Final Agenda for
TPF/Darwin Workshop at Cool Stars 14 Conference
November 8-11,2006 Pasadena, CA
TPF/Darwin Workshop at Cool Stars 14 Conference
November 8-11,2006 Pasadena, CA
| Wednesday Nov. 8, 1-2 p.m. | |||
| Registration | |||
| Wednesday Nov. 8, 2-5:30 p.m. | |||
| Photons from Giant Planets | |||
| 2:00 | Introduction and Welcome | Ridgway/Beichman/Fridlund | |
| 2:10 | Invited Talk | Science from Transit Follow-up Photometry and Spectroscopy (abstract) |
Drake Deming |
| 2:40 | Invited Talk | Science with Ground Based Coronography (abstract | slides) |
Ben Oppenheimer |
| 3:10 | Invited Talk | Directly Imaged Companions: Planets or Brown Dwarfs? (abstract | slides) |
Mark Marley |
| 3:30 | Invited Talk | Towards a Theory of Planet Finding (abstract) |
Gunther Wuchterl |
| 3:50 | Contributed Talk | GQ Lup B Optical and Near-Infrared Photometry: A Surprising Planetary Mass Object/Brown Dwarf! (abstract) |
Christian Marois |
| 4:05 | Contributed Talk | First High-Contrast Science with an IFU: the Sub-Stellar Companion to GQ Lup (abstract | slides) |
Michael McElwain |
| 4:20 | Contributed Talk | Slowing Embedded Migration (abstract | slides) |
Ian Dobbs-Dixon |
| 4:35 | Contributed Talk | Heaven or Hell? Giants and Inner Migrated Planets (abstract) |
Eric Gaidos |
| 4:50 | Contributed Talk | A Survey of Close, Young Stars with SDI at the VLT and MMT (abstract | slides) |
Beth Biller |
| 5:05 | Discussion and Poster Popups | ||
| 6:00 | Reception | ||
| Thursday, Nov. 9, 8:30-12:40 | |||
| Planet Detection at Visible Wavelengths | |||
| 8:30 | Invited Talk | Comparison of Coronagraph Designs | Olivier Guyon |
| 9:00 | Contributed Talk | New Worlds Discoverer Occulter Performance (abstract | slides) |
Amy Lo |
| 9:15 | Invited Talk | Review of Coronagraphic Laboratory (abstract | slides) |
Jeremy Kasdin |
| 9:45 | Invited Talk | Planet Detection and Astrophysics With TPF-C | Wes Traub |
| 10:15 | Break | ||
| 10:45 | Invited Talk | JTPF and Planet finding Activities in Japan (abstract) |
Motohide Tamura |
| 11:15 | Contributed Talk | Gemini Planet imager (abstract) |
Bruce Macintosh |
| 11:30 | Contributed Talk | The Super-Earths Explorer Project (abstract) |
Jean Schneider |
| 11:45 | Invited Talk | Dynamical Searches for Planets (Astrometry and RV) (abstract) |
Andreas Quirrenbach |
| 12:15 | Contributed Talk | High--Contrast Imaging in the L-band with MMT/Clio and the 6pc Survey: Exploring the Closest Exoplanets through Angular Differential Imaging (abstract | slides) |
Daniel Apai |
| 12:30 | Poster Pop-Ups | ||
| 12:40 | Adjourn | ||
| Thursday, Nov. 9, 1:30-5:00 | |||
| Attend Cool Stars 14 Session: On-going planet detection results |
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| Thursday, Nov. 9, Evening | |||
| Cool Stars 14 Banquet | |||
| Friday, Nov. 10, 8:30-10:30 | |||
| Planet Detection at IR Wavelengths | |||
| 8:30 | Invited Talk | TPF-I/Darwin | Johnston & Fridlund |
| 9:00 | Invited Talk | Architectures for TPF-I/Darwin (abstract | slides) |
Oliver Lay |
| 9:15 | Invited Talk | Candidate Architectures for the Darwin Missions (abstract) |
Philippe Gondoin |
| 9:45 | Invited Talk | Review of laboratory nulling results (NASA and ESA) (abstract) |
Peter Lawson |
| 10:00 | Contributed Talk | Performance Study of Space-based Infrared Bracewell Interferometers (abstract | slides) |
Denis Defrère |
| 10:15 | Contributed Talk | How Many Planets Will TPF-I Find? - A New Model of Mission Capability (abstract) |
Sarah Hunyadi |
| 10:30 | Adjourn | ||
| Friday, Nov. 10, 10:45-1:15 | |||
| CS 14 Splinter Session: Star-Planet Interactions and Implications for Habitability | |||
| 10:45 | Invited Talk | Habitability and Life on Planets around Cool Stars (abstract | slides) |
