Sunday, 14th September |
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18:00 - 20:00 | Welcome and Registration | ||
Monday, 15th September |
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08:40 - 09:00 | Registration | ||
09:00 - 09:30 | Conference opening With the presence of:
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Session I: Latest results from exoplanet research: observations Chairperson: Christophe Lovis |
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09:30 - 10:00 | IT | Toward Reliable Planet Occurrence Rates With Kepler | N. Batalha |
10:00 - 10:20 | Occurrence Doesn't Just Happen: Revisiting the Frequency of Earth-Size Planets around Kepler Stars | E. Gaidos | |
10:20 - 10:40 | Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars | E. Petigura | |
10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
11:10 - 11:30 | The shortest-period planets | R. Sanchis-Ojeda | |
11:30 - 11:50 | Two New Kepler Circumbinary Planets | W. Welsh | |
11:50 - 12:10 | The Mass-Radius Relation for 65 Exoplanets Smaller than 4 Earth Radii | L. Weiss | |
12:10 - 12:30 | Space-based characterization of super-Earth exoplanets | B.-O. Demory | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
Session I: Latest results from exoplanet research: observations Chairperson: Guillermo Gonzalez |
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14:00 - 14:20 | The Prevalence of Small Planets Around Small Stars from Kepler | C. Dressing | |
14:20 - 14:50 | IT | From Radial Velocities to a Planetary Census | S. Udry |
14:50 - 15:10 | HARPS-N Contributions to the Mass-Radius Diagram for Rocky Exoplanets | D. Latham | |
15:10 - 15:30 | The atmospheres of warm super-Earths: HD 97658b as a case study | D. Dragomir | |
15:30 - 15:50 | How Rocky Are They? The Composition Distribution of Kepler's Sub-Neptune Planet Candidates within 0.15 AU | A. Wolfgang | |
15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
Session II: Future instruments and methodologies for planet detection and characterization Chairperson: Xavier Dumusque |
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16:20 - 16:50 | IT | The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite | J. Winn |
16:50 - 17:10 | Machine Learning Approaches to Vetting Transiting Planet Signatures in Photometric Light Curves | J. Jenkins | |
17:10 - 17:40 | IT | The CHEOPS mission | D. Ehrenreich |
17:40 - 18:10 | IT | PLATO - The habitable zone terrestrial planet explorer | D. Pollacco |
Tuesday, 16th September |
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Session II: Future instruments and methodologies for planet detection and characterization Chairperson: Sérgio Sousa |
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09:15 - 09:45 | IT | Exoplanets at the E-ELT era | G. Chauvin |
09:45 - 10:15 | IT | Characterizing Earth-like planets using the Extremely Large Telescopes | I. Snellen |
10:15 - 10:35 | The WFIRST-AFTA Exoplanet Microlensing Survey | D. Bennett | |
10:35 - 10:55 | Exoplanet characterisation with the JWST/MIRI instrument | P.-O. Lagage | |
10:55 - 11:20 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
11:20 - 11:50 | IT | ESPRESSO and beyond | F. Pepe |
11:50 - 12:10 | CARMENES | A. Quirrenbach | |
12:10 - 12:30 | The Search for Planets at Longer Wavelengths: Prospects, Challenges, and Surprises | A. Reiners | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
Session III: Astrophysical noise in exoplanet searches Chairperson: Jon Jenkins |
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14:00 - 14:30 | IT | Stellar activity in transit and RV planet searches: synergies and challenges | S. Aigrain |
14:30 - 15:00 | IT | The Impact of Stellar Variability on Kepler's Search for Transiting Exoplanets | J. Christiansen |
15:00 - 15:20 | Goldilocks Can't Stay Here: Habitable Zone Planets Around Gliese 581 are Stellar Activity Signals | P. Robertson | |
15:20 - 15:40 | The interesting case of HD41248: stellar activity, no planets? | J. Faria | |
15:40 - 16:00 | Understanding the stellar activity impact on radial velocity measurements | E. Hébrard | |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
16:30 - 17:00 | IT | Gliese 667C Signals and Noise | P. Gregory |
17:00 - 17:30 | IT | Astrophysical noises affecting radial velocity planet searches | X. Dumusque |
17:30 - 17:50 | Disentangling Low-mass Planetary Signals and Stellar Surface Magneto-convection | H. Cegla | |
