| Day | Program |
| Friday - Sunday (3/14-3/16) | Pre-Conf. School |
| Sunday evening 4:30-6:00 PM | Welcome Reception at Turquoise I Ballroom |
| Monday AM | Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life and Rocky Planet Atmospheres and Biosignatures |
| Monday PM | |
| Monday evening | ~2h slot open for team meetings |
| Tuesday AM | Rocky Planet Atmospheres and Biosignatures |
| Tuesday PM | Excursion / Social Program |
| Tuesday Evening | Free / Poster session |
| Wednesday AM | Rocky Planet Atmospheres and Biosignatures and Transiting Exoplanets: From State of the Art to the Near Future |
| Wednesday PM | |
| Wednesday Evening | Conference Dinner |
| Thursday AM | Direct Imaging: From State of the Art to the Near Future |
| Thursday PM | |
| Thursday Evening | ~2h slot open for posters / team meetings |
| Friday AM | Direct Imaging: From State of the Art to the Near Future (continued) |
| Friday AM | Panel Discussion |
| Friday PM | Search for Extraterrestrial Technology |
| Friday Evening | Informal social program for those who stay for next meeting |
| Saturday-Tuesday | LBTO Users Meeting at Westward Look [Independently Org.] |
| Sunday 4:30-6:00 PM Opening Reception at Turquoise I Room, Hilton El Conquistador; Registration |
| Monday - Session I Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life |
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| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome: Buell Jannuzi (Steward Observatory) and José Funes (Vatican Observatory) |
| 9:15-9:45 | John Baross: The Limits of Earth Life (Invited) |
| 9:45-10:15 | Steve Benner: Alien Biochemistries and Metabolic Byproducts Leading to Atmospheric Biosignatures (Invited) |
| 10:15-10:35 | Yu Komatsu: Toward understanding as photosynthetic biosignatures: light harvesting and energy transfer calculation |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Lynn Rothschild: Synthetic Biology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (Invited) |
| 11:30-12:15 | Poster Session |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch break |
| Session II - Habitable Planets and Biosignatures | |
| 1:30-2:00 | Victoria Meadows: Factors Affecting the Habitability of Earth-like Planets (Invited) |
| 2:00-2:20 | Ilaria Pascucci: An enhanced carbon chemistry in disks around very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs? |
| 2:20-2:40 | Evgenya Shkolnik: HAZMAT I: The Evolution of X-ray, Far-UV and Near-UV Emission from Early M Stars |
| 2:40-3:00 | John Lee Grenfell: Response of Biomarkers to NOx-induced from Stellar Cosmic Rays for Earth-like Planets in the HZ of M-Dwarf Stars |
| 3:00-3:20 | Coffee Break + Posters |
| 3:20-3:40 | Feng Tian: Stability and Oxygen Contents of the Atmospheres of Planets in the HZ of M dwarfs |
| 3:40-4:00 | Sarah Rugheimer: Influence of UV activity on the Spectral Fingerprints of Earth-like Planets around M dwarfs |
| 4:00-4:20 | Miguel Yamila: Spectral features of Mini-Neptunes and EGP orbiting different stars: exploring the effect of high stellar FUV radiation |
| 4:20-4:40 | Nader Haghighipour: Dynamical Evolution and Migration of Circumbinary Planets and Their Habitability |
| 4:40-5:00 | William Welsh: Observations of Kepler Habitable Zone Circumbinary Planets |
| 5:30-7:00 | Poster viewing |
| Tuesday - Session II Habitable Planets and Biosignatures |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Shoji Ueta: Ice-covered terrestrial planets |
| 9:20-9:40 | Eliza Kempton: Lessons from the First Observations of Super-Earth Atmospheres |
| 9:40-10:00 | Jade Carter-Bond: Terrestrial planet composition: simulation and observation |
| 10:00-10:20 | Rory Barnes: A Method to Identify the Boundary Between Rocky and Gaseous Exoplanets from Tidal Theory and Transit Durations |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break + Posters |
| 10:40-11:10 | Sara Seager: On The Reliability/ambiguity of Atmospheric Biosignatures and Key Challenges for Biosignature Studies |
| 11:10-11:30 | Eduardo Janot Pacheco: A New Paradigm for Habitability in Planetary Systems: the Extremophilic Zone |
| 11:30-11:50 | Enric Palle: Modeling the globally-integrated spectral variability of the Archean Earth: The purple planet |
| 11:50-12:10 | David Soderblom: The problem of stellar ages |
| 12:10-2:00 | Lunch break + Poster viewing |
| 2:00-6:00 | Afternoon Excursions A) Biosphere 2 B) Mirror Lab, Tree Ring Lab, and UA Campus C) Desert Museum For all three excursions meeting points are at the hotel lobby, buses leaving at 2:00pm and return between 6:00-6:15pm. |
| 6:30-7:30 | Poster Session |
| 7:30 | Public Lecture Speaker: Jill Tarter, Bernard M. Oliver Chair for the SETI Institute Topic: The Cosmos & You: A Presentation on Astrobiology and the Future Why investing in the Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth is Important to the Long Term Future of Humanity Location: Social Science Bldg, Room 100, University of Arizona Transportation: 6:30pm depart hotel to UA Campus Depart UA Campus to hotel upon completion of lecture |
| Wednesday Session II - Habitable Planets and Biosignatures (continued) |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Edwin Turner: Direct Imaging Detectability of Tidally Heated ExoMoons (THEM) |
| 9:20-9:40 | Shim Sang-Heon: Un-Earth-Like Interiors of Earth-Like Exoplanets |
| 9:40-10:00 | Adam Showman: Atmospheric circulation and climate of terrestrial exoplanets and super Earths |
| 10:00-10:20 | Gijs Mulders: The Water Content of Exo-earths in the Habitable Zone |
