Presolar Grain Workshop
November 22-23, 2008
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Presolar Grains Workshop
The University of Chicago
November 22 & 23, 2008
Sponsored by the Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
Saturday, November 22
8:30 Rhonda Stroud TEM of presolar silicates
8:55 Brad Meyer Chemical evolution with wn_simple_gce
9:20 Frank Gyngard Extremely anomalous spinel grains from Murray
9:45 Philipp Heck Presolar Ne and He exposure ages of LS+LU SiC grains from Murchison
10:10 Coffee break
10:35 Kevin Croat A first look at low-density Orgueil graphites with TEM
11:00 Lih-Sin The 26Al and 60Fe in massive stars
11:25 Bob Gehrz Stardust review: Astrophysical grains in stellar winds, debris disks, the ISM, and the Solar System
11:50 Larry Nittler Where are the presolar grains from intermediate-mass stars?
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Tom Zega TEM analysis of a presolar Cr-rich spinel grain
1:55 Ernst Zinner Iron and nickel isotopic compositions of presolar SiC grains from supernovae
2:20 Changyuan Wang Branchings and time evolution of reaction networks
2:45 Nicolas Dauphas Osmium nucleosynthetic anomalies in meteorites: towards a better estimation of cosmoradiogenic 187Os
3:10 Coffee break
3:35 Mairin Hynes TEM analysis of SiC X grains and mainstream grains
4:00 Ming-Chang Liu Irradiation-induced magnesium isotope anomalies
4:25 Sean Brittain The observation of CO and its isotopomers in disks around young stars
4:50 Bob Clayton Recent experimental tests of the CO self-shielding model for the early Solar System
7:00 Dinner at home of Andy Davis & Susan Nimori RSVP!
Sunday, November 23
8:30 Jonathan Levine Cr isotopes in presolar grains: developments in high-precision resonance ionization mass spectrometry
8:55 Liping Qin Nucleosynthetic chromium isotopic anomalies in primitive meteorites
9:20 Joe Johnson liblvls and internal equilibration of nuclei
9:45 Fred Ciesla Two-Dimensional Dynamics of Solids in the Outer Solar Nebula
10:10 Coffee break
10:35 Kim Knight Nondestructive quantification of heavy elements in presolar grains
11:00 Thomas Stephan Cometary dust collected by Stardust and in the stratosphere - differences and similarities
11:25 Roberto Gallino New advances in understanding formation of the 13C pocket in AGB stars and consequences for presolar grains
11:50 Andy Davis The ion nanoprobe: a new instrument for studying the isotopic composition of the Solar System and beyond at the
few-nanometer scale
