June 26 (Sun) 8:30 am – 5:30 pm / Pacifico Yokohama

Laboratory experiments are the key to place quantitative constraints on physical and chemical conditions and timescales of material evolution in the Galaxy and the Solar System.  We will focus on recent results on experimental cosmochemistry, development of new experimental and analytical techniques, and application to cosmochemistry.

The workshop will comprize four focused sessions: 1. Particle irradiation in space: Dust destruction in the ISM and space weathering on air-less bodies, 2. Chemistry of ice and organic matter in molecular clouds, protoplanetary disks, and small bodies, 3. Mineral reactions in protoplanetary disks, and 4. Innovative instrumentation for analysis of extraterrestrial materials.  Each session includes one or two keynote lectures, three contributed talks and discussion time.  A poster session will also be held.

Keynote Lectures

1. Particle irradiation in space: Dust destruction in the ISM and space weathering on air-less bodies

Dr. Shunsuke Muto — Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University Mechanical and Spatial/Electronic Structural Changes of Ionic Bonded Materials Associated with Particle Irradiation Damage

2. Chemistry of ice and organic matter in molecular clouds, protoplanetary disks, and small bodies

Dr. Guillermo Muñoz Caro — Centro de Astrobiología, CSIS-INTA Organic synthesis in interstellar ice analogs and cometary molecules detected by Rosetta

Dr. Liv Hornekær — Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Catalysts for Interstellar Chemical Complexity

3. Mineral reactions in protoplanetary disks

Dr. Ralf Dohmen — Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr University Bochum Rates and Mechanisms of Diffusion and Diffusion Controlled Reactions in the Protoplanetary Disk

4. Innovative instrumentation for analysis of extraterrestrial materials

Dr. Philipp Heck — Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History Atom-probe Tomography of Extraterrestrial Samples