ESAC May 21-23, 2018

Madrid, Spain

Deadline for abstract submission and early registration fee is ONLY 15 DAYS AWAY

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On behalf of Local and Scientific Organizing Committees, we are pleased to announce a three days workshop devoted to brown dwarfs and their formation mechanism/s. More than 20 years have passed since the discovery of the first confirmed substellar objects. However, there are still many problems concerning brown dwarf formation and evolution.

During the last years, a large number of works have been focused on explaining the origin of brown dwarfs. Thanks to Spitzer, Herschel and lately ALMA, there are now evidences of a star-like scenario to explain the formation of these substellar objects. However, there are still open questions, like the role of turbulence, and the efficiency of other mechanisms (e.g. photo-evaporation, disk fragmentation) to produce BDs. On the other hand, the study of young clusters is producing more and more spectroscopically confirmed substellar IMFs, which are fundamental to understand BD formation and evolution.

The scope of this workshop is to gather experts on BD formation, both theoreticians and observational astronomers, to discuss about the results of the last decade. We plan to compare the theoretical expectations with the results from observations to understand which questions have been answered, and which ones are still open. Moreover, experts from other fields, such as exoplanets and chemical modeling, are welcome since one of the goals is to study the phenomena from a comprehensive perspective and to produce new synergies and projects.  In addition, we will discuss about the advances that can be done in this field with the advent of new facilities like e.g. JWST or Euclid.

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
• Matthew R. Bate (University of Exeter, UK)
• Gilles Chabrier (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France)
• Masahiro N. Machida (Kyushu University, Japan)
• Estelle Moraux (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, France)
• Aina Palau (Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, UNAM, Mexico)
• Ken Rice (University of Edimburgh, UK)
• Luca Ricci (California State University, Northridge & JPL, USA)
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTE:
• David Barrado (CAB, co-chair)
• Carlos Eiroa (UAM, co-chair)
• Amelia Bayo (U. De Valparaíso, Chile)
• Philippe André (CEA Saclay, France)
• Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo (ESO/ALMA, Chile)
• Michael Dunham (State University NY at Fredonia, US)
• Basmah Riaz (MPE Garching, Germany)
• Dimitris Stamatellos (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
• Aina Palau (UNAM, México)
• Oscar Morata (ASIAA, Taiwan)
• Chang Won Lee (KASI, Republic of Korea)
• Erick Young (NASA Ames, USA)
IMPORTANT DATES:

- Registration is OPEN
- Deadline for abstract submission and early registration fee is ONLY 15 DAYS AWAY: March 15th, 2018

All relevant information can be found at:

http://www.laeff.cab.inta-csic.es/projects/ws18/main/index.php

Note that you can now book your room at the EXE Moncloa Hotel at a discounted price using the link provided in our web page.

Regards,

David Barrado, Maria Morales, Nuria Huelamo and Carlos Eiroa,
on behalf of the SOC and LOC