| Time (PT) | Event |
| 4:00 pm | Registration |
| 4:30 pm | Registration Gathering |
| Time (PT) | Title | Speaker |
| 8:00 am | Registration | |
| Morning Session Chair: Eamonn Kerins (University of Manchester) | ||
| 8:30 am | Welcome and Opening Comments (View Video) | Ray Jayawardhana (Caltech) |
| 8:45 am | Logistics (View Video) | Elise Furlan (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) and Tracy Chen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) |
| 9:00 am | Introduction to Roman (View Video) | Joshua Schlieder (NASA GSFC) |
| 9:30 am | Introduction to Microlensing and Its Historical Perspectives (View Video) | Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University), David Bennett (NASA GSFC) |
| 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | Planet Populations, or Why We Need Roman (View Video) | Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) |
| 11:30 am | Introduction to Other Microlensing Sources (View Video) | Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) |
| 12:00 pm | Poster Pops I (View Video) | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Poster Session I | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University) | ||
| 2:15 pm | Theory of Planet Formation and Planetary System Architectures (View Video) | Ruth Murray-Clay (UC Santa Cruz) |
| 3:00 pm | Introduction to the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (View Video) | Matthew Penny (Louisiana State University) |
| 3:30 pm | The AAS Journals Publication Process (View Video) | Brian Jackson (Boise State University) |
| 3:40 pm | Break | |
| 4:10 pm | Hands-On Sessions Overview (View Video) | Elise Furlan (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI), Casey Lam (Carnegie Observatories), Macy Huston (UC Berkeley) |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
| Time (PT) | Title | Speaker |
| Morning Session Chair: Ruth Murray-Clay (UC Santa Cruz) | ||
| 8:30 am | Fundamentals of Microlensing (View Video) | Etienne Bachelet (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur) |
| 9:00 am | Higher-Order Effects in Microlensing (View Video) | Valerio Bozza (Università degli Studi di Salerno) |
| 9:30 am | Microlensing Planet Host Star Characterization (View Video) | Aparna Bhattacharya (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) |
| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am | Challenges in Roman Microlensing (View Video) | David Bennett (NASA GSFC) |
| 11:00 am | Roman Microlensing Planet Yields (View Video) | Farzaneh Zohrabi (Louisiana State University) |
| 11:30 am | Dealing with Dust in the Galactic Plane (View Video) | David Nataf (University of Iowa) |
| 12:00 pm | Poster Pops II (View Video) | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Hands-On Session I (View Video) | Casey Lam (Carnegie Observatories), Katarzyna Kruszyńska (LCO), Arjun Murlidhar (OSU), Himanshu Verma (LSU) |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| 5:30 pm | Optional Dinner |
| Time (PT) | Title | Speaker |
| Morning Session Chair: Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) | ||
| 8:30 am | Fundamentals of Transiting Planets (View Video) | Andrew Vanderburg (Harvard University) |
| 9:00 am | Challenges with Roman Transits (View Video) | Jason Rowe (Bishop's University) |
| 9:30 am | Roman Transiting Planet Yields (View Video) | Robby Wilson (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) |
| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am | Galactic Context (View Video) | Macy Huston (UC Berkeley) |
| 11:00 am | Introduction to Microlensing Occurrence Rate Methods (View Video) | Daisuke Suzuki (Osaka University) |
| 11:30 am | Introduction to Transit Occurrence Rate Methods (View Video) | Michelle Kunimoto (University of British Columbia, remote) |
| 12:00 pm | Completing the Galactic Census of Planets: Combining Microlensing and Transit Demographics (View Video) | Eamonn Kerins (University of Manchester) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Poster Session II | |
| 2:15 pm | Hands-On Session II (View Video) | Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley), Macy Huston (UC Berkeley), Matthew Penny (LSU) |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
| Time (PT) | Title | Speaker |
| Morning Session Chair: Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) | ||
| 8:30 am | Microlensing Pipelines: From Pixels to Lightcurves (AKA the Challenges of Crowded Field Photometry and Astrometry) (View Video) | Jay Anderson (STScI) |
| 9:00 am | Microlensing Pipelines: From Lightcurves to Characterization (AKA the Pros and Cons of Different Microlensing Event Modeling Techniques) (View Video) | Stela Ishitani Silva (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 9:30 am | Transit Pipelines (View Video) | Jason Eastman (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) |
| 10:00 am | Characterizing Transit Host Stars (View Video) | Alison Duck (NASA JPL) |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Non-Exoplanet Science with the GBTDS (Astrophysics) (View Video) | Marc Pinsonneault (Ohio State University, remote) |
| 11:45 am | Non-Exoplanet Science with the GBTDS (Solar System) (View Video) | Rosemary Pike (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) |
| 12:15 pm | Group Photo | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Hands-on Session: Group Projects | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
| Time (PT) | Title | Speaker |
| Morning Session Chair: Robby Wilson (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) | ||
| 8:30 am | Precursor Observations (Euclid, HST) (View Video) | Sean Terry (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) |
| 9:00 am | Individual Microlensing Event Follow-Up with Big Telescopes (View Video) | Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (University of Tasmania) |
| 9:30 am | Contemporaneous Microlensing and Other Time Domain Surveys (View Video) | Takahiro Sumi (Osaka University) |
| 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | The Roman GPS and How It Can Be Used to Expand on Microlensing and Transit Surveys (View Video) | Roberta Paladini (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 11:15 am | Panel: Exoplanet Demographics Opportunities with Roman GO Time (View Video) | Melinda Soares-Furtado (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sam Grunblatt (University of Alabama), Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Session Chair: Sam Grunblatt (University of Alabama) | ||
| 1:00 pm | How Roman Science Leads to HWO (View Video) | Karl Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL) |
| 1:30 pm | How Roman Coronagraph Technology Leads to HWO (View Video) | Alexandra Greenbaum (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 2:00 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm | Group Projects Presentations (View Video) | |
| 4:30 pm | Closing Comments (View Video) | Elise Furlan (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) |
| 4:45 pm | Adjourn |
Questions? Sagan_Workshop@ipac.caltech.edu
(last updated July 28th, 2026 14:38:50)
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