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2007 Michelson Summer Workshop
Planetary Transits: From Detection to
Characterization
Final Agenda
Presentation
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Sunday, July 23
6:00 - 8:00 pm - Opening
Reception and Workshop Registration at Workshop Hotel: Sundowner Inn
Monday,
July 23
Transits:
What, Why, and How?
9:00
am - Opening Comments - D. Gelino
(Michelson Science Center)
9:15 am
- Background and History on Exoplanetary
Science - G. Laughlin (UC
Santa Cruz)
10:15
am - Break
10:45
am - Brief History of Transit
Photometry - B. Borucki (NASA Ames)
11:30
am - Planetary Physics from Transits
- S. Seager (MIT)
12:00
pm - Lunch
1:15 pm
- Planetary Formation & Migration - J.
Lissauer (NASA Ames)
2:00 pm
- Transit Survey Design Considerations -
K. von Braun (Michelson Science Center)
2:45 pm
- Break
3:15 pm
- Stellar Photometry: Basic Information - S.
Howell (NOAO)
4:00 pm
- Data Reduction Strategies and Challenges:
Relative Photometric
Precision - T.
Brown (LCOGT)
4:30 pm
- Q & A Session - Moderator: B. Borucki (NASA Ames)
Tuesday,
July 24
Transits:
What, Why, and How?
(continued)
9:00 am
- Operational Experience with Wide-Field Surveys
- N. Batalha (San Jose
State
University)
9:30 am
- Data Reduction Strategies and Challenges: White,
Pink and Red Noise;
Data
Trend Filtering & Systematics - F. Pont (Geneva Observatory)
10:30
am - Break
10:50
am - Data Reduction Strategies and Challenges:
Analysis Approach and
Transit
Detection - J. Jenkins (NASA Ames)
11:35
am - Laboratory Testing of Photometric Precision
Required to Detect
Terrestrial
Planets - D. Koch (NASA Ames)
12:05
pm - Lunch
1:05 pm
- Follow-up Methods and Elimination of False
Positives - G. Torres
(Harvard CfA)
1:45 pm
- Ancillary Science from Transit
Searches - S. Aigrain (U of Exeter)
2:15 pm
- Statistics and Simulations of Transit
Surveys - S. Gaudi (Ohio State
University) (Related Papers: 1 2)
3:00 pm
- Break
Planetary
Transit Theory
3:20 pm
- Mass-Radius Relations of Giant Exoplanets
- J. Fortney (NASA Ames)
4:00 pm
- Mass-Radius Relationships for Solid
Exoplanets - S. Seager (MIT) (Related Paper: 1)
4:40 pm
- Q & A Session - Moderator: S. Aigrain (U of Exeter)
Wednesday,
July 25
Characterization
of Transiting
Planets
9:00 am
- Secondary Eclipses: Overview, Photometry,
Spectroscopy - D. Deming
(NASA GSFC)
9:45 am
- Portraits of Distant Worlds: Mapping the
Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters - H. Knutson (Harvard CfA)
10:10
am - Break
10:30
am - Planetary Atmospheres: Models and
Observations - M. Marley (NASA
Ames)
11:15
am - Atmospheric Dynamics of Jupiters (Hot and
Not) - A. Showman (U of Arizona)
12:00
pm - Depart for Tour of Lick Observatory
(Box lunch included)
Thursday,
July 26
Characterization
of Transiting
Planets (continued)
9:00 am
- Transit Timing - M. Holman (Harvard CfA)
9:45 am
- The Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect - S. Gaudi
(Ohio State University)
10:05
am - GJ 436 - M. Gillon (Geneva Observatory)
10:20
am - Break
Space-Based
Transit Searches
10:50
am - MOST - J. Matthews via Videocon (U of
British Columbia)
11:35
am - Corot - S. Aigrain (U of Exeter)
12:05
pm - Lunch
1:20 pm
- Kepler - B. Borucki (NASA Ames)
2:20 pm
- EPOXI/EPOCh - D. Deming (NASA GSFC)
2:50 pm
- Break
3:20 pm
- Panel Discussion on Transit Searches and Data Sets - Panel Includes: R. Street (LCOGT), P. Plavchan (IPAC/JPL), K.
Sahu (STScI), S. Aigrain (U of Exeter), B. Borucki (NASA Ames), D.
Ciardi (Michelson
Science Center), B. Lee (U of Florida) ; Moderator: G. van Belle
(Michelson
Science Center)
6:00 pm
- Workshop Banquet at Chef Chu's
Friday,
July 26
Opportunities
and Future
Surveys
9:00 am
- Towards the Detection and Characterization of
Smaller Transiting Planets - D.
Latham
(Harvard CfA)
9:55 am
- Statistical Analysis of Transit Surveys and
the Compositions of Giant
Exoplanets
- F. Fressin (OCA Nice)
10:20
am - Break
10:40
am - Prospecting for Transits in 2MASS and
Other Surveys - P. Plavchan
(IPAC/JPL)
11:10
am - Trials and Tribulations of a Transit
Telescope in the Antarctic -
D.
Caldwell (SETI)
11:40
am - Systemic and Transitsearch -
G.
Laughlin (UC
Santa Cruz)
12:05
pm - Asteroseismology: Synergy with Transit
Searches - R. Gilliland
(STScI)
12:35
pm - Lunch
1:35 pm
- Pan-Planets with PANSTARRS1 - C.
Afonso
(MPIA)
2:00 pm
- Exoplanet Studies with the Spitzer Warm
Mission - D. Deming (NASA
GSFC)
2:25 pm
- Serendipitous Detection of Transiting
Planets in Future Synoptic
Surveys - S.
Gaudi (Ohio State University)
2:50 pm
- Q & A Session - Moderator: K. von Braun (Michelson Science Center)
3:10 pm
- Workshop Review: 8 Years of Transits
- G. Laughlin (UC Santa Cruz)
3:45 pm
- Closing Comments - D. Gelino
(Michelson Science Center)
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