Sunday, July 12, 2015
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| 16:30 - 19:00 | Registration & welcome drink - This reception will take place in the Foyer (Wandelhalle) of the Exact Sciences Building adjacent to the conference venue; entrance will be by the South entrance of the building (red rectangle in the attached picture) |
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Monday, July 13, 2015
| Time | Event | |
| 08:00 - 08:55 | Registration - Registration | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome, logistics, agenda, meeting plans (Aula (Room 210)) | |
| 09:20 - 10:40 | Introduction (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Dawn Gelino | |
| 09:20 - 10:00 | › Understanding habitability on the pathways to habitable planets - François Forget, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique | |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | › Biodiversities and habitabilities : a biologist view - Marie-Christine MAUREL, Institut of Systematic, Evolution, Biodiversity, OSEB | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break (Corridors) | |
| 11:10 - 12:30 | KQ1 - Is the Sun-Earth pair a good paradigm for an inhabited system ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Jay Farihi | |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | › Seek a Minor Sun: The Distribution of Habitable Planets in the Hertzsprung-Russell-Rosenberg Diagram - Gaidos Eric, University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Earths In Other Solar Systems: The Formation of Habitable Zone Earth-Like Planets With Biocritical Ingredients - Daniel Apai, Earths in Other Solar Systems Team, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › High-energy irradiances of Sun-like stars - Jorge Sanz-Forcada, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC) | |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Posters pop-up (6x2mn) (Aula (Room 210)) |
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| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Poster viewing (Hallways) - Click on file icon to download poster abstracts |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet10 : Future Plans and Potential Collaborations for Ground- and Space-Based Imaging of Exo-Earths (Lecture room 106) - Avi Mandell (Chair) | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet5 : Validation and Compilation of Kepler Habitable Zone Candidates (Lecture room 205) - Nader Haghighipour (Chair) | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet8 : Connecting Stellar Abundances and Planet Habitability (Lecture room 206) - Natalie Hinkel (Chair) |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet2 : Mission concepts and measurement requirements for a future far-infrared space mission (Meeting room 105) - Dave Leisawitz (Chair) | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet1 : Laboratory Analogues of Exoplanetary Environments (Meeting room 115) - Emmanuele Pace (Chair) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break (Corridors) | |
| 17:00 - 18:20 | KQ1 - Is the Sun-Earth pair a good paradigm for an inhabited system ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Ewa Szuszkiewicz | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | › The impact story for exo-Earths - Jane Greaves, University of S Andrews | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | › C/O ratios for planet hosts: comparing two oxygen indicators - Elisa Delgado Mena, Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaço | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | › Brown dwarfs versus exoplanets: two different mass functions - Hans Zinnecker, Deutsches SOFIA Institut | |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | › Water Contents of Habitable Zone Rocky Planets and Biosignature Detection around M dwarfs - feng tian, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | KQ1 discussion (Aula (Room 210)) | |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Posters pop-up (10x2mn) (Aula (Room 210)) |
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 | KQ3 - Is the habitable zone a well defined concept ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Andreas Quirrenbach | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Definitions and Caveats of the Habitable Zone - Stephen Kane, San Francisco State University | |
| 09:20 - 10:00 | › Is there an Unhabitable Zone? - Leconte Jérémy, Center for Planetary Science, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › Adaptable habitability, niche filling and exo-climate change - Hagai Perets, Department of Physics | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break (Corridors) | |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | KQ3 - Is the habitable zone a well defined concept ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Bill Danchi | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › Habitability of planets on eccentric orbits: limits of the mean flux approximation? - Emeline Bolmont, Département de Mathématique [Namur] | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | KQ3 discussion (Aula (Room 210)) | |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | KQ2 - How do we define meaningful biomarkers ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Bill Danchi | |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | › Biosignatures in context - Franck Selsis, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux | |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Posters pop-up (6x2mn) (Aula (Room 210)) |
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| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Poster viewing (Hallways) - Click on file icon to download poster abstracts |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet4 : Habitable planets, M dwarfs and NIR spectrographs (Lecture room 205) - José Caballero (Chair) |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet9 : Mapping Other Worlds: Spatial Studies of Exoplanets and Ultracool Atmospheres (Lecture room 206) - Daniel Apai and Nicolas Cowan (Chairs) | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet8 : Connecting Stellar Abundances and Planet Habitability (Meeting room 105) - Natalie Hinkel (Chair) |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet1 : Laboratory Analogues of Exoplanetary Environments (Meeting room 115) - Emmanuele Pace (Chair) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break (Corridors) | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | KQ2 - How do we define meaningful biomarkers ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Franck Selsis | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | › Constraining Oxygen False Positives for Terrestrial Planets around F, G, and K Stars - Sonny Harman, NAI Virtual Planetary Laboratory, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences Department | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | › Remote sensing of extraterrestrial life: Complexity as the key characteristics of living systems - Sebastian Wolf, Kiel University, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Posters pop-up (8x2mn) (Aula (Room 210)) |
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| 18:00 - 19:00 | KQ2 - How do we define meaningful biomarkers ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Franck Selsis | |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | › Towards identifying biological processes with transit spectroscopy - Rocchetto Marco, University College London - London's Global University | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › What you need to know to use the ExoMol Line Lists. - Laura McKemmish, University College London | |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | KQ2 discussion (Aula (Room 210)) |
