Programme
(Full program available to download here.)
Monday 24 November
17:00 - 20:00 Informal welcome; USQ University Bar, located in USQ Refectory, R-block.
Tuesday 25 November
| 9:00 | -- Registration and coffee -- |
| 9:25 | Welcome |
| Session One |
| 9:30 | Brad Carter: Space Weather in Planetary Systems |
| 9:50 | Matthew Mengel: The Hot Jupiter of Tau Boo |
| 10:10 | Belinda Nicholson: The Winds of Planet Hosting Stars |
| 10:30 | -- Break -- |
| Session Two |
| 11:00 | Jonti Horner: Planetary architecture and periodic climate change |
| 11:20 | James Gilmore: Solar System Architecture and Earth's Climate: Jupiter's Influence |
| 11:40 | Charley Lineweaver: A Gaian Bottleneck? |
| 12:30 | -- Lunch -- |
| Session Three |
| 13:00 | Matthew Davie: The spectral library of the Anglo-Australian Planet Search |
| 13:20 | Joao Bento: Update on the status of the RHEA spectrograph |
| 13:40 | Jeremy Bailey: HIPPI - A high sensitivity polarimeter for exoplanet characterisation |
| 14:00 | -- Break -- |
| Session Four |
| 14:30 | Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer: Examining atmospheres of the hottest "hot Jupiters" |
| 14:50 | Kimberly Bott: Precision polarimetric measurements of exoplanetary systems |
| 15:10 | Daniel Cotton: Telluric Removal for Exoplanet Spectra |
| 15:30 | -- Break -- |
| Session Five |
| 16:00 | Chris Tinney: An update on the FunnelWeb and Veloce Projects |
| 16:20 | Daniel Bayliss: Photometric Follow-up of Transiting Planets |
| 16:40 | -- End -- |
| 19:00 | -- Workshop dinner -- |
Wednesday 26 November
| Session Six |
| 9:30 | Anthony Cheetham: Direct imaging of exoplanets in transition disks |
| 9:50 | Nicolas Cuello: Photophoresis in protoplanetary disks: a numerical approach |
| 10:10 | Andrew Prentice: A concentric system of rings in the dust disc of HL Tauri with ALMA |
| 10:30 | -- Break -- |
| Session Seven |
| 11:00 | Rob Wittenmyer: MINERVA: Small planets from small telescopes |
| 11:20 | Christoph Bergmann: Searching for Earth-mass planets around alpha Centauri |
| 11:40 | Michael Albrow: pyDIA: GPU-accelerated difference-imaging photometry |
| 12:00 | -- Lunch -- |
| Session Eight |
| 13:00 | Daniel Huber: Exoplanet Characterization and Occurrence Rates in the Kepler Mission Closeout |
| 13:20 | Timothy Bovaird: The expected detection rate of predicted planets in Kepler systems |
| 13:40 | Haiyang Wang: Chemical Fractionation Patterns of a Terrestrial Planet and its Moon |
| 14:00 | -- Break -- |
| Session Nine |
| 14:30 | Alexandra Greenbaum: Mind the Gap: Non-Redundant Masking on the Gemini Planet Imager |
| 14:50 | Duncan Wright: Improvements in techniques for hunting low-mass planets orbiting M Dwarfs |
| 15:10 | Chris Tinney: The Luminosities of the Coldest Brown Dwarfs |
| 15:30 | -- Break -- |
| Session Ten |
| 16:00 | Discussion |
| 17:00 | -- End -- |
Programme
