Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference. Planetary Timescales: From Stardust to Continents

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Elizabeth and Frederick White Conference.Planetar
y Timescales From Stardust to Continents
16-19 February 2004 Australian Academy of
Science Canberra, Australia Registration
deadline 15 Dec. 2003

• http//www.mso.anu.edu.au/PSI/white_conference.htm
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• You are invited to participate in an
  interdisciplinary conference bringing together
  Astronomers and Earth scientists, focussing on
  the onset and duration of the astrophysical,
  geophysical, and geochemical processes that shape
  the formation and evolution of planetary systems,
  including constraints from our Solar System and
  the Earth.
• Key topics for the workshop include, but are not
  limited to
• Linked protostellar and protoplanetary disk
  formation
• Early solar nebula conditions, composition and
  chronology
• Formation of gas giants
• Formation of terrestrial planets conditions and
  timescales
• Dynamical interactions with disk
  star-planet-systems
• Atmosphere formation and evolution in Jovian and
  
• Terrestrial planets
• The Very Early Earth, Moon and Mars Timescales
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• Planetary Differentiation
• Ocean and Continent Formation on the Early Earth
• Contacts Ulyana Dyudina (ulyana.dyudina_at_anu.edu.a
  u), RSSA,
• Vickie Bennett (vickie.bennett_at_anu.edu.au),R
  SES,ANU
• Keynote speakers
• Alan Boss, Adam Burrows, Kevin McKeegan, Ray
  Jayawardhana, Doug Lin, Jonathan Lunine,Tobias
  Owen, Frank Shu
• Student participation is strongly encouraged.