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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto
15-19 September 2014, Porto, Portugal


Sunday, 14th September
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome and Registration

Monday, 15th September
08:40 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Conference opening
With the presence of:
  • Professor Pedro Avelino (Director of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto)
  • Professor Paulo Garcia (Member of the ESO Council, in representation of the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia)
  • Professor Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo (Rector of the University of Porto)
  • Professor Nuno Crato (Minister of Education and Science)
Session I: Latest results from exoplanet research: observations
Chairperson: Christophe Lovis
09:30 - 10:00 IT Toward Reliable Planet Occurrence Rates With Kepler N. Batalha
10:00 - 10:20   Occurrence Doesn't Just Happen: Revisiting the Frequency of Earth-Size Planets around Kepler Stars E. Gaidos
10:20 - 10:40   Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars E. Petigura
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break and Poster View
11:10 - 11:30   The shortest-period planets R. Sanchis-Ojeda
11:30 - 11:50   Two New Kepler Circumbinary Planets W. Welsh
11:50 - 12:10   The Mass-Radius Relation for 65 Exoplanets Smaller than 4 Earth Radii L. Weiss
12:10 - 12:30   Space-based characterization of super-Earth exoplanets B.-O. Demory
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session I: Latest results from exoplanet research: observations
Chairperson: Guillermo Gonzalez
14:00 - 14:20   The Prevalence of Small Planets Around Small Stars from Kepler C. Dressing
14:20 - 14:50 IT From Radial Velocities to a Planetary Census S. Udry
14:50 - 15:10   HARPS-N Contributions to the Mass-Radius Diagram for Rocky Exoplanets D. Latham
15:10 - 15:30   The atmospheres of warm super-Earths: HD 97658b as a case study D. Dragomir
15:30 - 15:50   How Rocky Are They? The Composition Distribution of Kepler's Sub-Neptune Planet Candidates within 0.15 AU A. Wolfgang
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break and Poster View
Session II: Future instruments and methodologies for planet detection and characterization
Chairperson: Xavier Dumusque
16:20 - 16:50 IT The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite J. Winn
16:50 - 17:10   Machine Learning Approaches to Vetting Transiting Planet Signatures in Photometric Light Curves J. Jenkins
17:10 - 17:40 IT The CHEOPS mission D. Ehrenreich
17:40 - 18:10 IT PLATO - The habitable zone terrestrial planet explorer D. Pollacco

Tuesday, 16th September
Session II: Future instruments and methodologies for planet detection and characterization
Chairperson: Sérgio Sousa
09:15 - 09:45 IT Exoplanets at the E-ELT era G. Chauvin
09:45 - 10:15 IT Characterizing Earth-like planets using the Extremely Large Telescopes I. Snellen
10:15 - 10:35   The WFIRST-AFTA Exoplanet Microlensing Survey D. Bennett
10:35 - 10:55   Exoplanet characterisation with the JWST/MIRI instrument P.-O. Lagage
10:55 - 11:20 Coffee Break and Poster View
11:20 - 11:50 IT ESPRESSO and beyond F. Pepe
11:50 - 12:10   CARMENES A. Quirrenbach
12:10 - 12:30   The Search for Planets at Longer Wavelengths: Prospects, Challenges, and Surprises A. Reiners
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session III: Astrophysical noise in exoplanet searches
Chairperson: Jon Jenkins
14:00 - 14:30 IT Stellar activity in transit and RV planet searches: synergies and challenges S. Aigrain
14:30 - 15:00 IT The Impact of Stellar Variability on Kepler's Search for Transiting Exoplanets J. Christiansen
15:00 - 15:20   Goldilocks Can't Stay Here: Habitable Zone Planets Around Gliese 581 are Stellar Activity Signals P. Robertson
15:20 - 15:40   The interesting case of HD41248: stellar activity, no planets? J. Faria
15:40 - 16:00   Understanding the stellar activity impact on radial velocity measurements E. Hébrard
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break and Poster View
16:30 - 17:00 IT Gliese 667C Signals and Noise P. Gregory
17:00 - 17:30 IT Astrophysical noises affecting radial velocity planet searches X. Dumusque
17:30 - 17:50   Disentangling Low-mass Planetary Signals and Stellar Surface Magneto-convection H. Cegla
17:50 - 18:10   Effect of stellar activity on the high-precision transmission spectra: Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky? M. Oshagh
18:10 - 18:30   Planets and Stellar Activity: Hide and Seek in the CoRoT-7 system R. Haywood

