21st International Microlensing Conference

Ushering in the New Age of Microlensing from Space

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Poster Presentations (posters will be on view throughout the conference in the Piazza room):

• Microlensing Planets in the NASA Exoplanet Archive — Rachel Akeson (Caltech-IPAC/NExScI)
• OGLE2016-BLG-1195/MOA2016-BLG-350Lb: the Lowest Mass Ratio Planetary Microlens — Ian Bond (Massey University)
• Near-field microlensing with Evryscope, the first full-sky, gigapixel-scale survey — Henry Corbett (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• MuSCAT & MuSCAT2: New Multiband Imagers for Precise Photometry — Akihiko Fukui (Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, NAOJ)
• Host Star Dependence of Small Planet Mass-Radius Distributions — Andrew Neil (University of Chicago)

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Tuesday, January 31, 1 pm - 5 pm

Microlensing Tutorial, Keith Spalding Building Room 410 , Caltech

• Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory) — The Role and Strengths of Gravitational Microlensing for Exoplanet Detection and Characterization
• Yossi Shvartzvald (JPL/Caltech) — Microlensing Theory and Observables
• Calen Henderson (JPL/Caltech) — Extracting Physical Parameters from Microlensing Observables
• Jennifer Yee (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) — Recent Microlensing Results
• Scott Gaudi (The Ohio State University) — The Future of Exoplanetary Microlensing

6:30-8:30 pm Registration and Opening Reception, Sheraton Hotel, Piazza Room

Wednesday, February 1

• 8:00 am: Continental Breakfast Available in Piazza Room
• 9:00 am: Welcome and Conference Introduction — Chas Beichman (Caltech-IPAC/NExScI)

Planet Formation and Evolution (session chair: Angie Wolfgang)

• 9:10 am: Invited Talk: Structure, Formation, and Evolution of Low-mass Planets — Leslie Rogers (University of Chicago)
• 9:50 am: Exoplanets on Wide Orbits — Radek Poleski (The Ohio State University)
• 10:05 am: Morning Break
• 10:45 am: Invited Talk: How Can Microlensing Observations Inform Theories of Planet Formation? — Sally Dodson-Robinson (University of Delaware)
• 11:25 am: Super-Earths as Failed Cores in Orbital Migration Traps — Yasuhiro Hasegawa (JPL/Caltech)
• 11:40 am: Lunch

Modeling Techniques (session chair: Clément Ranc)

• 1:00 pm: VBBinaryLensing: a public code for binary microlensing computation — Valerio Bozza (University of Salerno)
• 1:15 pm: Bayesian Analysis of Microlensing Events using MultiNest — Ashna Sharan (University of Auckland)
• 1:30 pm: First Year of pyLIMA: progress and plans — Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
• 1:45 pm: Digging with care - A systematic approach for characterising subtle microlensing features — Martin Dominik (SUPA, University of St. Andrews)
• 2:00 pm: Development of multi-lens modelling codes — Nicholas Rattenbury (The University of Auckland)
• 2:15 pm: Red noise in microlensing lightcurves — Michael Albrow (University of Canterbury)
• 2:30 pm: Critical-Curve Evolution During the Orbital Motion of Triple Lenses — David Heyrovsky (Charles University)
• 2:45 pm: Afternoon Break

Microlensing Observations (session chair: Calen Henderson)

• 3:15 pm: Quarter of a Century with OGLE — Andrzej Udalski (Warsaw University Observatory)
• 3:55 pm: MOA Collaboration Observations and Analysis in 2016 and Beyond — David Bennett (NASA GSFC)
• 4:10 pm: Microlensing at LCO: Season 2016 and Future Plans — Rachel Street (LCO)
• 4:25 pm: Hybrid follow-up strategies for identifying the cold worlds among the microlensing planets — Markus Hundertmark (Heidelberg University)
• 4:40 pm: KMTNet Event Finder and Data Policy — Andrew Gould (The Ohio State University)
• 5:00 pm: UKIRT microlensing surveys as a pathfinder for WFIRST — Yossi Shvartzvald (JPL)
• 5:15 pm: Adjourn

Thursday, February 2

• 8:00 am: Continental Breakfast Available in Piazza Room

Exoplanet Demographics (session chair: Jennifer Yee)

• 9:00 am: Invited Talk: The Synthesis of Microlensing, Radial Velocity, and Direct Imaging Results: Constraining the Abundance and Demographics of Bound and Unbound Planets — Christian Clanton (NASA Ames)
• 9:40 am: Exploring free-floating planet population with the OGLE data — Przemek Mroz (Warsaw University Observatory)
• 9:55 am: A Key Ingredient in the Microlensing-Transit Comparison: A Period-Dependent Mass-Radius Relation — Angie Wolfgang (Penn State University)
• 10:10 am: Morning Break

