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KITP Conference: Planet-Star Connections in the Era of TESS and Gaia
(May 20-24, 2019)
Coordinators: Rebekah Dawson, Jim Fuller, Daniel Huber, Katja Poppenhaeger

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Monday, May 20, 2019

Precision Exoplanets with Asteroseismology, Chair: Daniel Huber (U Hawaii)

8:50am Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am Vincent Van Eylen (Princeton) What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Angela Santos (STScI) Seismic signatures of magnetic activity in solar-type stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am J. Christensen-Dalsgaard (Aarhus) Stellar modeling and asteroseismology[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

Close-in Planetary Radii, Chair: Diana Dragomir (MIT)

11:00am Angie Wolfgang (Penn State) Data-driven planetary radii[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Travis Berger (U of Hawaii) Precise Characterization of Kepler Stars and Planets Using Gaia DR2[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am James Owen (Imperial) Sculpting planet radii with atmospheric escape[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm

Lunch Break

Cool Dwarf Seismology, Chair: Daniel Huber (U Hawaii)

1:45pm Hans Kjeldsen (Aarhus) Low SNR detections of p-modes: Using asteroseismology to characterize a large number of TESS host stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:15pm Tim Bedding (U Sydney) The Next Frontiers for Asteroseismology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Bill Chaplin (U Birmingham) Asteroseismology of planet hosts: summary and future challenges[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:15pm

Afternoon Break

3:45pm Panel discussion Stellar properties, an exoplaneteer's wishlist[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

Stellar Characterization and Planetary Implications, Chair: Benjamin Montet (U Chicago)

4:15pm Allison Youngblood (NASA Goddard) Ultraviolet Emission from M Dwarfs during Quiescence and Flare[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Ekaterina Ilin (AIP) Stellar magnetic evolution: Flaring activity in K2 Open Clusters[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Eric Gaidos (U Hawaii) The Protoplanet-Star Connection[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Stellar Activity and Rotation, Chair: Katja Poppenhaeger (AIP)

9:00am Elisabeth Newton (Dartmouth) The evolution of rotation and magnetic activity in M dwarfs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Raphaelle Haywood (Harvard) What can we learn from the Sun?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Cecilia Garraffo (Harvard) Stellar Spin to Planetary Atmospheres[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Jennifer van Saders (U Hawaii) The right tool for the job: Understanding the limits and potential of period-age and activity-age relations.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Ruth Angus (Columbia) Measuring stellar ages from light curves[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Panel discussion Stellar activity: Friend or foe?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Orbital Dynamics and Tidal Evolution, Chair: Jack Lissauer (NASA Ames)

2:00pm Smadar Naoz (UCLA) Hidden and apparent companions for multi and lonely planets around hot (or not) stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Dong Lai (Cornell U) Low-e / high-e migration of small/big planets and tidal dissipation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Konstantin Batygin (Caltech) Slowing the roll of hyperbolic encounters[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

Poster Session

4:00pm Poster Presenters Lightning/Haiku presentations[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP Courtyard

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP COURTYARD

8:00pm

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Limits to stellar model physics, Chair: Jim Fuller (Caltech)

9:00am Jamie Tayar (U Hawaii) Current Limitations on Stellar Mass Estimates from Models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Willie Torres (CfA) Host Star Properties from Stellar Evolution Models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Marc Pinsonneault (Ohio State) Putting A Spin on Stellar Evolution: Rotation, Magnetism, And Activity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Panelists: Tayar, Torres
Pinsonneault, Kawaler
Unfortunate truths about stellar models: Exoplanteers beware![Podcast][Aud][Cam]

Planet and Stellar Populations, Chair: Angie Wolfgang (Penn State)

11:30am Daniel Foreman-Mackey (Flatiron) Population inference[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Maxwell Moe (U Arizona) Impact of Binary Stars on Planet Formation and Statistics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm Maggie Sherriffs (KITP) Announcement: Followon Program[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:35pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

FREE AFTERNOONShuttle Available to BWSCI

Las Cumbres Observatory Open House Transportation provided from BWSCI and Munger Residence Hall

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Planet vs. Stellar Properties, Chair: Rebekah Dawson (Penn State)

9:00am Subo Dong (Peking U) Studying Exoplanet Population and Host Properties with LAMOST[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Ji Wang (Ohio State) Investigating the effect of metallicity on stellar and planet properties[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Gijs Mulders (U Chicago) The exoplanet population around stars of different masses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Eve Lee (Caltech) Stellar Spin, Metallicity, and Planet Formation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Juliette Becker (Michigan) Drawing Insights on Past Planetary Migration from Current System State[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Panelists: Becker, Dong, Lee
Moe, Mulders, Wang
Implications for how planets form and evolve[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Stellar Structure, Chair: Jennifer van Saders (U Hawaii)

2:00pm Greg Feiden (U of North Georgia) Magnetic Effects on M-dwarf Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Matthew Browning (Exeter) Magnetism, rotation, and dissipation in simulations of convective stars and planets[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Adrian Barker (U of Leeds) Tidal dissipation in stars and the orbital decay of hot Jupiters[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

Stellar Activity and Characterization, Chair: Elisabeth Newton (MIT)

4:00pm Ben Montet (U of Chicago) The Evolution of Long-Term Stellar Photometric Variability from Kepler Photometry[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Phillip Muirhead (BU) Chemical Ages of M dwarf stars and Magnetic Inflation[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Dennis Stello (U Sydney) Characterizing host stars with SONG and TESS using asteroseismology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP COURTYARD

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, May 24, 2019

The M-dwarf Advantage (?), Chair: Philip Muirhead (BU)

9:00am Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley) M dwarf planets present and future[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Aomawa Shields (UC Irvine) M dwarf habitability and climate feedback[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Adam Burgasser (UCSD) The planet brown dwarf connection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Nick Wright (Keele U) The rotation - activity relationship of M dwarfs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Beate Stelzer (U Tuebingen) The long-term evolution of an M star's magnetic activity: Is a calibration possible?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Panel Discussion Are M-dwarfs the ideal planet hosts?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Morning Break

White Dwarf Planets and Properties, Chair: Eric Agol (U Washington)

2:00pm Dimitri Veras (U of Warwick) Dynamics of planetary systems with white dwarf host stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm JJ Hermes (BU) Better characterizing white dwarfs to illuminate planet occurrence around intermediate-mass stars[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Steve Kawaler (ISU) Old stars with good tickers - are the beating hearts of white dwarfs regular enough for planet detection?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

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