| Time (PDT) | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 am | Welcome and Opening Comments | |
| 9:00 am | Introduction to Roman | |
| 9:30 am | Introduction to Microlensing and Its Historical Perspectives | Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University), David Bennett (NASA GSFC) |
| 10:15 am | Break | |
| 10:45 am | Planet Populations, or Why We Need Roman | Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) |
| 11:30 am | Introduction to Other Microlensing Sources | Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley) |
| 12:00 pm | Poster Pops I | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Poster Session I | |
| 2:15 pm | Theory of Planet Formation and Planetary System Architectures | Ruth Murray-Clay (UC Santa Cruz) |
| 3:00 pm | Introduction to the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey | Matthew Penny (Louisiana State University) |
| 3:30 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 pm | Introduction to Hands-On Session I | |
| 4:20 pm | Introduction to Hands-On Session II | |
| 4:40 pm | Adjourn |
| Time (PDT) | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 am | Fundamentals of Microlensing | Etienne Bachelet (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur) |
| 9:00 am | Higher-Order Effects in Microlensing | Valerio Bozza (Università degli Studi di Salerno) |
| 9:30 am | Microlensing Planet Host Star Characterization | Aparna Bhattacharya (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) |
| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am | Challenges in Roman Microlensing | David Bennett (NASA GSFC) |
| 11:00 am | Roman Microlensing Planet Yields | Farzaneh Zohrabi (Louisiana State University) |
| 11:30 am | Dealing with Dust in the Galactic Plane | David Nataf (University of Iowa) |
| 12:00 pm | Poster Pops II | |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Hands-On Session I | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |
| 5:30 pm | Optional Dinner |
| Time (PDT) | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 am | Fundamentals of Transiting Planets | Andrew Vanderburg (Harvard University) |
| 9:00 am | Challenges with Roman Transits | Jason Rowe (Bishop's University) |
| 9:30 am | Roman Transiting Planet Yields | Robby Wilson (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) |
| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am | Galactic Context | Macy Huston (UC Berkeley) |
| 11:00 am | Introduction to Microlensing Occurrence Rate Methods | Daisuke Suzuki (University of Tokyo) |
| 11:30 am | Introduction to Transit Occurrence Rate Methods | Michelle Kunimoto (University of British Columbia, remote) |
| 12:00 pm | Completing the Galactic Census of Planets: Combining Microlensing and Transit Demographics | Eamonn Kerins (University of Manchester) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Poster Session II | |
| 2:15 pm | Hands-On Session II | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
| Time (PDT) | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 am | Microlensing Pipelines: From Pixels to Lightcurves (AKA the Challenges of Crowded Field Photometry and Astrometry) | Jay Anderson (STScI) |
| 9:00 am | Microlensing Pipelines: From Lightcurves to Characterization (AKA the Pros and Cons of Different Microlensing Event Modeling Techniques) | Stela Ishitani Silva (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 9:30 am | Transit Pipelines | Jason Eastman (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) |
| 10:00 am | Characterizing Transit Host Stars | Alison Duck (NASA JPL) |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | Non-Exoplanet Science with the GBTDS (Astrophysics) | Marc Pinsonneault (Ohio State University) |
| 11:45 am | Non-Exoplanet Science with the GBTDS (Solar System) | 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 (PDT) | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 am | Precursor Observations (Euclid, HST) | Sean Terry (University of Maryland, NASA GSFC) |
| 9:00 am | Individual Microlensing Event Follow-Up with Big Telescopes | Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (University of Tasmania) |
| 9:30 am | Contemporaneous Microlensing Surveys | Taka Sumi (Osaka University) |
| 10:00 am | Contemporaneous Time Domain Surveys | Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory) |
| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am | The Roman GPS and How It Can Be Used to Expand on Microlensing and Transit Surveys | Roberta Paladini (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 11:30 am | Panel: Exoplanet Demographics Opportunities with Roman GO Time | Melinda Soares-Furtado (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sam Grunblatt (University of Alabama), Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University) |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm | How Roman Science Leads to HWO | Karl Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL) |
| 1:45 pm | How Roman Coronagraph Technology Leads to HWO | Alexandra Greenbaum (Caltech/IPAC) |
| 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:45 pm | Group Project Presentations | |
| 4:45 pm | Closing Comments | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
Questions? Sagan_Workshop@ipac.caltech.edu
(last updated February 18th, 2026 13:22:02)
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