The conference is organised into six main scientific sessions. Each contains talks from members of the UK exoplanet community, as well as a talk from an invited international speaker.

Venue: The main conference sessions will take place in Newman Blue Lecture Theatre within the Peter Chalk Centre.

Schedule: The science programme is now available as a PDF by clicking the button below. Note that the conference will start on Wednesday 30^th March at 10am, with the first scientific talk starting at 10:30am. The conference should end on Friday 1^st April at 5pm.

Last Updated: 24th March 2016 @ 11:30

Main Science Sessions

Isabelle Baraffe - Introduction

I. Detection and statistics

• Invited Speaker: Damien Segransan - TBC
• Amaury Triaud - The many reasons to search for circumbinary planets
• Hugh Osborn - Single transit detections in the era of high-precision photometry
• Stephen Durkan - High constrast imaging with Spitzer: Constraining the frequency of giant planets out to 1000 AU
• Heather Cegla - The Rossiter McLaughlin effect reloaded: Convective problems and new solutions
• Mariangela Bonavita - Constraints on the frequency of sub-stellar companions on wide circumbinary orbits
• Suzanne Aigrain - K2SC: Unleashing the potential of K2 for active stars

II. Atmosphere characterisation (observations)

• Invited Speaker: Ignas Snellen - A review on characterising exoplanet atmospheres
• Emma Longstaff - New emission lines in the atmosphere of an irradiated brown dwarf
• James Kirk - ULTRACAM transmission spectra of 3 highly inflated hot Jupiters
• Will McLean - Atmospheric characterisation of gas giants using polarimetry
• Brice-Olivier Demory - New results about a hot super-Earth
• Janye Birkby - New frontiers of high-resolution spectroscopy: Probing the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and reflected light
• David Sing - HST hot-Jupiter transmission spectral survey: From clear to cloudy exoplanets

III. Modelling (atmosphere, interior structure/evolution)

• Invited Speaker: Mark Marley - Directly imaged giant planets: What do we hope to learn?
• Graham Lee - Atmospheric formation of mineral clouds in 3D radiative-hydrodynamic simulation of HD 189733b
• Adrian Barker - Nonlinear tides in planets and stars
• Sarah Rugheimer - Impact of UV on the spectral fingerprints of Earth-like planets orbiting FGKM stars
• Geoff Vallis - Idealized 3D modelling of terrestrial exoplanetary atmosphere
• Sergey Yurchenko - Opacities for modelling atmospheres of exoplanets
• Nathan Mayne - Modelling exoplanet atmospheres: The University of Exeter and the UK Met Office

IV. Planet hosting stars (asteroseismology, stellar activity)

• Invited Speaker: Conny Aerts - Asteroseismology of exoplanet host stars
• Daniel Staab - Chromospheric activity of transiting planet hosts: Mass loss and star planet interactions
• Teo Mocnik - K2 looks towards WASP-85, WASP-75, WASP-55 and Qatar-2
• Vinesh Rajpaul - Gaussian processes for modelling stellar activity and detecting planets
• Guy Davies - Gyrochronology: Here be dragons
• Raphaëlle Haywood - Towards precise and accurate exoplanet mass determinations: HARPS-N observes the Sun
• Christopher Watson - Towards Earth-analogues: Overcoming convection

V. Planet formation

• Invited Speaker: Kees Dullemond - Observational signatures of planet formation in discs
• Gavin Coleman - Forming giant planets in radially structured discs
• Guillaume Laibe - Clouds above protoplanetary discs
• Jean Teyssandier - Growth of eccentric modes in disc-planet interactions
• Pablo Lorén-Aguilar - Toroidal vortices as a solution to the dust migration problem
• Philip Carter - Compositional evolution of growing terrestrial planet embryos
• Soko Matsumura - Effects of dynamical evolution on compositions of planets

VI. Future instruments and perspective

• Invited Speaker: David Mouillet - An overview on new instruments for exoplanet imaging and perspective
• Special Guest: Colin Vincent - The STFC perspective
• Ian Parry - SUPERSHARP: A space telescope for direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets
• Didier Queloz - Cheops, Tess, Speculoos & Co…
• Giovanna Tinetti - The science of ARIEL
• Sasha Hinkley - Spectroscopic characterization of exoplanets at VLT and E-ELT