Purpose:

Protoplanetary disks around young stars are the sites of planetary formation. Their detailed information has been obtained by recent high spatial resolution OPT/IR observations from both ground and space, and wide varieties of disk morphology and disk composition are uncovered. This diversity of disk properties is certainly the "seeds" for the well known diversity of about 300 exoplanets so far detected. Therefore, deep understanding of the link between the protoplanetary disks and exoplanets is becoming more and more important. Next generation coronagraphs on the 8-m class telescopes such as Subaru/HiCIAO/AO188, Gemini/NICI and GPI, and VLT/SPHERE will be a powerful tool for this study. Very recent successes of direct imaging around Vega-like stars are certainly encouraging for exploiting this field. Besides observations, both theoretical simulations for planet formation and theories and laboratory experiments for dust formation/evolution also play crucial roles for the interpretation of the link. In order to promote the discussion of the diversity of disks and exoplanets among related researchers, we would like to host an international workshop. Researchers in the fields of protoplanetary/debris disks, exoplanets, dust, and related instrumentation are encouraged to attend. The capacity will be up to 120 people.



Major Topics:

(1) Direct imaging of disks/exoplanets
(2) Spectroscopy of disks/exoplanets
(3) Theoretical simulations for planet formation
(4) Dust formation and evolution in disks
(5) Current/future instrumentation for direct observations



Invited Speakers:

Chas Beichman
Gael Chauvin
Christine Chen
Kees Dullemond
Murkus Feldt
Malcom Fridlund
Misato Fukagawa
Miwa Goto
Beuzit Jean-Luc
Paul Kalas
Michael Liu
Amaya Moro-Martin
Nagayoshi Ohashi
Guyon Olivier
Marshall Perrin
Bun-Ei Sato
Ryuji Suzuki
Eric Tatulli
Wes Traub
Sebastian Wolf
Mark Wyatt

and
more to come!