The schedule, topics and coordinators of the planned Planet-Z events are listed below. For each of these themes the speakers will discuss the state-of-the-art of the field, the research techniques and their current limitations.

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Upcoming Events

• December 13, 2011 - Prof. Alessandro Morbidelli (Observatory Cote d'Azure) speaking at Astrophysical Seminar (IfA)
• December 19, 2011 - Prof. Michael Meyer (Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich) speaking at the ERDW Department Colloquium on "Astronomical Constraints on Theories of Planet Formation: Understanding the When, Where and How"
• December 21, 2011 - Prof. Paul Tackley (Institute for Geophysics, ERDW, ETH Zurich) speaking at Zurich Physics Colloquium on "The Dynamics and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets in our Solar System and Beyond"
• Date TBA - Isotopic anomalies in meteorites : Implications for the heterogeneity of the solar nebula.

Past Events

• November 25, 2011 - The Atmospheres and Interiors of (Exo)planets
• May 27, 2011 - Disks and Satellites Around Forming Planets
• March 18, 2011 - Effects of Environment on Planet Formation
• December 10, 2010 - Planet-Z meeting: Terrestrial Planet Formation
• November 23, 2010, 16:15 - Davis M. speaking at Astrophysical Seminar (IfA) on "Planetary systems in stellar clusters"
• November 15, 2010, 17:15 - Prof. Herbert Palme (University of Cologne) speaking at ERDW Seminar on "Meteorites and the Composition of the Earth"
• October 11-15, 2010 - Prof. Kristen Menou (Columbia University, Ney York) visiting
• October 15, 2010 - Planet-Z meeting: Gas Giants - Formation and Atmospheres
• October 11, 2010 - Prof. Kristen Menou (Columbia University, Ney York) - Theoretical Physics Colloquium on "Exoplanetary Atmospheres" (Irchel, Lecture Hall Y16G05, 16:45h).
• October 6, 2010 - Prof. Greg Laughlin - Zurich Physics Colloquium on "Probing the Physical Properties of Extrasolar Planets" (16:45 HPV G4, Hoenggerberg Campus).
• October 5-6, 2010 - Prof. Greg Laughlin (University of California, Santa Cruz) visiting.
• July 21, 2010 - Diversity of Solids in Planetary Systems
• June 20-24, 2010 - Morris Podolak (Tel Aviv University) visiting; host: Lucio Mayer, ITP, UniZ.
• June 1, 2010 - Gas rich disks and giant planet formation
• March 26, 2010 - Chemistry and Composition: Constraints on Forming Planets
• November 17, 2009 - Planetary accretion histories
• October 5, 2009 - Re-initiating Planet-Z
• January 28, 2008 - Achievements in the frame of the Planet-Z project
  Laure Fouchet, Ryuji Morishima, Henri Samuel
• June 21, 2007 - Search for extrasolar planets and planetary systems
  Hans-Martin Schmid
• April 2, 2007 - Comparative Planetary Evolution
  Henri Samuel and Paul Tackley
• November 13, 2006 - Early Planetary Differentiation and Evolution
  Henri Samuel and Paul Tackley
• June 21, 2006 - Formation of terrestrial planets and impact history
  Ryuji Morishima and Max Schmidt
• April 11, 2006 - Gravity: planetesimals and disk instabilities
  Lucio Mayer, Joachim Stadel, Willy Benz
• February 7, 2006 - Star formation and circumstellar disks
  Laure Fouchet
• November 18, 2005 - Initial Jamboree
  Laure Fouchet