Agenda
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Videos of the EPRV 5 presentations are available on the EPRV Conferences YouTube channel.
Sunday, March 26 from 4:30 - 6:30 pm
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Join us for an opening reception on the front lawn of the HIlton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. You'll have the opprotunity to pick up registration materials, greet your colleagues and have some hor d'ouevres
Monday, March 27
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9:00 am: Introductory Talk - Suvrath Mahadevan (Pennsylvania State University)
Instrumentation Pt 1 [Session Chair: Andreas Seifahrt]
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9:45 am: CARMENES: Lessons Learned from a 5-Year EPRV Survey - Andreas Quirrenbach (Landessternwarte Heidelberg)
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10:00 am: NIR RVs with the Habitable Zone Planet FInder (HPF) on the Hobby Eberly Telescope - Guðmundur Stefánsson (Princeton University)
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10:15 am: The InfraRed Doppler (IRD) instrument for the Subaru telescope - Precise near-infrared RV measurements to search for planets around M-dwarfs and prospects for extreme precision RV - Takayuki Kotani (NAOJ)
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10:30 am: The iLocater Spectrograph: An Optimized Architecture for Future Diffraction-limited EPRV Instruments - Jonathan Crass (Ohio State University)
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10:45 am: Coffee break and poster discussion
Instrumentation Pt 2 [Session Chair: Francesco Pepe]
- 11:15 am: SPIRou@CFHT: nIR RVs and spectropolarimetry - Pascal Fouqué (IRAP)
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11:30 am: First Light and Science with the Near-Infrared Planet Searcher (NIRPS) - Rene Doyon (Université de Montréal)
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11:45 am: The Accordion Effect: A Consequence of Polarized Light in Precision Radial Velocity Spectrometers - Rose Gibson (UCLA)
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12:00 pm: The Preliminary Design and Innovative Technical Solutions of the HISPEC Instrument - Nemanja Jovanovic (California Institute of Technology)
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12:15 pm: MAROON-X @ Gemini North - A Status Report - Andreas Seifahrt (University of Chicago)
- 12:30 pm: Lunch on own
Instrumentation Pt 3 [Session Chair: Gaspare Lo Curto]
- 1:45 pm: Initial Performance Results from the Keck Planet Finder - Andrew Howard (California Institute of Technology)
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2:00 pm: On-sky performance of the NEID Spectrometer over 2 years - Paul Robertson (UC Irvine)
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2:15 pm: Chasing instrumental systematics: Lessons learned from the HARPS-N spectrograph - Xavier Dumusque (University of Geneva)
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2:30 pm: EXPRES and Recent Results from the 100 Earths Survey - John Brewer (San Francisco State University)
- 2:45 pm: HARPS3 and the Terra Hunting Experiment - Heather Cegla (University of Warwick) presenting for Samantha Thompson (University of Cambridge)
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3:00 pm: ESPRESSO at Age 4: Achievements, Joys, and Tantrums - Christophe Lovis (University of Geneva)
- 3:15 pm: NASA programmatic needs for EPRV Advancement & Capability - Doug Hudgins (NASA HQ)
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3:45 pm: Coffee break and poster discussion
Pipelines [Session Chair: Jennifer Burt]
- 4:45 pm: A Systematic Reduction of Earth Motion from Radial Velocity - Yicheng Rui (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)
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5:00 pm: Reaching the 25 cm/s RV precision on the HARPS-N solar data through post-processing of stellar spectra - Michael Cretignier (University of Oxford)
- 5:15 pm: The Keck Planet Finder's Data Reduction Pipeline - BJ Fulton (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute / Caltech-IPAC)
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5:30 pm: Architecture, Algorithms, and Performance of the NEID Data Reduction Pipeline - Chad Bender (University of Arizona)
- 5:45 pm: Outlier-resistant velocity measurements: the line-by-line approach - Etienne Artigau (Université de Montréal)
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6:00 pm: Adjourn
Tuesday, March 28
Calibrations [Session Chair: Dawn Gelino]
- 9:00 am: Frequency Comb Calibrated Laser Heterodyne Radiometry for Doppler Spectroscopy and Activity Measurements of the Sun - Connor Frederick (CU Boulder/NIST)
- 9:15 am: A space-based laser-frequency comb for absolute cross-calibration of EPRV spectrographs - Francesco Pepe (University of Geneva)
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9:30 am: Flat-top Optical Fibers as Scramblers for EPRV Measurements - Stephen Eikenberry (University of Central Florida)
- 9:45 am: Modeling chromatic mode frequency shifts in etalons for high precision spectrograph calibration - Molly Kate Kreider (CU Boulder)
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10:00 am: Precise and accurate wavelength calibration of echelle spectrographs with and without laser frequency combs - Tobias Schmidt (University of Geneva)
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10:15 am: Chips in the Cookie, Characterization of CCD Fabrication Anomalies for Use in Data Reduction - Joseph R. Tufts (Semiconductor Technology Associates, Inc.)
