Planet Formation

0: Introduction
- Motivation, The Solar System, Exoplanets, Literature

1: Historical Overview
- historical views on Solar System, classical models on planet formation

2: The Solar System
- Object, orbits, physical properties, chronology of Solar System bodies

3: Extrasolar Planets
- Discovery methods, individual objects, statistical properties

4: Protoplanetary Disks
- star formation, theory and observations of PPDs

5: From dust to planetesimals
- dust growth, dust in turbulent disks, statistical models

6: Formation of terrestrial planets
- from planetesimals to protoplanets, Moon formation

7: Formation of massive planets
- core-instability models, accretion of gaseous envelopes

8: Planet formation through self-gravity
- alternative route to planet formation

9: Planet-disk interaction
- planets in disks, change of orbital elements

10: Population synthesis
- evolution of an ensemble of planets, statistical analyses

11: Multi-body systems
- long-term dynamical evolution of planetary systems, instabilities

12: The dynamical structure of the Solar System
- longterm evolution of Solar System (Nice and Grand Tack models)

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