Announcement of Conference: “Rocks’n’Stars: The Solar System within Geo- and Astrophysics”

8-11 October 2012
Göttingen, Germany.

In 2012, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) celebrates the 10th anniversary of its International Max Planck Research School on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond. On the occasion, the current PhD students of the Solar System School are organizing a scientific conference, named Rocks’n’Stars.

The conference covers all research topics of the Solar System within Geo- and Astrophysics, including sessions on star and planet formation, solar-stellar relations, the solar photosphere and chromosphere, the solar corona and solar wind, solar MHD, solar variability and climate, Sun-planet interactions, terrestrial planets, gas planets, planetary dynamics, small bodies in the solar system, and exoplanets.

The Rocks’n’Stars conference will be attended, by leading researches in solar system sciences, both former and current students of the Solar System school and by further attendees from institutes other then MPS.

Please visit our website – http://www.rocksnstars.de
Registration deadline – 10th August, 2012.

http://www.rocksnstars.de