The
4th International TPF/Darwin Workshop is being held jointly and in close coordination with the
Cool Stars XIV Conference (CS14) in Pasadena, CA, on Wednesday through Saturday, November 8-11, 2006. In keeping with the overall goals of the Cool Star conference series, the theme of the workshop is
"Star-Planet Interactions and Implications for Habitability." The workshop will include its own scientific sessions plus shared sessions with CS 14, updates on the technologies needed for the interferometric and coronagraphic versions of Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF-I/Darwin and TPF-C), as well as information on the always exciting political climate for planet finding science.
Among the topics to be discussed at the workshop are the following:
- The effect of evolving stellar emission (visible, UV, X-ray, and particulate) on atmospheres of terrestrial and gas-giant planets
- Prospects for planets and life around very low mass stars
- Prospects for planets and life around evolved stars
- The nature of the objects (planets or brown dwarfs) found by ground-based imaging
- Scientific results from the detection of photons from "Hot Jupiters" using secondary transits
- Summary of debris disk science from HST, Spitzer, and AKARI
- Updates on the planet-related science, general astrophysics potential, programmatics, and technology of TPF-C and TPF-I/Darwin
This workshop is being held in close coordination with the Cool Stars 14 Conference. The normal registration process with CS14 provides admittance to both CS14 and the TPF/Darwin Workshop. Abstracts for contributed talks and posters will be considered separately by the Scientific Organizing Committees for the two events. The CS14 abstract submission page will allow one to specify which meeting you believe is appropriate for a particular abstract.
Contributed talks and posters for the TPF/Darwin workshop will be accepted until September 22nd, 2006; poster contributions will be accepted after this date until the available display space is filled. Workshop proceedings, including talks and posters, will be published online."
