Science Agenda
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All times are in PDT.
| Sunday, Nov 1, 2015 | Topic | Speaker | Start time | End time |
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Opening reception and registration |
18:00 | 20:00 | ||
| Monday, Nov 2, 2015 | ||||
| Chair: Tom Barclay | Opening remarks | 08:15 | 08:30 | |
| Engineering Miracles: Enabling K2 | Colin Peterson | 08:30 | 08:45 | |
| The NASA K2 Mission: Current Status and Future Plans [PPTX] | Steve Howell | 08:45 | 09:15 | |
| Exoplanet Results | Kepler Prime Exoplanet Populations [PPTX] [PDF] | Natalie Batalha | 09:15 | 09:45 |
| Spitzer Meets K2: Spitzer Studies of Candidate Exoplanets Identified by K2 [PPT] [PDF] | Michael Werner | 09:45 | 10:00 | |
| Break | 10:00 | 10:30 | ||
| Chair: Courtney Dressing | Prevalence and Properties of Planets from Kepler and K2 [KEY] | Erik Petigura | 10:30 | 10:45 |
| K2-22b: A disintegrating planet with a cometary head and tail [KEY.zip] | Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda | 10:45 | 11:00 | |
| Exoplanet Results | Planets Orbiting M Stars [ODP] [PDF] | Ian Crossfield | 11:00 | 11:30 |
| Determining Stellar Parameters for K2 Stars [PDF] | Dan Huber | 11:30 | 12:00 | |
| Lunch | 12:00 | 13:30 | ||
| Stellar Astrophysics Chair: Steve Kawaler |
Young Stars and Clusters [PPTX] | Ann Marie Cody | 13:30 | 14:00 |
| Eclipsing Binaries [PDF] [KEY.zip] | Avi Shporer | 14:00 | 14:30 | |
| The Mass-Radius Relation of Young Stars from K2 | Adam Kraus | 14:30 | 14:45 | |
| Young M-dwarf “Dipper” stars in Upper Sco and Rho Oph Observed by K2 [PDF] | Megan Ansdell | 14:45 | 15:00 | |
| The least massive eclipsing double-line spectroscopic binary at the nearest OB association, Upper Scorpius [PDF] [KEY] | Enric Palle | 15:00 | 15:15 | |
| Break | 15:15 | 15:45 | ||
| Stellar Astrophysics (cont) Chair: Avi Shporer |
K2 Seismology [PDF] | Bill Chaplin | 15:45 | 16:15 |
| RR Lyrae stars as seen with K2 [PDF] [KEY] | Robert Szabo | 16:15 | 16:30 | |
| EPIC201585823, a rare triple-mode RR Lyrae star discovered in K2 mission data [PDF] | Donald Kurtz | 16:30 | 16:45 | |
| Angular momentum transport in stellar interiors: The K2 era [PDF] | Matteo Cantiello | 16:45 | 17:00 | |
| Strong internal magnetic fields revealed by asteroseismology of red giants [PDF] | Jim Fuller | 17:00 | 17:15 | |
| Cataclysmic Variables in K2 [PPT] | Paula Szkody | 17:15 | 17:30 | |
| Adjourn | ||||
| Tuesday, Nov 3, 2015 | ||||
| Technical Data Challenges & Science | Completeness of Kepler Data and Implications for K2 [PPTX] | Jessie Christensen | 08:30 | 09:00 |
| Chair: Steve Howell | The SuPerPiG Search for Short-Period Planets Using the K2 Dataset [PPTX] | Brian Jackson | 09:00 | 09:15 |
| That's How We Roll – K2 Performance Metrics Derived From Long Cadence Archive Products [PDF] | Jeffrey Van Cleve | 09:15 | 09:30 | |
| The K2 Variable Catalogue: Machine-learning based automated variability discovery and classification [PPTX] | David Armstrong | 09:30 | 09:45 | |
| Robotic Vetting of Exoplanet Candidates [PDF] | Jeffrey Coughlin | 09:45 | 10:00 | |
| Break | 10:00 | 10:30 | ||
| Chair: Jessie Christensen | A Tour of the K2 and Kepler Public Data Products [PDF] | Susan Thompson | 10:30 | 10:45 |
| K2 photometry of the brightest stars of the Pleiades and Hyades [PDF] | Tim White | 10:45 | 11:00 | |
| A PSF-based approach to exploit Kepler/K2 super-stamps [PDF] | Mattia Libralato | 11:00 | 11:15 | |
| Exoplanet Results | First K2 mutiplanetary system showing TTVs [PDF] [PPTX] | Susana Barros | 11:15 | 11:30 |
| Planets Orbiting Nearby Bright Stars [PPTX] | Courtney Dressing | 11:30 | 12:00 | |
| Lunch | 12:00 | 13:30 | ||
| Stellar Astrophysics Chair: Ann Marie Cody |
K2's Revolutionary Eye on White Dwarfs [PPTX] [MP4] | JJ Hermes | 13:30 | 14:00 |
| The K2 Galactic Archaeology Program [PDF] [MP4] | Dennis Stello | 14:00 | 14:15 | |