Galactic Structure (session chair: Markus Hundertmark)

• 10:45 am: Invited Talk: Combining Microlensing with Made-to-measure Dynamical Models: The Inner Milky Way Has a Low DM Fraction and Near-Kroupa IMF — Chris Wegg (MPE)
• 11:25 am: The EROS data toward the Galactic arms and the Galactic structure — Marc Moniez (LAL-IN2P3)
• 11:40 am: Lunch

Event Discovery and Analysis (session chair: Yossi Shvartzvald)

• 1:00 pm: The interpretations of two binary-source microlensing events — Youn Kil Jung (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
• 1:15 pm: Prediction and confirmation of the microlens parallax effect based on space observation: OGLE-2016-BLG-0168 — In-Gu Shin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
• 1:30 pm: OGLE-2015-BLG-1737: a giant planet beyond the snow line — Clément Ranc (USRA/NASA GSFC)
• 1:45 pm: MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb: Possible Most Massive Planet around K-Dwarf in the Galactic Bulge — Naoki Koshimoto (Osaka University/UMBC)
• 2:00 pm: Detection of an Ice Giant by Microlensing Combining Ground-Space Parallax and Adaptive Optics Observations — Andrew Cole (University of Tasmania)
• 2:15 pm: Analysis of the Single Lens Event OGLE-2015-BLG-1482 — Sun-Ju Chung (KASI)
• 2:30 pm: Microlensing Mass Measurements Using Keck AO, Paving the Road for Euclid and WFIRST — Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (IAP)
• 2:45 pm: Gaia16aye - spectacular Galactic Disk binary microlensing event from Gaia — Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)
• 3:00 pm: Developing the WFIRST Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method — Aparna Bhattacharya (NASA GSFC/Notre Dame/UMBC)
• 3:15 pm: Afternoon Break

Astrometric Microlensing (session chair: Radek Poleski)

• 3:45 pm: Invited Talk: Finding Free-floating Black Holes with Astrometric Microlensing — Jessica Lu (Berkeley)
• 4:25 pm: Constraints on the Mass of Microlenses from HST Astrometric Measurements — Noé Kains (STScI)
• 4:40 pm: Hubble Space Telescope measures the mass of a white dwarf through astrometric microlensing — Kailash Sahu (STScI)
• 4:55 pm: Astrometric microlensing with Gaia satellite — Krzysztof Rybicki (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)
• 5:10 pm: Adjourn

7:00 pm: Conference Dinner at Porto Alegre

Friday, February 3

• 8:00 am: Continental Breakfast Available in Piazza Room

K2C9 (session chair: Tom Barclay)

• 9:00 am: Overview of the K2 Campaign 9 Microlensing Science Experiment — Geert Barentsen (NASA Ames Research Center)
• 9:15 am: Invited Talk: K2 Campaign Photometry: Causal Pixel Mode — Dun Wang (New York University)
• 9:55 am: Super Stamp Photometry of Microlensing targets in K2 Campaign — Xu Huang (Univ. of Toronto/MIT Kavli Institute)
• 10:10 am: Morning Break
• 10:45 am: A Keck Target-of-Opportunity Program in Search of Free-floating Planets During K2's Campaign 9 — Calen Henderson (JPL/Caltech)
• 11:00 am: Data reduction and modelling of microlensing events observed by CFHT — Shude Mao (Tsinghua University)

Spitzer (session chair: Aparna Bhattacharya)

• 11:15 am: 2016 Spitzer Microlensing Campaign — Jennifer Yee (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
• 11:30 am: Results from the 2015 high-cadence Spitzer microlensing sample — Wei Zhu (The Ohio State University)
• 11:45 am: Microlensing Parallax for Observers in Heliocentric Motion — Sebastiano Calchi Novati (Caltech/IPAC)
• 12:00 pm: Lunch

WFIRST (session chair: Geert Barentsen)

• 1:30 pm: Completing the Census of Exoplanetary Systems with WFIRST — Scott Gaudi (The Ohio State University)
• 1:45 pm: Invited Talk: The Extinction Curve Toward the Bulge and Implications for the WFIRST Microlensing Campaign — David Nataf (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
• 2:25 pm: The Demographics of Rocky Free-Floating Planets and Their Detectability by WFIRST — Tom Barclay (NASA Ames)
• 2:40 pm: The IR Microlensing Survey Telescope in SAAO — Daisuke Suzuki (UMBC/CRESST/NASA GSFC)
• 2:55 pm: Exploring Microlensing Parallax with WFIRST and LSST — Michael Lund (Vanderbilt University)
• 3:10 pm: Summary — Chas Beichman (Caltech-IPAC/NExScI)
• 3:20 pm: Extended Afternoon Break and Free-form Discussion

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