SUNDAY evening, February 6
  6:30 - 8:30 PM: Welcoming Reception at the Aspen Meadows
    (Registration desk opens at 6:00 PM in the lobby)
  MONDAY, February 7
  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Planet Search Results from Radial Velocity and Transit Surveys   [Chair: Michel Mayor]
  Mayor Statistical Properties of Exoplanets (Review)
  Santos Stellar Metallicity and the Probability of Planet Formation    
  Fischer Highlights from the California & Carnegie Doppler Surveys    
  Cochran Planet Discoveries with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope    
  McArthur Detection of a Neptune-Mass Planet in the Rho1 Cancri    
  Sato Okayama Planet Search Program: Search for Planets around G-type Giants    
  Sozzetti A Keck/HIRES Search for Planets Orbiting Metal-Poor Dwarfs    
  MONDAY
  3:00 - 6:00 PM: Protoplanetary Disks   [Chair: Lynne Hillenbrand]
  Hillenbrand Overview
  Grady
High Contrast Imaging of Protoplanetary Disks    
  Jang-Condell
How Shadowing and Illumination in Disks Affects Planet Formation    
  McCabe
Multiplicity and Disk Structure  
  Keller
Spitzer Spectra of PAH Emission from Young Disks    
  Throop
Planetary Formation near Dense Clusters: Hazardous or Not?    
  Richter
TEXES Observations of Pure Rotational H2 Emission from T Tau    
  Roberge
Limits on Primordial Gas in the AU Microscopii Disk from Far-UV Spectroscopy    
  MONDAY evening
  8:00 PM: Public Lecture at the Wheeler Opera House: Geoff Marcy (UC Berkeley)
  TUESDAY, February 8
  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Theory of Giant Planet Formation   [Chair: Greg Laughlin]
  Laughlin
Overview  
  Sari
The Formation of the Solar System    
  Marley
Young Jupiters are Faint  
  Ogilvie
Tidal Interactions Between Planets and Stars    
  Thommes
A Safety Net for Fast Migrators: Interactions Between Type I and Type II Bodies in a Protoplanetary Disk    
  TUESDAY lunch
  12:00 - 2:00 PM: Poster Viewing (Smart Hall, Aspen Center for Physics; free food!)
  TUESDAY
  4:30 - 7:30 PM: Characterizing Planets: Transit Studies and Their Implications   [Chair: Suzanne Aigrain]
  Aigrain
Overview    
  Torres
The Challenge of Transit Surveys: False Positive Rejection    
  Queloz
The Planet Found by Precise Radial Velocity Follow-Up on Recent Candidates Detected by OGLE: Results and Implications    
  Gaudi
Properties and Implications of Deep Field Transit Searches    
  Mazeh
A new Algorithm to Remove Systematic Effects in Large Photometric Datasets    
  Deming
A New Search for Carbon Monoxide Absorption in the Transmission Spectrum of the Extrasolar Planet HD 209458b    
  Holman
The Use of Transit Timing to Detect Extrasolar Planets    
  WEDNESDAY, February 9
  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Planetesimal Growth in Proto-Planetary Disks   [Chair: Andrew Youdin]
  Youdin
Planetesimal Formation and Growth of Solid Protoplanets (Review)    
  Bally
Planet Formation in OB Associations    
  Klahr Dust Diffusion, Transport and Concentration in 3D MHD Simulations of Protoplanetary Accretion Disks
  Chambers
Oligarchic Growth and the Distribution of Mass in the Planetary System    
  Kokubo
Protoplanets to Terrestrial Planets  
  Leinhardt Out of the Rubble: The Growth of Protoplanets
  WEDNESDAY
  4:30 - 7:30 PM: Very Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Planets   [Chair: Andrea Ghez]
  Ghez Overview
  Jayawardhana
Disks Around Young Brown Dwarfs and Potential for Planet Formation  
  Luhman Spitzer Observations of Brown Dwarf Disks
  Chauvin VLT/NACO Deep Imaging Search for Brown Dwarf and Giant Planet Companions to Young, Nearby Stars
  Endl
A Low Frequency of Close-In Giant Planets Around M Dwarfs    
  Martin
Detection of Planets Around Ultracool Dwarfs: Present and Future  
  Nielsen
The First Observational Calibration of Theoretical Cooling Curves for Young, Low-Mass Objects    
  WEDNESDAY evening
  8:00 PM: Conference Banquet at the Aspen Meadows (Banquet Speaker: Chas Beichman)
  THURSDAY, February 10
  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Dynamical Architectures of Planetary Systems   [Chair: Eugene Chiang]
  Ward An Overview of Planet Migration Mechanisms (Review)
  Chiang
Resonant Architectures of Solar and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems (Review)    
  Adams
Planet Migration: The Effects of Disk Torques, Planet-Planet Scattering, and Turbulent Fluctuations    
  Lee
On the 2:1 Orbital Resonance in the HD 82943 Planetary System  
  Gladman
A Rogue Planet Scenario for the Creation of the Extended Scattered Disk    
  Pan Generalized Lagrange Points: Studies of Resonance for Very Eccentric Orbits
  Kalas First Optical Images of Fomalhaut's Dust Belt: Evidence for Sculpting by Planet-Mass Objects
  THURSDAY
  4:30 - 7:30 PM: Long-Term Stability of Planetary Systems and Debris Disks   [Chair: Renu Malhotra]
  Malhotra
Overview  
  Bryden
Spitzer Results on Debris Disks    
  Moro-Martin
Signatures of Planets in Debris disks    
  Margot
Observations of Binary Kuiper Belt Objects  
  Ford
Evidence for Planet-Planet Scattering in Ups And  
  FRIDAY, February 11
  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Binaries, Clusters and Compact Stars   [Chair: Steinn Sigurdsson]
  Sigurdsson
Overview  
  von Hippel
A Spitzer Search for Planets and Disks around White Dwarfs    
  Debes
Searching for Planets Around White Dwarfs  
  Lovis
Searching for Extrasolar Planets around Red Giants in Intermediate-Age Open Clusters    
  Haghighipour
Formation of Habitable Planets in Binary Star Systems    
  Quintana
Terrestrial Planet Formation in Binary Star Systems    
  Eggenberger Formation and Survival of Planets in Binary Stars: What do Observations Tell Us?
  Wolszczan
A Pluto-Mass Body and Ionized Gas in the PSR B1257+12 Planetary System    
  FRIDAY
  4:30 - 7:30 PM: Future Planet Characterization, TPF, and New Technology   [Chair: Wes Traub]
  Traub
Overview    
  Tsvetanov
NASA Plans for Planet Finding    
  Stapelfeldt
Status of Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph    
  Crepp
Lab testing of High-Order Image Masks for TPF-C      
  Cho
Effect of Rotation Rate on Terrestrial Planet Characterization    
  Fortney
Reflection Spectra of Giant Planets    
  Dyudina
Phase Curves for Jupiters and Saturns    
  Borucki
Kepler Mission: Frequency of Terrestrial Planets    


POSTER PAPERS:

The full list of submitted paper abstracts as of December 17, 2004 is available for download as a single text file.