Please use the Presentation Upload Form to upload your slides or e-poster by Friday, December 12th. PDFs are preferred.
Invited talks are 20 minutes (15 + 5) and contributed talks are 15 minutes (12 + 3). Invited talks are in italics.
The maximum poster size is 4 feet x 6 feet.
| 8:00 am | doors open | |
| 9:00 am | Opening Remarks | Catherine Clark (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) and Briley Lewis (UCSB) |
| Session I: Planet-Hosting Stars | Session Chair: Jack Lubin (UCLA) | |
| 9:10 am | Precision Transit Host Characterization with SPHEREx, Gaia, and JWST | Zafar Rustamkulov (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 9:30 am | Planetary Habitability Under the Light of a Rapidly Changing Star | Tara Fetherolf (UCR) |
| 9:45 am | The Magnetic Evolution of Stars <100 Myr and its Impact on Exoplanets | Facundo Pérez Paolino (Caltech) |
| 10:00 am | A Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-Poor ([Fe/H] = -0.7) Star | Josh Simon (Carnegie) |
| 10:15 am | Scaling K2: Short-Period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-Type M Dwarfs | Kevin Hardegree-Ullman (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) |
| 10:30 am | Ages For Exoplanet Host Stars: Rotation & Lithium in the Kepler Field | Luke Bouma (Carnegie) |
| 10:45 am | break | |
| Session II: Atmospheres I | Session Chair: Hanna Adamski (UCLA) | |
| 11:15 am | Revealing the first thermal emission spectra of hot and dense sub-Neptunes | Pierre-Alexis Roy (UCLA) |
| 11:35 am | Ultraviolet-Driven Atmospheric Degeneracies of an Archean-Analog TRAPPIST-1 e | Evan Sneed (UCR) |
| 11:50 am | Chemistry and Climate Impact of Sulfuric Acid Hazes on Early Venus | Danica Adams (UCLA) |
| 12:05 pm | Upscaling Venus: The Climate, Atmosphere and Observing Implications of a Super-Venus Exoplanet | Emma Miles (UCR) |
| 12:20 pm | lunch | |
| Session III: Instrumentation | Session Chair: Briley Lewis (UCSB) | |
| 1:50 pm | Henrietta: A new, near-infrared exoatmosphere spectrograph for the 1-m Swope Telescope | Jason Williams (Carnegie) |
| 2:10 pm | Calibrating a high-resolution infrared spectrograph: the HISPEC Calibration System | Ben Sappey (UCSD) |
| 2:25 pm | Spectral Order Sorting with the Multi-Object MKID Optical Spectrometer (MOMOS) | Crystal Kim (UCSB) |
| 2:40 pm | Investigating the Differential Limb Coupling Effect for Diffraction-Limited Spectrographs | Andrea Lin (Caltech) |
| 2:55 pm | Near-Infrared Polarimetry with Keck/NIRC2 | Rebecca Zhang (UCSB) |
| 3:10 pm | break | |
| 3:40 pm | Poster Pops | |
| 4:10 pm | Poster Session I | |
| 5:00 pm | adjourn | |
| 5:15 pm | Pizza Social |
| Time (PT) | Title | Speaker | |
| 8:00 am | doors open | ||
| Session IV: Planet Formation | Session Chair: Jerry Xuan (Caltech) | ||
| 9:00 am | Setting the Planet Formation Stage: The Dynamics of Infall and Accretion Shocks in Protostar Disks | Susan Terebey (Cal State LA) | |
| 9:20 am | From Compact to Fuzzy: The New Interior Paradigm for Jupiter, Saturn, and Gas Giants | Ankan Sur (UCLA) | |
| 9:35 am | What's the difference between brown dwarfs and super-Jupiters? | Greg Gilbert (Caltech) | |
| 9:50 pm | The Occurrence of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs from 1-10 AU | Judah Van Zandt (UCSB) | |
| 10:05 am | Higher-order resonances from sharp-edge transitions | Ian Brunton (Caltech) | |
| 10:20 am | Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia | Jingwen Zhang (UCSB) | |
| 10:35 am | break | ||
| Session V: Atmospheres II | Session Chair: Celeste Hagee (UCR) | ||
| 11:05 am | Unraveling the Mystery of the Western Hotspot Offset on the Young Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b with Phase-Resolved High-Resolution Spectroscopy | Aurora Kesseli (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) | |
| 11:25 am | How Optical Absorbers Shape the Circulation and Spectra of Hot Jupiters: Application to the JWST Spectra of WASP-121 b | Pablo Drake Hernandez (Caltech) | |
| 11:40 am | A Scatter of Light from a Polarized World | Sloane Wiktorowicz (The Aerospace Corporation) | |
| 11:55 am | Breaking the Accuracy-Speed Trade-off in Radiative Transfer Calculations with Transformer-Based Emulation | Isaac Malsky (Caltech) | |
| 12:10 pm | lunch | ||
| 1:40 pm | Panels | ||
| 2:30 pm | Poster Session II | ||
| 3:00 pm | break | ||
| Session VI: Direct Imaging | Session Chair: Jingwen Zhang (UCSB) | ||
| 3:30 pm | The power of high-resolution spectroscopy: from self-luminous gas giants to ExoEarths and biosignatures | Jean-Baptiste Ruffio (UCSD) | |
| 3:50 pm | Constraints on the Orbit of the Young Substellar Companion GQ Lup B from High-Resolution Spectroscopy and VLTI/GRAVITY Astrometry | Vidya Venkatesan (UCI) | |
| 4:05 pm | Directly imaging runaway accretion | Nick Choksi (Caltech) | |
| 4:20 pm | Metal enrichment in both volatile (C, O, N) and refractory (S) elements for giant planets in HR 8799 and AF Lep | Jerry Xuan (UCLA) | |
| 4:35 pm | An Exoplanet Candidate in the Habitable Zone of Alpha Centauri A | Aniket Sanghi (Caltech) | |
| 4:50 m | Closing Remarks | Catherine Clark (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) and Briley Lewis (UCSB) | |
| 5:00 pm | adjourn |
(last updated November 20th, 2025 11:00:20)
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