Scientific Organizing Committee members

External SOC

• Alessandro Morbidelli (Nice Observatory, France)
  Solar system formation, Kuiper belt and asteroids
• Tom Quinn (Univ. of Washington, USA)
  N-Body simulations, Solar system stability and dynamics
• Willy Benz (Univ. of Bern, Switzerland)
  Giant planet formation, extrasolar planets, impacts
• Thomas Henning (MPIA Heidelberg, Germany)
  Observations of protoplanetary disks, dust evolution, formation of planetesimals
• Richard Nelson (Queen Mary, UK)
  Planet migration, magnetohydrodynamics in protoplanetary disks
• Ralf Klessen (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany)
  Molecular cloud, star formation, jets
• David Rubie (BGI, Bayreuth, Germany)
  Early planetary differentiation and material properties at high pressures and temperatures
• David Stevenson (CALTECH, USA)
  Fluid dynamics, theoretical planetary science
• Tilman Spohn (DLR, Berlin, Germany)
  Comparative planetology evolution
• James Kasting (Penn State Univ., USA)
  Evolution of atmospheres, search for extra terrestrial life and habitability

Local Organizing Comittee

• Simon Lilly (ETH)
  Origin and evolution of universe, galaxies, and planets
• Paul Tackley (ETH)
  Plate tectonics and mantle convection
• Lucio Mayer (Univ. of Zurich/ETH)
  Formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks Giant planet formation
• Domenico Giardini (ETH)
  Seismology, planetary exploration
• Bernard Bourdon (ETH)
  Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
• Hans Martin Schmid (ETH)
  Spectropolarimetry of giant planets and galaxies
• Laure Fouchet (ETH)
  Evolution protoplanetary disks, planetesimal formation
• Henri Samuel (BGI, Bayreuth, Germany)
  Differentiation and evolution of planets, numerical and analytical modeling
• Ryuji Morishima (ETH/Univ. of Zurich)
  Accretion of terrestrial planets, impacts