Date:

October 12, 2012 - October 13, 2012

Location:

Reno, NV
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NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) will hold its sixth meeting on October 13-14, 2012, just prior to the “Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society” (AAS). ExoPAG meetings are always open to the astronomical community, and are an opportunity to learn about the Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), and to participate in discussions of scientific and technical issues in exoplanet exploration. Topics of interest will include plans for a future, space-based, flagship-class, direct imaging mission, along with discussion of possible Probe-class (<$1B) missions that might be proposed in the next decade if money for flagships is not available. The ExoPAG would also like to broaden the discussion to include other ways in which NASA might facilitate exoplanet research over the next few years. To this end, we invite suggestions for topics and/or speakers at our January meeting. Feel free to suggest yourself as a speaker if you have interesting ideas that you would like to share. The meeting will run for two full days, so there should be plenty of time for both presentations and discussion. Please join us! We look forward to seeing you in Reno!

ExoPAG 6 MEETING PRESENTATIONS


Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, Nevada
October 13-14, 2012



DAY ONE – Room: Crystal 4/5

Start End Duration Title Presenter
8:30 AM 9:00 AM 0:30 Introduction Scott Gaudi
9:00 AM 9:30 AM 0:30 NASA Update Paul Hertz
9:30 AM 10:00 AM 0:30 SAG1: Final Report Aki Roberge
10:00 AM 10:15 AM 0:15 Break
Current Missions and Future Opportunities
10:15 AM 11:00 AM 0:45 JWST Summary Chas Beichman
11:00 AM 11:45 AM 0:45 WFIRST SDT Final Report Paul Schechter
11:45 AM 12:30 PM 0:45 NRO opportunity Jeremy Kasdin - remote
12:30 PM 1:30 PM 1:00 Lunch
Mini-Workshop on Exoplanet Characterization
1:30 PM 2:30 PM 1:00 The Future of Transits Jean-Michel Desert
2:30 PM 3:00 PM 0:30 Characterizing Transiting Planet Atmospheres: A Modeling Perspective Jonathan Fortney
3:00 PM 3:15 PM 0:15 Break
3:15 PM 3:45 PM 0:30 Exoplanet transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy with JWST: Promises and Limitations Tom Greene
3:45 PM 4:15 PM 0:30 Atmospheric Dynamics of Exoplanets: Status and Opportunities Adam Showman
4:15 PM 4:45 PM 0:30 Characterizing Directly Imaged Planets Mark Marley
4:45 PM Adjourn

DAY TWO – Room: Crystal 4/5

Start End Duration Title Presenter
8:30 AM 9:00 AM 0:30 Explorer & Technology Development Program Doug Hudgins
9:00 AM 10:00 AM 1:00 Review of Kepler Science Eric Ford
10:00 AM 10:15 AM 0:15 Break
10:15 AM 10:45 AM 0:30 Medium-scale Direct Imaging Requirements Charley Noecker
Mini-Workshop on the Future of Precision RVs
10:45 AM 11:30 AM 0:45 Overview Peter Plavchan
11:30 AM 12:00 PM 0:30 Kepler Follow-Up Requirements/HARPS-N Dave Latham
12:00 PM 12:30 PM 0:30 General RV/High-Res Requirements Phil Muirhead
12:30 PM 1:30 PM 1:00 Lunch
1:30 PM 2:00 PM 0:30 G-CLEF: The GMT-Consortium Large Earth Finder Andy Szentgyorgyi
2:00 PM 2:30 PM 0:30 Near-IR RVs Suvrath Mahadevan
2:30 PM 3:00 PM 0:30 Limits of RV precision Valeri Makarov
3:00 PM 3:15 PM 0:15 Break
3:15 PM 4:00 PM 0:45 Group Discussion
4:00 PM Adjourn