Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminaries. Fourth day of creation: the proto-history of young stars, star streams, and exoplanets near the sun / V. Trimble -- Star formation in the local Milky Way / C.J. Lada -- A brief history of the study of nearby young moving groups and their members / J.H. Kastner -- part 1. A pre-gaia census of nearby stellar groups / E.E. Mamajek -- Nearby young moving groups: statistical methods and challenges for assigning membership / L. Malo [and 5 others] -- LACEwING: lessons from a new moving group code / A.R. Riedel -- Chemical tagging of FGK stars: testing the membership of young stellar kinematics groups / D. Montes, H.M. Tabernero & J.I.G. Hernández -- The isochronal age scale of young moving groups in the solar neighbourhood / C.P.M. Bell, E.E. Mamjek & T. Naylor -- The BANYAN all-sky survey for brown dwarf members of young moving groups / J. Gagné [and 11 others] -- An pan-STARRS1 search for substellar young moving group members / K.M. aLLER, M.C. Liu & E.A. Magnier -- New low-mass accretors in the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association / S.J. Murphy, W.A. Lawson & J. Bento -- The WISE census of young stellar objects in Canis Major / W.J. Fischer, D.L. Padgett & K.R. Stapelfeldt -- A new, young, low-mass spectroscopic binary without a name / L.S. Flagg [and 5 others] -- Effect of prior information on Bayesian membership calculations for nearby young star associations / J. Lee & I. Song -- Where wild young M Dwarfs are: the SUPERBLINK proper motion survey and a search for low-mass moving group candidates / S. Lépine -- Kinematics of M dwarfs in the CARMENES input catalogue: membership in young moving groups / D. Montes [and 4 others] -- A wide angle search for hot Jupiters and pre-main sequence binaries in young stellar associations / R.J. Oelkers [and 10 others] -- Searching for young M dwarfs near the sun: fast rotators in the K2 field / D. Saylor & Lepine -- The All Sky Young Association (ASYA): a new young association / C.A.O. Torres, G.R.Quast & D. Montes -- part 2. The early evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. Stellar evolution modes of young stars: progress and limitations / G.A. Feiden -- Anomalous spectral types and intrinsic colors of young stars / M.J. Pecaut -- The impact of starspots on mass and age estimages during the pre-main sequence / G. Somers & M.H. Pinsonneault -- Lithium depletion boundary ages of young stars: inconsistencies in pre-main sequence models / I. Song -- Cloud driven variability on young brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets / B. Biller -- Accretion, disks, and magetnic activity in the TW Hya Association / B. Stelzer, A. Frasca & J.M. Alcalà -- Angular momentum evolution of young solar-type stars / L. Amard, A. Palacios & C. Charbonnel -- The evolution of surface magnetic fields in young solar-type stars / C.P. Folsom [and 5 others] -- Radio emission from binary stars in the AB Doradus Moving Group / R. Azulay [and 4 others] -- Determining the ages of nearby A-stars with long-baseline interferometry / J. Jones [and 7 others] -- Low-gravity L dwarfs are likely more variable / S. Metchev [and 9 others] -- Rotation periods of nearby, mid-to-late M dwarfs from the MEarth Project / E.R. Newton [and 4 others] -- Magnetic activity of pre-main sequence stars near the stellar-substellar boundary / D. Principe, J.H. Kastner & D. Rodriguez -- part 3. The dispersal of protoplanetary disks and the origins of debris disks. The structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks: an infrared and submillimeter view / L.A. Cieza -- Protoplanetary disk evolution: singles vs. binaries / S. Daemgen [and 3 others] -- Gas cavities inside dust cavities in disks inferred from ALMA observations / N. van der Marel [and 6 others] -- The chemistry