Oxford Meeting on Planets 2019
Programme
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Beecroft Building, Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
Morning
09:00–09:25 Morning coffee
09:25–09:30 Introduction - Ray Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
09:30–10:05 Oliver Shorttle (U Cambridge) – Tracing the building blocks of habitable worlds from disks to planets
10:05–10:40 Dan Bower (U Bern) - Some like it hot: the evolution of hot and molten terrestrial interiors
10:40–11:00 Colin Wilson (Oxford AOPP) - How did Venus evolve? / Titan Dragonfly
11:00–11:30 Coffee + poster session I
11:30–11:50 Nora Eisner (Oxford Astrophysics) - Planet Hunters TESS: people-powered exoplanet discovery in TESS data
11:50–12:10 Oscar Barragán Villanueva (Oxford Astrophysics) - Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b: a young, highly irradiated, and low density transiting hot Neptune
12:10–12:30 Patrick Irwin (Oxford AOPP) - Ice Giants to WASP-43b: NEMESIS retrievals of atmospheric properties
12:30–12:50 Chelsea Huang (MIT) - Planets from the First Year of TESS Mission
12:50–13:00 Poster blitz
13:00–14:00 Lunch (provided) + poster session II
Afternoon
14:00–14:35 Scott McLennan (Stony Brook / Oxford Earth Sciences) - The Nature of Planetary Crusts: Lessons for the Study of Exoplanets?
14:35–14:55 Robert Graham (Oxford AOPP) - Energetic and Thermodynamic Limits on Continental Silicate Weathering Strongly Impact the Habitability of Wet, Rocky Worlds
14:55–15:30 Coffee + poster session III
15:30–15:50 Dan Spencer (Oxford Earth Sciences) - Internal magma dynamics and heat transfer on Io and other lava-worlds
15:50–16:10 Hauke Marquardt (Oxford Earth Sciences) - Experimental Exploration of Planetary Interiors
16:10–16:30 Greg Colyer (Oxford AOPP) - Atmospheric dynamics of slowly rotating terrestrial planets
16:30-16:50 Peter Read (Oxford AOPP) - Modelling Solar System planetary atmospheres and their broader context
16:50 Closing remarks