Events

UPDATE: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cool Stars 21 was postponed to July 5 - 9, 2021! The "Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research. The next edition of the conference series "Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun" (CS 21) will be held in Toulouse from June 22 to 26, 2020 July 5 - 9, 2021, 40 years after its first edition in Cambridge (USA). This first edition was shortly followed that same year by a workshop on "Solar Phenomena ... Read more »

Aims and scope Traditionally, planet formation was mostly a theoretical field, with rather loose observational constraints coming from proto-planetary disc observations and the Solar System. The field is now rapidly transforming thanks to ALMA and extreme adaptive optic systems, which recently made it possible to detect for the first time forming planets in proto-planetary discs and study in detail the structure and chemical composition of the planet building-blocks. Some of these ingredients, such as planetesimals, persist across the main sequence as debris discs, allowing us to study the architectures of (proto)planetary systems across both space and time as they evolve. ... Read more »