of nearby disks / K.I. Öberg -- X-raying circumstellar material around young stars / P.C. Schneider & H.M. Günther -- Photoevaporation and disk dispersal / U. Gorti -- The debris disk fraction for M-dwarfs in nearby young moving groups / A. Binks -- Two-temperature debris disks: signposts for directly imaged planets? / G.M. Kennedy & M.C. Wyatt -- Fire results from the Disk Eclipse Search with KELT (DESK) survey / J.E. Rodriguez, J. Pepper & K.G. Stassun -- Modeling of a giant exoring system around the substellar companion J1407b / M.A. Kenworthy & E.E. Mamajek -- Warm debris disks with WISE and HST / D. Padgett & K. Stapelfeldt -- Comprehensive census and complete characterization of nearby debris disk stars / T.H. Cotten & I. Song -- Debris disks in nearby young moving groups in the ALMA era / Á. Kóspál & A. Moór -- Cosmic rays and the origin of volatiles in protoplanetary disks / G. Chaparro-Molano & I. Kamp -- T Tauri disk lifetime in the Lupus Association / P.A.B. Gallis [and 3 others] -- Rings of C₂H in the molecular disks orbiting TW Hya and V4046 Sgr / J.H. Kastner [and 7 others] -- Vertical shear instability in the solar nebula / M.-K. Lin & A.N. Youdin -- HD 76582's circumstellar debris disk / J.P. Marshall on behalf of the SONS consortium -- Sensitive identification of nearby debris disks via precise calibration of WISE data / R. Patel [and 3 others] -- HD141569A: disk dissipation caught in action / J. Péricaud [and 5 others] -- Constraining x-ray-induced photoevaporation of protoplanetary disks orbiting low-mass stars / K.M. Punzi [and 4 others] -- The age of Taurus: environmental effects on disc lifetimes / J.M. Rees [and 4 others] -- A molecular disk survey of low-mass stars in the TW Hya Association / D.R. Rodriguez [and 7 others] -- Mid-infrared variability and accretion in NGC 2264 protostars / S. Terebey [and 3 others] -- On the possibility to identify a companion in a protoplanetary disk / O.V. Zakhozhay -- part 4. The early evolution of planetary systems. Direct imaging of exoplanets living an exciting life / G. Chauvin -- Mapping the distributions of exoplanet populations with NICI and GPI / E.L. Nielsen [and 14 others] -- What do young brown dwarfs tell us about expolanets? / K.N. Allers, M.C. Liu & T.J. Dupuy -- A young planetary mass companion to the nearby M dwarf VHS J125601.92-125723.9 / B. Gauza [and 7 others] -- Planetary evaporation and the dynamics of planet wind/stellar wind bow shocks / A. Frank [and 6 others] -- Can the dustiest main sequence stars tell us about the Rocky Planet Formation Process / C. Melis -- A possible dynamical history for the Fomalhaut System / V. Faramaz -- Collisions of planetesimals and formation of planets / R. Dvorak [and 6 others] -- Young stars and planets near the sun: explosive phenomena from falling evaporating bodies / S. Ibadov & F.S. Ibodov -- Near-infrared spectroscopy of brown dwarf and planetary-mass members in upper Scorpius / N. Lodieu -- Rotation profile fo Kepler-63 from planetary transits / Y. Netto & A. Valio -- Star-planet interaction: the curious case of the planet spoon-feeding its host star (and other amenities) / I. Pillitteri [and 3 others] -- part 5. Prospects for advances in the study of nearby young stars and planets. Gaia: the astronomy revolution / A. Sozzetti [and 4 others] -- ALMA and the future of millimeter imaging observations / D.J. Wilner -- Studying young stars with large spectroscopic surveys / S.L. Martell -- eROSITA - nearby young stars in x-rays / J. Robrade -- Precise near-infrared radial velocities / P. Plavchan [and 33 others] -- Toward direct imaging of low-mass gas-giant planets with James Webb Space Telescope / J.E. Schlieder [and 3 others] -- part 6. Conference summary. Young stars & planets near the sun in 2015: five takeaways and five predictions / M.C. Liu -- Author index.