[ASA] GMT Community Science Meeting: September 26–28, 2016 (19 August is abstract deadline)

[Andrew Sheinis]

Dear All:

Please see the announcement below regarding the 4th Annual GMT Community Science Meeting.  The meeting is an area where many of the ASA community are active and it provides an excellent opportunity to present results and hear the latest on GMT’s progress.  Plus there is no registration fee and the meeting is being held at a very nice location on the Monterey peninsula in Northern California. I will also add that funding is available through GMT for students and postdocs (up to full trip costs!).


Best regards,

Andy Sheinis, AAL GMT SAC Rep and Martin Asplund, ANU GMT SAC Rep

> http://www.gmtconference.org/
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> Fourth Annual
> GMT Community Science Meeting
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> Sponsored by the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization
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> September 26–28, 2016
> Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA
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> New observing techniques, instrumentation, and theoretical understanding have fueled the recent dramatic growth in exoplanet observations and theory.
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> Scientists from around the world will gather on California’s Monterey Peninsula to discuss the current and future status of research on exoplanet detection techniques, characterization, system dynamics, and formation mechanisms and time scales, with a view towards the roles of future observatories and instrumentation in these areas. The conference will include a gala banquet held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
> OVERVIEW
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> Fourth Annual GMT Community Science Meeting 
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> In 1988 the first exoplanet was discovered orbiting Gamma Cephei A, although it was not until 2002 that the discovery was confirmed. The 1995 discovery of 51 Peg b, through Doppler velocity techniques, ushered in a new era of radial velocity discovery.  The observation of the transit of HD 209458 b across the face of its parent star in 2000 foreshadowed the results of the Kepler mission, which has, since 2009, discovered thousands of exoplanets. The first images of an exoplanet in 2004 (2M1207b) and a family of exoplanets in 2008 (HR 8799) demonstrated the powerful ability of adaptive optics on large ground-based telescopes to spot massive exoplanets.
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> In parallel astronomers have developed techniques and tools for measuring the atmospheres and other characteristics of exoplanets, often using primary or secondary transits as an opportunity for differential spectrophotometry.
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> Theory can now be confronted with data, and the development of models and interpretation of the data have developed at a rapid pace in recent years.
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> With the ongoing introduction of new instruments, techniques and theoretical models, and the upcoming addition of extremely large telescopes like the GMT, the TMT, and the E-ELT, and new space missions like TESS, we can expect this boom in the enterprise of studying exoplanets to continue at a rapid pace, leading to a better understanding of our own place in the Universe. At the conference we will explore the following questions:
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> 	• What unique roles will ELTs play in precision radial velocity and direct imaging?
> 	• What are the frontiers in determining the diversity of exoplanet atmospheric properties?
> 	• What observable consequences are there of the interior properties of exoplanets?
> 	• How can circumstellar disk observations provide clues to the properties of exoplanetary systems?
> 	• How will planet formation theory benefit from ELT observations?
> 	• What do we need to know or what can we observe about stars to understand exoplanets?
> 	• What unique challenges and opportunities do ELTs present for future instrumentation for exoplanet characterization?
> Speakers
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> (those in italics are not confirmed)
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> Rebecca Bernstein, GMTO
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> Jayne Birkby, Harvard
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> Alan Boss, Carnegie Inst. Of Washington
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> Ian Crossfield, Univ. of Arizona
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> Roubing Dong, U. C. Berkeley
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> Kate Follette, Stanford Univ.
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> Jonathan Fortney, U. C. Santa Cruz
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> Olivier Guyon, Univ. of Arizona/Subaru Telescope
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> Raphaelle Haywood, Harvard Univ.
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> Nikole Lewis, Space Telescope Science Institute
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> Collete Salyk, Vassar College
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> Evgenya Shkolnik, Arizona State Univ.
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> Andy Skemer, U. C. Santa Cruz
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Assoc. Prof. Andrew Sheinis,
Head of Instrumentation, 
Australian Astronomical Observatory
PO Box 915
North Ryde NSW 1670
ph: +61 2 9372 4821  fax: +61 2 9372 4880
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