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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
8:30 am Welcome and Opening Comments
8:30 am From 51 Peg to 5700 Exoplanets: 30 Years of Exoplanet Demographics
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Panel: Fundamentals
11:00 am Demographics Synthesis Talk
11:45 am Poster Pops I
12:15 pm Lunch and Poster Session I
2:15 pm Introduction to Hands-On Sessions
2:30 pm Demographics of Workshop Attendees
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm NASA Career Panel
5:00 pm Adjourn

Tuesday July 22

Time (PDT) Title
8:30 am Planet Formation and Evolution
9:15 am Detection Techniques: Transits
10:00 am Break
10:30 am From Wobbles to Worlds: The Role of Precision Radial Velocities in Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
11:15 am Detecting and Weighing Exoplanets with Absolute Astrometry
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Hands-On Session I
4:30 pm Adjourn

Wednesday July 23

Time (PDT) Title
8:30 am Cold Exoplanet Demographics from Jupiter to Mars Mass with Microlensing Surveys
9:15 am Detection Techniques: Direct Imaging
10:00 am Break
10:30 am System Architectures
11:00 am Exoplanet Demographics across Stellar Mass and Time
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
8:30 am Gas Giant Demographics
9:00 am What is a sub-Neptune?
9:30 am The New Landscape of Exoplanet Atmospheres as Revealed by JWST
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Panel: Free-Floating Planets and Brown Dwarfs
11:30 am What Makes a Survey Useful for Demographics
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Hands-on Session: Group Projects
5:00 pm Adjourn

Friday July 25

Time (PDT) Title
8:30 am Future Work on Giant Planets
9:00 am Future Exploration of Key Planetary Processes and Trends in the Sub-Neptune Population
9:30 am Future Work on Potentially Habitable and Inhabited Rocky Planets
10:00 am Panel: Demographics of Life in the Universe
11:00 am Future of Radial Velocity Planet Demographics
11:30 am Lunch
1:00 pm Future of Transiting Planets with PLATO and Roman
1:30 pm Future of Direct Imaging Planets with Roman and HWO
2:00 pm Future of Planetary Atmospheres with JWST, Ariel, HWO, and Ground-Based Telescopes
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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