Exploring Strange New Worlds: From Giant Planets to Super Earths
High Country Conference Center, Flagstaff, AZ
May 1-6, 2011
agenda
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Sunday, May 1
12-6 pm |
Registration at High Country Conference Center (HCCC) | |
6-8 pm |
Reception and Continued Registration at HCCC |
Monday, May 2 - Planet Formation and Disks: Lessons from Solar System and Expectations for JWST
7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast in Agassiz-Fremont Rooms | |
8:15 am |
Welcoming Comments | Chas Beichman (NExScI), Malcolm Fridlund (ESA) and Dawn Gelino (NExScI) |
| Session Chair: Malcolm Fridlund | ||
8:30 am |
Formation of the Solar System: Follow the Water | Hal Levison (SWRI) |
9:10 am |
Dusty Disks with Herschel: from Protoplanetary to Debris Systems | Jean-Charles Augereau (Grenoble Obs.) |
9:50 am |
Morning Break | |
| Session Chair: Chas Beichman | ||
10:20 am |
Overview and the James Webb Space Telescope and its Capabilities for Exoplanet Observations | Mark Clampin (NASA Goddard) |
11:00 am |
Protoplanetary Disks from Spitzer and Herschel to JWST | Ewine van Dishoeck (Univ. of Leiden) |
11:40 am |
DUNES Observations of Debris Discs Around Nearby Stars with Exoplanets | Jonathan Marshall (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) |
11:55 am |
Gas and Dust Within 1 AU of Young Stars | Josh Eisner (Univ. of Arizona) |
12:10 pm |
The LBT Interferometer: Observing Disks and Planets in the Thermal Infrared | Phil Hinz (Univ. of Arizona) |
12:25 pm |
Lunch (provided at the conference center) | |
| Session Chair: Pierre-Oliver Lagage | ||
1:30 pm |
Debris Disks with Spitzer, Herschel, and JWST | Kate Su (Univ. of Arizona) |
2:10 pm |
Exo-Zodiacal Dust Levels for Nearby Main-Sequence Stars: A Survey with the Keck Interferometer Nuller | Rafael Millan-Gabet (NExScI) |
2:25 pm |
Disk Dispersal and the Formation of Planetary Systems | Ilaria Pascucci (Univ. of Arizona) |
2:40 pm |
A Young Exoplanet Caught at Formation | Adam L. Kraus (Univ. of Hawaii) |
2:55 pm |
Three-dimensional Atmospheric Circulation on Generic Eccentric Hot Jupiters | Tiffany Kataria (Univ. of Arizona) |
3:10 pm |
Direct Imaging Search for Extrasolar Planets Using VLT/NACO's APP Coronagraph | Sascha P. Quanz (ETH Zurich) |
3:25 pm |
Giant Planet Companions to T Tauri Stars | Christopher Crockett (Lowell Obs.) |
3:40 pm |
Afternoon Break | |
| Session Chair: Lisa Prato | ||
4:10 pm |
Planetary Science and Exoplanets: Perspectives and Prospects | Torrence Johnson (NASA JPL) |
4:50 pm |
Migration and Scattering: Constraints on the Dynamical History of the Solar System | Rebekah Dawson (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) |
5:05 pm |
The Strange World We Call Home: Earth in the Context of an Exoplanet | Tyler D. Robinson (Univ. of Washington) |
5:20 pm |
Adjourn | |
7:30 pm |
Public Lecture, Prochnow Auditorium at NAU: Earth-Size Planets and Intelligent Life in the Universe | Geoff Marcy (UC Berkeley) |
Tuesday, May 3 - Characterization of Exoplanets
7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast in Agassiz-Fremont Rooms | |
| Session Chair: Ewine van Dishoeck | ||
8:30 am |
Overview of Kepler Results | Alan Boss (DTM/CIW) |
9:10 am |
Interiors and Evolution of Giant Planets | Tristan Guillot (OCA) |
9:50 am |
Morning Break | |
| Session Chair: Vincent Coude de Foresto | ||
10:20 am |
An Overview of CoRoT Results | Daniel Rouan (Paris Obs.) |
11:00 am |
Review of HST and Spitzer Spectroscopy to EcHO | Giovanna Tinetti (Univ. College London) |
