Find links here to video of science talks at the First Kepler Science Conference, held at the NASA Ames Research Center over the period Dec 5-9, 2011.

Session A - Monday AM Dec 5, 2011
KEPLER MISSION AND EXOPLANET STATISTICS

1. THE KEPLER MISSION AND EXOPLANET STATISTICS
   Greg Laughlin (invited) University of California, Santa Cruz
   

2. COROT EXOPLANET SEARCH
   Claire Moutou (invited) Laboratory of Astrophysics, Marseille
   

3. KEPLER MISSION AND EXOPLANET STATISTICS
   William Borucki (invited) NASA Ames Research Center
   

4. KEPLER'S EXOPLANET SURVEY: HONING IN ON ETA-EARTH
   Natalie Batalha (invited) San Jose State University
   

5. OVERVIEW OF THE KEPLER SCIENCE OPERATIONS CENTER PIPELINE
   Jon Jenkins, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

6. DETECTION OF THRESHOLD CROSSING EVENTS IN THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF KEPLER DATA
   Peter Tenenbaum, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

7. UNIFORM MODELING OF THE KEPLER OBJECTS OF INTEREST CATALOG
   Jason Rowe, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

8. KEPLER COMPLETENESS STUDY
   Jessie Christiansen, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

9. NOISE SOURCES IMPACTING KEPLER'S PHOTOMETRY AND MISSION GOALS
   Douglas Caldwell, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

10. USING SPITZER TO ESTIMATE THE KEPLER FALSE POSITIVE RATE AND TO VALIDATE KEPLER CANDIDATES
    Jean-Michel Desert, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
    

Session B - Monday PM Dec 5, 2011
EARTH ANALOG AND SUB-NEPTUNE-SIZE PLANETS

1. PATTERNS OF LOW-MASS PLANET OCCURRENCE FROM KEPLER AND DOPPLER PLANET SEARCHES
   Andrew Howard (invited) University of California, Berkeley
   

2. OCCURRENCE, MASS DISTRIBUTION AND ORBITAL PROPERTIES OF SUPER- EARTHS AND NEPTUNE-MASS PLANETS FROM THE HARPS SURVEY
   Christophe Lovis (invited) University of Geneva
   

3. FORMATION AND STRUCTURE OF NEPTUNE-SIZE EXOPLANETS
   Peter Bodenheimer, UCO/Lick Observatory, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
   

4. RV FOLLOW-UP OF SMALL PLANETS FROM KEPLER: VERIFICATION, MASSES, AND DENSITIES
   Geoff Marcy, University of California, Berkeley
   

5. RV FOLLOW-UP OF SMALL PLANETS FROM KEPLER: PLANET BULK COMPOSITION AND INTERIOR STRUCTURE
   Leslie Rogers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   

6. LIMITS FROM KEPLER AND THE MEARCH PROJECT ON THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF SUPER-EARTHS AND NEPTUNES AROUND M DWARFS
   Courtney Dressing, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
   

7. KEPLER TRANSIT FREQUENCY STATISTICS IN THE PRESENCE OF STATISTICAL FALSE POSITIVES
   Philip Nutzman, University of California, Santa Cruz
   

8. THE VALIDATION OF EARTH-SIZE PLANETS
   Francois Fressin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
   

9. KEPLER-11: SUPER-EARTHS OR MINI-NEPTUNES? CONSTRAINTS FROM MASS LOSS
   Eric Lopez, University of California, Santa Cruz
   

10. THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANET FORMATION: DETAILED ABUNDANCES OF STARS WITH LOW-MASS PLANETS DISCOVERED BY KEPLER
    Simon Schuler, NOAO
    

11. WHEN IS AN EARTH-ANALOG REALLY AN EARTH-ANALOG?
    Jill Tarter, SETI Institute
    

Session A (continued) - Tuesday AM Dec 6, 2011
KEPLER MISSION AND EXOPLANET STATISTICS

1. KEPLER EXOPLANET CANDIDATE HOST STARS ARE PREFERENTIALLY METAL RICH
   Kevin Schlaufman, University of California, Santa Cruz
   

2. FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS AND MODELLING OF KEPLER CIRCUMBINARY PLANET CANDIDATES
   Jerome Orosz, San Diego State University
   

3. VALIDATION OF HABITABLE-ZONE SUPER EARTH KEPLER CANDIDATES WITH WARM SPITZER
   Sarah Ballard, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
   

4. ACCURATE STELLAR PARAMETERS OF LOW-MASS KEPLER PLANET HOSTS
   Philip Muirhead, California Institute of Technology
   

5. MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF KEPLER'S M DWARF PLANET HOSTS
   John Johnson, Caltech
   

6. ASSESSING THE KEPLER INVENTORY WITH PLANET HUNTERS
   Megan Schwamb, Yale University
   

7. WHAT WILL GAIA DO FOR KEPLER?
   Alessandro Sozzetti, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino
   

8. SOFIA: CAPABILITIES FOR STUDYING EXOPLANETS IN THE KEPLER ERA AND BEYOND
   Edward Dunham, Lowell Observatory
   

9. STELLAR AND EXTRAGALACTIC ASTROPHYSICS FROM KEPLER DURING AN EXTENDED MISSION
   Martin Still, NASA Ames Research Center/Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
   

10. KEPLER IN AN EXTENDED MISSION
    Steve Howell, NASA Ames Research Center
    

11. RECENT OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS TO HIGH PRECISION PHOTOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS WITH WARM IRAC
    Sean Carey, Spitzer Science Center
    

Session C - Tuesday PM Dec 6, 2011
MULTIPLE PLANET SYSTEMS

1. STATISTICAL ARGUMENTS THAT MOST KEPLER MULTI-PLANET CANDIDATES ARE REAL PLANETS
   Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center
   

2. DETAILED DYNAMICAL PORTRAITS OF OTHER PLANETARY SYSTEMS
   Daniel Fabrycky (invited) University of California, Santa Cruz
   

3. THE KEPLER-18 THREE PLANET SYSTEM
   William Cochran, McDonald Observatory, The University of Texas at Austin
   

4. THE MULTIPLE PLANET SYSTEM KEPLER-20
   Nick Gautier, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
   

5. IN SITU PLANET FORMATION MODELS OF THE KEPLER-11 SIX PLANET SYSTEM
   Elisa Quintana, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

6. DETECTION OF QUASI-PERIODIC TRANSITING PLANETS WITH KEPLER
   Eric Agol, University of Washington
   

7. ECCENTRICITIES & INCLINATIONS IN KEPLER'S PLANETARY SYSTEMS
   Eric Ford, University of Florida
   

8. CONSTRAINING ORBITAL ECCENTRICITY THROUGH TRANSIT PHOTOMETRY ALONE: MULTIBODY ASTERODENSITY PROFILING (MAP)
   Varun Manthri, University College London
   

9. CONFIRMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTITRANSITING EXOPLANET SYSTEMS WITH ANTI-CORRELATED TRANSIT TIMING VARIATIONS
   Jason Steffen, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics
   

10. THE SECULAR CHARACTER OF MULTI-PLANET SYSTEMS: KEPLER-10, 11 AND 16
    Christa Van Laerhoven, The University of Arizona
    

11. ANALYSIS OF 224 KEPLER EXOPLANETS IN 93 MULTIPLE SYSTEMS - PART 1 - PART 2
    David Ciardi, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech
    

12. PUBLIC TALK
    Natalie Batalha, San Jose State University
    Don Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire
    

Session D - Wednesday AM Dec 7, 2011
EXOPLANET THEORY

1. USING THE COMPOSITION OF SUPER-EARTHS TO TRACK FORMATION PROCESSES
   Diana Valencia (invited) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   

2. ACCUMULATION OF HYDROGEN-RICH ATMOSPHERES OF NEBULAR ORIGIN ON SHORT-PERIOD SUPER-EARTHS: IMPLICATIONS FOR KEPLER-11 PLANETS
   Masahiro Ikoma, Tokyo Institute of Technology
   

3. CORE EROSION IN GAS GIANT EXOPLANETS PREDICTED FROM AB INITIO SIMULATIONS
   Burkhard Militzer, University of California, Berkeley
   