- 10:30 am: Poster POPs
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10:45 am: Coffee break and poster discussion
Statistics Pt 1 [Session Chair: Megan Bedell]
- 11:15 am: Separating Periodic Orbital Radial Velocities from Spectral Shape Variation - Sahar Shahaf (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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11:30 am: Towards a fully Bayesian RV extraction model - André M. Silva (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço)
- 11:45 am: Measuring Extreme Precision Radial Velocities (EPRVs) in the Presence of Stellar Noise using Deep Learning - Alexander Wise (Penn State University)
Tellurics [Session Chair: Megan Bedell]
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12:00 pm: Automatic model-based telluric correction for the ESPRESSO data reduction software - Romain Allart (Université de Montréal)
- 12:15 pm Jointly Modeling Telluric Features and Stellar Variability with Stellar Spectra Observation Fitting - Christian Gilbertson (Penn State University)
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12:30 pm: Lunch on own
- 2:00 pm: Splinter Sessions
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- Building a Better Ruler: Wavelength Calibration Challenges and Opportunities at the <10 cm/s Level - convened by Sam Halverson, Ryan Terrien & Andreas Seifahrt
- Machine Learning Techniques for Extreme Precision Radial Velocities - convened by Luis Agustín Nieto & Zoe de Beurs
- Near-Infrared RV Spectrographs - convened by Claire Moutou, Ansgar Reiners, Motohide Tamura & Etienne Artigau
- 3:30 pm: Coffee break and poster discussion
- 4:30 pm: Splinter Session Report Outs
Statistics Pt 2 [Session Chair: Lily Zhao]
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5:00 pm: Using Machine Learning and Linear Regression Methods to Model Stellar Activity in RV Searches - Zoe de Beurs (MIT)
- 5:15 pm: Optimal and robust exoplanet detection - Nathan Hara (University of Geneva)
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5:30 pm: A principled Bayesian workflow for planet detection - João Faria (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences)
- 5:45 pm: Modeling Stellar Variability in the Full Spectrum - Megan Bedell (Flatiron Institute)
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6:00 pm: Adjourn
Wednesday, March 29
Stellar Variability [Session Chair: Paul Robertson]
- 9:00 am: Overfitting Affects the Reliability of Radial Velocity Mass Estimates of the V1298 Tau Planets - Sarah Blunt (California Institute of Technology)
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9:15 am: RV Jitters in M Dwarfs: Near-Infrared Measurements and a New Diagnosis - Teruyuki Hirano (Astrobiology Center / NAOJ)
- 9:30 am: The longitudinal, line-of-sight magnetic flux as a proxy for stellar activity - Federica Rescigno (University of Exeter)
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9:45 am: Interferometric Images of Stellar Surfaces for Disentangling Extreme Precision Radial Velocities - Rachael Roettenbacher (Univ. of Michigan)
- 10:00 am: Mitigating stellar noise by mapping RV activity signals to physical processes within host stars - Jared Siegel (Princeton University)
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10:15 am: Formation temperature-dependent stellar activity RVs across spectral types - Khaled Al Moulla (University of Geneva)
- 10:30 am: Precise and efficient modeling of stellar-activity-affected HARPS-N solar spectra using SOAP-GPU - Yinan Zhao (University of Geneva)
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10:45 am: Coffee break and poster discussion
Solar Science [Session Chair: Heather Cegla]
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11:15 am: Variations in Solar Line Bisectors Over a Full Activity Cycle - Drake Deming (University of Maryland)
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11:30 am: Decomposing stellar variability: A spectral atlas of the spatially resolved Sun - Momo Ellwarth (Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
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11:45 am: Science & Operations Updates from the NEID Solar Telescope - Andrea Lin (Pennsylvania State University)
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12:00 pm: Turn down the noise! Disentangling planetary and stellar signals by observing the Sun with EXPRES - Joe Llama (Lowell Observatory)
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12:15 pm: Solar photospheric spectrum microvariability. Theoretical and observational searches for proxies of radial-velocity jittering - Dainis Dravins (Lund Observatory)
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12:30 pm: Mitigating Granulation Noise with GRASS: Lessons from Synthetic Spectra - Michael Palumbo (Penn State University)
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12:45 pm: The Extreme Stellar Signals Project - Lily Zhao (Flatiron Institute)