11:40 am |
On the Mass of CoRoT-7b | Malcolm Fridlund (European Space Agency) |
11:55 am |
New Optical Observations of Hot Jupiters with HST STIS and GTC OSIRIS | David Sing (Univ. of Exeter) |
12:10 pm |
HST/WFC3 Observations of Giant Hot Exoplanets | Drake Deming (NASA GSFC) |
12:25 pm |
Lunch (provided at the conference center) | |
| Session Chair: Motohide Tamura | ||
1:30 pm |
Atmospheres of Giant Planets | Travis Barman (Lowell Obs.) |
2:10 pm |
Atmospheres of Earths and Super Earths | Jonathan Fortney (UCSC) |
2:50 pm |
The Atmosphere of the Transiting Super-Earth GJ 1214b | Eliza Kempton (UCSC) |
3:05 pm |
The Role of Drag in the Energetics of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres | Emily Rauscher (Univ. of Arizona) |
3:20 pm |
Three Dimensional Structure of Exoplanet Atmospheres | David Spiegel (Princeton) |
3:35 pm |
Afternoon Break | |
| Session Chair: Marcia Rieke | ||
4:00 pm |
Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of Giant Planets with JWST | Tom Greene (NASA Ames) |
4:40 pm |
Early Results from SEEDS and the Subaru's Next Step | Motohide Tamura (NAOJ) |
4:55 pm |
Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters and the Spectral Features of super-Earths in the Near-Infrared | Bryce Croll (Univ. of Toronto) |
5:10 pm |
Adjourn | |
6:30 pm |
Reception at Lowell Observatory, Mars Hill |
Wednesday, May 4 - Characterization of Exoplanets
7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast in Agassiz-Fremont Rooms | |
| Session Chair: Mark Clampin | ||
8:30 am |
Interior Structure of Rocky and Vapor Worlds | Diana Valencia (MIT) |
9:10 am |
Beyond Hot Jupiters: Spitzer Observations of the Smallest Transiting Planets | Heather Knutson (UC Berkeley) |
9:50 am |
Morning Break | |
| Session Chair: Vikki Meadows | ||
10:20 am |
Mini-Debate: Observability of Earths and Super Earths and Life with JWST | PRO: Drake Deming (NASA GSFC) and CON: Lisa Kaltenegger (Harvard CfA/MPIA) |
11:00 am |
Magnetic Fields in Earth-like Exoplanets and Implications for Habitability of Planets Around M-dwarfs | Mercedes Lopez-Morales (CISC-IEEC/CIW) |
11:15 am |
Time-Resolved Photometry of Exoplanets: Distinguishing between Temperate and Snowball Climates | Nick Cowan (Northwestern Univ.) |
11:30 am |
Spin/Orbit Angle Measurements and Implications | Amaury Triaud (Univ. of Geneva) |
11:45 am |
Carbon-rich Exoplanets | Nikku Madhusudhan (Princeton Univ.) |
12:00 pm |
Sand, Iron, and Ice: The Role of Clouds in Directly Imaged Exoplanet Spectra | Mark Marley (NASA Ames) |
12:15 pm |
Adjourn | |
1:00 pm |
Box Lunch provided to Meteor Crater and Anderson Mesa tour participants only. Buses/vans leave HCCC @ 1 pm |
Thursday, May 5 - Architecture of Planetary Systems
7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast in Agassiz-Fremont Rooms | |
| Session Chair: Dawn Gelino | ||
8:30 am |
Architecture of Planetary Systems (0.1 — 100 AU) | Christoph Mordasini (MPIA) |
9:10 am |
Mini-Debate: Planet Formation at Large Separations via Disk Instability (PRO) and (CON) | PRO: Sally Dodson-Robinson (Univ. of Texas) and CON: Ruth Murray-Clay and Kaitlin Kratter (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) |
9:50 am |
Morning Break | |
| Session Chair: Andreas Quirrenbach | ||
| 10:15 am | How RV Will Contribute to the Future of Indirect Detection and How Astrometry Will Contribute to the Future of Indirect Detection | RV: Debra Fischer (Yale) and Astrometry: Dimitri Pourbaix (Univ. of Brussels) |
| 11:15 am | Microlensing: Probing Extremes of Parameter Space | Andy Gould (Ohio State Univ.) |
