2010 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: July 26-30, 2010

Stars as Homes for Habitable Planetary Systems

schedule for 2 minute POP Presentations

Monday, July 26 starting at 10:15 am

• 1. Sizing up the Stars — Tabetha Boyajian (GSU/CHARA)
• 2. Modeling Low Mass Stars — Greg Feiden (Darmouth)
• 3. Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs Around Young Stars I — Naved Mahmud (Rice Univ.)
• 4. Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs Around Young Stars II — Chris Crockett (Lowell Observatory)
• 5. Direct Imaging of Sub-Stellar Companions and Characterisation of the Brown Dwarf Desert — Janis Hagelberg (Geneva Observatory)
• 6. Mapping the Recent Star Formation History of the Disk of M51 — Katie Kaleida (Arizona State)
• 7. Stellar Variability in Planetary Transit Searches — Amy McQuillan (Univ. of Oxford)
• 8. Composition of Nearby Stellar Dwarfs — Michael Pagano (Arizona State)
• 9. Lithium Depletion in Solar-Like Stars: No Planet Connection — Ivan Ramirez (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
• 10. Search for Brown Dwarf Companions of Stars — Johannes Sahlmann (Geneva Observatory)

Monday, July 26 starting at 12:00 pm

• 1. Evolution/Explosions of Massive Stars and Elements in the Solar Neighborhood — Nahks Tr'Ehnl (Arizona State)
• 2. High Contrast Studies of Nearby Stars with Project 1640 — Neil Zimmerman (Columbia)
• 3. Gravitational Instabilities in Irradiated Protoplanetary Disks: 3D Radiative Hydrodynamic Simulations — Kai Cai (Indiana Univ.)
• 4. White Dwarfs with an Infrared Excess — Jon Givern (Warwick Univ./Caltech)
• 5. Debris Disk: A First View of Extrasolar Planetary Systems — Jeremy Lebreton (Univ. of Grenoble)
• 6. SEDs of Circumsubstellar Disks versus their Age and Spatial Location — Olga Zakhozhay (Main Astronomical Observatory NAS of Ukraine)
• 7. Discovery and Characterization of Transiting Extrasolar Planets — David Anderson (Keele Univ.)
• 8. Exoplanet Dectection with RV Technique: Challenges — Ozgur Basturk (Ankara Univ.)
• 9. Model for Exomoons Detections Using Transits — Luis Ricardo Tusnski (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil)
• 10. Hunting for Super-Earths with the MOST Space Telescope — Diana Dragomir (Univ. of British Columbia)
• 11. Degenerate Companions and Extrasolar Planets — Joana Gomes (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
• 12. Transit Timing Variations by an Earth-like Planet — Tobias Hinse (Armagh Observatory)
• 13. The Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Systems: New Theory and Observation — Teruyuki Hirano (Univ. of Tokyo)
• 14. Search for Exoplanets Using TTVS in the Southern Hemisphere — Sergio Hoyer (Univ. of Chile)
• 15. Resonant Trans-Neptunian Objects — Samantha Lawler (Univ. of British Columbia)
• 16. HD80606b Transit Observed by MOST — Jessica Roberts (Univ. of Idaho)
• 17. Two Recent Exoplanet Results — Kevin Schlaufman (UCSC)
• 18. Limb Brightened Transits — Everett Schlawin (Cornell Univ.)
• 19. Transits - Discovery and Follow-up Projects: HAT, CoRoT, Kepler... — Avi Shporer (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network/UCSB)
• 20. WASP 36-b: A New Transiting Planet — Alexis Smith (Keele Univ.)

Tuesday, July 27 starting at 10:30 pm

• 1. Exoplanet Transit Observations: First Study in Turkey — Gozde Saral (Ankara Univ. Observatory)
• 2. Background and Current Work — James Frith (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
• 3. Metal-Rich M-Dwarf Planet Hosts: [Fe/H] with K-band spectra — Barbara Rojas-Ayala (Cornell)

Tuesday, July 27 starting at 12:00 pm

• 1. Adaptive Optics and High-Contrast Imaging — Katie Morzinski (UCSC)
• 2. DEMCMC Algorithm for Analyzing Multiple Planet Systems — Benjamin Nelson (Univ. of Florida)
• 3. STRESS: STero TRansiting Exoplanet and Stellar Survey — Vino Sangaralingam (Univ. of Birmingham)
• 4. EULAG Model and Its Applications — Joanna Slawinska (Univ. of Warsaw)
• 5. Stratospheric THz Observatory — Todd Veach (Arizona State)
• 6. Smaller, Fainter, Closer: Finding Stellar Companions Using Aperture Masking Interferometry — David Bernat (Cornell)
• 7. ASTEP: Towards the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets from Dome C, Antarctica — Nicolas Crouzet (Observatoire Côte d'Azur)
• 8. A New 24 μm Phase Curve for υ and b — Ian Crossfield (UCLA)
• 9. High-Resolution Ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres — Adam Jensen (Wesleyan)
• 10. Investigating Surfaces of Earth-like Exoplanets via Scattered Light — Yuka Fujii (Univ. of Tokyo)

Tuesday, July 27 starting at 2:50 pm

• 1. A PAthway towards the Characterization of Habitable Earths: the APACHE project — Paolo Giacobbe (Univ. of Trieste)
• 2. Atmospheric Escape and Its Role on Earth, Mars, and Extra-solar Planets — Ramses Ramirez (Penn State)
• 3. Are Sulfur Aerosols a Solution to the Faint Young Sun Paradox? — Megan Smith (Penn State/Univ. of Washington)
• 4. Observability of Planet Destruction: Fast Bangs or Slow Whimpers? — Stuart Taylor (Tsing-Hua Univ.)
• 5. Ground-based Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres — Ingo Waldmann (Univ. College London)
• 6. Eccentricity Distribution of Short-Period Exoplanets — Ji Wang (Univ. of Florida)
• 7. Research Summary — Wei Wang (Max Planck Inst. for Astronomy)
• 8. Spectroscopic Analysis CoRoT Exoplanet Fields — Jean-Christophe Gazzano (LAM Marseille)
• 9. Detecting Biosignatures of an Evolving Earth-Like Atmosphere via New Worlds Observer — Julia DeMarines (Univ. of Colorado)
• 10. Middle Cambrian Surface Apatite Dissolution: A Mycorrhizal Fungi Biosignature? — Lev Horodyskyj

Wednesday, July 28 starting at 10:30 am

• 1. Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanet Hosting Stars — Kaspar von Braun (NExScI)
• 2. Searching for Substellar Companions Below the Diffraction Limit — Tom Evans (University of Sydney)
• 3. Exoplanets with Micro-arcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry — Yitping Kok (University of Sydney)
• 4. High Contrast Imaging at Palomar — Sasha Hinkley (Caltech)


• WFCAM Transit Survey — Brigitta Sipocz (University of Hertfordshire) and Gabor Kovacs (University of Cambridge)



updated July 30, 2010