Programme
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Wednesday 9 December
| 10:00-11:00 | -- Registration and coffee -- |
| 11:00-11:05 | Welcome |
| Session 1: Transit & Radial Velocity Surveys (Chair: Dan Huber) |
| 11:05-11:35 | Jessie Christiansen (*): Kepler/K2, TESS, and opportunities for Australia |
| 11:35-11:50 | Chris Tinney: Australian Doppler Capabilities in the K2/TESS era |
| 11:50-12:05 | Duncan Wright: Planets around nearby M Dwarfs |
| 12:05-12:20 | John Bentley: Southern Hemisphere photometrically based M-dwarf catalogue |
| 12:20-12:35 | Jinglin Zhao: CARMENES End-to-End Simulation |
| 12:35-13:45 | -- Lunch-- |
| Session 2: Transit & Radial Velocity Surveys continued (Chair: Jessie Christiansen) |
| 13:45-14:00 | Timothy Bovaird: An artificial Kepler dichotomy? Inclination and multiplicity distributions |
| 14:00-14:15 | Dan Huber: Giants Orbiting Giants: Planets around Evolved Stars with Kepler/K2 |
| 14:15-14:30 | Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer: Characterisation of hot Jupiters by their IRIS2 secondary transits |
| 14:30-14:45 | Rob Wittenmyer: MINERVA: The first year of robotic science and plans for world domination |
| 14:45-15:00 | Joao Bento: Update on the current status of the RHEA spectrograph |
| 15:00-15:15 | Adam Rains: Improved Light Coupling Efficiency for Spectroscopy on Small Telescopes |
| 15:15-15:30 | Matthew Davie: Why you should look at your flat fields |
| 15:30-15:35 | Pposter sparkler session |
| 15:35-16:00 | --Break-- |
| Session 3: Solar System + Transit & Radial Velocity Surveys cont. (Chair: Phil Bland) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Penny King (*): Solar-System Exoplanet Connection |
| 16:30-16:45 | Haiyang Wang: Consensus Elemental Abundances of the Bulk Earth and Proto-Sun |
| 16:45-17:00 | Donna Burton: Dating Active Young Stars |
| 17:00-17:15 | Dan Bayliss: Characterising transiting exoplanets with CHEOPS |
| 17:15-17:30 | Marcell Tessenyi: Twinkle - a UK space mission to explore faraway worlds |
| 17:30-17:45 | Giovanna Tinetti: Decoding the light from other worlds in our Galaxy |
| 19:00 | -- Workshop dinner at the Doncaster Hotel -- |
Thursday 10 December
| Session 4: Direct Imaging & Planet Formation (Chair: Sarah Maddison) |
| 9:00-9:30 | Barnaby Norris (*): Direct Imaging & Planet Formation |
| 9:30-9:45 | Samuel Anastassiades: Planet formation by gravitational instability |
| 9:45-10:00 | Jonty Marshall: FIR and sub-mm imaging of HD 76582s circumstellar disk |
| 10:00-10:15 | Elodie Thilliez: Finding exoplanets via debris disc modeling |
| 10:15-10:30 | Peter Tuthill: New technologies for exoplanet imaging |
| 10:30-11:00 | -- Break -- |
| Session 5: Direct Imaging & Planet Formation cont. (Chair: Jonty Marshall) |
| 11:00-11:15 | Christophe Pint: Observing the first steps of planet formation with ALMA |
| 11:15-11:30 | Daniel Price: Planet formation in dusty discs |
| 11:30-11:45 | Sarah Maddison: More evidence of dust pile up and growth at planet gaps |
| 11:45-12:00 | James Tocknell: The Effect of Non-Ideal MHD on Disc winds from Protoplanetary Discs |
| 12:00-12:15 | Rajika Kuruwita: Circumbinary protoplanetary disks and and their outflows |
| 12:15-13:15 | -- Lunch -- |
| Session 6: Dynamics & Atmospheres (Chair: Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer) |
| 13:15-13:45 | Jonti Horner (*): Exoplanet Dynamics & Atmospheres |
| 13:45-14:00 | Rosemary Mardling: Kepler and Celestial Mechanics |
| 14:00-14:15 | Daniel Dindas: Transit Timing Variation: Plucking the planetary strings |
| 14:15-14:30 | Matthew Agnew: Dynamical stability study of Jovian-hosting exoplanetary systems |
| 14:30-14:45 | Jeremy Bailey: HIPPI and the Polarisation of Exoplanets |
| 14:45-15:00 | Daniel Cotton: Know the Star, know the planet: a polarimetricist's point of view |
| 15:00-15:30 | -- Break -- |
| Session 7: Dynamics & Atmospheres cont. (Chair: Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer ) |
| 15:30-15:45 | Brad Tucker: Google - LUV |
| 15:45-16:00 | Charley Lineweaver: Where Should We Look for Life? |
| 16:00-17:00 | Discussion |
| 17:00 | -- End of Workshop -- |
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