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| SUNDAY | |
| 1:00 - 8:00 PM: Registration 6:00 - 8:00 PM: Opening Reception |
| MONDAY | ||
| 8:30 AM - Overview of Observations [Chair: Geoff Marcy] | ||
| Organizers: Welcome - Intro [5 mins] | ||
| Natalie Batalha (NASA Ames) |
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| Michel Mayor (Geneva) |
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| Takahiro Sumi (Osaka) |
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| Paul Kalas (Berkeley) | Picturing the Extreme: Planetary Systems Revealed through Direct Imaging [Slides] | |
| Ingo Waldmann (UC London) |
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| 10 AM - Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 AM - Radial Velocities [Chair: Michel Mayor] | ||
| Andrew Howard (Berkeley) |
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| Christophe Lovis (Geneva) |
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| Gaspare Lo Curto (ESO) |
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| Andrzej Niedzielski (Copernicus) |
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| Steve Osterman (Colorado) |
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| Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State) |
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| Noon: Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 PM - Transiting Planets [Chair: Dave Charbonneau] | ||
| Eric Ford (Florida) |
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| Jason Rowe (NASA Ames) |
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| Sarah Ballard (CfA) |
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| Daniel Fabrycky (UCSC) |
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| John Johnson (Caltech) | Spectroscopic Orbits of Kepler's Gas Giants [Slides] | |
| Brian Jackson (NASA Goddard) |
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| 3:30 PM - Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 PM - Transiting Planets (cont) [Chair: Natalie Batalha] | ||
| Coel Hellier (Keele) |
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| Bill Borucki (NASA Ames) |
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| Jean-Michel Désert (Harvard) |
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| François Fressin (CfA) |
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| Jack Lissauer (NASA Ames) | Kepler-11: Oddball or Extreme Member of a Class of Densely-Packed Planetary Systems? | |
| Tim Morton (Caltech) |
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| Dinner | ||
| 8:00 - 9:00 PM - Evening Discussion: "How common are earth-like planets?" [Organizer: Andrew Howard] | ||
| TUESDAY | ||
| 8:30 AM - Structure and Evolution [Chair: Kristen Menou] | ||
| Adam Burrows (Princeton) | Theory of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Radii [Slides] | |
| Konstantin Batygin (Caltech) | Thermal Evolution of Hot Jupiters Subject to Ohmic Dissipation [Slides] | |
| Yanqin Wu (Toronto) | Radii and Orbits of Hot Jupiters [Slides] | |
| Jeremy Leconte (ENS-Lyon) | The Impact of Tides on Transiting Planet Structure and Evolution [Slides] | |
| Emily Rauscher (Arizona) | The Interplay Between a Hot Jupiter's Thermal Evolution and its Atmospheric Circulation [Slides] | |
| Adam Showman (Arizona) | Doppler Signatures of the Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters [Slides] | |
| 10 AM - Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 AM - R-M Measurements and Orbital Inclinations [Chair: John Johnson] | ||
| Josh Winn (MIT) |
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| Simon Albrecht (MIT) |
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| Darin Ragozzine (Harvard) |
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| David Brown (St Andrews) |
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| Smadar Naoz (Northwestern) | The Origin of Retrograde Hot Jupiters [Slides] | |
| Makiko Nagasawa (Tokyo IT) | Orbital Evolution of Exoplanets Caused by Scattering and Tides [Slides] | |
| Matt Payne (Florida) |
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| Noon: Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 PM - Direct Imaging [Chair: Jane Greaves] | ||
| James Graham (Toronto) |
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| Eric Nielsen (Hawaii) |
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| Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) |
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| Ray Jayawardhana (Toronto) | A New Population of Wide Substellar Companions [15 mins] | |
