WE WILL BUILD ON OUR RECENT EFFORTS BY APPLYING OUR EXISTING NUMERICAL MODELS TO TRACK THE PATHS THAT DUST GRAINS TAKE THROUGH THE PROTOPLANETARY DISK ALLOW THE GRAINS TO GROW INTO LARGER AGGREGATES AND CHANGE THE OPACITY OF THE DISK RECORD THE ENVIRONMENTS TO WHICH THEY WERE EXPOSED AND CALCULATE THE CHEMICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR UNTIL THEY ARE LOCKED UP IN PEBBLES PROVIDING THE FEEDSTOCK FOR PLANETESIMALS AND PLANETS.

University Of Chicago, Chicago IL

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