CHEXO #3
Date: Friday 7 of September 2018 10am - 5pm
Location: STScI
Date: Friday 7 of September 2018 10am - 5pm
Location: STScI
The Chesapeake Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting brings together all lovers of exoplanets and related science from the DC area and beyond. This series of one-day meetings enable the sharing of ideas in an informal setting with the focus being on building collaborations and expertise.
The third meeting will be hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute. In keeping with the spirit of the Bay Area Exoplanet and the National Capitol Area Disk meetings, there will be plenty of time for discussion and building collaborations. We are soliciting contributed talks, with a special focus on talks from students, post-docs, and visitors. Since we plan have these meetings several times a year, we hope that everyone that is interested will be able talk about their current research.
Each meeting features an invited speaker. This meeting's speaker is TBD.
10.00 Welcome and Introductions
10.10 Karl Stapelfeldt - NASA JPL
The Path to Direct Imaging Characterization of Habitable Exoplanets
11.00 Thomas Barclay - NASA GSFC
Updates from TESS and a Revised Exoplanet Yield Estimate
11.20 Elizabeth Warner - University of Maryland
Observing Exoplanets and KELT Candidates with Small Telescopes
11.40 Meredith MacGregor - Carnegie DTM
Detection of a Millimeter Flare from Proxima Centauri
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Daniel Carrera - Penn State
Identifying super-Earths and photo-evaporated cores
1.30 Kevin Schlaufman - Johns Hopkins University
The Maximum Mass of a Planet
2.00 Abigail Rymer - JHU-APL
Solar System Ice Giants: Exoplanets in our Backyard
2.20 Natasha Batalha - STScI
Using Color-Color Diagrams to Classify Directly Imaged Planets
2.40 Break
3.00 Benjamin Nelson - CIERA/Northwestern University
Quantifying the Evidence for a Planet in Radial Velocity Data
3.30 Hannah Wakeford - STScI
Clouds as an opacity source: an observational review
3.50 John Chambers - Carnegie DTM
An Optimized Population Synthesis Model for Planet Formation
4.10 Clémence Fontanive - University of Edinburgh
Brown dwarfs binaries: from statistics to formation and evolution
4.30 Jonathan Gagné - Carnegie DTM
Young Stars and Planetary-Mass Objects in the Solar Neighborhood
4.50 Wrap-up
5.00 Close
The meetings are held at locations in DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. The next meeting will be hosted by Space Telescope Science Institute. Attendees will need to fill in a Citizenship Identification Form so that STScI can arrange escorts where nessessary. Lunch can be ordered from the local cafeteria, forms will be circulated in the morning, the standard conference lunch is $14.75 per person.
The meeting venue is the Bahcall Auditorium located in the Steven Muller Building. If you will require parking at the Institute, you can park at the San Martin Garage Center (also referred to as the Valley Center Garage), located approximately 1/4 mile south of STScI on San Martin Drive. When you enter the garage, take a ticket from the kiosk and park in any space marked "Reserved STSCI Parking Only". Take your parking ticket with you to the meeting/workshop. Upon arrival to STScI, exchange the ticket you received from the garage kiosk for one from the STScI security/front desk in the main lobby. Give the name of your meeting when you exchange your ticket. You will need the STScI ticket to exit the garage without incurring a fee.
Alan Boss (Carnegie Science)
Sally Dodson-Robinson (Univeristy of Delaware)
Kristin Sotzen (JHU APL)
Peter Plavchan (George Mason University)
Marcus Alfred (Howard University)
Kevin Schlaufman (JHU)
Drake Deming (University of Maryland)
Martin Still (NASA Goddard)
Thomas Beatty (Penn State)
Abhi Rajan (STScI)
This meeting relies on people giving talk. We especially encourage visitors, new arrivals, students, and postdocs to give talks. Please also invite others who may be interested in attending, including people from outside the Bay Area. Please do not hesitate to request a talk even if you think that your presentation will be very short; we have found that even the most simple talks usually need 20 minutes to allow for adequate discussion. The deadline for the next meeting has now closed.