Dusting for the Fingerprints of Planet Formation

Séminaire IPAG de Tiel Birnstiel (CfA, Harvard), jeudi 9 janvier 2014 à 11h00, IPAG seminar room

Dust represents only a small mass fraction of protoplanetary disks, but it is a key player in determining the physical structure and observational appearance of disks and after all, it is the material out of which terrestrial planets and the cores of giant planets are made. In this talk I will present some recent insights to dust evolution in protoplanetary disks and how we plan to find the fingerprints of planetesimal and planet formation by comparisons of theoretical predictions to observations.