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