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Early Career Talks

NASA's Exoplanet Program Analysis Group's Executive Committee (ExoPAG EC) and NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Office invites early career scientists to consider presenting at the next hybrid ExoPAG meeting. The EC and ExEP are particularly interested in attendance and presentations by early career scientists from diverse backgrounds.

As the ultimate users of future NASA facilities, early career scientists are encouraged to attend the ExoPAG meetings to:

  • Share your work with a broad audience of scientists, technologists, and program managers
  • Learn about NASA's strategic goals and plans, and learn how to impact them through ExoPAG activities.

Finding and characterizing earth-like planets around nearby stars is one of NASA’s primary scientific goals. ExoPAG helps NASA assess the current and upcoming state of exoplanet science toward the goal of enabling future exoplanet missions relevant to NASA's strategic goals.

Application is now open- APPLY HERE

The deadline for submissions is October 25th, 2024 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT

Selections will be made by the EC and applicants will be notified mid-November, 2024

Eligibility

  • Undergraduate must be enrolled in school at the time of the conference or the semester immediately before the conference (if during break)
  • Post Bachelor
  • Graduate students must be enrolled at a university at the time of the conference or the semester immediately before the conference (if during break)
  • Post Doctoral
  • Early career scientists must complete the speaker application, and attach an abstract of their proposed talk prior to the posted deadline.

Focus of proposed ExoPAG 31 talks

Whether you are investigating how planets form, how they evolve or how to search for and characterize them, the ExoPAG EC invites you to share your work. Presentations should align with the priorities described in the current Exoplanet Exploration Program Science Gap List.

The meeting will be held in conjunction with the 245th AAS Conference in National Harbor, MD on January 11-12, 2025. The agenda includes two 30 minute sessions for early career talks, one on each day. Six in-person talks will be selected, with an opportunity for others to post their work to the ExoPAG 31 Slack, where participants can interact virtually.

Leadership and organizers are particularly interested in fostering diversity and encourage early-career students from diverse backgrounds to participate.

Travel reimbursement

Early career scientists who are requesting travel reimbursement should wait until they have been notified of their selection prior to making travel arrangements or paying registration fees. Failure to comply with this may prohibit reimbursement. Selected applicants will be contacted by the the ExEP office to make travel arrangements announcements have been made.

Reimbursable travel expenses may consist of roundtrip airfare, lodging, car rental, per diem and conference registration based on approved government rates.

For questions regarding early career proposed talks, please contact student-travel@jpl.nasa.gov.