tuesday, September 5

Welcome Reception

6:00 – 9:00 pm Welcome – refreshments & hors d'oeuvres

wednesday, September 6

7:30 – 8:50 am: Breakfast (provided)

Welcome/Introduction

8:50 – 9:00 am: Jayne Birkby & Fred Ciesla

9:00 – 9:30 am: Rebecca Bernstein, Overview and Update on the GMT

Session 1: Formation and Evolution 1

9:30 – 10:00 am: Jane Huang, Insights into planet formation from protoplanetary disk observations

10:00 – 10:20 am: Dana Anderson, Surveying Protoplanetary Disk Gas Compositions with the ALMA Disk-Exoplanet C/Onnection (DECO) Large Program

10:20 – 10:50 am: Coffee Break (light snacks provided)

Session 2: Formation and Evolution 2

10:50 – 11:20 am: Diana Powell, Recent developments and future directions in planet formation theory

11:20 – 11:40 am: Yifan Zhou, Directly Imaging Protoplanets: the HALPHA Survey and Beyond

11:40 am – 12:00 pm: Zhoujian Zhang, Elemental abundance of Directly Imaged Exoplanets and Their Host Stars: Fossil Record of Planet Formation Pathways

12:00 – 12:20 pm: Yao Tang, A Reassessment of Core-Powered Mass Loss in the Context of Early Boil-Off for Sub-Neptunes

12:20 – 1:20 pm: Lunch (provided)

 

Session 3: Populations & Architecture 1

1:20 – 1:50 pm: Gijs Mulders, Recent developments and future directions in our knowledge of planet populations and architectures from observations

1:50 – 2:10 pm: Emily Pass, Low-Mass M Dwarfs Lack Jupiter Analogs

2:10 – 2:30 pm: Kyle Franson, Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: Imaging Planets Around Young Accelerating Stars

2:30 – 2:50 pm: Morgan Saidel, TOI-1259 A b: A Gas Giant's Origin Story Revealed in Metastable Helium, and Prospects for GMT/NIRS Helium Spectroscopy

2:50 – 3:10 pm: Poster Pops 1

3:10 – 3:40 pm: Coffee Break (light snacks provided)

Session 4: Populations & Architecture 2

3:40 – 4:10 pm: Eve Lee, Planet Populations and Architectures Around Myriad Stars

4:10 – 4:30 pm: Ava Morrissey, Probing Atmospheric Escape in the 100 Myr-Old Sub-Neptune HIP94235b: Observational Insights from HST and VLT

4:30 – 4:50 pm: Jacob Bean, Comparative atmospheric planetology in the JWST era

4:50 – 5:10 pm: Johanna Teske, The First Population Survey of Small Planet Atmospheres

5:10 – 5:30 pm: Poster Pops 2

6:00 pm: Conference Dinner (provided)

ThursdaY,  September 7

7:30 – 9:00 am: Breakfast (provided)

Session 5: Atmospheres 1

9:00 – 9:30 am: Megan Mansfield, Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres, from the Ground and from Space

9:30 – 10:00 am: Jared Males, The plans and promise of GMagAO-X

10:00 – 10:20 am: Stefan Pelletier, Refractory-to-volatile abundance ratios on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b measured from CRIRES+ and ESPRESSO

10:20 – 10:50 am: Coffee Break (light snacks provided)

Session 6: Atmospheres 2

10:50 – 11:20 am: Luis Welbanks, Assessing the chemical inventory of exoplanet atmospheres over the next two decades

11:20 – 11:40 am: Peter Smith, Stronger Together: Using Synergies Between Ground-Based Telescopes and JWST to Understand Exoplanet Atmospheres

11:40 am – 12:00 pm: Michael Plummer, Charting Extrasolar Storms: Mapping Exoplanetary Atmospheric Features with Extremely Large Telescopes

12:00 – 12:20 pm: Laura Flagg, Data-Driven Telluric Correction in the Infrared in the GMT Era

12:20 – 12:30 Community Science Meeting Group Photo

12:30 – 1:50 pm: Lunch (provided)

 

Session 7: Interiors

1:50 – 2:20 pm: Leslie Rogers, Recent developments and future directions in characterizing/interpreting planet interiors

2:20 – 2:40 pm: Lujendra Ojha, On the likely prevalence of ocean-worlds in M-dwarf systems

2:40 – 3:00 pm: Sang-Heon Dan Shim, Endogenic Water from Hydrogen-Magma Reaction in Sub-Neptunes — Implications for Atmospheric Composition, Internal Structure, and Demographics

3:00 – 3:20 pm: Olivia Lim, JWST Reconnaissance Transmission Spectroscopy of the Earth-Sized Exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and g

3:20 – 3:50 pm: Coffee Break (light snacks provided)

Session 8: Interdisciplinary

3:50 – 4:20 pm: Victoria Meadows, Recent developments and future directions in characterization/interpretation of exoplanet habitability

4:20 – 4:40 pm: Kevin Hardegee-Ullman, O2 transits with ELTs

4:40 – 5:00 pm: Sophia Vaughan, Searching for the reflected light of Proxima b

5:00 – 5:20 pm: Yeon Joo Lee, Long-term monitoring plan of Venus for studying cloudy terrestrial exoplanets

6:00 pm: Conference Dinner (provided)

Friday, September 8

7:30 — 9:00 am: Breakfast (provided)

Session 9: Future 1

9:00 – 9:30 am: Courtney Dressing, Opportunities and Open Questions

9:30 – 10:20 am: Breakout discussion groups

10:20 – 10:50 am: Coffee Break (light snacks provided in the Parlor Room)

Session 10: Future 2

10:50 – 11:20 am: Daniel Apai, A Look Forward

11:20 am – 12:10 pm: Breakout discussion groups

12:10 – 12:20 pm: Wrap-up

12:20 pm: Lunch (box lunches provided)

Workshop on Science Communication and Media Engagement

1:00 – 4:00 pm

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