Chas Beichman |
| 11:00 | Invited Talk | Planets around Low Mass Stars (abstract) |
Paul Butler |
| 11:30 | Contributed Talk | Determining eta_Earth: The Case For Late M-dwarfs (abstract | slides) |
Michael Endl |
| 11:45 | Contributed Talk | Gravitational Microlensing Observations Indicate that Cool, Super-Earth Mass Planets Are Common (abstract) |
Dave Bennett |
| 12:00 | Contributed Talk | Detection of Planets in the Habitable Zones of Nearby Stars by SIM PlanetQuest (abstract | slides) |
Joe Catanzarite |
| 12:15 | Invited Talk | Planets Around Low-Mass Stars: Theory (abstract | slides) |
Shigeru Ida |
| 12:45 | Invited Talk | Habitability of Planets Around Low-Mass Stars (abstract) |
Helmut Lammer/Thomas Penz |
| 1:15 | Adjourn | ||
| Friday, Nov. 10, 2:30-5:45 | |||
| Evolution of Stars and Habitability | |||
| 2:30 | Invited Talk | Life on the Dark Side: Tidally Locked Planets | Sara Seager |
| 3:00 | Invited Talk | Magnetic Dynamo driven strong XUV Emmissions of Young dG-M Stars and effects on Hosted Planets and Life (abstract) |
Edward Guinan |
| 3:20 | Invited Talk | Effect of X-ray/EUV on gas giant planetary atmospheres | Roger Yelle |
| 3:35 | Contributed Talk | Host Star Influence On The Atmospheric Evolution of 'Hot Neptunes' (abstract) |
Thomas Penz |
| 3:55 | Invited Talk | Photochemical effects on Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres (abstract | slides) |
Antigona Segura |
| 4:15 | Invited Talk | Water Delivery and Giant Planet Orbital Limits for Habitable Planet Formation (abstract | slides) |
Sean Raymond |
| 4:30 | Contributed Talk | The Dust and Gas Around beta Pictoris (abstract) |
Christine Chen |
| 4:45 | Invited Talk | Planets around White Dwarfs (abstract) |
Mike Jura |
| 5:15 | Poster Popups | ||
| 5:30 | Adjourn | ||
| Saturday, Nov 11, 8:30-12:00 | |||
| Evolution of Stars and Habitability-2 | |||
| 8:30 | Invited Talk | Decoding Earth's Spectra through its Evolution (abstract) |
Lisa Kaltenegger |
| 9:00 | Contributed Talk | Energy Deposition by Solar Energetic Particles (abstract | slides) |
David Brain |
| 9:15 | Contributed Talk | Biomarker Response to Galactic Cosmic Ray-Induced NOx and the Methane Greenhouse Effect in the Atmosphere of an Earthlike Planet Orbiting an M-Dwarf Star | Lee Grenfell |
| 9:30 | Invited Talk | Search for Intelligent Life (abstract | slides) (movie 1 | movie 2 | movie 3) |
Jill Tarter |
| 10:00 | Break & Poster Viewing | ||
| 11:00 | Contributed Talk | An Immediate Precursor to Debris Disks? Coronagraphic Observations of HD 100546 (abstract) |
David Ardila |
| 11:15 | Contributed Talk | Preparing for Kepler: Simulating Stellar Microvariability (abstract | slides) |
Francisco Ramos-Stierle |
| 11:30 | Invited Talk | General Astrophysics with TPF-C (Galactic) | Marc Kuchner |
| 12:00 | Adjourn | ||
| Saturday, Nov 11, 1:15-4:00 | |||
| Current Work and Astrophysics Potential of TPF: Young Stars and Disks |
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| 1:15 | Invited Talk | Young Stars, Planets, Disks with JWST | George Rieke |
| 1:45 | Contributed Talk | AKARI's observational plan for debris disks | Hiroshi Murakami |
| 2:05 | Invited Talk | Optical Imaging of Disks: HST-->TPF-C (abstract) |
Karl Stapelfeldt |
| 2:35 | Invited Talk | General Astrophysics with TPF-I/Darwin (Galactic) (abstract) |
Rottgering & Bally |
| 3:05 | Contributed Talk | A Search for Warm Dust in the Habitable Zones around Solar Type (abstract) |
Samantha Lawler |
| 3:20 | Contributed Talk | Probing Pre-Planetary Disks at sub-AU Scales with IOTA Closure Phases (abstract | slides) |
Rafael Millan-Gabet |
| 3:35 | Panel Discussion | The Future of Planet Finding Missions | Panel |
| 4:00 | End of Conference | ||
