MONDAY, AUGUST 03
FM8.1: Statistics for Exoplanetary Research
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Introduction: Suzanne Aigrain, Eric Feigelson, Joseph Hilbe
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Transit Timing Variations … , Eric B. Ford et al.
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Overview of modern Bayesian … methods, James Berger
FM8.2: Planet Occurrence Rates and eta-Earth
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Planet Demographics from Transits, Andrew Howard
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Kepler Reliability [and] Occurrence Rate Steve Bryson et al.
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM The Occurrence of Earth-Like Planets … Will M. Farr et al.
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Hierarchical inference for exoplanet… Daniel Foreman-Mackey
TUESDAY, AUGUST 04
FM8.3: Planet Detection with Various Techniques
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Bayesian planet searches in radial velocity data, Phil Gregory
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Wide Giant Planets are Rare: … Direct Imaging, Beth Biller
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM … Speckles … in High Contrast Imaging, Christian Marois
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Planet Frequency … from MOA-II … , Daisuke Suzuki et al.
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Astrometric exoplanet surveys … Johannes Sahlmann
FM8.4: Planet Detection with Various Techniques II, Room 312, Hawaii Convention Center
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Dealing with activity in RV planet searchers, Isabelle Boisse
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Estimations of uncertainties of frequencies, Laurent Eyer et al.
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Significance of noisy signals in periodograms, Maria Süvege
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Measuring the detection efficiency of the Kepler pipeline, Jessie Christiansen
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Applying Gaussian processes to Spitzer/IRAC …, Thomas Evans
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 05
FM8.5: NASA’s Kepler Transit Mission
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Advances in the Kepler Transit Search Engine …, Jon M. Jenkins
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Combining transit and radial velocity data …, Leslie A. Rogers
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM BART: A probabilistic and automated tool … Olivier Demangeon et al.
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM Validation of transiting planet candidates… Rodrigo F. Díaz et al.
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Probabilistic mass-radius relationship… Angie Wolfgang et al.
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM Probabilistic stellar rotation periods … Ruth Angus et al.
FM8.6: Characterizing Exoplanetary Atmospheres
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM A population-based Habitable Zone perspective Andras Zsom
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Reliable extraction of spectra … Neale Gibson
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Overcoming degeneracies in exoplanet spectra Björn Benneke
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Measuring transmission spectra from the ground Andres Jordan et al.
FM8.7: Approximate Bayes and Concluding Remarks
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Approximate Bayesian Computation Jessi Cisewski
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Analyzing … via unsupervised learning techniques Kai L. Polsterer et al
HACKDAY TALKS
PyTransit & LDTk: fast & easy transit modelling and limb darkening profiles in Python – Hannu Parviainen
MACULA: Fast Modeling of Rotational Modulations of Spotty Stars – David Kipping
Simple ABC: A Python Package for Approximate Bayesian Computation – Robert C. Morehead
Stellar Property Modelling and Transit False Positive Analysis: ‘isochrones’ and ‘vespa’ – Timothy Morton