The Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshops are held annually and provide opportunities for students, postdocs, and researchers to learn about the engineering and scientific application of exoplanet-related techniques used by the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program.
2025: Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics
2024: Advances in Direct Imaging: From Young Jupiters to Habitable Earths
2023: Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Next Twenty Years
2022: Exoplanet Science in the Gaia Era
2021: Circumstellar Disks and Young Planets
2020: Extreme Precision Radial Velocity
2019: Astrobiology for Astronomers
2018: Did I Really Just Find an Exoplanet?
2017: Microlensing in the Era of WFIRST
2015: Exoplanetary System Demographics: Theory and Observations
2014: Imaging Planets and Disks
2013: Workshop cancelled due to federal government sequestration.
2012: Working with Exoplanet Light Curves
2011: Exploring Exoplanets with Microlensing
2010: Stars as Homes for Habitable Planetary Systems
2009: Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Prior to 2008, the Sagan Summer Workshops were called the Michelson Summer Schools . They were aimed at advancing the scientific and technical understanding of the objectives of the Navigator Program. No workshop was held in 2008, and workshops from 1999 to 2002 were hosted by institutions other than the Michelson Science Center/NExScI.
2007: Planetary Transits: Detection to Characterization
2006: Frontiers of Interferometry: Stars, Disks, and Terrestrial Planets
2005: Discovering New Worlds Through Astrometry
2004: Frontiers of High Contrast Imaging in Astrophysics
2003: Interferometry Overview
2002: Interferometry Theory and Techniques
2001: Interferometry Techniques
2000: Astrophysics with Optical Interferometry
1999: Interferometry Summer School
The Sagan Fellows Symposia are held every two to three years and are for current and past Sagan/Michelson graduate student and postdoctoral fellows to present current or past research results. These symposia highlight the cutting-edge efforts of the fellows, as well as discussion of career paths and networking. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
(last updated July 15th, 2025 15:48:42)
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