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 | KQ4 - What can we learn from solar system synergies ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Feng Tian | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | › The exploration of exoplanets: What can we learn from solar system synergies? - Therese Encrenaz, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Extrasolar Cosmochemistry - Siyi Xu, European Southern Observatory | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › What can we learn from atmospheres of transiting low-mass exoplanets as a stepping-stone towards habitable planets ? - Masahiro Ikoma, The University of Tokyo [Toyo] | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | KQ4 Discussion (Aula (Room 210)) | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 - 12:30 | KQ5 - How do we build synergies between ground and space ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Hans Zinnecker | |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | › Detection and characterization of exoplanets: possible synergies between ground and space based approaches - Jean-Luc Beuzit, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › The Hunt for Planets in Open Clusters with HARPS and HARPS-N - Malavolta Luca, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › Exoplanets mass measurement using gravitational microlensing - Clément Ranc, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris | |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | Posters pop-up (7x2mn) (Aula (Room 210)) |
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| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:30 | Poster viewing (Hallways) - Click on file icon to download poster abstracts |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet3 : Pathways Towards Exomoons (Lecture room 106) - David Kipping (Chair) |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet4 : Habitable planets, M dwarfs and NIR spectrographs (Lecture room 205) - José Caballero (Chair) |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet6 : Prevalence of exozodiacal dust (Lecture room 206) - Denis Defrère (Chair) |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | SatMeet1 : Laboratory Analogues of Exoplanetary Environments (Meeting room 115) - Emmanuele Pace (Chair) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | KQ5 - How do we build synergies between ground and space ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Andreas Quirrenbach | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | › Blazing the Trail: Resolving Terrestrial Planets with ELTs? - Michael Meyer, Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | KQ5 Discussion (Aula (Room 210)) | |
| 17:40 - 19:00 | KQ6 - What can we expect from approved projects ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Andreas Quirrenbach | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | › Towards the detection of nearby exoEarths - Alexandre Santerne, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › CHEOPS: towards exoplanet characterization - Andrea Fortier, Physics Institute, University of Bern | |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | › The PLATO 2.0 Mission - Mareike Godolt, German Aerospace Center |
Thursday, July 16, 2015
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 | KQ6 - What can we expect from approved projects ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Hiroshi Shibai | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Exoplanetary System Reconnaissance with LBTI: Warm Dust and Giant Planets - Philip Hinz, University of Arizona | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | › The James Webb Space Telescope: Capabilities for Transiting Exoplanet Observations - Mark Clampin, Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Characterization of exoplanet atmospheres with the JWST MIRI instrument - Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Laboratory of Astrophysics, Instrumentation-Modelisation, at Paris-Saclay | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › How stellar activity affects exoplanet's parameters estimation and exoplanet's atmosphere characterization - Mahmoudreza Oshagh, Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | KQ6 discussion (Aula (Room 210)) | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break (Corridors) | |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Satellite meetings feedback (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Ingo Waldmann | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › SatMeet5 - Validation and Compilation of Kepler Habitable Zone Candidates - Nader Haghighipour, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › SatMeet10 - Ground- and Space-Based Imaging of Exo-Earths: Opportunities for Synergy and Collaboration over the Coming Two Decades - Avi Mandell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - William Sparks, Space Telescope Science Institute - Michael Meyer, Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich - Stephen Unwin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Giovanna Tinetti, University College London - London's Global University | |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | KQ7 - What future capacity is needed ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Ingo Waldmann | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Missions and Technology in NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program - Stephen Unwin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology | |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | › ARIEL - Giovanna Tinetti, University College London - London's Global University | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:20 | KQ7 - What future capacity is needed ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Jean-Philippe Beaulieu | |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | › Robustly searching for Earth-like biosignatures - Ian Parry, IoA, Cambridge University | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | › Recognizing and characterizing terrestrial planets - William Sparks, Space Telescope Science Institute | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | › Developing an integrated analysis approach to explanetary spectroscopy - Ingo Waldmann, University College London - London's Global University | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | › Direct exoplanet imaging with small-angle Vortex coronagraphs - Denis Defrère, University of Arizona | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | › Exo-Earth Discovery and Characterization with Large UV-Optical-IR Observatories - Avi Mandell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | › SPICA mission - Hiroshi Shibai, Osaka University | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | › Scientific Opportunities for a Starshade Working with a 2.4 m Telescope at L2 - Aki Roberge, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | Posters pop-up (7x2mn) (Aula (Room 210)) |
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| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break (Corridors) | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | KQ7 - What future capacity is needed ? (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Bill Danchi | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | › Measuring the masses of the habitable planets around the 50 closest solar-type stars with Theia. | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | › Respective capabilities of affordable Coronagraphs and Interferometers searching for Biosignatures - Alain Léger, IAS - CNRS | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | › How to Directly Image a Habitable Planet Around Alpha Centauri with a ~30-45cm Space Telescope - Ruslan Belikov, NASA Ames Research Center | |
| 19:00 - 21:45 | Conference dinner |
Friday, July 17, 2015
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 | Satellite meetings feedback (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Giovanna Tinetti | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › SatMeet2 - Mission Concepts and Measurement Requirements for a Future Far-Infrared Space Mission - David Leisawitz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | › SatMeet3 - Pathways Towards Exomoons - Kipping David, Harvard University | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › SatMeet4 - Habitable planets, M dwarfs and NIR spectrographs - José Caballero, Centro de Astrobiología | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › SatMeet6 - Prevalence of exozodiacal dust - Defrère Denis, University of Arizona | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › SatMeet8 - Connecting Stellar Abundances and Planet Habitability - Hinkel Natalie, Arizona State University, USA | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Satellite meetings feedback (Aula (Room 210)) - Chair Ingo Waldmann | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › SatMeet9 - Mapping Other Worlds - Daniel Apai, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Earths in Other Solar Systems Team - Nicolas Cowan, Amherst College | |
| 11:30 - 12:40 | Concluding discussion (Aula (Room 210)) - Michel Blanc (ISSI) |
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| 12:40 - 12:45 | Adjourn (Aula (Room 210)) |