| Quinn Konopacky (LLNL) | Orbital Properties of the HR 8799 Planetary System | |
| Michael Fitzgerald (UCLA) | High Spatial Resolution Imaging of a Dynamically Perturbed Circumstellar Debris Disk [Slides] | |
| 3:30 PM - Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 PM - Giant Planet Formation [Chair: Doug Lin] | ||
| Ben Bromley (Utah) | The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks and the Diversity of Giant Planets [Slides] | |
| Alessandro Morbidelli (Nice) | The Grand Tack Scenario: Reconstructing the Migration History of Jupiter and Saturn [Slides] | |
| Brad Hansen (UCLA) | In-Situ Accretion of Hot Neptunes and Super-Earths [Slides] | |
| Ruth Murray-Clay (CfA) | Core Accretion at Wide Separations: The Critical Role of Gas [Slides] | |
| Jane Greaves (St Andrews) | Imaging the Candidate Proto-planet HL Tau b [Slides] | |
| Aaron Boley (Florida) | The Evolution of Wide-Orbit Proto-Gas-Giants Born by Disk Instability [Slides] | |
| Kaitlin Kratter (CfA) | From Star Formation to Exoplanets [Slides] | |
| Dinner | ||
| 8:00 - 9:00 PM - Evening Discussion: "Do we really understand planet formation?" [Organizer: Doug Lin] | ||
| WEDNESDAY | |
| 8:30 AM - Dynamical Evolution [Chair: Fred Rasio] | |
| Jacques Laskar (Paris) | New Results on Chaotic Motion in the Solar System and Extrasolar Systems [Slides] |
| Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern) | Secular Chaos and the Formation of Hot Jupiters [Slides] |
| Boaz Katz (IAS, Princeton) | Analytic Study of Long-Term Variations in Kozai Oscillations [Slides] |
| Rebekah Dawson (CfA) | Planetesimal Disks as Tracers of Planet-Planet Scattering, at Home and Abroad [Slides] |
| Soko Matsumura (Maryland) | Formation and Evolution of Close-in Planets [Slides] |
| Hilke Schlichting (UCLA) | Warm Saturns: Rings around Exoplanets that Reside Inside the Ice Line [Slides] |
| 10 AM - Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 AM - Close Planet - Star Interactions [Chair: Yanqin Wu] | |
| Andrew Cameron (St Andrews) | Stellar Pulsations Excited by Planetary Tides in WASP-33 [Slides] |
| Sergei Nayakshin (Leicester) | Are Young Hot Jupiters Tidally Disrupted and `Downsized' to Super-Earths? [Slides] |
| Nuno Santos (CAUP) | Are Hot Neptunes Partialy Evaporated Hot Jupiters? [Slides] |
| Fred Adams (Michigan) | Magnetically Controlled Outflows from Hot Jupiters [Slides] |
| Gordon Ogilvie (Cambridge) | Tidal Dissipation in Convective Regions of Planets and Stars [Slides] |
| Phil Arras (Virginia) | Nonlinear Tides in Exoplanet Host Stars [Slides] |
| Ari Socrates (IAS, Princeton) | Thermal Tides and the Inflated Radii of Hot Jupiters [Slides] |
| AFTERNOON & EVENING FREE | |
| THURSDAY | ||
| 8:30 AM - Atmospheres [Chair: Emily Rauscher] | ||
| Jacob Bean (CfA) | New Results from Ground-Based Transit Spectroscopy Observations [Slides] | |
| Frédéric Pont (Exeter) | The Complete Transmission Spectrum of an Exoplanet from UV to IR [Slides] | |
| Zachory Berta (Harvard) | Hubble Observations of a Super-Earth Atmosphere [Slides] | |
| Bryce Croll (MIT) | Near-IR Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters and the Spectral Features of Super-Earths [Slides] | |
| Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford) | Gaussian Processes: the Next Step in Exoplanet Data Analysis [Slides] | |
| Neale Gibson (Oxford) | NIR Transmission Spectra of HD189733: Application of Gaussian Processes [Slides] | |
| Kevin Heng (ETH Zurich) | A New Method for Calculating Exoplanetary Spectra from 3D Simulations | |
| 10 AM - Coffee Break | ||
| 10:30 AM - Atmospheres (cont) [Chair: Suzanne Aigrain] | ||
| Heather Knutson (Caltech) | A Warm Spitzer Survey of Atmospheric Circulation Patterns [Slides] | |
| David Sing (Exeter) | GTC Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheric Survey [Slides] | |
| Jayne Birkby (Leiden) | Observations of Optical Secondary Eclipses of Transiting Hot Jupiters with the GTC [Slides] | |
| Seth Redfield (Wesleyan) | Detection of H-alpha Absorption in Exoplanetary Exospheres [Slides] | |
| Nikku Madhusudhan (Princeton) | C/O Ratios in Exoplanetary Atmospheres [Slides] | |
| Sukrit Ranjan (CfA) | Characterizing Hot Jupiter Atmospheres with Hubble WFC3 [Slides] | |
| Tristan Guillot (OCA) | The Role of Atmospheres in the Evolution of Exoplanets [Slides] | |
| Noon: Lunch Break | ||
| 2:00 PM - Planets in Binaries and Star Clusters [Chair: Dave Latham] | ||
| William Welsh (San Diego State) |
