Programme

Thursday 16 February

10.30am	Welcome
Session 1 (Chair: Daniel Bayliss)
10.40am	Michael Ireland: Direct Detection of Extrasolar Planets at the Highest Angular Resolution
11.00am	Rob Wittenmyer: The Pan-Pacific Planet Search: new parameter space with the AAT
11.20am	Graeme Salter: Revealing Exoplanets - Post Processing Methods for Direct Observation
11.40am	Karen Lewis: Finding Transiting Planets Moons with Realistic Photometric Noise
12.00pm	-- Lunch --
Session 2 (Chair: Michael Ireland)
1.20pm	Sarah Maddison: Detecting planet gaps in disks with ALMA
1.40pm	Francesco Pignatale: Water vapour, protoplanetary dust and extrasolar planets
2.00pm	Sarah Keith: Magnetic Fields in Giant Planet Formation
2.20pm	Jade Carter-Bond: The Composition of Exo-Earths
2.40pm	-- Coffee break --
Session 3 (Chair: Sarah Maddison)
3.00pm	Jeremy Bailey: Modelling Exoplanet Spectra using VSTAR
3.20pm	Raquel Salmeron: The dynamical and thermal environment of planet formation
3.40pm	Duane Hamacher: Engaging School Students in the Search for Extrasolar Planets
4.00pm	End
6.00pm	Dinner & drinks

Friday 17 February

Session 4 (Chair: Lucyna Chudczer)
9.30am	Chris Tinney: Exoplanetary Science at UNSW
9.50am	Yitping Kok: Astrometry as a potential exoplanet search technique and SUSI
10.10am	Stephen Parker: Methane Imaging surveys of nearby clusters
10.30	Duncan Wright: CYCLOPS fibre-feed to UCLES and 's application to RV planet searching
10.50am	-- Coffee break --
Session 5 (Chair: Raquel Salmeron)
11.10am	Daniel Bayliss: The HAT-South Survey for Transiting Exoplanets
11.30am	Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer: Detection and characterization of ESP with polarization
11.50am	Brett Addison: Spin-Orbit Alignment Of Transiting Planets From RM Effect Observations
12.10pm	Mark Wardle: On Dead Zones in Protoplanetary Disks
12.30pm	-- Lunch --
Session 6 (Chair: Chris Tinney)
2.00pm	Tim Bedding: Asteroseismology of planet-hosting stars with Kepler
2.20pm	Jonti Horner: Dynamical Simulations: Constraining Multiple-Planet Exoplanetary Systems
2.40pm	Martin Asplund: The imprint of planet formation in the chemical composition of stars
3.00pm	Discussion & future directions
4.00pm	End