Satellite meetings

Satellite meetings are autonomously organized and advertised, but will benefit from the Pathways conference audience and logistics. They can be workshops, round tables, group meetings, or take any format that seems fit to their organizers. Participants will need to register to the main conference even if they attend a satellite meeting only.

Satellite meetings can be held on Monday, Tuesday and/or Wednesday early afternoon (2PM-4:30PM), when the main conference is off (except for extended poster sessions). Time allocation will be made in the main conference on Friday morning so that summary talks can be given to the general audience for each satellite meeting.

Confirmed satellite meetings :

SatMeet1 :
- Laboratory Analogues of Exoplanetary Environments
- Convenor : Emmanuele Pace, Arcetri (pace<at>arcetri.astro.it)
- Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 2:00-4:30PM in meeting room 115
SatMeet2 :
- Mission concepts and measurement requirements for a future far-infrared space mission
- Convenor : Dave Leisawitz, NASA Goddard (david.t.leisawitz<at>nasa.gov)
- Monday 2:00-4:30PM in meeting room 105
SatMeet3 :
- Pathways Towards Exomoons
- Convenor : David Kipping, CfA (kippingdavid<at>gmail.com)
- Wednesday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 106
SatMeet4 :
- Habitable planets, M dwarfs and NIR spectrographs
- Convenor : José A. Caballero, CAB (caballero<at>cab.inta-csic.es)
- Tuesday and Wednesday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 205
SatMeet5 :
- Validation and Compilation of Kepler Habitable Zone Candidates
- Convenor : Nader Haghighipour, IfA/Kepler HZ WG (nader<at>ifa.hawaii.edu)
- Monday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 205
SatMeet6 :
- Prevalence of exozodiacal dust
- Convenor : Denis Defrère, U. of A. (ddefrere <at>email.arizona.edu)
- Wednesday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 206
SatMeet7 -- Cancelled :
- A Bridge for a Pathway: Reconnaissance Missions and Instruments to Connect Explanet Discovery to Characterization
- Convenor : Eric Gaidos, U. Hawaii (gaidos<at>hawaii.edu)
- Tuesday 2:00-4:30PM in meeting room 214
SatMeet8 :
- Connecting Stellar Abundances and Planet Habitability
- Convenor : Natalie Hinkel, Arizona State University (natalie.hinkel<at>gmail.com)
- Monday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 206 and Tuesday 2:00-4:30PM in meeting room 105
SatMeet9 :
- Mapping Other Worlds: Spatial Studies of Exoplanets and Ultracool Atmospheres
- Convenors : Daniel Apai, Steward Observatory (apai<at>arizona.edu) and Nicolas Cowan, Amherst (ncowan<at>amherst.edu)
- Tuesday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 206
SatMeet10 :
- Future Plans and Potential Collaborations for Ground- and Space-Based Imaging of Exo-Earths
- Convenor : Avi Mandell (avi.mandell<at>nasa.gov)
- Monday 2:00-4:30PM in lecture room 106

Other satellite meeting (contact info) under consideration :

Space based microlensing (Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, IAP, beaulieu <at>iap.fr )
Group meeting for the ARIEL mission (Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, IAP, beaulieu <at>iap.fr )

Three lecture rooms (seating 90, 78 and 56 persons respectively) and three rooms with "board meeting" style seating (capacities 54, 54 and 44), all outfitted wih audiovisual equipment, are available for satellite meetings in the same building as the main conference.

Late proposals for satellite meetings can still be considered as long as space is available.

Proposals for satellite meetings can be made either by mail at pathways2015-satmeetings@sciencesconf.org or using the "Submit a contribution" page, indicating the topic with a small rationale, type and size of room requested, number of afternoon sessions requested, and contact info for the responsible person.

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