Title:

Dynamics of Circumstellar Rings: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond



Eugene Chiang
Unuversity of California, Berkeley





Abstract:

Circumstellar disks not only furnish the raw material from which
planets form, but also record, via their dynamical structures, the
history of events during the era of planet formation.  I will review
the histories encoded within three examples of circumstellar disks:
(1) the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt of planetesimals in our own planetary
system, (2) debris disks surrounding main-sequence stars such as
Vega, and (3) the warped ring encircling the famously puzzling
pre-main-sequence T Tauri star, KH 15D.