Date:

January 4, 2013 - January 5, 2013

Location:

Long Beach, CA
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NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) will hold its seventh meeting on Saturday-Sunday, January 5-6, 2013, just prior to the 221st AAS meeting in Long Beach, CA. ExoPAG meetings are open to the entire scientific community, and offer an opportunity to participate in discussions of scientific and technical issues in exoplanet exploration, and to provide input into NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP). All interested members of the astronomical and planetary science communities are invited to attend and participate.

ExoPAG-7 will continue to focus on expanding the inclusiveness of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) to the wider exoplanet community. In particular, the ExoPAG is soliciting input on novel ways in which NASA might facilitate exoplanet research over the next few years, and suggestions for topics and/or speakers at the meeting along these lines are welcome.

Suggestions can be sent to Prof. Scott Gaudi, ExoPAG Chair (gaudi@astronomy.ohio-state.edu), and/or Dr. Douglas Hudgins, ExoPAG Executive Secretary (Douglas.M.Hudgins@nasa.gov). News and information about NASA's ExoPAG and the ExoPAG-7 meeting can be found on the ExoPAG web site at ExoPAG.

ExoPAG 7, January 5-6, 2013
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DAY ONE – Saturday, January 5

Start Title Presenter
8:30-10:00 Preliminaries
8:30 Introduction/Welcome Scott Gaudi
8:45 Science & Technology Definition Teams Doug Hudgins
9:15 Introduction
Gary Blackwood
9:30-10:45 SAG Updates
9:30 SAG4 Lisa Kaltenegger
10:00 -10:30 Break
10:30 SAG8 Peter Plavchan
11:00 SAG5 Final Report Charley Noecker/Tom Greene
11:30-2:45 Current and Future Missions and Instruments
11:30 CARMENES Andreas Quirrenbach
12:00 Infrared Direct Imaging Bill Danchi
12:15 EXCEDE Glenn Schneider/Ruslan Belikov
12:45-1:45 Lunch
1:45 ISS Technology Testbed Marshall Perrin
2:15 Demonstrating Starshades Webster Cash
2:45-5:00 Nearby Host Stars
2:45 Summary of Leiden Meeting Karl Stapelfeldt
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30 Astroseismology Travis Metcalfe
4:15 Gaia Alessandro Sozzetti
5:00 Adjourn

DAY TWO – Sunday, January 6

Start Title Presenter
8:30-10:00 Joint CoPAG/ExoPAG/PhysPAG Meeting
8:30 NASA update Paul Hertz
9:30 Discussion
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-2:30 "The Next Decade in Exoplanets"
10:30 NRO: Imaging Exoplanets Within 10 pc Geoff Marcy
11:15 M-dwarfs: The Fast Track to Inhabited Exoplanets David Charbonneau
12:00-1:00 Lunch

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Ubiquity of Planets and Diversity of Planetary Systems Doug Lin
2:30-4:00 Miscellaneous
2:30 The Case of Alpha Cen B Dave Latham
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15 JWST Mark Clampin
4:00-5:00 Group Discussion/Working Time
5:00 Adjourn