2014 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: July 21-25, 2014

Imaging Planets and Disks

8:30 am: Welcome and Opening Comments — Dawn Gelino (NExScI)
8:45 am: Introduction to the Exoplanet Exploration Program — Gary Blackwood (JPL)
9:00 am: Survey of Surveys Around Young Stars: GPI, Palomar, Keck, VLT, NICI — Beth Biller (IfA, Univ. of Hawaii
9:45 am: The Crown Jewels of Young Exoplanets — Travis Barman (LPL, Univ. of Arizona)
10:30 am: Morning Break and Poster Viewing
11:00 am: Integrating Imaging and RV Datasets — Justin Crepp (Notre Dame)
11:45 am: Attendee Pops (7)
12:00 pm: Lunch (provided)
12:50 pm: High-Contrast Instruments (Theory) — Jeremy Kasdin (Princeton)
1:35 pm: Survey of High-Contrast Instrument Concepts — Dimitri Mawet (ESO)
2:20 pm: Theory and Practice of Star Shades — Aki Roberge (GSFC)
2:50 pm: Attendee Pops (15)
3:20 pm: Afternoon Break and Workshop Picture
4:00 pm: Hands-on Session: Finding Earths from Space (part 1) — Aki Roberge (GSFC), Chris Stark (GSFC), Wes Traub (JPL)
6:00 pm: Adjourn

8:30 am: Atmospheres of Giant Planets — Emily Rauscher (Princeton)
9:15 am: Thermal Evolution of Giant and Rocky (Molten) Planets — Jonathan Fortney (UCSC)
10:00 am: Ages of Stars — Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech)
10:45 am: Morning Break and Poster Viewing
11:15 am: Interferometric Approaches to Imaging (NRM, Fizeau, Phase Masks) — John Monnier (Univ. of Michigan)
12:00 pm: Attendee Pops (7)
12:15 pm: Lunch (on own)
1:45 pm: Overview of Data Reduction Methods — Laurent Pueyo (STScI)
2:30 pm: Hands-on Session: PSF, LOCI, PCA — Justin Crepp (Notre Dame), Laurent Pueyo (STScI), Carol Grady (GSFC), Chris Matthews (Notre Dame), Rob Fergus (NYU)
4:00 pm: Afternoon Break
4:30 pm: Hands-on Session (continued)
6:00 pm: Adjourn

Disks

8:45 am: Disks — Survey of Results for Young Disks (ALMA and IR) — Meredith Hughes (Wesleyan)
9:30 am: Survey of Results for Debris Disks (Spitzer, WISE, HST) — Debbie Padgett (GSFC)
10:15 am: Attendee Pops (7)
10:30 am: Morning Break
11:00 am: Theory of Debris Disk Modeling (scattering, particle sizes) — Jean-Charles Augereau (Grenoble)
11:45 am: Theory and Early Results from the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer — Denis Defrere (University of Arizona)
12:30 pm: Box lunch (provided) and depart for field trip to California Science Center

Astrometry and Orbital Fitting

8:45 am: Instrumental: How Do We Get Astrometric Measurements? — Laurent Pueyo (STScI)
9:30 am: Going From Measurements to Orbits — Quinn Konopacky (Univ. of Toronto)
10:15 am: Attendee Pops (15)
10:45 am: Morning Break
11:15 am: What is eta_Earth and Why Do We Care? — Debra Fischer (Yale University)
12:00 pm: Attendee Pops (7)
12:15 pm: Lunch (on own)
1:45 pm: Evolution/Dynamics of Disks and ExoZodi (PR, planets) — Mark Wyatt (Cambridge)
2:30 pm: Hands-on Session — Building a Coronagraph and Finding Earths from Space (part 2) — Kerri Cahoy (MIT) and Peter Lawson (JPL)
5:00 pm: Adjourn
7:00 pm: Workshop Banquet at El Cholo restaurant

Futures

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