9:00 | Dawn Gelino (NExScI) and Chas Beichman (NExScI): Welcome |
9:20 | Andrew Vanderburg (University of Texas, Austin): Towards Better Planet Occurrence Rates from Kepler and K2 |
9:40 | Ben Montet (University of Chicago): Science with Kepler's Full Frame Images |
10:00 | Laurent Pueyo (STScI): Detailed characterization of an exo-planet |
10:20 | Matthew Penny (Ohio State University): Alpha elements' Effects on Planet Formation and the Hunt for Extragalactic Planets |
10:40 | Morning Break |
11:00 | Elodie Choquet (JPL): Applying modern imaging techniques to old HST data: a summary of the ALICE program |
11:40 | Jayne Birkby (University of Amsterdam): MEASURE: the MMT Exoplanet Atmosphere SURvEy |
11:40 | Geert Barentsen and Jessie Dotson (NASA Ames) How Sagan Fellows are shaping the success of NASA's K2 Mission |
12:00 | Lunch (on own) |
1:30 | Mike Brown (Caltech): Keynote Talk Planet Nine from Outer Space |
2:30 | Ian Crossfield (MIT): Atmospheric Properties of Neptune-Size Exoplanets |
2:50 | Caroline Morley (Harvard University): Observing the Atmospheres of the Nine Known Terrestrial Planets with JWST |
3:10 | Jonathan Gagne (Carnegie Institution of Science DTM): Young Stars and Isolated Planetary-Mass Objects in the Solar Neighborhood |
3:30 | Afternoon Break |
4:00 | Katie Morzinski (University of Arizona): What Do We Really Know About Extrasolar Planets? |
4:20 | Kate Follette (Amherst College): The MagAO Giant Accreting Protoplanet Survey (GAPlanetS): Recent Results |
4:40 | Adjourn |
6:30 | Group Dinner |
9:00 | Career Panel: Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Kate Follette, Sloane Wiktorowicz , Jonathan Fortney |
10:00 | Benjamin Pope (NYU): Finding Planets around Naked-Eye Stars |
10:20 | Morning Break |
10:50 | Jeffrey Fung (University of California at Berkeley): Inner Super-Earths, Outer Gas Giants |
11:10 | Avi Shporer (MIT): Looking for transiting warm Jupiters - win some, lose some |
11:30 | Kento Masuda (Princeton University): A Search for Non-transiting Companions to Kepler Warm Jupiters: Clues to their Formation |
11:50 | Lunch (on own) |
1:20 | Sloane Wiktorowicz (Aerospace): A Scatter of Light from Polarized Worlds |
1:40 | Max Millar-Blanchaer (JPL): Searching for Polarized Thermal Emission in Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs |
2:00 | Sam Halverson (University of Pennsylvania): Next generation planet-hunting spectrometers in the optical and near-infrared |
2:20 | Afternoon Break |
2:45 | Jared Males (University of Arizona): Ground-based characterization of temperate exoplanets with extreme-AO coronagraphs |
3:05 | Kevin Stevenson (STScI): The Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Program |
3:25 | Jared Males (University of Arizona): Giant Magellan Telescope Design and Instrumentation, and Goals for Exoplanet Science |
3:45 | Julian van Eyken (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI): Mining PTF Orion for Young Planets |
4:05 | Adjourn |
(last updated November 27th, 2017 13:07:59)