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1:00 pm: Adjourn for free afternoon
Thursday, March 30
Exoplanet Detections [Session Chair: Andrew Howard]
- 9:00 am: The NEID GTO Program: Status of the NEID Earth Twin Survey and Early Science Results - Arvind Gupta (Pennsylvania State University)
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9:15 am: Pushing through the 1m/s Radial-Velocity barrier for a Maunder-Minimum star - Ancy Anna John (University of St Andrews)
- 9:30 am: Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ 1002 - Alejandro Suárez Mascareño (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
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9:45 am: Company for an ultra-short period sub-Earth: discovery of two additional planets orbiting GJ367 - Elisa Goffo (University of Turin/Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg)
- 10:00 am: Doppler Constraints on Planetary Companions to Nearby Sun-like Stars: An Archival Radial Velocity Survey of Targets for NASA's Direct Imaging Flagship - Jennifer Burt (NASA JPL)
- 10:15 am: The Kepler Giant Planet Survey. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet Host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory - Lauren Weiss (University of Notre Dame)
- 10:30 am: Precise Mass Measurements of nearby TESS Planets around M Dwarfs with MAROON-X - Madison Brady (University of Chicago)
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10:45 am: Coffee break and poster discussion
Other Topics [Session Chair: Sharon Wang]
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11:15 am: Characterising Surface Stellar Variability Utilising Transiting Planets of Solar-type Stars with ESPRESSO - Lauren Doyle (University of Warwick)
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11:30 am: 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Subsurface and Surface Dynamics as a Tool to Characterize Stellar Jitter - Irina Kitiashvili (NASA Ames)
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11:45 am: Unveiling the atmosphere of HD 189733b with ESPRESSO - Eduardo Cristo (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço)
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12:00 pm: Simultaneous Observations of Kepler Objects with TESS and NEID - Corey Beard (UC Irvine)
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12:15 pm: Community Cadence to Unlock the Keck Planet Finder’s Full Science Potential - Erik Petigura (UCLA)
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12:30 pm: Lunch on own
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2:00 pm: Splinter Sessions
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- Building a Better Ruler: Wavelength Calibration Challenges and Opportunities at the <10 cm/s Level - convened by Sam Halverson, Ryan Terrien & Andreas Seifahrt
- Machine Learning Techniques for Extreme Precision Radial Velocities - convened by Luis Agustín Nieto & Zoe de Beurs
- From Solar to Stellar: Establishing High-Fidelity Stellar Data Sets That Isolate Individual Sources of Variability - convened by Jacob Luhn, Belinda Nicholson & Lily Zhao
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3:30 pm: Coffee break and poster discussion
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4:30 pm: Splinter Session Report Outs
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5:00 pm: Poster Winner #1: Charles Cadieux "The LHS 1140 system revisited with the line-by-line framework"
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5:10 pm: Poster Winner #2: Louise Nielsen "Transition between Ice and Gas giants explored with TESS and RV follow-up"
- 5:20 pm: Poster Winner #3: Jacob Luhn "Pushing the (Convective) Envelope: Leveraging Stellar P-mode Oscillations in Subgiants to Improve Radial Velocity Precision"
- 5:30 pm: Conference Wrap-up
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6:00 pm: Adjourn
Friday, March 31: EPRV Research Coordination Network (RCN) Collaborative Workspace Day
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9:00 am: Science Pitches from Attendees for Round 1 Group Collaborations
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9:30 am: Assignment of Attendees into Groups; Discussions/Coding Efforts Commence
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11:00 am: Summary Reports from Morning Breakouts
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12:00 pm: Lunch on own
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1:00 pm: Science Pitches from Attendees for Round 2 Group Breakout Sessions
- 1:30 pm: Assignment of Attendees into Groups; Discussions/Coding Efforts Commence
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3:00 pm: Summary Reports from Afternoon Breakouts
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4:00 pm: RCN Networking/Collaboration Building Activity
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5:00 pm: Adjourn
