Sunday | 5 July 2015
Sunday afternoon is an optional, preparatory, stand-alone session especially
(but not exclusively) designed for students and postdocs.
1:00 - 5:00 pm Primer sessions for Extreme Precision RV
1:00 Andreas Quirrenbach: High Precision Challenges
1:30 Parallel Breakout sessions...
Room 2220: Hack session: Building and using data-driven models (of noise and other nuisances)
- led by Dan Foreman-Mackey
Room 2230: Hack session: software for spot modeling: - led by Xavier Dumusque
Room 2430: Hack session: Doppler codes - led by John Johnson
Room 2400: Instrumentation Challenges - led by Francesco Pepe
3:00 Ice cream social
3:30 Return to Breakout sessions
4:30 Put up Posters
6:30 pm Wine and Cheese Reception
Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium
(moved from the Peabody to accommodate our larger group)
Monday | 6 July 2015
8:00 - 12:30 Current state-of-the-art Doppler precision
Session Chair: John Johnson
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8:00 Coffee, breakfast, posters
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8:30 Welcome - Steve Girvin Yale Deputy Provost
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Goals of the Workshop - Debra Fischer and John Johnson
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8:45 Andy Szentgyorgi and Suvrath Mahadevan “Critical Path Challenges for 10 cm/s precision”
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9:45 State of the Art: Doppler survey data challenges and successes
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[brief presentations from various Doppler surveys]
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APF and HIRES: Andrew Howard
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APF: Greg Laughlin
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CHIRON (CTIO) and Hamilton (Lick): Debra Fischer
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HARPS: Christophe Lovis
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HARPS high cadence: Zaira Berdiñas
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HARPS-N: David Phillips
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HARPS-N: Lars Buchhave
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10:15 Grab coffee and go on to the Breakout Sessions, which start at 10:30...
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Room 2210: EPRV_barycentric-corrections.pptx: Jason Eastman & Lars Buchhave
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Room 2430: EPRV_tellurics.pptx: Sharon Wang & Jason Wright
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Room 2220: Frequency comb wavelength calibration: Dave Phillips, Scott Diddams, Tilo and Chris
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Room 2230: Fiber_Optics_for_EPRV.pptx: Gabor Furesz, Paul Fournier
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12:00 Continue State of the Art survey challenges
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HRS and Tull Coudé (McDonald): Michael Endl
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PARAS: Abhijit Chakraborty
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PFS: Pamela Arriagada
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SONG: Frank Grundahl
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Sophie: Francois Bouchy
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12:30 - 2pm Lunch Break and VISIT POSTERS
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2:00 - 5:30 pm Technical hurdles for measuring delta lambda
Session Chair: Francesco Pepe
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2:00 Scott Diddams: Wavelength calibration
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2:45 Tilo Steinmetz Menlo Systems Laser Frequency Combs
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3:15 Poster Pops
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3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break and VISIT POSTERS
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4:00 Paul Jorden: e2v high performance imagers for astronomy
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4:30 Paul Fournier: Fiber cables for remote spectroscopy
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5:00 Ansgar Reiner: Fabry-Perot frequency combs
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5:15 Poster Pops
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5:35 Announcements and Adjourn
6:30 pm Conference Dinner: New Haven Lawn Club
Tuesday | 7 July 2015
8:00 - 12:30 Extracting weak signals in the presence of structured noise
Session Chair: Jessi Cisewski
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8:00 Coffee, breakfast, posters
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8:30 David Hogg: “Flexible models for structured noise, stochastic variability, and
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instrument systematics”
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9:15 Eric Ford: “Next-Generation Bayesian Methods for Next-Generation Doppler Surveys”
9:45 Tom Loredo: “Building and validating Bayesian discovery chains for exoplanet data analysis”
10:15 Grab coffee and go on to the Breakout sessions, which start at 10:30...
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Room 2400: techniques for identifying photospheric signals Christophe Lovis and Xavier Dumusque
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- merged with: line bisector analysis and other techniques for RV decorrelation Enrique Herrero
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Room 1300: Standardizing detection threshold criteria / statistical techniques Michael Endl,
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Damien Ségransan, Suvrath Mahadevan Phil Gregory and Eric Ford
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12:00 Roman Baluev: “Modeling Doppler noise: disentangling planetary signals from
stellar activity.”
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12:30 - 2pm Lunch Break and VISIT POSTERS
2:00 - 5:40 pm Extracting weak signals in the presence of structured noise
Session Chair: Claire Moutou
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2:00 Damien Ségransan: “Weak Doppler signals in current radial velocity surveys:
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ghosts or planets”
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2:30 Xavier Dumusque “The Keplerian Fitting Challenge”
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3:00 Nuno Santos: “The interesting case of HD41248: planets or spots?”
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3:15 Poster Pops
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3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break and VISIT POSTERS
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4:00 Thorsten Carroll: “Separating stellar activity induced line profile variations from Doppler shifts”
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4:30 Rebekah Dawson “The interplay of aliasing and stellar activity”
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4:50 Guillem Anglada-Escudé: "Sensitivity of correlated noise models when applied to
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synthetic and real observations"
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5:10 Artie Hatzes “Lessons learned from frequentist methods”
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5:30 Adjourn
Wednesday | 8 July 2015
8:00 - 12:30 Identification and correction of photospheric signals
Session Chair: Stéphane Udry
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8:00 Coffee, breakfast, posters
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8:30 Christophe Lovis “Photospheric signals in RV data”
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9:00 Lisa Prato “Wavelength dependence of photospheric signals”
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9:30 Guillaume Hébrard: "Empirical correction of the color effect on radial velocities"
10:00 Pedro Figueira: "NIR planet searches to mitigate stellar noise".
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10:15 Coffee Break and VISIT POSTERS
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11:00 Jacob Bean “Optical vs NIR spectroscopy”
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11:30 Paul Robertson “M dwarfs and stellar activity impact on RVs”
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12:30 - 2pm Lunch Break
2:00 - 5:00 pm Workshop Wrap-up and Discussion
Session Chair: Greg Laughlin
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2:00 Mario Perez “The NASA/NSF EXoPLanet Observational REsearch (EXPLORE) Partnership
2:30 Enrique Herrero: "Modelling active stars for planet detection and characterization"
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3:00 Alessandro Sozzeti “Synergy with other techniques (optical + IR, Gaia, photometry)”
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3:30 Coffee Break and VISIT POSTERS
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4:00 David Latham: Highlights from Posters
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4:30 Highlights from Breakout sessions
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5:00 Scott Gaudi: Moving Forward
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5:30 Adjourn and draft outline for a summary PASP paper
6:30 New Haven: Pizza and Beer (over 21 only) at Bar Restaurant