Brown Dwarfs come of Age
The international conference “Brown Dwarfs come of Age”, will be held from May 20 to May 24, 2013 in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands).
Main Topics:
- Formation and early evolution of brown dwarfs
- Angular momentum and disk evolution in very low mass systems
- Large scale surveys
- Deep surveys
- Brown dwarfs in binary systems
- The lower end of the IMF
- Planets around brown dwarfs
- Ultracool atmospheres
- Spectroscopy of brown dwarfs
- Time domain phenomena in brown dwarfs: activity and weather
- Oncoming and future projects in the substellar world
- The brown dwarfs-exoplanet connection
Invited Speakers:
- France Allard
- Catarina Alves de Oliveira
- Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
- Ben Burningham
- Gaël Chauvin
- Avril Day-Jones
- Philippe Delorme
- John Gizis
- Quinn Konopacky
- Eduardo L. Martín
- Francesco Palla
- David Pinfield
- Basmah Riaz
- Víctor Sánchez Béjar
- Aleks Scholz
- Eduard I. Vorobyov
Scientific Organizing Committee:
- Juan M. Alcalá
- Gibor Basri
- Phan Bao Ngoc
- Michael Bessel
- Adam Burgasser
- Christiane Helling
- Antonio Magazzù (co-chair)
- Eduardo L. Martín (co-chair)
- Estelle Moraux
- Rafael Rebolo
- Beate Stelzer
Local Organizing Committee:
- Antonio Magazzù (chair)
- Mave Martín Rodríguez
- Avet Harutyunyan
- Nauzet Hernández
- Enrique de Ferra
- Míriam Aberasturi
This meeeting has been promoted by the Fundación Galileo Galilei-INAF, which also hosts the hedquarters of the organization and will offer grants for colleagues from economically less privileged countries and young scientists.
For more information, please connect to: Brown Dwarf come of Age website.