UCLA iPLEX Conference: Final Announcement and Program

On June 12th and 13th, the UCLA Institute for Planets and Exoplanets (IPLEX) will host a two day interdisciplinary conference on the nature, distribution, origin and evolution of frozen volatiles and organics in the inner solar system.

Program

Tuesday, June 12th

Time	Presenter	Title of Talk
9:00	Breakfast
9:15	Welcome (David Paige and David Jewitt)
9:30	Dale, P., Cruikshank	Organic Molecules on Saturn’s Satellites: Relationship to Kuiper Belt Objects, Interstellar Dust, and the Solar Nebula
10:00	Ben Teolis	Evidence for polar regolith cold trapping of exospheric O2 and CO2 on icy moons Rhea and Dione: A low-temperature analogue to inner solar system volatiles?
10:30	Henry H. Hsieh	Ice in the Main Asteroid Belt
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Joshua P. Emery	Ices and organics on asteroids and comets
11:45	Julie C Castillo-Rogez	1 Ceres is an Astrobiological Target
12:15	Lunch on Campus
13:30	Adam Waszczak	A search for active asteroids with the Palomar Transient Factory survey
14:00	James M Bauer	WISE/NEOWISE COMETS: PRELIMINARY PROPERTIES OF NUCLEI & GAS EMISSON
14:30	Rachel A Stevenson	An Ice Grain Halo Around Comet 17P/Holmes
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30	Krishna Muralidharan	Theoretical and experimental evidence for wet accretion of Earth
16:00	Sandra Pizzarello	Large enantiomeric excesses in primitive meteorites and the diverse effects of water in cosmochemical evolution
16:30	William I. Newman	Planetary Migration and Volatile Transport: The Perils of Modeling Planetesimals
17:00	Discussion
17:30	Adjourn
18:00	Dinner at UCLA Faculty Center

Wednesday, June 13th

Time	Presenter	Title of Talk
8:30	Breakfast
8:45	Welcome (Paige and Jewitt)
9:00	Norbert Schorghofer	New Views of Old Volatiles
9:30	Russell Cox	Enabling Technologies for DeepCryo Volatiles Experimentation and Exploration
10:00	Ben, Bussey	A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF LUNAR PERMANENTLY SHADOWED AREAS.
10:30	Sarah T. Crites	In-situ production of organic molecules at the poles of the Moon
10:45	Nancy, L, Chabot	Craters Hosting Radar-bright Deposits in Mercury’s Polar Regions
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	David A. Paige	Thermal stability of polar ices and organics on Mercury
12:15	Matthew Siegler	LUNAR POLAR ICE AND THE OBLIQUITY HISTORY OF THE MOON
13:30	Lunch on Campus
14:00	Adrian Jon Brown	Transport and Thermal Metamorphism of Water Ice in the Martian North Polar Springtime
14:30	Patricio Becerra	CO2 FROST HALOS ON THE SOUTH POLAR RESIDUAL CAP OF MARS
15:00	Selby Cull	Perchlorate Salts and Water on Mars: An overview of Recent Work
15:30	Coffee Break
15:45	Discussion
16:00	Adjourn

Meeting Logistics

See the Logistics Page or further information.

Registration

Registration is required for all attendees. Guests may register in advance online, or in person on the day of the meeting.

Full Registration ($75) includes continental breakfast and morning and afternoon coffee breaks on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as dinner at the UCLA Faculty Center on Tuesday evening.

Reduced registration ($25) includes continental breakfast and morning and afternoon coffee breaks on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Registration
For Questions, Contact David Paige (dap@moon.ucla.edu)