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2025 Sagan Summer Workshop

Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics

Agenda



Sunday July 20: PROTO Workshop

Sunday July 20: Registration Gathering


Monday July 21

Time (PDT) Title Speaker
8:30 am Welcome and Opening Comments
9:00 am From 51 Peg to 5700 Exoplanets: 30 Years of Exoplanet Demographics Didier Queloz (Cambridge, remote)
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Panel: Fundamentals
11:00 am Demographics Synthesis Talk Christoph Mordasini (University of Bern)
11:45 am Poster Pops I
12:15 pm Lunch and Poster Session I
2:15 pm Introduction to Hands-On Sessions
3:00 pm Demographics of Workshop Attendees
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm NASA Career Panel
5:00 pm Adjourn

Tuesday July 22

Time (PDT) Title Speaker
8:30 am Planet Formation and Evolution Eve Lee (UCSD)
9:15 am Twenty-Five Years of Transiting Planets Joshua Winn (Princeton)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am From Wobbles to Worlds: The Role of Precision Radial Velocities in Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization Jennifer Burt (JPL)
11:15 am Detecting and Weighing Exoplanets with Absolute Astrometry Tim Brandt (STScI)
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Hands-On Session I
4:30 pm Adjourn

Wednesday July 23

Time (PDT) Title Speaker
8:30 am Cold Exoplanet Demographics from Jupiter to Mars Mass with Microlensing Surveys Matthew Penny (LSU)
9:15 am Detection Techniques: Direct Imaging Eric Nielsen (NMSU)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am System Architectures Sarah Millholland (MIT)
11:00 am Exoplanet Demographics across Stellar Mass and Time Ilaria Pascucchi (Arizona/LPL)
11:30 am Poster Pops II
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Poster Session II
2:00 pm Hands-On Session II
5:00 pm Adjourn

Thursday July 24

Time (PDT) Title Speaker
8:30 am Gas Giant Demographics Brendan Bowler (UCSB)
9:00 am What is a sub-Neptune? BJ Fulton (NExScI)
9:30 am The New Landscape of Exoplanet Atmospheres as Revealed by JWST Johanna Teske (EPL)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Demographics of Planets Orbiting M Stars David Charbonneau (CfA)
11:00 am Panel: Demographics of Life in the Universe
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Hands-on Session: Group Projects
5:00 pm Adjourn

Friday July 25

Time (PDT) Title Speaker
8:30 am Future Work on Giant Planets Giovanna Tinetti (UCL)
9:00 am Future Exploration of Key Planetary Processes and Trends in the Sub-Neptune Population Daniel Apai (Arizona/LPL)
9:30 am Future Work on Potentially Habitable and Inhabited Rocky Planets Jacob Lustig-Yaeger (APL)
10:00 am Break
10:30 am What Makes a Survey Useful for Demographics Jessie Christiansen (NExScI)
11:00 am The Future of Radial Velocity Planet Demographics Andy Szentgyorgyi (CfA)
11:30 am The Future of Transiting Exoplanet Searches from Space in the Next Decade Tom Barclay (NASA Goddard)
12:00 am Lunch
1:30 pm The Future of Direct Imaging Planets with Roman & HWO Vanessa Bailey (JPL)
2:00 pm The Future of Planetary Atmospheres with JWST, Ariel, HWO, and Ground-Based Telescopes Mark Swain (JPL)
2:30 pm Break
3:00 pm Group Project Presentations
4:45 pm Closing Comments
5:00 pm Adjourn

Questions? Sagan_Workshop@ipac.caltech.edu

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