As a complement to the official program of the focus meeting, we are organising a “Software / hack day” splinter session on August 6th. This session is to enable authors of software packages that are useful for the analysis of exoplanet datasets to present them, and participants to try them out with the authors on hand to help and advise them. The format will consist of short talks in the morning, and a free-form, hands on session in the afternoon.
The program of the morning session is given below, including download links to the software packages for those who want to come ready to test things out. All the authors will be on hand to talk to participants during the afternoon.
The splinter session will take place in room 324 at the Convention Center, from 9 am to 4:30 pm.
Location | Room 324 | ||
Time slot | Name | Title | Download link |
9.00-9.15 | Eric Feigelson | Introduction | |
9.15-9.30 | Neale Gibson | Inference of exoplanet light curve parameters using Gaussian processes | https://github.com/nealegibson |
9.30-9.45 | Hannu Parviainen (presented by S. Aigrain) | PyTransit & LDTk: fast & easy transit modelling and limb darkening profiles in Python | https://github.com/hpparvi/PyTransit; https://github.com/hpparvi/ldtk |
9.45-10.00 | David Kipping | MACULA: Fast Modeling of Rotational Modulations of Spotty Stars | https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~dkipping/macula.html |
10.00-10.15 | Roman Baluev | PlanetPack3: a software tool for exoplanets characterization from radial velocity and transit data | http://sourceforge.net/projects/planetpack/ |
10.15-10.30 | Robert C. Morehead | Simple ABC: A Python Package for Approximate Bayesian Computation | https://github.com/rcmorehead/simpleabc |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee Break | ||
11.00-11.15 | Joel Hartman | VARTOOLS: A Program for Analyzing Astronomical Time-Series Data | http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~jhartman/vartools.html |
11.15-11.30 | Timothy Morton | Stellar Property Modelling and Transit False Positive Analysis: ‘isochrones’ and ‘vespa’ | https://github.com/timothydmorton/isochrones; https://github.com/timothydmorton/vespa |
11.30-11.45 | Ingo Waldman | Independent Component Analysis in Exoplanetary spectroscopy and photometry | |
11.45-12.00 | Gabriel Caceres | Kepler AutoRegressive Planet Search | |
12.00-12.15 | Olivier Demangeon | BART: A Probabilistic and automated tool for the vetting of transits | |
12.15-12.30 | Rodrigo Diaz | PASTIS: a software package for planet validation | |
12.30-13.30 | Lunch | ||
13.30-16.30 | Hands-on session |