Wednesday, 17th September
Session IV: The precise characterization of stars with planets
Chairperson: Ansgar Reiners
9:30 - 10:00 IT Directly determined physical properties of late-type stars T. Boyajian
10:00 - 10:30 IT The Small Stars And Their Small Planets B. Rojas-Ayala
10:30 - 10:50   Metallicity determination for M dwarfs from high-resolution IR spectra S. Lindgren
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break and Poster View
11:20- 11:50 IT Stellar Parameter Determination B. Smalley
11:50 - 12:10   Deriving accurate logg values for planet host stars A. Mortier
12:10 - 12:30   Using simultaneous visible and infrared observations to better constrain stellar activity C. Danielsky
12:30 - 12:50   Li overabundance in giants. Evidence of planet engulfment? M. Adamow
12:50 Lunch Break
18:00 Departure for dinner

Thursday, 18th September
Session IV: The precise characterization of stars with planets
Chairperson: Elisa Delgado-Mena
09:30 - 10:00 IT Detailed characterization of stars with planets H. Kjeldsen
10:00 - 10:20   What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets: validation, eccentricity and obliquity of the bright multiple system Kepler-410 V. Van Eylen
10:20 - 10:40   An ancient extrasolar system with five sub-Earth-size planets T. Campante
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break and Poster View
Session V: The star-planet connection: system formation, evolution, and its observational signatures
Chairperson: Nuno Santos
11:10 - 11:40 IT Star-planet connection: the role of stellar metallicity V. Adibekyan
11:40 - 12:10 IT The role of metallicity in establishing giant planet dynamics R. Dawson
12:10 - 12:30   The metallicity-planet relation of M dwarfs V. Neves
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:20   Three distinct exoplanet regimes inferred from host star metallicities L. Buchhave
14:20 - 14:40   Lithium depletion of planetary-host stars: a new and revealing homogeneous study P. Figueira
14:40 - 15:00   Abundance Anomalies in the Composition of Host Stars N. Hinkel
15:00 - 15:30 IT Models of Planet Formation C. Mordasini/P. Moliere
15:30 - 15:50   Constraining giant exoplanet composition via host star abundances of planet-building elements J. Teske
15:50 - 16:30 Coffee Break and Poster View
16:30 - 16:50   Planet Traps and Super-Earths: Origins of the Planet-Metallicity Relation and Implications for the Mass-Radius Diagram Y. Hasegawa
16:50 - 17:10   Have planets more time to grow than we thought? S. Pfalzner
17:10 - 17:30   Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Circumbinary Planets: Reconciling Theory with Observation N. Haghighipour
17:30 - 17:50   First ever Gravitational Instability population synthesis models for planet formation S. Nayakshin
21:00 Public session/debate

Friday, 19th September
Session VI: Star-planet interactions
Chairperson: Pedro Figueira
9:30 - 09:50   Detecting Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields J. Llama
09:50 - 10:10   The effects of stellar winds on the magnetospheres and potential habitability of exoplanets V. See
10:10 - 10:30   An X-ray survey of Hot Jupiter Hosts S. Wolk
10:30 - 11:00 IT Star-planet magnetic interactions A. F. Lanza
11:00 - 11:40 Coffee Break and Poster View
11:40 - 12:00   Planet-host stars: a magnetic study R. Fares
12:00 - 12:30 IT The importance of being close to your parent star R. Mardling
12:30 - 12:50   Investigating the Role of Stellar Tides in Hot Jupiters' origin and fate F. Valsecchi