Monday, September 18
| 8:30 am | Registration Desk Open outside Beckman Institute Auditorium | |
| 9:00 am | Welcome | Calen Henderson (IPAC/Caltech) |
| Planet Characterization | Session Chair: Arpita Roy (Caltech) | |
| 9:10 am | Invited Talk: Characterizing Small Exoplanets | Johanna Teske (Carnegie Observatories/DTM) |
| 9:40 am | Using AO Follow-up to Characterize Microlensing Exoplanets | Calen Henderson (IPAC/Caltech) |
| 9:50 am | Orbits for the Impatient: A Bayesian Rejection Sampling Method for Quickly Fitting the Orbits of Long-Period Exoplanets | Sarah Blunt (Caltech) |
| 10:00 am | FINESSE and CASE: Two Proposed Transiting Exoplanet Missions | Rob Zellem (JPL/Caltech) |
| 10:10 am | Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets with SCExAO/CHARIS | Thayne Currie (Subaru Telescope/NAOJ) |
| 10:20 am | An Earth-mass Planet in a 1-AU Orbit around an Ultracool Dwarf | Yossi Shvartzvald (JPL) |
| 10:30 am | Morning Break | |
| Disks and Binary Systems | Session Chair: BJ Fulton (Caltech) | |
| 11:00 am | The Role of Ice Compositions and Disk Dynamics for Snowlines and the C/N/O Ratios in Active Disks | Ana-Maria Piso (UCLA) |
| 11:10 am | The Frequency of Binary Companions Around KELT Planet Host Stars | Carl Coker (JPL) |
| 11:20 am | Measuring the structure of Fomalhaut's dusty debris belt via a fortuitous stellar occultation | Tiffany Meshkat (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 11:30 am | A Circumbinary Planet Orbiting A Pair of Active Stars | Sean Mills (Caltech) |
| 11:40 am | The Era of 'Faint' Debris Disks | Rahul Patel (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 11:50 am | The Fate of Planets in Evolving Binary Systems | Alexander Stephan (UCLA) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch (at 1919 Café at the Huntington) | |
| 2:00-5:00 pm | Excursion to the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens including the history of science exhibit (optional) |
Tuesday, September 19
| 8:30 am | Registration Desk Open outside Beckman Institute Auditorium | ||
| Habitability | Session Chair: Vanessa Bailey (Stanford/JPL) | ||
| 9:00 am | Invited Talk: Exoplanet Climatology: A Pathway to Accurate Assessments of Planetary Habitability | Aomawa Shields (University of California, Irvine) | |
| 9:30 am | Adventures in the TRAPPIST-1 System: Moons and Atmospheres | Stephen Kane (University of California, Riverside) | |
| 9:40 am | Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems | Siegfried Eggl (JPL/Caltech) | |
| 9:50 am | Buildup of Abiotic Oxygen and Ozone in Oxidized Atmospheres of Water-rich Temperate Exoplanets | Armin Kleinboehl (JPL/Caltech) | |
| 10:00 am | The Effects of Near-Resonant Companions on Planetary Spin States | Alec Vinson (UCLA) | |
| 10:10 am | Exoplanet Science with the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) | Andrew Howard (Caltech) | |
| 10:20 am | Poster Pops | ||
| 10:30 am | Morning Break | ||
| Outreach Activities | Session Chair: Stephen Kane (UC Riverside) | ||
| 11:00 am | Alan Alda Science Communication Workshop, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Practice Interview | Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) | |
| 11:08 am | Astronomy Live! and EYU at UCLA | Xinnan Du (UCLA) | |
| 11:16 am | Inreach and Outreach at Caltech Astronomy | Cameron Hummels (Caltech) | |
| 11:24 am | Art Worlds: Designing the Look of the TRAPPIST-1 System | Robert Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) | |
| 11:32 am | Political Action and Reel Science | Rahul Patel (Caltech/IPAC) | |
| 11:40 am | NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP): Getting Teachers Involved in Authentic Astronomy Research Since 2005 | Luisa Rebull (Caltech/IPAC-IRSA, NITARP, SSC) | |
| 11:48 am | City of Astronomy: Outreach at Carnegie Observatories and in Pasadena | Jeffrey Rich (Carnegie Observatories) | |
| 11:56 am | PRoboT: The Pasadena High School Robotic Telescope Project | Garreth Ruane (Caltech) | |
| 12:04 pm | Lunch (provided) | ||
| Theory and Planet Formation | Session Chair: Becky Jensen-Clem (UC Berkeley/Caltech) | ||
| 1:30 pm | Invited Talk: Ultra-short Period Planets, Magnetospheric Truncation, and Tidal Inspiral | Eve Lee (Caltech) | |
| 2:00 pm | First 3D radiation non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the inner rim | Mario Flock (JPL/Caltech) | |
| 2:10 pm | Magnetically Induced Disk Winds and Transport in the HL Tau Disk | Yasuhiro Hasegawa (JPL/Caltech) | |
| 2:20 pm | From clouds to exoplanets: What dust growth during the cloud collapse can tell us about the first exoplanets | Natalia Dzyurkevich (California State University, Northridge) | |
| 2:30 pm | Planetary spirals in transition disks -- a cautionary tale | Wladimir Lyra (California State University, Northridge) | |
| 2:40 pm | Atmospheric & Space Sciences Research at Northrop Grumman Basic Research | Trisha Hinners (Northrop Grumman Corporation) | |
| 2:50 pm | Group Photo | ||
| 3:00 pm | Afternoon Break | ||
| Planet Detection | Session Chair: Brad Hansen (UCLA) | ||
| 3:30 pm | Promises, Promises: Radial Velocity in the Era of Extreme Precision | Arpita Roy (Caltech) | |
| 3:40 pm | Coronagraph Design for the WFIRST CGI | A J Eldorado Riggs (JPL) | |
| 3:50 pm | The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap In The Radius Distribution Of Small Planets | BJ Fulton (Caltech) | |
| 4:00 pm | Status and performance of the Gemini Planet Imager | Vanessa Bailey (Stanford/JPL) | |
| 4:10 pm | Towards the detection of polarized thermal emission from directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs | Rebecca Jensen-Clem (UC Berkeley) | |
| 4:20 pm | Mapping the Cloudy Atmospheres of L-T Brown Dwarfs with High-Precision Spectro-Polarimetry | Ricky Nilsson (Caltech) | |
| 4:30 pm | High-Contrast Imaging of Young Planets with JWST | Marie Ygouf (Caltech/IPAC) | |
| 4:40 pm | Improvement on Exoplanet Detection Methods and Analysis via Gaussian Process Fitting Techniques | Bryce Van Ross (California State University, Los Angeles) | |
| 4:50 - 7:00 pm | Pizza and Drinks (Beckman Courtyard) |
Invited research talks: 25 + 5
Contributed research talks: 7 + 3
Outreach talks: 5 + 3
Poster pops (Tuesday AM): 1 + 0
(last updated September 27th, 2017 08:10:13)
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