4. THEORETICAL ISSUES FOR ROCKY PLANET INTERIORS NEAR 1.0 EARTH-MASS AND M-R RELATIONS
   Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
   

5. PLANET FORMATION AND THE DIVERSITY OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS
   Benjamin Bromley, University of Utah
   

6. THE FINAL STAGE OF TERRESTRIAL PLANET FORMATION
   Eiichiro Kokubo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
   

7. SNAGGING AN EARTH-CLASS EXOPLANETARY MOON
   Darren Williams, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
   

8. ARE HOT NEPTUNES PARTIALLY EVAPORATED HOT JUPITERS?
   Gwenael Boue, CAUP
   

9. TRANSIT CONSTRAINTS FOR A GENERAL PLANET FORMATION THEORY PROVIDED BY COROT AND KEPLER
   Gunther Wuchterl, Thuringer Landessternwarte, CoRoT (DLR)
   

10. FORMATION AND DIVERSITY OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS AROUND M DWARFS: TOWARD THE NEXT-GENERATION OBSERVATIONS
    Yasunori Hori, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
    

Session E - Wednesday PM Dec 7, 2011
GIANT PLANETS AND PLANET ATMOSPHERES

1. KEPLER GIANT PLANET DISCOVERIES
   Sara Seager (invited) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   

2. THE HEAVY-ELEMENT MASSES OF EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS, REVEALED
   Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz
   

3. KEPLER'S DARK AND REFLECTIVE WORLDS
   Brice-Olivier Demory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   

4. ALBEDO SPECTRA OF EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS
   Mark Marley, NASA Ames Research Center
   

5. SEARCH FOR SECONDARY ECLIPSES OF HOT JUPITERS IN KEPLER Q2 LIGHT CURVES
   Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Inst. de Ciencies de L'Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Spain
   

6. ASYMMETRIC TRANSIT CURVES AS INDICATION OF ORBITAL OBLIQUITY: STARS AND COMPANION IN KOI-13
   Gyula Szabo, Konkoly Observatory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
   

7. INTERPRETING GEOMETRIC ALBEDOS, PHASE CURVES, AND POLARIZATION OF REFLECTED LIGHT FROM EXOPLANETS
   Nikku Madhusudhan, Princeton University
   

8. CONSTRAINTS ON THE TRUE OBLIQUITY OF THE ORBIT OF HAT-P-7B
   Joshua Carter, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
   

9. MEASURING THE SPIN-ORBIT MISALIGNMENT OF KOI-13.01 FROM KEPLER TRANSIT PHOTOMETRY USING GRAVITY DARKENING
   Jason Barnes, University of Idaho
   

10. CLUES OF THE ORIGINS OF HOT JUPITERS
    Amaury Triaud, Observatoire Astronomique de l'Universite de Geneve
    

Session F - Thursday AM Dec 8, 2011
ECLIPSING AND INTERACTING BINARIES

1. KEPLER HARVEST OF ECLIPSING BINARY STARS
   Andrej Prsa (invited) Villanova University
   

2. KOI-54: A REMARKABLE PERIASTRON-PUMPED PULSATING BINARY STAR
   William Welsh, San Diego State University
   

3. HEARTBEAT STARS: A CLASS OF TIDALLY EXCITED ECCENTRIC BINARIES
   Susan Thompson, SETI Institute/NASA Ames Research Center
   

4. TESTS OF AGE, MASS, AND RADIUS FROM BINARY STARS IN OPEN CLUSTERS
   Eric Sandquist, San Diego State University
   

5. AN ECLIPSING WHITE DWARF-M DWARF SYSTEM OBSERVED WITH KEPLER
   Roi Alonso, Observatoire Astronomique de l'Univ. de Geneve, Switzerland
   

6. CIRCUMBINARY COMPANIONS OF INTERMEDIATE-MASS ECLIPSING BINARY STARS
   Douglas Gies, Georgia State University
   

7. PHOTOMETRIC DETECTION OF NON-TRANSITING SHORT-PERIOD BINARIES THROUGH THE BEAMING, ELLIPSOIDAL AND REFLECTION EFFECTS IN THE KEPLER LIGHT CURVES
   Tsevi Mazeh, Tel Aviv University
   

