Program (pdf)


Sunday 28th June 2015
17:30 - 20:00 Registrations and welcome drink (entrance hall), posters installation.


Monday 29th June 2015
08:30-09:05 Registrations (entrance hall) and posters installation.    
09:05-09:10 Welcome address by Francis BERNARDEAU, IAP Head.    
09:10-09:20 Meeting presentation and practicalities by Jean-Pierre MAILLARD, LOC Chair.    
Session I: Solar System and exoplanets
Morning Chair: Jack LISSAUER
09:20-10:00 Jérémy LECONTE (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics):
Who's who: does living in the Solar System mislead us? (Invited review)
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10:00-10:15 Radoslaw POLESKI (The Ohio State University Department of Astronomy):
Exoplanets sharing origin with Uranus.
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10:15-10:30 Stéphane MAZEVET (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris):
Planetary structure revisited using ab-initio equations of states.
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10:30-11:05 Coffee break (entrance hall) and posters display.    
11:05-11:20 Pierre AUCLAIR-DESROTOUR (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris):
Towards a new model of atmospheric tides: from Venus to super-Earths.
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11:20-11:35 Frédéric MASSET (Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, UNAM, Mexico):
Planet heating as a safety net against inward migration of planetary cores.
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Session II: From rocky planets to mini-Neptune planets.
11:35-12:15 Natalie BATALHA (NASA Ames Research Center):
Mapping exoplanet discoveries into exoplanet populations (Invited review).
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12:15-12:30 Eric GAIDOS (University of Hawaii at Manoa):
Do smaller stars really host smaller planets?
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12:30-14:00 Lunch break.    
Afternoon Chair: Didier QUELOZ
14:00-14:40 David CHARBONNEAU (Harvard Center for Astrophysics):
The compositions of small planets (Invited review).
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14:40-14:55 Eric LOPEZ (Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh):
Using photo-evaporation to understand super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
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14:55-15:10 Geoff MARCY (University of California at Berkeley):
Masses and densities of planets 1-4x the size of Earth.
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15:10-15:25 Posters quick presentations 1/3 (Chair: Sébastien FROMANG)
15:25-16:10 Coffee break (entrance hall) and posters display.
16:10-16:50 James KASTING (Penn State University):
Theoretical perspectives on rocky planets (Invited review).
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16:50-17:05 Illeana GOMEZ-LEAL (Cornell University):
Modeling the emission of terrestrial planets with general circulation models.
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17:05-17:20 Jack LISSAUER (NASA Ames Research Center):
Composition, structure and formation of low-density planets within 0.5 AU of theirstar.
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17:20-17:35 George RICKER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Discovering Earths and super-Earths in the Solar neighborhood with TESS.
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17:35-17:50 Heike RAUER (Institute of Planetary Research, DLR - Berlin):
The PLATO 2.0 mission.
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17:50-18:15 Posters display.    
18:30 - 21:00 : Welcome reception (Observatoire de Paris, Cassini Room).


Tuesday, 30th June 2015
Morning Chair: Geoffrey MARCY.
09:00-09:40 Masahiro IKOMA (The University of Tokyo):
Theoretical perspectives on super-Earths and mini-Neptunes (Invited review).
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09:40-09:55 Jean-François DONATI (IRAP, Université de Toulouse):
SPIRou: a nIR spectropolarimeter & high-precision velocimeter for the CFHT.
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09:55-10:10 David EHRENREICH (Université de Genève):
The CHEOPS mission.
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10:10-10:25 Andrea CHIAVASSA (Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur):
New view on exoplanet transits: describing the granulation pattern with three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of stellar convection.
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10:25-10:40 Posters quick presentations 2/3 (Chair: Sébastien FROMANG).    
10:40-11:25 Coffee break (downstair) and posters display.    
Session III: From mini-Neptune to giant planets.
11:25-12:05 Magali DELEUIL (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille):
Twenty years of exploration of the giant planets population (Invited review).
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12:05-12:20 Jean-Baptiste DELISLE (Observatoire de Genève):
Dissipation in planar resonant systems: implications of observed orbital configurations.
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12:20-12:35 Veselin KOSTOV (University of Toronto):
Planets with two suns.
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12:35-14:00 Lunch break.    
Afternoon Chair: Jean-Philippe BEAULIEU.
14:00-14:15 Bastien COURCOL (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille):
The high precision search for northern Neptunes and super-Earths with SOPHIE.
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14:15-14:30 Simon BORGNIET (IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble):
The close (0.02 to 2.5 AU) giant planet population around main-sequence A-F stars.
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14:30-14:45 Lauren WEISS (University of California at Berkeley):
Constraining the Kepler-11 planet masses with radial velocities..
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14:45-15:00 Aldo Stefano BONOMO (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino):
Structure and evolution of transiting giant planets: a Bayesian homogeneous determination of orbital and physical parameters.
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15:00-15:15 Ignas SNELLEN (Leiden Observatory):
First results from the Multi-site All Sky CAmeRA, MASCARA.
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15:15-15:30 Posters quick presentations 3/3 (Chair: Sébastien FROMANG).
15:30-16:15 Coffee break.    
16:15-16:30 Philipp EIGMUELLER (Institute of Planetary Research, DLR - Berlin):
Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)..
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16:30-16:45 Gwenaël BOUÉ (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris):
On the origin of stellar spin-orbit angle in extrasolar systems.
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16:45-17:00 Isabelle BOISSE (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille):
First radial velocity observation of a binary system detected by microlensing.
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17:00-17:15 Akihiko FUKUI (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan):
Characterization of microlensing planetary systems by AO imaging.
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17:15-17:30 Beata DEKA-SZYMANKIEWICZ (Torun Centre for Astronomy, N. Copernicus Univ.):
Metallicity distribution for planet-hosting stars from Penn State-Torun Centre Planet Search (PTPS).
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19:00–20:30 Public conference by Didier Queloz (Amphithéâtre Farabeuf, rue École Médecine).


