2011 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: July 25-29, 2011

Exploring Exoplanets with Microlensing

8:30 am: Welcome and Opening Comments — Dawn Gelino (NExScI)
8:45 am: Review of Microlensing Surveys/Follow-ups with Historical Background — Andy Gould (Ohio State Univ.)
9:30 am: Attendee Pops (7) — click here for schedule and posted presentations
9:45 am: Prospects of Space-based Microlensing Surveys — Dave Bennett (Univ. of Notre Dame)
10:15 am: Morning Break
10:45 am: WFIRST and Euclid — Jason Rhodes (JPL)
11:15 am: Robotic Approach of Global Follow-up Networks — Rachel Street (LCOGT)
11:45 am: Planet Formation Theories and the Relevance of Microlensing Planets — Alan Boss (DTM)
12:30 pm: Lunch (provided)
1:30 pm: Theory of Microlensing and Planetary Microlensing: Basic Concepts — Shude Mao (Univ. of Manchester)
2:15 pm: Theory and Phenomenology of Microlensing (Part 1) — Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.)
3:15 pm: Afternoon Break
3:35 pm: Theory and Phenomenology of Microlensing (Part 2) — Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.)
4:05 pm: Hands-on Session — Extracting Parameters from a Planetary Microlensing Event without a Computer — Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.) and Subo Dong (IAS)
5:30 pm: Adjourn

8:30 am: Introduction to Data Reduction: Photometry and Difference Imaging Analysis (DIA) Techniques in a Crowded Field — Przemyslaw Wozniak (LANL)
9:30 am: Single Lens Light Curve Modeling (Linear and Non-Linear Least-square Fitting to Multi-site Data) — Scott Gaudi (Ohio State Univ.)
10:15 am: Morning Break and Workshop Picture
10:45 am: Introduction to Parameter Estimation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) — Jan Skowron (Ohio State Univ.)
11:15 am: Attendee Pops (10) — click here for schedule and posted presentations
11:35 am: Free-floating Planets — Takahiro Sumi (Osaka Univ.)
Links to Takahiro Sumi's movies:

12:15 pm: Lunch (on own)
1:45 pm: Hands-on Session: DIA Data Reduction and Generation of Light Curves from Survey/Follow-up Dataset — Przemyslaw Wozniak (LANL)
3:15 pm: Afternoon Break
3:45 pm: Hands-on Session: Fitting a Single Lens Model to the Data with Least Square and MCMC — Subo Dong (IAS) and Jan Skowron (Ohio State Univ.)
5:30 pm: Adjourn

Morning
8:00 and 8:35 am: Caltech vans depart hotels (on two round trips) for breakfast and tour at the Huntington Library (click for details and schedule)
11:45-12:00 pm: Caltech vans depart from Huntington Library to return to Caltech for lunch (note: lunch for tour participants only)
Afternoon
1:15 pm: Modeling Physical Properties of a Microlens — Subo Dong (IAS)
2:00 pm: Space-based Photometry and Astrometry: Effective-PSF Method for Hubble Space Telescope Data — Jay Anderson (STScI)
3:00 pm: Attendee Pops (7) — click here for schedule and posted presentations
3:15 pm: Afternoon Break
3:45 pm: Adaptive Optics Follow-up Data Reduction — Justin Crepp (Caltech)
4:45 pm: Adjourn

8:30 am: Higher Order Effects I — Parallax and Orbital Motion — Dave Bennett (Univ. of Notre Dame)
9:15 am: Higher Order Effects II — Multiple Lenses — Dave Bennett (Univ. of Notre Dame)
10:00 am: Morning Break
10:30 am: Science Example: Full Keplerian Parameter Extraction from Microlensing Events — Jenn Yee (Ohio State Univ.)
11:15 am: Exploring Massive Parallel Computation with GPU — Ian Bond (Massey Univ.)
12:00 pm: Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm: WFIRST Discussion Panel - D. Bennett, S. Carey, S. Gaudi, J. Rhodes, T. Sumi
2:00 pm: Survey and Closing Comments
2:30 pm: Adjourn

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last updated July 29, 2011