- Sorry, Ilaria, to run over and now it's my pleasure to pass the microphone off to Ilaria Pascucci, who will be the chair for the first session.

- Yes, thank you very much, Michael. So we'll get immediately into the talks and the first one would be by Gary Blackwood, the program manager, for the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program at JPL. He will give you an overview of the program. And Gary, I will give you a pre-warning of two minutes before the end of your two minutes to talk. Okay?

- Thank you, Illaria, am I coming across well and can you see my slides?

- [Illaria] Yes.

- Well, thanks very much for that introduction. It's great to see so many of my colleagues names, virtually, that I haven't seen in a while and others that I look forward to meeting. So first of all, let's celebrate Astro2020. Wow. We opened up the the decadal and our Exoplanet dreams came true. And now add to that, the great launch and deployment of Web, and we look forward to a fantastic future in Exoplanet. I quickly want to thank the ExoPAG and add to what Michael was saying earlier, all the work that you did over the past decade and longer, on occurrence rates, ExoZodi, technology development, the SIGs, the SAGs, have all contributed to this great result that we read in the decadal survey. Michael described the ExoPAG. In fact, it's an analysis group chartered by the astrophysics division at NASA. And as an ExoPAG, you have a Terms of Reference. These are the items in the Terms of Reference, and I've gone ahead and highlighted some items in blue that I thought are relevant to the work that the ExoPAG could do, going forward, to help NASA and the community respond to the decadal survey. Some of it is a question, what can the ExoPAG do? What can the community do to help NASA respond to the decadal? These topics are already in your Terms of Reference, and I encourage you to find an angle or an area of expertise, or of interest, on this list and find a way to contribute in the way that Michael invited you to do on a previous slide. All right, let's do a few acronyms here, first being NASA. So most of these you're familiar with. Here's the astrophysics division, it's a division with an SMD. And we recognize our Division Director, Paul Hertz, Deputy Director, Sandra Cauffman, she's new since the last ExoPAG, and Jeanne Davis, she's the Associate Director for flight projects. In terms of the committees, and the APAC is the Astrophysics Advisory Committee. It's a FACA committee. It's got the the word advisory in it and the federal advisory committee, the ExoPAG is an analysis group. It's not a FACA committee, but the ExoPAG ECE chair sits on the APAC. And these are all advisory or analysis inputs to the astrophysics division. ExEP as the exoplanet exploration program. It's the element that I managed for NASA, it's within one of the programs within APD, there are several. Physics of the cosmos, cosmic origins are two other thematic programs that you're familiar with. You may be familiar with the explorers program and the RNA programs. These are all different programs in Paul's portfolio ExEP is a program at NASA headquarters and with a program office at JPL, which JPL manages for, or assay quarters. Our program officers at NASA headquarters on Lucian Cox, the program executive Doug Hudgins, the program scientist and Penn and Jane Candell and the deputy PS. And last acronym for today. The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute is a part of the Exoplanet exploration program there at Caltech in Pasadena. Our program also has a charter and the key part of the charter, I pull out here, is our purpose to discover and characterize and identify exoplanets that could harbor life. It's a pretty great charter to have! It's my favorite of all the programs. And we serve from this program, the science community and serve NASA as a focal point for exoplanet science and technology. Look, the scientist prioritized by the decadal survey technologies identified by the mission of studies, but these technologies and science developments need to be developed curated and maintained and advanced over the years that follow. And we participate in that activity and we integrate these into cohesive strategies for the future discoveries. So that's really exciting part of NASA to be part of. Here's the different elements of the program, just the visual snapshot, the upper left, the mission concepts that a coronagraph star shaded map that attributed to this IRO UV mission concept describing the decadal. Key sustaining research in the lower left, the precursor science and the followup science to achieve the scientific potential permissions. The technology development there in the lower part of the middle to enable the future missions of the next level of, of measurement sensitivity, Exoplanet Science Institute, where the NASA Exoplanet Archive is maintained. And the professional development, including the Sagan fellowship of the Sagan workshop. And of course in the upper right, the ever popular exoplanet communications team that we have. Here's the team that we've assembled at JPL and across the country to serve the community and serve NASA in Exoplanet exploration. All of these individuals have joined this program because of the exciting science and they stay because they want to make a difference, personally, and for the community and for the field. There's a lot of really strong teams at NASA and JPL, but I know of no team, more strong and dedicated than the team shown here. And I'm very proud to be working with these individuals. Let's give a shout out to the XL at Astro com. They were always producing great products that many of us hanging on our walls and put in our WebEx backdrops. This year they produced violent, bilingual exoplanet finding mission posters. There are some on the right. There's web in the middle, that's going to be very popular in download cart. But, right now they published them, "Are we alone?" Series. Exoplanet feature stories about NASA search for life? They created a Halloween horror poster. Here it is, HD 8 0 6 0 6 B. We learned a lot of the younger kids didn't just like the Earth-like planets. They wanted something scary. And I can't think of a scarier planet than this one on this highly eccentric orbit. The team teamed up with colleagues that got her to begin to animate the posters. If you haven't seen those, check those out. And they present on the role of art and science communication. We know those were coupled and they were recognized with a Webby award for the best web and mobile science website. Congratulations team. But going forward, there is work to be done. To fulfill the ambitions of the Astro2020. In particular, the decadal calls for a great observatory mission and technology maturation program. There's a mouthful. Leading to an independent review prior to permission to start or recommendation for a mission to start at the end of the decades. We have to earn this. Now, the astrophysics division, led by Paul Hertz, is responding to the decadal and this program will support APD and the community in that response. Not going to speak to you about it today. We've been working with Astro with APD over the past two years to prepare, and now recently to begin to respond. But we're gonna wait and first hear from Paul Hertz at his town hall tomorrow, and he's going to tell all of us together, at the same time, the first steps to respond to Astro2020. So I'll, I'll end here and connect a couple of minutes and allow time for questions. These are other talks from the program, at this ExoPAG spread over the next couple of days. You heard from John Callas on NN-explore, the ground-based rate velocity program and its starting from next slide, technology, program science. And up next will be Tiffany Kataria, on the ExoExplorers program. And I'll end, as I have before, for editing my colleague, Nick Siegler, then we're really involved in aspirational business side Exoplanets and the search for life are aspirational and really the full sense of that word. And by an aspiration, you know, exoplanets draws and impel us to action and those actions are to explore other worlds and to inspire our own. So with that, I will stop and hand back over to you, Ilaria and Michael.

- Thank you very much, Gary, for this overview. I don't see at the moment, any questions on the tool? I have a quick one. So what are, one of the goals of the program is to implement analysis plan for the discovery and understanding of planetary systems, so what are the immediate next steps you are going to take given Astro2020?

- That's right. So we're going to hear from those from Paul Hertz tomorrow, we've been actively anticipating this decadal and have been meeting with Paul Hertz, his team, since decadal came out in two different workshops and talk about the very next steps, quick wins that can be done to respond to the decadal. So, any of those already, all will be able to describe some of those right away. And I think the community will be policed.

- Okay. Thank you very much. I don't see any other questions on the tool. So I think the next speaker can get ready. Tiffany, do we want to share the, thanks again, Gary, do you want to start sharing your slides?

- Sure. Yes. Can you hear me okay?

- Yes.

- Great.

- Yeah.

- Okay and props just to keep on time. Let's wait a minute. Any other questions for Gary?