Wednesday, 1st July 2015
Morning Chair: Isabelle BARAFFE.
09:00-09:15 David BENNETT (University of Notre Dame):
Frequency of exoplanets beyond the snow line from 6 years of the MOA survey).
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09:15-09:30 Michel MAYOR (Observatoire de Genève)::
From Super-Earths to Giant Planets.
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09:30-09:45 Hiroyuki KUROKAWA (Tokyo Institute of Technology):
Reevaluation of the possibility and impact of layered convection: application to the radius anomaly of hot Jupiters.
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09:45-10:00 Sivan GINZBURG (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem):
Hot-Jupiter inflation due to deep energy deposition.
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10:00-10:15 Mutlu YILDIZ (Ege University, Izmir): On the structure and evolution of planets and their host stars-effects of various heating mechanisms on the size of giant gas planets. VIDEO PDF
10:15-10:30 Marion NEVEU-VANMALLE (Geneva University/Cambridge University): Two hot Jupiters from WASP with siblings. VIDEO PDF
10:30-11:10 Coffee break (downstair) and posters display.    
Session IV: From giant planets to brown dwarfs.
11:10-11:50 Adam SHOWMAN (Lunar and Planetary Lab, U. of Arizona):
Theoretical perspectives on giant planets (Invited review).
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11:50-12:05 Allona VAZAN (Tel Aviv University):
Convection and mixing in giant planet evolution.
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12:05-12:20 François SOUBIRAN (University of California at Berkeley):
Hydrogen-water mixtures in giant planet interiors studied with ab-initio simulations..
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12:20-12:35 Alain LECAVELIER DES ÉTANGS (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris):
Beta Pic b, physical properties and possibility of transits.
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12:36–12:45 Group picture outside (weather permitted).
Free afternoon.
19:00-23:00 Conference dinner (Westin Paris-­‐Vendôme Hotel, 3 rue de Castiglione).