| Stellar Activity [PDF] | Fabienne Bastien | 14:15 | 14:45 | |
| Rotation in fully-convective Hyades stars [PDF] | Stephanie Douglas | 14:45 | 15:00 | |
| Kepler's Broken Clocks: Testing the Limits of Gyrochronology with Asteroseismic Ages for Old Field Dwarfs [PDF] | Jennifer van Saders | 15:00 | 15:15 | |
| Break | 15:15 | 15:45 | ||
| Microlensing/Campaign 9 | K2 Microlensing Experiment [PDF] | Rachel Street | 15:45 | 16:15 |
| Chair: Radek Poleski | Interplanetary Microlensing network: K2, Spitzer and Earth [PDF] | Wei Zhu | 16:15 | 16:30 |
| Early success with K2 crowded field photometry and prospects for Campaign 9 microlensing [PDF] | Matthew Penny | 16:30 | 16:45 | |
| Using K2 to Find Free-floating Planets [PPTX] | Calen Henderson | 16:45 | 17:00 | |
| Poster viewing | 17:00 | 19:00 | ||
| Public Talk Chair: Chas Beichman |
Planets and Pulsations | Don Kurtz | 20:00 | 21:30 |
| Wednesday, Nov 4, 2015 | ||||
| Extragalactic Science Andy Howell |
Extragalactic Science with K2 [PDF] | Brad Tucker | 08:30 | 09:00 |
| K2 ExtraGalactic Survey (KEGS) AGN Detection [PDF] | Edward Shaya | 09:00 | 09:15 | |
| KSwAGS: A Swift Survey of the Kepler Field - Methodology and Initial Results [PPTX] | Krista Smith | 09:15 | 09:30 | |
| Kepler's unique window into AGN variability: past, present and future [PDF] | Rick Edelson | 09:30 | 09:45 | |
| Exoplanet Results Chair: Magali Deleuil |
A Disintegrating Minor Planet Transiting a White Dwarf [PDF] | Andrew Vanderburg | 09:45 | 10:00 |
| The LCOGT TECH Project: Photometric Follow-Up of K2 Candidates [PDF] | Daniel Bayliss | 10:00 | 10:15 | |
| A Temperate Sub-Neptune Transiting a Nearby M Dwarf in K2 Campaign 0 [KEY] | Joshua Schlieder | 10:15 | 10:30 | |
| Characterizing the Cooler KOIs: Planet Occurrence around mid-M Dwarfs [PDF] [KEY] | Benjamin Montet | 10:30 | 10:45 | |
| Break | 10:45 | 11:15 | ||
| Chair: Daniel Bayliss | The physical properties of giant transiting exoplanets within 400 days [KEY] [PDF] | Alexandre Santerne | 11:15 | 11:30 |
| Discovery and characterization of small planets from K2 [PDF] | Evan Sinukoff | 11:30 | 11:45 | |
| Systematic transit search and population inference using K2 [PDF] | Dan Foreman-Mackey | 11:45 | 12:00 | |
| Planet Formation Theory | An Increase in Planet Formation Efficiency around Low-Mass Stars [PPTX] | Gijs Mulders | 12:00 | 12:15 |
| Re-inflated Warm Jupiters around Red Giants: A New Test for Models of Hot Jupiter Inflation [PDF] | Eric Lopez | 12:15 | 12:30 | |
| Lunch | 12:30 | 14:00 | ||
| Solar System Tim Brown |
K2 & Solar System Science [PPTX] | Jack Lissauer | 14:00 | 14:30 |
| Pushing the limits of K2: observing Trans-Neptunian Objects [KEY] [PDF] | Robert Szabo | 14:30 | 14:45 | |
| Future Programs | The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS): Discovering Exoplanets in the Solar Neighborhood [PDF] | George Ricker | 14:45 | 15:15 |
| TESS Precursor and Follow-up [PPTX] | David Latham | 15:15 | 15:45 | |
| TESS Guest Investigator Discussion [PPTX] | Stephen Rinehart | 15:45 | 16:15 | |
| Posters/Free Time | 16:15 | PM | ||
| Thursday, Nov 5, 2015 | ||||
| Future Programs Chair: Dave Latham |
Gaia: transiting planets, astrometric planets, stellar properties [PDF] | Timo Prusti | 08:30 | 09:00 |
| The CHEOPS - K2 Synergies [PPTX] | Enric Palle | 09:00 | 09:30 | |
| The PLATO 2.0 Mission: overview and science goals [KEY.zip] | Magali Deleuil | 09:30 | 10:00 | |
| Break | 10:00 | 10:30 | ||
| Chair: David Ciardi | JWST Spectroscopy [PPTX] | Drake Deming | 10:30 | 11:00 |
| WFIRST [PPTX] | Scott Gaudi | 11:00 | 11:30 | |
| Follow-up Activities | Follow-up Activities and ExoFOP [PDF] | Rachel Akeson | 11:30 | 12:00 |
| The Case for a Dedicated Transit Spectroscopy Mission | Mark Swain | 12:00 | 12:30 | |
| Closing remarks [PPTX] | Steve Howell | 12:30 | 12:45 | |