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NExScI Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia


Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshops

The Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshops are held annually and provide opportunities for students, postdocs, and researchers to learn about the engineering and scientific application of exoplanet-related techniques used by the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program.

2025: Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics

2024: Advances in Direct Imaging: From Young Jupiters to Habitable Earths

2023: Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Next Twenty Years

2022: Exoplanet Science in the Gaia Era

2021: Circumstellar Disks and Young Planets

2020: Extreme Precision Radial Velocity

2019: Astrobiology for Astronomers

2018: Did I Really Just Find an Exoplanet?

2017: Microlensing in the Era of WFIRST

2016: Is There a Planet in My Data? Statistical Approaches to Finding and Characterizing Planets in Astronomical Data

2015: Exoplanetary System Demographics: Theory and Observations

2014: Imaging Planets and Disks

2013: Workshop cancelled due to federal government sequestration.

2012: Working with Exoplanet Light Curves

2011: Exploring Exoplanets with Microlensing

2010: Stars as Homes for Habitable Planetary Systems

2009: Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Michelson Summer Schools

Prior to 2008, the Sagan Summer Workshops were called the Michelson Summer Schools . They were aimed at advancing the scientific and technical understanding of the objectives of the Navigator Program. No workshop was held in 2008, and workshops from 1999 to 2002 were hosted by institutions other than the Michelson Science Center/NExScI.

2007: Planetary Transits: Detection to Characterization

2006: Frontiers of Interferometry: Stars, Disks, and Terrestrial Planets

2005: Discovering New Worlds Through Astrometry

2004: Frontiers of High Contrast Imaging in Astrophysics

2003: Interferometry Overview

2002: Interferometry Theory and Techniques

2001: Interferometry Techniques

2000: Astrophysics with Optical Interferometry

1999: Interferometry Summer School


Conferences

NExScI has had a role in organizing the following conferences.

February 2025: Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2

September 2024: NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium

December 2023: ExSoCal 2023

November 2020: Exoplanet Demographics

March 2019: Kepler & K2 Science Conference V

September 2018: ExSoCal 2018

November 2017: Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet

September 2017: ExSoCal 2017

June 2017: Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV

February 2017: 21st International Microlensing Conference

September 2016: ExSoCal 2016

November 2015: Kepler & K2 Science Conference III

September 2015: ExSoCal 2015

November 2013: Kepler Science Conference II

February 2012: Science with a Wide-field Telescope in Space and The 16th International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing

May 2011: Exploring Strange New Worlds: From Giant Planets to Super Earths

August 2010: Astronomy of Exoplanets with Precise Radial Velocities

April 2009: Missions for Exoplanets 2010-2020

September 2008: SIM Science Studies Workshop

November 2006: Cool Stars 14

October 2005: Protostars and Planets V

March 2005: From Disks to Planets: New Observations, Models & Theories

November 2004: Star-Planet Interactions and Implications For Habitability


Sagan/Michelson Fellows Symposia

The Sagan Fellows Symposia are held every two to three years and are for current and past Sagan/Michelson graduate student and postdoctoral fellows to present current or past research results. These symposia highlight the cutting-edge efforts of the fellows, as well as discussion of career paths and networking. All interested parties are welcome to attend.

November 2018

November 2017

May 2015

November 2012

November 2009

October 2005


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