PAHs and the Universe

A symposium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the PAH hypothesis

May 31st - June 4th 2010 TOULOUSE, France

Programme

Invited reviews at the PAH symposium

Introduction: Jean-Loup Puget

Session 1: Rich IR spectra of interstellar PAHs
"Observations of the interstellar IR emission features" - Els Peeters
"Laboratory IR spectroscopy" - Jos Oomens
"Theoretical IR spectroscopy" - Françoise Pauzat
"Astronomical models" - Bruce Draine

Session 2: PAHs in regions of planet formation
"Observations of PAHs in disks around young stellar objects" - Bram Acke
"Evolutions of PAHs in protoplanetary disks" - Inga Kamp

Session 3: PAHs and star formation in the near and far Universe
"PAHs as tracers of star formation" - Daniela Calzetti
"PAHs in the far Universe" - Guilaine Lagache

Session 4: The lifecycle of PAHs in space
"PAH formation in circumstellar environments" - Isabelle Cherchneff
"PAH evolution in the harsh environment of the ISM" - Hidehiro Kaneda
"PAH evolution in molecular clouds" - Mathias Rapacioli

Session 5: Interrelationship of PAHs and carbonaceous grains
"From PAHs to solid carbon" - Cornelia Jäger
"Observations of interstellar carbon compounds" - Emmanuel Dartois

Session 6: PAHs and the extinction curve
"PAHs and the extinction curve" - Giacomo Mulas
"Spectroscopy of PAHs" - Thomas Pino

Session 7: The role of PAHs in the interstellar medium
"PAHs and the chemistry of the ISM" - Veronica Bierbaum
"PAHs and the physics of the ISM" - Laurent Verstraete

Session 8: PAHs in extraterrestrial samples
"PAHs in extraterrestrial samples" - Luann Becker

Session 9: Future perspectives
Round table discussion
Farid Salama (laboratory, spectroscopy), Tim Lee (quantum chemical aspects), Martin Giard (space missions), Karl Gordon (astronomy)

Session 10: Special talks
"PAHs and astrobiology" - Lou Allamandola
"Darwin" - Alain Léger

Summary of the meeting - Alain Omont