Schedule

8:00 pm: For anyone who is interested, a group of us will be meeting at Bill's Beer Garden at 8pm. Note that Bill's only serves drinks, not food, so you may want to eat beforehand.

Bill's Beer Garden is closed today! Tonight's social event is cancelled, but feel free to explore Ann Arbor, and we'll see you all bright and early tomorrow morning at the Detroit Observatory!

See this website for some great restaurant recommendations around Ann Arbor!

9:00 - 9:05 am: Michael Meyer (University of Michigan) Welcome and opening remarks

Session I:  Exoplanet Properties

9:05 - 9:45 am: Ryan MacDonald (St. Andrews) “gas giant composition informed by spectral retrieval analysis”

9:45 - 10:05 am: Jerry Xuan (UCLA) The compositions of the HR 8799 planets reflect accretion of both solids and metal-enriched gas

10:05 - 10:25 am: Elizabeth Matthews (MPIA/AMNH) Brown dwarfs as a compositional key for exoplanet formation studies

10:25 - 10:50 am: Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 am: Marta Bryan (PSU) “Observational Properties of Gas Giant Planets”

11:30 - 11:50 am: ZJ Zhang (U. Rochester) Challenges and Promises of Atmospheric Characterization for Self-Luminous Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs

11:50 am - 12:10 pm: Keming Zhang (MIT) Giant Planets Grow to at Most 2% of Host Mass via Core Accretion

12:10 - 12:30 pm: Shubham Kanodia (Carnegie) Where did all the water go? Surprises from the GEMS JWST + TESS + RV surveys

12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break

1:30 - 1:50 pm: Dino Hsu (Northwestern) Unveiling the giant planet atmospheres through high-resolution spectroscopy

1:50 - 2:10 pm: Michael Meyer (University of Michigan) They Might be Giant Planets: Demographics of Very Low Mass Companions vs. Host Star Mass

2:10 - 2:30 pm: Suvrath Mahadevan (PSU) The Coming Era of Astrometric Giant Planet Discoveries

Session II: Planet Formation in Circumstellar Disks

2:30 - 3:10 pm: Jaehan Bae (U. Florida) “constraints on planet formation from circumstellar disks: observations and theory”

3:10 - 3:40 pm: Coffee Break

3:40 - 4:00 pm: Nick Chiosi (Caltech) Directly Imaging Runaway Accretion

4:00 - 4:40 pm: Sierra Grant (Carnegie) “observational properties of circumstellar disks”.

6:30 - 9:00 pm: Conference dinner at Heidelberg Restaurant & Bar

9:00 - 9:20 am: Marbely Micolta (University of Michigan) - Building Blocks in Motion: Refractory Material in BP Tau’s Inner Disk

9:20 - 9:40 am: M.J. Colmenares (University of Michigan) - A JWST census of inner-disk organics: Linking disk chemistry to accretion and pebble drift.

Session III: Planet Formation Theory

9:40 - 10:20 am: Eve Lee (UCSD) “Cooking Up Giants: Formation Recipes and the Compositional Trends They Serve”

10:20 - 10:50 am: Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:10 am: Songhu Wang (IU) The Unified Origin of Hot and Warm Jupiters

11:10 - 11:30 am: Nader Haghighipour (UH) Recent Advances in the Core-accretion Model: An improved and comprehensive approach to the formation of gas-giant planets

11:30 - 11:50 am: Jiayin Dong (U. Illinois) Architecture of Close-in Giant Planet Systems.

11:50 am - 12:30 pm: Alan Boss (Carnegie) - “What have we learned?”

12:30 - 12:40 pm: Photo time outside!

12:40 - 1:40 pm: Lunch Break

Session IV: Is the Solar System Typical?

1:40 - 2:20 pm: Ali Hyder (JPL) - “Solar System Gas Giants Are Complicated”

2:20 - 2:40 pm: Huazhi Ge (Caltech) Nonuniform water distribution in Jupiter’s midlatitudes: Influence of precipitation and planetary rotation.

2:40 - 3:00 pm: Cheng Li (U. Michigan) - A Warmer Polar Atmosphere on Jupiter

3:00 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break

3:30 - 3:50 pm: Ananyo Bhattacharya (U. Michigan) - What Solar System Exploration Teaches Us About the Depths of Gas Giants

3:50 - 4:30 pm: Yamila Miguel (U. Leiden) - “Are Solar System Gas Giants Unusual”