17:50 - 18:10 | Effect of stellar activity on the high-precision transmission spectra: Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky? | M. Oshagh | |
18:10 - 18:30 | Planets and Stellar Activity: Hide and Seek in the CoRoT-7 system | R. Haywood | |
Wednesday, 17th September |
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Session IV: The precise characterization of stars with planets Chairperson: Ansgar Reiners |
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9:30 - 10:00 | IT | Directly determined physical properties of late-type stars | T. Boyajian |
10:00 - 10:30 | IT | The Small Stars And Their Small Planets | B. Rojas-Ayala |
10:30 - 10:50 | Metallicity determination for M dwarfs from high-resolution IR spectra | S. Lindgren | |
10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
11:20- 11:50 | IT | Stellar Parameter Determination | B. Smalley |
11:50 - 12:10 | Deriving accurate logg values for planet host stars | A. Mortier | |
12:10 - 12:30 | Using simultaneous visible and infrared observations to better constrain stellar activity | C. Danielsky | |
12:30 - 12:50 | Li overabundance in giants. Evidence of planet engulfment? | M. Adamow | |
12:50 | Lunch Break | ||
18:00 | Departure for dinner | ||
Thursday, 18th September |
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Session IV: The precise characterization of stars with planets Chairperson: Elisa Delgado-Mena |
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09:30 - 10:00 | IT | Detailed characterization of stars with planets | H. Kjeldsen |
10:00 - 10:20 | What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: validation, eccentricity and obliquity of the bright multiple system Kepler-410 | V. Van Eylen | |
10:20 - 10:40 | An ancient extrasolar system with five sub-Earth-size planets | T. Campante | |
10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
Session V: The star-planet connection: system formation, evolution, and its observational signatures Chairperson: Nuno Santos |
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11:10 - 11:40 | IT | Star-planet connection: the role of stellar metallicity | V. Adibekyan |
11:40 - 12:10 | IT | The role of metallicity in establishing giant planet dynamics | R. Dawson |
12:10 - 12:30 | The metallicity-planet relation of M dwarfs | V. Neves | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
14:00 - 14:20 | Three distinct exoplanet regimes inferred from host star metallicities | L. Buchhave | |
14:20 - 14:40 | Lithium depletion of planetary-host stars: a new and revealing homogeneous study | P. Figueira | |
14:40 - 15:00 | Abundance Anomalies in the Composition of Host Stars | N. Hinkel | |
15:00 - 15:30 | IT | Models of Planet Formation | C. Mordasini/P. Moliere |
15:30 - 15:50 | Constraining giant exoplanet composition via host star abundances of planet-building elements | J. Teske | |
15:50 - 16:30 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
16:30 - 16:50 | Planet Traps and Super-Earths: Origins of the Planet-Metallicity Relation and Implications for the Mass-Radius Diagram | Y. Hasegawa | |
16:50 - 17:10 | Have planets more time to grow than we thought? | S. Pfalzner | |
17:10 - 17:30 | Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Circumbinary Planets: Reconciling Theory with Observation | N. Haghighipour | |
17:30 - 17:50 | First ever Gravitational Instability population synthesis models for planet formation | S. Nayakshin | |
21:00 | Public session/debate | ||
Friday, 19th September |
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Session VI: Star-planet interactions Chairperson: Pedro Figueira |
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9:30 - 09:50 | Detecting Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields | J. Llama | |
09:50 - 10:10 | The effects of stellar winds on the magnetospheres and potential habitability of exoplanets | V. See | |
10:10 - 10:30 | An X-ray survey of Hot Jupiter Hosts | S. Wolk | |
10:30 - 11:00 | IT | Star-planet magnetic interactions | A. F. Lanza |
11:00 - 11:40 | Coffee Break and Poster View | ||
11:40 - 12:00 | Planet-host stars: a magnetic study | R. Fares | |
12:00 - 12:30 | IT | The importance of being close to your parent star | R. Mardling |
12:30 - 12:50 | Investigating the Role of Stellar Tides in Hot Jupiters' origin and fate | F. Valsecchi |