December 17th, 2012: Latest News from CoRoT and Kepler
8:45 | Registration | |
Session Chair: Ralph Neuhäuser | 9:00 – 9:15 | Amiel Sternberg | Greetings and Opening Remarks | 9:15 – 9:45 | Magali Deleuil | From CoRoT Lightcurves to Candidates and Planets |
9:45 – 10:25 | Coffee break | |
10:25 – 10:55 | Geoff Marcy | The Occurrence of Planets from Kepler |
11:00 – 11:30 | Josh Carter | Photodynamics with Kepler |
11:35 – 12:05 | William Welsh | Kepler Circumbinary Planets |
12:05 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
Session chair: Tristan Guillot | 14:00 – 14:30 | Dan Fabrycky | Multi-Transiting Planetary Systems in Kepler |
14:35 – 15:05 | Matthew Holman | Long-Term Dynamics of Kepler Multiple Planet Systems |
15:05 – 15:45 | Coffee break | |
15:45 – 16:15 | Guillermo Torres | Kepler Binaries and the Problem of Inflated M Dwarfs |
16:20 – 16:50 | Avi Shporer | Doing More with Photometry - Studying Kepler Phase Curves |
16:55 – 17:25 | Suzanne Aigrain | Measuring Stellar Rotation Periods in Kepler Data Using The Autocorrelation Function |
18:00 | reception |
December 18th, 2012: Other Observational Fronts
Session chair: Magali Deleuil | ||
9:00 – 9:30 | David Charbonneau | The MEarth Project: Parallaxes, Rotation Periods, and Planets of Low-Mass Stars Within 33 Parsecs |
9:35 – 10:05 | Francesco Pepe | Harps-N |
10:05 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
10:45 – 11:15 | Didier Queloz | Prospects and Limitations of Planet Search from HARPS and Ground-Based Transit Results |
11:20 – 11:50 | Shay Zucker | Detecting Transiting Planets with Gaia |
11:50 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
13:00 – 14:00 | A guided tour of the Jewish Diaspora Museum | |
Session chair: Guillermo Torres | ||
14:00 – 14:30 | Dan Maoz | Microlensing Planet Surveying: the Second Generation |
14:35 – 15:05 | Andrew Gould | Brown Dwarfs - Microlensing's Stepchild |
15:05 – 15:45 | Coffee break | |
15:45 – 16:15 | Ralph Neuhäuser | Direct Imaging of Young Sub-Stellar Companions |
16:20 – 16:50 | Oded Aharonson | Searching for Planetary Transits in the Ultraviolet |
December 19th, 2012
a) Binaries and Triples
Session chair: Dan Fabrycky | ||
9:00 – 9:30 | David Latham | Triples |
9:35 – 10:05 | Robert Mathieu | A Detailed Look into the Blue Stragglers of the Old Open Cluster NGC 188 |
10:05 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
10:45 – 12:00 | Tsevi Mazeh and Simchon Faigler | Beaming Binaries; Progress and Results of BEER |
12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
b) The Smaller Planets
Session chair: Francesco Pepe | |||
14:00 – 14:30 | Michel Mayor | Neptune-Mass Planets, SuperEarths - and Below... | |
14:35 – 15:05 | Ignasi Ribas | The Star-Planet Connection as the Key to Finding and Characterizing New Earths | |
20:00 | Conference Dinner |
December 20th, 2012: Theory vs. Observations
Session Chair: Didier Queloz | ||
9:00 – 9:30 | Morris Podolak | Theoretical Considerations in Planet Formation |
9:35 – 10:05 | Kaitlin Kratter | The Intersection of Binary Formation and Planet Formation |
10:05 – 10:45 | Coffee break | |
10:45 – 11:15 | Tristan Guillot | Tidal Interactions and Losing The Brown Dwarfs Around G Stars |
11:20 – 11:50 | Arieh Konigl | Magnetic Effects in Planet Formation and Evolution |
11:55 – 12:25 | Josh Winn | Spin-Orbit Alignment for Exoplanets and Binary Stars |
12:25 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
Session chair: William Welsh | ||
14:00 – 14:30 | Andrew Cameron | Winds, Tides, and Falling Planets |
14:35 – 15:05 | Smadar Naoz | The Role of Stellar Binaries in Retrograde Hot Jupiters |
15:10 – 15:40 | Hagai Perets | Formation of Exotic Binaries in Evolving Triples |
15:40 – 16:20 | Coffee break | |
16:20 – 16:50 | Avi Loeb | Observational Signatures of Planets around the Black Hole at the Milky Way Center |
16:55 – 17:25 | Re'em Sari | Formation of Kuiper-Belt Binaries - Theory vs. Observations |
17:25 – 17:40 | Shay Zucker | Concluding remarks |
(Last updated: December 30th, 2012)