2009 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: July 20-24, 2009
Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Schedule for POP Presentations
Monday, July 20
- starting at 10:15 am - 2 minute POP presentations
- 1. High precision photometry of exoplanets — Ernst de Mooij (Leiden University)
- 2. Study of Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres using Infrared Photometry — Pavel Machalek (Johns Hopkins Univ./STScI)
- 3. Direct Imaging of Exoplanets — Kerri Cahoy (NASA Ames)
- 4. Exoplanets in Polarized Light — Christoph Keller (Utrecht Univ.)
- 5. Polarization and Exoplanets — James W. Davidson Jr. (Univ. of Toledo)
- 6. Searching for Exomoons — David Kipping (University College London)
Monday, July 20
- starting at 3:00 pm - 2 minute POP presentations
- 1. Thermal Emission from non-Transiting Exoplanets — Ian J. Crossfield (UCLA)
- 2. Ks-band Thermal Emission from CoRoT-1b — Justin Rogers (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
- 3. Thermal and Gravitational Tides in Hot Jupiters — Phil Arras (Univ. of Virginia)
- 4. Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Neptune GJ436b — Nikole Lewis (Univ. of Arizona)
- 5. Precise thermal emission measurement for transiting planets using deconvolution photometry — Audrey Lanotte (Univ. of Leige)
- 6. Exoplanet Transit Modeling — Shimonee Kadakia (San Diego State Univ.)
- 7. A new model for exoplanet atmospheres — Nikku Madhusudhan (MIT)
- 8. Transmission spectroscopy model — Patricia Wood (Keele Univ.)
- 9. Core instability models for planetary formation — Yamila Miguel (Universidad Nacional de la Plata)
- 10. 3D Modeling of Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Flows — Emily Rauscher (Columbia University)
- 11. Constraint of evolutionary models / Spectroscopy of very low mass objects — Mickael Bonnefoy (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble)
- 12. Atmospheric pressure as a natural climate regulator for a terrestrial planet with a biosphere — King-Fai Li (Caltech)
Tuesday, July 21
- starting at 9:55 am - 2 minute POP presentations
- 1. Working on WASP & an ultra-low density planet — David R Anderson (Keele University)
- 2. CoRoT-2b : Understanding hot-Jupiters evolution — Brice-Olivier Demory (Observatoire de Geneve)
- 3. Physical Properties of Young Brown Dwarfs — Emily Rice (UCLA)
- 4. Observing Light Curves of Falling Planets and Brown Dwarfs — Stuart Taylor (Global Telescope Science)
- 5. A search for brown dwarf companions to Hyades stars — Katie Morzinski (Univ. California Santa Cruz)
- 6. Measuring Brown Dwarf Masses with Aperture Masking Interferometry — David Bernat (Cornell)
- 7. Influence of exozodiacal disks in mid-IR Earth-like planet detection — Olivier Absil (University of Liege)
- 8. MEarth: looking for transiting super-Earths in the habitable zones of nearby M dwarfs — Zach Berta (Harvard/CfA)
- 9. The spectral characteristics of transiting extra-solar planets — Jae Min Lee (AOPP/Oxford Univ.)
- 10. Precise Limb-darkening Determination for Proper Transit Modeling — Jeff Coughlin (New Mexico State Univ.)
- 11. Metallicity Correlation in K-Giants — Andrew Fittingoff (San Francisco State Univ.)
- 12. Biomarkers evolution in the non-resolved visible spectrum of the Earth — Marie-Eve Naud (Université de Montréal)
Tuesday, July 21
- starting at 11:45 am - 2 minute POP presentations
- 1. Characterization of Small Transiting Planets — Knicole D. Colón (University of Florida)
- 2. Interferometry of Circumstellar Disks around Be Stars — Yamina Touhami (CHARA/Georgia State Univ.)
- 3. Imaging stars with CHARA-MIRC — Ming Zhao (Univ. of Michigan)
- 4. Observing extrasolar planets with SOFIA — Daniel Angerhausen (German SOFIA Inst.)
- 5. ET and PTF Orion — Julian van Eyken (NExScI)
- 6. The NASA EPOXI Mission — Jessie Christiansen (Harvard Univ./CfA)
updated July 21, 2009