| 11:55 am | Survey of Present and Future Ground-based Imaging Systems | Olivier Guyon (NAOJ) |
| 12:40 pm | Lunch (provided at the conference center) | |
| Session Chair: Mark Clampin | ||
| 1:30 pm | Introduction to Coronagraphs (each 10 min)
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2:20 pm |
Overview of JWST High-Contrast Imaging | René Doyon (Univ. of Montreal) |
3:00 pm |
High-fidelity Simulations of Planetary Transit Spectroscopy with JWST/NIRSpec | Bernhard Dorner (Univ. of Lyon) |
3:15 pm |
HST/FGS Astrometry of Nearby Stars - Exoplanet Masses and Exoplanetary System Architecture | G. Fritz Benedict (Univ. of Texas) |
3:30 pm |
Afternoon Break | |
| Session Chair: John Johnson | ||
4:00 pm |
Overview of Kepler Systems with Multiple Transiting Planet Candidates | Darin Ragozzine (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) |
4:15 pm |
Eta-Sub-Earth Projections from Kepler and RV Surveys | Wes Traub (NASA JPL) |
4:30 pm |
Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU | Andrew Howard (UC Berkeley) |
4:45 pm |
"Small Black Shadows": Using All-Sky Transit Surveys to Detect and Characterize Terrestrial Planets | Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.) |
5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
6:00 pm |
Banquet Dinner at Forest Highlands
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Friday, May 6 - Free-floating Planets
7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast in Agassiz-Fremont Rooms | |
| Session Chair: Neill Reid | ||
8:30 am |
Free-floating Low Mass Objects with WISE | Davy Kirkpatrick (IPAC/Caltech) |
9:10 am |
Characterizing the Coldest Brown Dwarfs Discovered with WISE | Michael Cushing (NASA JPL) |
9:25 am |
Isolated Planet Population Found by Gravitational Microlensing | David Bennett (Notre Dame) |
9:40 am |
Phase Mapping of Giant Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs | Daniel Apai (Univ. of Arizona) |
9:55 am |
Morning Break | |
| Session Chair: Ken Johnston | ||
10:20 am |
Planets Around Massive Stars | John Johnson (Caltech) |
11:00 am |
Direct Detection of Exoplanets with Polarimetry | Sloane Wiktorowicz (UC Berkeley) |
11:15 am |
The Heavy Element Mass of Giant Planets, and its Correlation with Stellar Metallicity | Neil Miller (UCSC) |
11:30 am |
Secular Chaos and the Production of Hot Jupiters | Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern Univ.) |
11:45 am |
OGLE-2008-BLG-513: Measuring the Orbit of a Microlensing Planet | Jennifer Yee (Ohio State Univ.) |
12:20 pm |
Lunch (on own) |
afternoon session in 1899 Ballroom
| Session Chair: Rene Doyon | ||
1:30 pm |
Challenges and Opportunities of M Dwarf Planet Hosts | Jacob Bean (Harvard Smithsonian CfA) |
2:10 pm |
New Near-Infrared Techniques for Precision Radial Velocities | Peter Plavchan (NExScI) |
| Session Chair: Chas Beichman | ||
2:25 pm |
Panel Discussion: Future Exoplanet Missions: SPICA, PLATO, WFIRST, Direct Imaging, EUCLID, JWST | Malcolm Fridlund (ESA), Wes Traub (JPL), Motohide Tamura (NAOJ), Scott Gaudi (Ohio State), Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (IAP), Neill Reid (STScI) |
3:50 pm |
Closing Comments | Chas Beichman (NExScI) and Malcolm Fridlund (ESA) |
4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
Saturday, May 7
Day Trip |
Grand Canyon day trip - paid for on an individual basis directly to the tour company; click here for details. |
Questions? StrangeNewWorlds@ipac.caltech.edu
Click here for the list of poster presentations and their assigned IDs.