Bay Area Planetary Science Conference

Agenda at a glance

08:45 - 09:00 Welcome remarks

09:00 - 10:30 Talk session 1 (Mars)

10:30 - 10:40 Break

10:45 - 12:15 Talk session 2 (Planetary formation & gas giant systems)

12:15 - 13:35 Lunch

13:35 - 15:25 Talk session 3 (Planetary materials)

15:25 - 15:40 Break

15:40 - 16:40 Discussion sessions 1

16:40 - 16:50 Break

16:50 - 17:05 Report from discussion leads

17:05 - 18:05 Discussion session 2

18:05 - 18:15 Break

18:15 - 18:30 Report from discussion leads

18:30 - 19:00 Concluding remarks

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Talk schedule

8:45 am - 9:00 am PDT | Local Organizing Committee

Welcome

9:00 am - 9:15 am PDT | Lior Rubanenko (Stanford University)

Morphometrics of Barchan Dunes on Mars revealed by a Convolutional Neural Network

9:15 am - 9:30 am PDT | Lori Fenton (SETI Institute)

Aeolian Biodispersal of Terrestrial Microorganisms Through Saltation Bombardment

9:30 am - 9:45 am PDT | Janice Bishop (SETI Institute)

Near-Surface Martian Brines Could be Causing Instability at the Surface Leading to RSL

9:45 am - 10:00 am PDT | Shannon Curry (University of California, Berkeley)

Mars: Past, Present and Future with the MAVEN mission

10:00 am - 10:15 am PDT | Victoria Hartwick (NASA Ames)

Wind resources for human exploration at Mars

10:15 am - 10:30 am PDT | Szilard Gyalay (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Closing Pores and Cracking: a Window to Martian History from a Seismic Wave Speed Discontinuity in the Crust

10:30 am - 10:45 am PDT | Break

10:45 am - 11:00 am PDT | Orkan Umurhan (NASA Ames)

Latest Advances in Planetesimal Formation Research

11:00 am - 11:15 am PDT | Matija Ćuk (SETI Institute)

Tidal Evolution of Saturn's Moons

11:15 am - 11:30 am PDT | Maxwell Rudolph (University of California, Davis)

Cooling Crusts Create Concomitant Cryovolcanic Cracks

11:30 am - 11:45 am PDT | Huazhi Ge (University of California, Santa Cruz)

How is the Planetary Heat Flux Carried Through Jovian Atmospheres

11:45 am - 12:00 pm PDT | Edward Molter (University of California, Berkeley)

Exploration of the Uranian Rings and Moons with a Flagship Mission

12:00 pm - 12:15 pm PDT | Taylor Bell (NASA Ames)

Lessons Learned From Spitzer’s Exoplanet Phase Curve Survey

12:15 pm - 1:35 pm PDT | Lunch

1:35 pm - 1:50 pm PDT | Robert Citron (University of California, Davis)

Large Impacts onto the Early Earth: Planetary Sterilization and Iron Delivery

1:50 pm - 2:05 pm PDT | Supratim Dey (University of California, Davis)

Diversity of Pallasites in the early Solar System

2:05 pm - 2:20 pm PDT | Laura Schaefer (Stanford University)

Redox evolution of magma oceans

2:20 pm - 2:35 pm PDT | Xinting Yu (University of California, Santa Cruz)

The Next-Generation Laboratory Experiments on Planetary Materials

2:35 pm - 2:50 pm PDT | Sonia Tikoo (Stanford University)

Paleomagnetism of the Orgueil and Ivuna meteorites and implications for the evolution of the CI chondrite parent body

2:50 pm - 3:05 pm PDT | David Shuster (University of California, Berkeley)

Perseverance on Mars: Selecting samples of Mars to return to Earth

3:05 pm - 3:25 pm PDT | Imke de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)

Uranus & Neptune!

3:25 pm - 3:40 pm PDT | Break

Discussion sessions schedule

15:40 - 16:40 | Discussion sessions 1

Main Room: Uranus Flagship

East Patio: Enceladus Flagship

West Patio: New Frontiers 6 & 7

16:40 - 16:50 | Break

16:50 - 17:05 | Report from discussion leads

17:05 - 18:05 | Discussion sessions 2

Main Room: Planetary Interior & Formation

East Patio: Planetary Surfaces

West Patio: Planetary Atmospheres

18:05 - 18:15 | Break

18:15 - 18:30 | Report from discussion leads

18:30 - 19:00 | Concluding remarks