Monday, August 31, 2026
10:40 AM–10:50 AM Welcoming Remarks
10:50 AM–11:10 AM Poster Presenters
11:10 AM–11:40 AM Poster Session
11:40 AM–1:10 PM Lunch
1:10 PM–1:30 PM Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
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Asymmetric dust distributions in debris disks and their impact on the direct imaging of Earth-mass exoplanets ➤
1:30 PM–1:50 PM Gaël Rouillé (Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany)
1:50 PM–2:50 PM Poster Session/Coffee Break
2:50 PM–3:30 PM Satoshi Ohashi (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)†
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Dust polarization observations with ALMA will help us to understand grain growth and magnetic field structure in circumstellar disks for planet formation ➤
3:30 PM–3:50 PM Grace A. Batalla-Falcon (Univ. Diego Portales, Chile)
3:50 PM–4:50 PM Poster Session/Coffee Break
4:50 PM–5:10 PM Francois Ménard (IPAG, France)
5:10 PM–5:30 PM Maxime Roumesy (IPAG France)
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Dust properties in planet-forming disks: Insights from observation, scattering phase function and disk color ➤
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Night Session/Dinner (Optional)
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
10:40 AM–11:00 AM Remi Zerna (IPAG, France)
11:00 AM–11:20 AM Ludmilla Kolokolova (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
11:20 AM–11:40 AM Hiroshi Kimura (Chiba Tech/PERC, Japan)
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A theoretical study on the dynamic tensile strength of aggregate dust and monolithic dust: Toward a better understanding of ejecta cloud formation ➤
11:40 AM–1:10 PM Lunch
1:10 PM–1:30 PM Eric J. Pantin (IRFU CEA Saclay, France)
1:30 PM–1:50 PM Alberto Flandes (Geophys. Inst./UNAM, Mexico)
1:50 PM–2:50 PM Poster Session/Coffee Break
2:50 PM–3:30 PM Cécile Engrand (IJCLab, Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS, France)†
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In situ analyses of cometary dust from Rosetta/COSIMA and cometary dust from terrestrial collections
3:30 PM–3:50 PM Giovanna Rinaldi (IAPS-INAF, Italy)
3:50 PM–4:50 PM Poster Session/Coffee Break
4:50 PM–5:10 PM Ambra Nanni (NCBJ, Poland)
5:10 PM–5:30 PM Lucas P. Kolanz (Oregon State Univ., USA)
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Night Session/Dinner (Optional)
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
10:40 AM–11:20 AM Joseph A. Nuth (NASA - GSFC, USA)†
11:20 AM–11:40 AM Hanako Enomoto (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
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Systematic constraints on chemical compositions of amorphous silicate dust using new optical constants ➤
11:40 AM–1:10 PM Lunch
1:30 PM–6:00 PM Excursion@Imabari Castle
6:30 PM–8:30 PM Banquet@Yusyokubouya
Thursday, September 3, 2026
10:40 AM–11:20 AM Alan T. Tokunaga (Univ. Hawaii, USA)†
11:20 AM–11:40 AM Sho Fujita (Tohoku Univ. Japan)
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Investigating the origins of UIR in the ISM: Theoretical calculations of imino-group-containing PAHs ➤
11:40 AM–1:10 PM Lunch
1:10 PM–1:30 PM Bo Yang (Univ. of Missouri Columbia, USA) — CANCELED
1:30 PM–1:50 PM Leo Belloir (CEA, France)
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Impact of the dust properties on the photoelectric heating efficiency of the gas, using Spitzer, Herschel and SOFIA observations of the LMC ➤
1:50 PM–2:50 PM Poster Session/Coffee Break
2:50 PM–3:30 PM Vladan Markov (Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia)†
3:30 PM–3:50 PM Hye-Jin Park (CEA Paris-Saclay, France)
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Probing dust grain properties in low-metallicity galaxies through the sub-mm excess with IRAM-30m/NIKA2 ➤
3:50 PM–4:50 PM Poster Session/Coffee Break
4:50 PM–5:10 PM Aigen Li (Univ. of Missouri, USA) — CANCELED
4:50 PM–5:10 PM Takashi Shimonishi (Niigata Univ., Japan)
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Can organic molecules survive a supernova explosion? ➤
5:10 PM–5:30 PM Bogdan Adrian Pastrav (ISS, Romania) — CANCELED
5:10 PM–5:30 PM Saikhom Pravash Singh (IIA, India)
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Grain alignment mechanisms in the massive quiescent filament G16 using thermal dust polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Night Session/Dinner (Optional)
Friday, September 4, 2026
10:40 AM–11:20 AM Jianwei Lyu (Steward Obs., Univ. of Arizona, USA)†
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Dusty active galactic nuclei from the nearby universe to Cosmic Dawn: The evolving picture and new insights in the JWST era ➤
11:20 AM–11:40 AM Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya Univ. Japan)
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A systematic study on the processing of hydrocarbon dust in various types of galaxies with AKARI and JWST ➤
11:40 AM–12:00 PM Takashi Onaka (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
12:00 PM–12:10 PM Adjourning Remarks
Poster Presenters:
Ryo Tazaki (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Yuki Yoshida (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Sota Arakawa (JAMSTEC, Japan)
Yukari M. Toyoda (ABC, NAOJ, Japan)
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Experimental study on the coefficient of restitution and rotation in low-velocity oblique impacts of ice spheres onto solid targets ➤
Masanori Kobayashi (Chiba Tech, Japan)
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Development of a large-area dust detector using electric field probes for in-situ measurement of hypervelocity micro-meteoroid impacts ➤
Vijay Pratap Singh (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Viraj Karambelkar (Columbia Univ., USA) — CANCELED
Jonathan A. Jäger (MPIA, Germany)
Saikhom Pravash Singh (IIA, India)
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Grain alignment mechanisms and grain properties in the massive quiescent filament G16.96+0.27 using dust polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2 ➤
Mitali Damle (New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Enrico Garaldi (Kavli IPMU, Japan) — CANCELED
N.B.
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•Every speaker is assumed to welcome questions whenever arise.
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•Poster presenters are given 1 minute each for oral presentations.
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•The first 10 min. of each poster session is a core time for poster presentations.
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•Invited speakers are marked with a dagger (†).
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•Best poster awardees are marked with a ribbon ().
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•A compilation of abstracts is available for download.
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•Click on arrowheads (➤) to download associated presentations [authorized persons only].