Announcing the Fourth NSF Workshop on "Titan Chemistry : Observations,
Experiments, Computations, Modeling"
Saint Jacut de la Mer,
Brittany, France
June 16-18, 2010
Abstract deadline : April 30, 2010
(following on from the Faraday Discussion 147 'Chemistry of the
Planets')
http://titan.univ-rennes1.fr/
Saturn’s moon Titan is the only solar system body besides Earth and
Venus with a thick atmosphere and is widely considered as a natural
laboratory on the planetary scale to understand the prebiotic
chemistry on proto-Earth. The Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan has
opened a new chapter in Solar System exploration and extraterrestrial
atmospheric chemistry. The scientific data obtained by the Huygens
experiments and by the Cassini Orbiter - currently being archived and
analyzed – are far from being understood.
This workshop is part of the NSF-Collaborative Research in Chemistry
(CRC) Network 'Chemistry of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons in Titan's
Atmosphere' and the fourth in a series of annual meetings aimed better
to understand the hydrocarbon chemistry taking place in the atmosphere
and on the surface of Titan. It brings together atmospheric modelers,
astronomical observers, mission specialists, planetary scientists,
physical chemists, theoreticians, astrobiologists, and organic
chemists. By focusing on the interplay between observational &
mission data, modeling, and fundamental investigations of the
underlying chemical reactions and photochemical processes, we also
seek emerging generalized concepts on the chemical processing of
hydrocarbon-rich atmospheres of planets and their moons in the Solar
System.
By exploring the current boundaries of planetary science and chemical
knowledge, we can more effectively design new laboratory experiments
under well-defined conditions (and recommend promising directions for
further observational searches) and upcoming Solar System missions to
resolve hitherto unanswered aspects of molecular synthesis in our
Solar System.
The workshop will be held in the beautiful surroundings of the Abbaye
de Saint Jacut from Wednesday June 16 at 14:45 to Friday June 18 at
12:00, following on from the Faraday Discussion 147 'Chemistry of the
Planets' (http://fd147.univ-rennes1.fr/), and will feature invited (40
min + 10 min discussion) as well as contributed talks (15 min + 5 min
discussion). Abstracts should be submitted according to the
instructions on the website against a deadline of April 30th. A guided
tour of the nearby mediaeval town of Dinan is also planned.
Invited Speakers:
Piergiorgio Casavecchia (Università di Perugia)
Michel Dobrijevic (Observatoire de Bordeaux)
Jean-Claude Guillemin (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes)
Ralf Kaiser (University of Hawaii)
Stephen Klippenstein (Argonne National Laboratory)
Alexander Mebel (Florida International University)
Olivier Mousis (Observatoire de Besançon)
Darrell Strobel (Johns Hopkins University)
Arthur Suits (Wayne State University)
Roland Thissen (Université de Grenoble)
Sandrine Vinatier (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)
For further information, please contact Sebastien Le Picard,
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