February 3 - 7, 2025 • Ramo Hall on the Caltech Campus

#KnowThyStar2

Agenda

               
   

Sunday

Feb 2

Monday

Feb 3

Tuesday

Feb 4

Wednesday

Feb 5

Thursday

Feb 6

Friday

Feb 7

  Time            
  08:00-09:00 Free Registration Check-In        
  08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks Opening Remarks Opening Remarks Opening Remarks Opening Remarks
    Morning Themes 900-1230
    Stellar Properties of Exoplanet Host stars I Trends in Stellar and Exoplanetary Systems Architectures and Demographics I Influence of Stellar Properties on Inferred Planet Properties Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres in the presence of stellar activity Physical Impacts of Stellar Evolution and Activity on Exoplanets
    Chair: H. Cegla Chair: E. Mamajek Chair: A. Mortier Chair: K. Colon Chair: J. Rogers
  09:00-09:15 Dan Huber
(U. of Hawaii)
Jessie Christiansen
(NExScI-Caltech/IPAC)
Elisabeth Newton
(Dartmouth)
Ben Rackham
(MIT)
Jessica Spake
(Carnegie)
  09:15-09:30
  09:30-09:45 Zafar Rustamkulov (JHU) Songhu Wang (Indiana) Jeff Valenti (STScI) Arianna Saba (UCL) Ethan Schreyer (UCSC)
  09:45-10:00 Luke Bouma (Caltech) Laura Rogers (NOIRLab) remote Nathanael Allen Burns-Watson (UT Austin) Annabella Meech (CfA Harvard SAO) Raissa Estrela (JPL)
  10:00-10:15 Tim Bedding (U Sydney) Greg Gilbert (UCLA) Galen Bergsten (UArizona) Catriona Anne Murray (Colorado) Morgan Saidel (Caltech)
  10:15-10:30 Isabel Angelo (UCLA) Gudmundur Stefansson (U Amsterdam) Kevin Schlaufman (JHU) remote Natalie Allen (JHU) Lori Huseby (UA)
  10:30-11:00 30 min Break 30 min Break 30 min Break 30 min Break 30 min Break
 
    Chair: M. Bedell Chair: D. Huber Chair: L. Welbanks Chair: B. Rackham Chair: E. Newton
  11:00-11:15 Jamie Tayar
(UFlorida)
Eve Lee
(UCSD)
James Davenport
(UWashington)
Luis Welbanks
(ASU)
James Rogers
(Cambridge, UK)
  11:15-11:30
  11:30-11:45 Angharad Weeks (UCL) Stephen Schmidt (JHU) Mike Greklek-McKeon (Caltech) Michael Radica (UChicago) Aidan Gibbs (UCLA)
  11:45-12:00 Aida Behmard (CCA) Samuel Yee (CfA Harvard SAO) Rob Kavanagh (ASTRON/U Amsterdam) remote Daniel Krolikowski (UA) Kevin France (Colorado) remote
  12:00-12:15 Travis Metcalfe (WDRC) Harshitha M Parashivamurthy (University of Chile) Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb (U Chicago) Gloria Canocchi (Stockholm) Sarah Rugheimer (York U)
  12:15-12:30 Jack Lubin (UC Irvine) Anne Dattilo ( UCSC) Elise Koo (U Amsterdam) Ward Howard (Colorado) Thea Faridani (UCLA)
  12:30-14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
 
    Afternoon Themes 1400-1730
    Stellar Activity and Variability I Stellar Properties II and Stellar Activity II Determining Planet Masses in the presence of stellar activity Trends in Stellar and Exoplanetary Systems Architectures and Demographics II Future Directions and
Missions
    Chair: J. Burt Chair: A. Kraus Chair: M. Rice Chair: J. Pepper Chair: D. Ciardi
  14:00-14:15 Rachael Roettenbacher
(U. Michigan)
David Wilson (Colorado) BJ Fulton (NExScI-Caltech/IPAC) Adam Kraus
(UT Austin)
Alessandro Sozzetti (Gaia-DR4) remote
  14:15-14:30 Jose Sebastian Carrazco Gaxiola (GSU) Knicole Colon (Pandora)
  14:30-14:45 Robert Oliver Parke Loyd (Eureka) Aneesh Baburaj (UCSD) Alejandro Suárez Mascareño (IAC) Sarah Blunt (UCSC) Davy Kirkpatrick (SPHEREx)
  14:45-15:00 Jessica Libby-Roberts (PSU) Federica Rescigno (U Birmingham) Kyle Franson (UTAustin) Shishir Dholakia (USQ) Rob Zellem (Roman)
  15:00-15:15 Michael Palumbo (Flatiron) Arvind Gupta (NOIRLab) Zoe Luca de Beurs (MIT) Noah Vowell (MSU) Annelies Mortier (U Birmingham)
  15:15-15:30 Sara Seager (MIT) remote Prajwal Niraula (EAPS, MIT) Melissa Janice Hobson (Obs. de Geneve) Vincent Savignac (UCSD) Peter Plavchan (Landolt)
  15:30-16:00 Registration Check-In 30 min Break Free Time for Networking Megan Bedell
(Flatiron)
30 min Break Mark Swain (JPL)
  Joshua Pepper (HWO)
    Sun as a Star     Closing Remarks
      Chair: J. Christiansen   Chair: E. Lee  
  16:00-16:15 Evening Reception Bill Chaplin
(U Birmingham)
Know Thy Posters Malena Rice
(Yale)
End of Conference
  16:15-16:30
  16:30-16:45 Marcelo Emilio (U, Estadual de Ponta Grossa) Lou Baya Ould Rouis (BU)
  16:45-17:00 Niamh O'Sullivan (U Oxford) Rayna Rampalli (Dartmouth)
  17:00-17:15 Elizabeth Gonzalez (PSU) John Jacob Zanazzi (UC Berkeley)
  17:15-17:30 Sara Tavella (U Geneva) Xianyu Wang (Indiana)
        19:00 - 21:00
Conference Dinner at the
Caltech Athenaeum