Mini-workshop: Exoplanets after Kepler (Nov. 11, 2013)

From Exoplanet Reading Group

This Monday (Nov. 11) we'll be having a bigger and greater exoplanet meeting than usual, to which you are all invited. The theme is Exoplanets after Kepler; which means observational results from the Kepler space telescope, or observational and theoretical results on the kinds of planets Kepler has found.

Time: 11:00-4:10pm, Nov. 11.

Host: Dan Fabrycky (fabrycky@uchicago.edu)

Place: Hinds Geophysical Laboratory Room 176 (Goldsmith room) --

5734 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL

Parking - Ellis Avenue Parking Structure is recommended.

https://maps.uchicago.edu/?location=Ellis+Avenue+Parking+Structure

Please carpool! (if you're coming from Northwestern)

RSVP to fabrycky@uchicago.edu, and I'll tell you who's coming so you can arrange car-pooling.

The content will be 10 minute talks with 10 minutes of questions/discussions. Each person will be capped at 20 minutes, then we'll move on.

Schedule: 

11:20 Gather. Pastries and Coffee.

Talks/Discussion 11:20-1:00 -- Observations

11:20 Planet occurrence -- Laura Kreidberg (U of C)

11:40 Fine Structure in the Architectures of Kepler Systems -- Jason Steffen (NU)

12:00 Photodynamics -- Sean Mills (U of C)

12:20 Transit Timing Variations -- Sam Hadden (NU)

12:40 Circum-Binary Planets -- Dan Fabrycky and Taweewat Somboonpanyakul (U of C)

1:00-2:30 Lunch

Talks/Discussion 2:30-4:10 -- Theory

2:30 Planets in Clusters -- Aaron Geller (NU & U of C)

2:50 Misalignment in hot Jupiter host stars and tides -- Francesca Valsecchi (NU)

3:10 Tides in Kepler systems -- Gwenael Boue (U of C)

3:30 Spin Periods and Planets -- Seth Teitler and Arieh Konigl (U of C)

3:50 wrap-up; discussion of connections

4:10-5:00 Post-meeting hanging out. Cookies and drinks.