8. DYNAMICAL TIDES IN AECCENTRIC BINARIES AND TIDALLY EXCITED STELLAR PULSATIONS IN KEPLER KOI-54
   Jim Fuller, Cornell University
   

9. KEPLER OBSERVATIONS OF RAPID OPTICAL VARIABILITY IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
   Rick Edelson, University of Maryland
   

Session G - Thursday PM Dec 8, 2011
STELLAR ACTIVITY AND ROTATION

1. EARLY RESULTS FROM KEPLER ON STELLAR ACTIVITY
   Gibor Basri (invited) University of California, Berkeley
   

2. THE FLARING BEHAVIOR OF G STARS OBSERVED BY KEPLER
   David Soderblom, Space Telescope Science Institute
   

3. STARSPOTTING: LOOKING AT KEPLER DATA FOR INSIGHT INTO STELLAR MAGNETIC ACTIVITY
   Lucianne Walkowicz (invited) Princeton University
   

4. SPOT EVOLUTION AND DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION ON SUN-LIKE STARS
   Svetlana Berdyugina, KIS, Freiburg
   

5. NEW METHODS TO MODEL ACTIVITY-INDUCED SIGNALS IN PHOTOMETRY AND RADIAL VELOCITY
   Suzanne Aigrain, University of Oxford
   

6. STARSPOTS AND SPIN-ORBIT ALIGNMENT FOR KEPLER PLANETARY SYSTEMS
   Roberto Sanchis Ojeda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   

7. THE KEPLER CLUSTER STUDY AND STELLAR ROTATION IN CLUSTERS
   Soren Meibom (invited) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
   

Session H - Friday AM Dec 9, 2011
ASTEROSEISMOLOGY

1. ASTEROSEISMOLOGY: NEW INSIGHTS IN VARIABLE STARS IN THE CLASSICAL INSTABILITY STRIP
   Donald Kurtz (invited) University of Central Lancashire
   

2. THE PHYSICS OF STOCHASTIC EXCITATION
   Peter Goldreich (invited) California Institute of Technology
   

3. ASTEROSEISMOLOGY OF THE SOLAR ANALOGS 16 CYG A & B FROM KEPLER OBSERVATIONS
   Travis Metcalfe, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR
   

4. OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS, STELLAR MODELS, AND KEPLER DATA FOR THETA CYG, THE BRIGHTEST STAR OBSERVABLE IN THE KEPLER FIELD OF VIEW
   Joyce Guzik, Los Alamos National Laboratory
   

5. SEISMIC AGE CALIBRATION AND HEAVY-ELEMENT ABUNDANCE IN SOLAR-TYPE STARS
   Guenter Houdek, Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna
   

Session I - Friday AM Dec 9, 2011
ENSEMBLE ASTEROSEISMOLOGY OF SOLAR-TYPE STARS

1. ENSEMBLE ASTEROSEISMOLOGY OF SOLAR-TYPE STARS
   Bill Chaplin (invited) University of Birmingham
   

2. ASTEROSEISMIC MODELLING OF KEPLER STARS
   Sarbani Basu (invited) Yale University
   

3. LONG-BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY FOLLOW-UP OF KEPLER STARS USING THE CHARA ARRAY
   Daniel Huber, NASA Ames Research Center/University of Sydney
   

4. ASTEROSEISMIC ANALYSIS OF TWO SUN-LIKE KEPLER SUBGIANTS: KIC11395018 AND KIC10920273
   Gulnur Dogan, NCAR/High Altitude Observatory
   

Session J - Friday PM Dec 9, 2011
RED GIANT OSCILLATIONS

1. ASTEROSEISMOLOGY OF RED GIANTS
   Tim Bedding (invited) School of Physics, University of Sydney
   

2. RED GIANTS UNVEILED
   Benoit Mosser, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris
   

3. THE INTERSECTION OF ASTEROSEISMOLOGY AND ABUNDANCES
   Courtney Epstein, Ohio State University
   

4. PROBING THE INNER ROTATION PROFILE OF THE SUBGIANT KIC7341231
   Sebastien Deheuvels, Yale University
   

5. ASTROBIOLOGY
   Carl Pilcher (invited) NASA Ames Research Center