| 10:20-11:00 | Coffee Break + Posters |
| Session III - Transiting Exoplanets: From State of the Art to the Near Future | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Natalie Batalha: Eta Earth and Insights from Kepler on the Frequency of Earth- sized Planets in the Habitable Zone (Invited) |
| 11:30-11:50 | Beatriz González-Merino: Jupiter’s transmission spectrum |
| 11:50-12:10 | Thomas Barclay: The first Earth-sized habitable zone exoplanets |
| 12:10-1:30 | Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:00 | Ignas Snellen: Characterizing the Atmospheres of Transiting Planets from the Ground (Invited) |
| 2:00-2:20 | Brice-Olivier Demory: Space-based Characterization of super-Earth exoplanets |
| 2:20-2:40 | Rene Doyon: Transit Spectroscopy with NIRISS on JWST |
| 2:40-3:00 | Wesley Traub: An Estimate of Eta-Earth, From Simulating Kepler Data |
| 3:00-3:20 | David Latham: Rocky Planet Results from HARPS-N |
| 3:20-3:40 | Coffee Break + Posters |
| 3:40-4:10 | Heiker Rauer: Observations of Extrasolar Planet Transits: What’s Next? (Invited) |
| 4:10-4:30 | George Ricker: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Mission |
| 4:30-4:50 | Daniel Rouan: Could we constrain some major properties of hot Super-Earths with NIRSPEC-JWST spectra? |
| 4:50-5:10 | Andreas Quirrenbach: CARMENES: Looking for Blue Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs |
| 6:30 | Conference Dinner |
| Thursday - Session IV Direct Imaging: From State of the Art to the Near Future |
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| 9:00-9:20 | Beth Biller: The Gemini/NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: The Frequency of Planets around Young Moving Group Stars |
| 9:20-9:40 | Laird Close: H-alpha as a Probe of Very Low-mass Planets: The GAPplanetS Survey With the MagAO System |
| 9:40-10:00 | Jenny Patience: Gemini Planet Imager First Light and Campaign Survey |
| 10:00-10:20 | Andy Skemer: LEECH: LBTI Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break + Posters |
| 10:40-11:10 | Markus Kasper: Capabilities and Expected Results from Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Systems (Invited) |
| 11:10-11:30 | Christoph Keller: Towards Polarimetric Exoplanet Imaging with ELTs |
| 11:30-11:50 | Klaus Strassmeier: Biosignatures from circular spectropolarimetry: key science for ELTs? |
| 11:50-12:10 | William Sparks: Remotely sensing homochirality, a powerful generic biosignature |
| 12:10-1:30 | Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:00 | Phil Hinz: The Challenge of the Exozodiacal Light (Invited) |
| 2:00-2:20 | Denis Defrère: The Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Planetary Systems (HOSTS) |
| 2:20-2:50 | Olivier Guyon: Coronagraphy — From State of the Art to the Near Future (Invited) |
| 2:50-3:10 | Charles Beichman: The Near-Infrared Camera on the James Webb Space Telescope: The Next Great Step in Exoplanet Research |
| 3:10-3:30 | Coffee Break + Conference Photo |
| 3:30-4:00 | Alain Leger: Searching for extrasolar life, the capabilities of affordable missions as a function of ηearth (Invited) |
| 4:00-4:20 | Antoine Crouzier: NEAT: an astrometric space telescope to search for habitable exoplanets in the solar neighborhood |
| 4:20-4:40 | Eduardo Bendek: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets around Alpha Centauri and Other Multiple Star Systems |
| 4:40-5:00 | Jared Males: Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone |
| 5:00-7:00 | Poster session / Team meetings |
| Friday - Sessions IV and V Direct Imaging: From State of the Art to the Near Future Search for Extraterrestrial Technology |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Peter Lawson: High-Contrast Imaging and Interferometry Mission Concepts for The Characterization of Exoplanets (Invited) |
| 9:30-9:50 | Nick Siegler: Technology Development Towards a Flight Coronagraph |
| 9:50-10:10 | Jeff Kuhn: Enabling Technologies for Detecting Life in the Universe: The Colossus Project |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break + Poster Session |
| 10:45-12:00 | Panel Discussion |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch break |
| 1:30-2:00 | Jill Tarter: SETI: Past, Present, Future (Invited) |
| 2:00-2:20 | Eric Korpela: SETI Programs at the University of California, Berkeley |
| 2:20-2:40 | Shauna Sallmen: Indications of Technology in Planetary Transit Light Curves due to Dark-side Illumination |
| 2:40-3:00 | Ian Morrison: Extending Galactic Habitable Zone Modelling to Include the Emergence of Intelligent Life |
| 3:00-3:20 | Coffee Break |
| 3:20-3:50 | Closing Remarks |
Do exoplanets give us hugs and kisses?
This one is free:
A good definition of life is that it persists. For example, toss a cube of sugar in a bowl of water. Toss a fish in a bowl of water. Which persists longer?
This has to do with entropy. Life collects low entropy energy, uses that energy to maintain a lower level of entropy within itself, and expels high entropy energy (or matter — think feces).
So, a planet full of life will do the same thing: Expel more high entropy energy than a planet not full of life.
Detect that, and you have detected life. How do you do that? The problem is left as an exercise for the student. (IOW, I have no freaking idea.)
I think all such proceeding should be prefaced by a memorial reading of Michael Crichton’s Caltech Michelin Lecture from 2003
/mark
How about searching for intelligent life on this planet first....I suggest looking outside of Washington DC.
