapor in debris disks around white dwarfs with future PRIMA observations — Ayaka Okuya (Warwick)
  • Simultaneous TESS photometry and ground-based spectra of exocomets in β Pictoris — Michael Elston (Canterbury)
  • EXor Outbursts from SPICY young stars — Mike Kuhn (Herts)