2012 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: July 23-27, 2012

Working with Exoplanet Light Curves

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poster presentations

Monday, July 23 starting at 10:30 am

• 1. Time-series CCD Photometry of Transiting Exoplanets: Data Processing — Artem Burdanov (Ural Federal Univ.)
• 2. Analysis of CoRoT chromatic transit light curves — Franceso Borsa (INAF - OABrera)
• 3. Analysis of Kepler Planetary Light Curves using WinKepler — Edwin Budding (Carter Observatory
• 4. DEConvolution PHOTometry — Audrey Lanotte (University of Liege)
• 5. PTFO 8-8695b: A Candidate 3Myr-old Transiting T-Tauri Planet — Julian Van Eyken (NExScI)
• 6. Bisector Analysis of KOI-13 — Gabriella Hodosán (Eötvös Loránd University)
• 7. Stellar activity and transit search — Juan Cabrera (DLR)

Tuesday, July 24 starting at 9:30 am

• 1. PLATO — The Next Generation Exoplanet Finder — Claudia Dreyer (TU Berlin)
• 2. AstroImageJ — A New Image Analysis Tool for Astronomy — Karen Collins (University of Louisville)
• 3. NGTS : Next Generation Transit Survey — Marion Neveu (Observatoire de Genève)
• 4. The NASA Exoplanet Archive — Rachel Akeson (NExScI)
• 5. Constraining the False Positive Rate for Kepler Planet Candidates with Multi-Color Photometry from the GTC — Robert Morehead (Univ. of Florida)
• 6. Difference Imaging Pipeline Enhancements — Robert Siverd (Vanderbilt University)
• 7. VARLET a wavelet based new filter technique for the search of extrasolar planets — Sascha Grziwa (University of Cologne)
• 8. TraMoS: Transit Monitoring from the South — Sergio Hoyer (Uni. de Chile - IAC)
• 9. The KELT-North transit survey's first two planetary detections — Thomas Beatty (Ohio State University)
• 10. Transit Search of Faint Stars with Off-the-Shelf Equipment — Thomas Oberst (Westminster College)
• 11. EChO — Vincent Coude du Foresto (LESIA - Paris Observatory)
• 12. MOA-2011-BLG-293: A test of pure microlensing survey planet detections — Jennifer Yee (Ohio State University)
• 13. Diameters and Temperatures of Main-Sequence Stars with Interferometry — Tabetha Boyajian (Georgia State)
• 14. Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets With GROND — Nikolay Nikolov (MPIA Heidelberg)
• 15. The Hypatia Catalog: Abundances in Exoplanet Hosts — Natalie Hinkel (Arizona State University)

Tuesday, July 24 starting at 4:10 pm

• 1. M Dwarf Metallicities with IRTF/SpeX — Elisabeth Newton (Harvard University)
• 2. Exoplanet occultation spectrophotometry with SOFIA — Daniel Angerhausen (Hamburg Observatory)
• 3. Fundamental Properties of Kepler Objects of Interest using Asteroseismology — Daniel Huber (NASA Ames)
• 4. The signature of orbital motion from the day-side of Tau Bootis b — Matteo Brogi (Leiden Observatory)
• 5. The Kepler-HARPS Comparison: On the Quest to Characterize Super-Earth Populations — Angie Wolfgang (UCSC)
• 6. Habitability of Earth-mass Planets and Moons in Kepler-16 — Billy Quarles (UT Arlington)
• 7. Sterile and Fertile Planetary Systems Statistical Analysis of Multi Planet Systems in Kepler's Data — Elad Steinberg (Hebrew University)
• 8. Characterizing Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres — Jo Barstow (University of Oxford)
• 9. Searching for the Large Friends of Transiting Hot Jupiters — Sasha Hinkley (Caltech)
• 10. The Photoeccentric Effect and Proto Hot Jupiters — Bekki Dawson (Harvard University)
• 11. Hot Jupiters are Lonely — Darin Ragozzine (University of Florida)

Thursday, July 26 starting at 9:20 am

• 1. Debris Disks in Kepler Exoplanet Systems — Samantha Lawler (University of British Columbia)
• 2. Architecture of Planetary Systems Based on Kepler Data: Number of Planets and Coplanarity — Julia Fang (UCLA
• 3. Precise Photometry: Eclipses Timing with a Global Network of 0.5-meter Robotic Telescopes — Piotr Sybilski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)
• 4. Cold Friends of Hot Jupiters — Melodie Kao (Caltech)
• 5. Solaris Telescope Network: new tool for TTVs — Stanislaw Kozlowski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)
• 6. Searching companions of exoplanets with TTV — Támas Norbert Varga (Eötvös University, Hungary)
• 7. Observations, Dynamics & Modeling Orbital Architectures of Circumbinary Extrasolar Planets — Tobias Cornelius Hinse (KASI, South Korea)
• 8. Transit timing variation analysis of WASP-4b using high-speed photometry: a possible super-Earth planet in a 5:3 resonance — Leonardo Almeida (INPE - Brazil)
• 9. Transit timing observations of WASP-10b — Susanna Barros (Laboratoire d′Astrophysique de Marseille)
• 10. Transit Light Curve Analyses with PHOEBE — Gozde Saral (Ankara University)
• 11. Planet Hunters: An independent analysis of Kepler Data — Megan Schwamb (Yale University)
• 12. Ground-based Observations of Thermal Emission from Hot Jupiters — Ming Zhao (Pennsylvania State University)
• 13. CCF Bisectors — Ozgur Basturk (Ankara University)
• 14. Photometric follow-up of transiting exoplanets from India — Yogesh Joshi (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences)

updated July 26, 2012