Thursday, 2nd July 2015
Morning Chair: Michel MAYOR.
09:00-09:15 Amaury TRIAUD (University of Toronto):
A hike across the desert.
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09:15-09:30 Clément RANC (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris):
Brown dwarfs detections through gravitational microlensing.
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09:30-09:45 Johannes SAHLMANN (European Space Astronomy Centre, ESA - Madrid):
Exploring the giant planet - brown dwarf connection with astrometry.
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09:45-10:00 Javiera REY (Observatoire de Genève):
Radial velocity search for long-period exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
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10:00-10:15 Henri BOFFIN (European Southern Observatory): Possible astrometric discovery of a substellar companion to the closest binary brown dwarf system WISE J104915.57-531906.1. VIDEO PDF
10:15-10:30 Szilárd CSIZMADIA (Institut für Planetary Research, DLR - Berlin): A new transiting BD from the CoRoT sample and the frequency of close-in brown dwarfs. VIDEO PDF
10:30-11:05 Coffee break (downstair) and posters display.    
11:05-11:45 Gilles CHABRIER (CRAL, ENS-­‐Lyon):
Giant planets and brown dwarfs: who's who? (Invited review).
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11:45-12:00 Jean SCHNEIDER (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris):
Difficulties with a planet and brown dwarfs who's who.
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12:00-12:15 Nicolas LODIEU (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife):
BDs and super-Jupiters in the nearest OB association to the Sun: Upper Scorpius.
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12:15-12:30 Marta BRYAN (California Institute of Technology):
Searching for scatterers: high contrast imaging of young stars with wide-separation planetary mass companions.
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12:30-14:00 Lunch break.    
Afternoon Chair: Heike RAUER.
14:00-14:40 Kevin LUHMAN (Penn State University):
Observations of brown dwarfs (Invited review).
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14:40-14:55 Aleks SCHOLZ (University of St. Andrews):
Brown dwarfs and planemos in nearby star forming regions.
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14:55-15:10 Catarina ALVES DE OLIVEIRA (European Space Agency):
Observing free-floating brown dwarfs and transiting exoplanets with JWST/NIRSpec.
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15:10-15:25 Andrzej NIEDZIELSKI (Torun Centre for Astronomy, N. Copernicus Univ.):
Red giants with brown dwarfs companions.
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15:25-15:40 Gabriel-Dominique MARLEAU (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie):
Luminosities of young directly-detectable exoplanets.
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15:40-16:15 Coffee break.    
16:15-16:30 Cilia DAMIANI (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale):
Can brown dwarfs survive on close orbits around convective stars?
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16:30-16:45 Karla PEÑA RAMÍREZ (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile):
Current status of the Sigma Orionis substellar mass function.
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16:45-17:00 Aina PALAU (Centro de Radioastronomia y Astrofisica):
Searching for bona-fide proto-brown dwarfs.
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17:00-17:15 Elena MANJAVACAS (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg):
Hunting for binaries with X-Shooter spectra.
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17:15-17:30 Sylvestre LACOUR (LESIA, Observatoire de Paris):
Pupil masking, a tool to understand planetary formation.
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17:30-17:45 Eduardo MARTÍN (Centro de Astrobiología - Madrid):
Euclid Legacy Science on Brown Dwarfs.
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Friday, 3rd July 2015
Session V: The planetary atmospheres diversity.
Morning Chair: Ignas SNELLEN.
09:00-09:40 David SING (University of Exeter):
Observations of exoplanet atmospheres from super Earths to hot Jupiters (Invited review).
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09:40-09:55 Vincent BOURRIER (Observatoire de Genève):
Evaporating atmospheres: from hot Jupiters to super Earths.
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09:55-10:10 Björn BENNEKE (California Institute of Technology):
Four hot Jupiters with robustly oxygen-rich compositions (C/O < 0.9).
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10:10-10:25 Zachory BERTA-THOMPSON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Thick high-altitude clouds on an extremely inflated hot Jupiter.
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10:25-11:00 Coffee break (downstair) and posters display.    
11:00-11:15 Matteo BROGI (University of Colorado at Boulder):
Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution.
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11:15-11:30 Catherine HUITSON (University of Colorado at Boulder):
First results from a four-year survey of exoplanet atmospheres using Gemini/GMOS.
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11:30-11:45 Taisiya KOPYTOVA (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie - Heidelberg):
C/O or not C/O? Chemical fingerprinting of the birthplaces of exoplanet and brown dwarf companions.
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11:45-12:00 Nikolay NIKOLOV (University of Exeter):
HST Transmission Spectral Survey: observations, data analysis and results.
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12:00-12:15 Antonio GARCÍA MUÑOZ (ESTEC, European Space Agency - Noordwijk):
Investigating close-in exoplanet atmospheres with optical phase curves.
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12:15-12:30 Jean-Philippe BEAULIEU (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris):
The ARIEL space mission.
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12:30-14:00 Lunch break.    
Afternoon Chair: Eduardo MARTIN.
14:00-14:15 Thaddeus KOMACEK (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona):
Transitions in efficiency of heat redistribution in hot-Jupiter atmospheres.
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14:15-14:30 Hannah WAKEFORD (University of Exeter):
Transmission spectral properties of cloud condensates.
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14:30-14:45 Derek HOMEIER (CRAL/ENS-Lyon - ZAH/Landessternwarte Heidelberg):
Condensation processes in substellar atmospheres..
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14:45-15:00 Tiffany KATARIA (University of Exeter):
Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres using atmospheric circulation models.
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15:00-15:15 Pascal TREMBLIN (University of Exeter):
Vertical mixing and fingering convection in cool brown dwarf atmospheres.
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15:15-15:30 Vivien PARMENTIER (University of California, Santa Cruz):
Cloudy and cloudless hot Jupiters.
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15:30-16:30 Concluding session (Chair: Jean-Pierre MAILLARD). VIDEO  
Concluding remarks by Jack LISSAUER.    
16:30–18:00 Farewell wine and cheese party (forum on 2nd floor).
Posters removing.

List of posters

Abstracts book (oral presentations and posters, PDF)


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