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| Josh Carter (CfA) |
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| Norio Narita (NAOJ) |
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| Zoe Leinhardt (Bristol) | Planet Formation in Binaries [Slides] | |
| Sourav Chatterjee (Florida) |
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| 3:30 PM - Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 PM - Hot Jupiters [Chair: Heather Knutson] | ||
| Eliza Kempton (UCSC) | Measuring Wind Speeds in the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Hot Jupiters [Slides] | |
| Nick Cowan (Northwestern) | Thermal Phase Variations of WASP-12b [Slides] | |
| Nawal Husnoo (Exeter) | Observational Evidence for Tidal Effects in Hot Jupiters [Slides] | |
| Jonathan Langton (UCSC) | New Photometry for the Extremely Eccentric Giant HD 80606 b [Slides] | |
| Tiffany Kataria (Arizona) | Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters on Highly Eccentric Orbits [Slides] | |
| Nikole Lewis (Arizona) | The Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b [Slides] | |
| Svetlana Berdyugina (KIS) | Polarimetry of Hot Inflated Jupiters Reveals their Neptune-like Blue Appearance [Slides] | |
| Dinner | ||
| 8:00 - 9:00 PM - Evening Discussion: "Planets in Binaries" [Organizer: Bill Welsh] | ||
| FRIDAY | |
| 8:30 AM - Planets around Evolved Stars [Chair: Alex Wolszczan] | |
| Dimitri Veras (Cambridge) | The Great Escape: How Exoplanets and Smaller Bodies Desert Dying Stars [15 mins] |
| Eva Villaver (Madrid) | Can Planets Survive the Giant Phase of Stellar Evolution? [15 mins] |
| Kevin Luhman (Penn State) | Discovery and Characterization of the Coolest Known Brown Dwarf [15 mins] |
| Boris Gaensicke (Warwick) | Planetary Debris around Young White Dwarfs [Slides] |
| Amy Bonsor (Cambridge) | Evolved Planetary Systems: Debris Disks and Metal-Polluted White Dwarfs [10 mins] |
| Eric Agol (Washington) | How to Find Earths in the Habitable Zones of Cool White Dwarfs with Transit Surveys [Slides] |
| Hagai Perets (CfA) | Planetary Dynamics and Evolution in Evolved Binary Systems [10 mins] |
| 10 AM - Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 AM - Rocky Planet Formation and Planetesimals [Chair: Ruth Murray-Clay] | |
| Andrew Youdin (CfA) | Testing Planet Formation Theory with Exoplanets [15 mins] |
| * Elisa Quintana (NASA Ames) | Kepler-11: On the Formation of an Extremely Compact Six-Planet System [15 mins] |
| Amaya Moro-Martin (INTA-CSIC) | Locating Planetesimal Belts in Planetary Systems [Slides] |
| Torsten Loehne (Jena) | HD 207129: Dusty Debris at the Very Outer Edge of a Planetary System [15 mins] | Shigeru Ida (Tokyo IT) | Predictions from Population Synthesis [10 mins] |
| Christoph Mordasini (MPIA) | Planetary Population Synthesis [Slides] |
| Hannah Jang-Condell (U Wyoming) | Reversing Type-I Migration in Gap Shadows [10 mins] |
| Noon: Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 PM - Earths and Super-Earths [Chair: Eric Ford] | |
| Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard) | Extreme Densities: Characteristics and Nature of the High-Density Super-Earths [15 mins] |
| Diana Valencia (MIT) | Composition of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes [15 mins] |
| Drake Deming (Maryland) | Twelve Consecutive Transits of GJ1214b with Spitzer [15 mins] |
| Brice-Olivier Demory (MIT) | Characterization of the Transiting Super-Earth 55 Cnc e [Slides] |
| Mark Marley (NASA Ames) | The Ascendancy of Youth: Thermal Emission from Young Worlds [Slides] |
| Eric Lopez (UCSC) | Kepler 11: A System of Super-Earths or Mini-Neptunes? [10 mins] |
| Diana Dragomir (UBC) | Searching for Transits of Super-Earths Using the MOST Space Telescope [10 mins] |
| 2:30 PM - Coffee Break | |
| 3:00 PM - Habitability [Chair: Diana Valencia] | |
| Ravi Kopparapu (Penn State) | Habitable Zones around Low-Mass Stars [15 mins] |
| Steinn Sigurdsson (Penn State) | The Late Heavy Bombardment and Outer Planet Interlopers [15 mins] |
| Leslie Rogers (MIT) | Liquid Water Oceans on Super-Earths [15 mins] |
| Sebastian Elser (Zurich) | How Common Are Earth-Moon Planetary Systems? [15 mins] |
| * Nader Haghighipour (Hawaii) | Formation and Detection of Habitable Trojan Planets/Super-Earths [10 mins] |
| Ofer Cohen (Harvard) | Extreme Space Weather on Close-in Exoplanets [10 mins] |
| Jason Steffen (Fermilab) | Rogue Worlds and the Power of the Dark Side [10 mins] |
| 4:30 PM: Drinks | |
| 7:30 PM: Conference Banquet | |
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