  The inner Solar System contains a cloud of small (1-100 micron) dust grains
created when small bodies-asteroids, comets, and Kuiper belt objects-collide
and outgas. This dust cloud, the zodiacal cloud probably has extrasolar
analogs, exozodiacal clouds. Exozodiacal clouds are related to debris disks,
clouds of rocks and dust orbiting main sequence stars thought to represent the
debris left over from planet formation. Some debris disks appear to contain
distinct inner clouds that could be considered massive exozodiacal clouds (e.g.
Koerner et al. 1998, Absil et al. 2006). This white paper addresses the need
for future theoretical work on the dynamics of exozodiacal clouds. This
theoretical work should help us discover new planets and understand exozodiacal
clouds as astrophysical noise. So far, observations of nearby stars have not
provided good constraints on the structures of exozodiacal clouds. But future
observations probably will demand a better theoretical understanding of these
systems.
