Programme

10.00 - 10.15: Vincent Van Eylen (MSSL/UCL)
Welcome to the conference

10.15 - 10.35: Angharad Weeks (MSSL/UCL)
Highlight talk: Homogenous, space-based host star characterisation

10.35 - 10.50: Amy Tuson (University of Cambridge)
Discovery and Characterisation of Long-Period Transiting Exoplanets with TESS and CHEOPS

10.50 - 11.05: Marrick Braam (University of Edinburgh / KU Leuven)
Stratospheric dayside-to-nightside circulation drives the 3-D ozone distribution on synchronously rotating exoplanets

11.40 - 12.40: Jo Barstow (The Open University) & Paola Pinilla (MSSL/UCL)

Intro to career session
UK fellowship applications
International fellowship applications
From astronomy to industry

14.00 - 14.20: Faith Hawthorn (University of Warwick)
Highlight talk: TESS Duotransit Exoplanet Candidates from the Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere

14.20 - 14.35: Paola Pinilla (MSSL/UCL)
AGE-PRO: The ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in PROtoplanetary disks.

14.35 - 14.50: Ben Sutlieff (University of Edinburgh)
Mapping Exoplanet Atmospheres with Direct Ground-based Observations

14.50 - 15.05: Richard Anslow (University of Cambridge)
Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets?

15.05 - 15.20: Kan Chen (UCL)
Gap-opening Feedback on Protoplanetary Disk Thermal Structure and Composition

16.00 - 14.20: Frances Rigby (University of Cambridge)
Highlight talk:  Ocean Conditions on Hycean Worlds

16.20 - 16.35: Zachary Ross (The Open University)
A compact system of super-Earths and Neptunes around an active F8 Main Sequence star

16.35 - 16.50: Jenni French (University of Leicester)
WD1032+011: An Irradiated Eclipsing White Dwarf-Brown Dwarf Binary

16.50 - 17.05: Alix Violet Freckelton (University of Birmingham)
PAWS: A pipeline for homogeneous stellar analysis

17.05 - 17.20: Edward Bryant (MSSL/UCL)
Unveiling the population of giant planets with the lowest mass host stars

17.20 - 17.35: Edward Gillen (Queen Mary University of London)
Probing the early evolution of planetary systems

9.00 - 9.20: Ares Osborn (University of Warwick)
Highlight talk: TOI-332: a super dense Neptune found deep within the Neptunian desert

9.20 - 9.35: Giovanna Tinetti (UCL) & Don Pollacco (University of Warwick)
The Ariel and PLATO missions

9.35 - 9.50: Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh)
The first direct image of an exoplanet and the first direct spectrum of a planetary mass object with JWST

9.50 - 10.05: David Jackson (Queen's University Belfast)
A novel approach to better interpret and mitigate stellar activity on radial velocity measurements

10.05 - 10.20: James Thorne (Imperial College London)
Modelling facular contamination in exoplanet transmission spectra

10.20 - 10.45: Poster presenters
One-minute flash talks

11.20 - 11.40: Sean O'Brien (Queen's University Belfast)
Highlight talk: Citizen Science Discoveries from Planet Hunters NGTS

11.40 - 11.55: Marco Pezzella (UCL)
EXOMOLHD: updates on photodissociation of small molecules

11.55 - 12.10: Alicia Kendall (University of Leicester)
Identifying transiting Neptunes and sub-Neptunes in the NGTS survey through cross-correlating with TESS TOIs

12.10 - 12.25: Hannah Petrovic (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
Material Transport in Protoplanetary Discs with Massive Embedded Planets

12.25 - 12.40: Olja Panic (University of Leeds)
Intermediate-mass stars - the cradles of giant planets

12.40 - 13.00: Poster presenters
One-minute flash talks

14.45 - 15.05: Aurelie Magniez (Durham University)
Highlight talk: Hyperspectral Wavefront sensing : new generation of XAO system

15.05 - 15.20: Alexandre Gillet (CEA, Saclay)
Secondary ionisation by photoelectrons in exoplanetary systems

15.20 - 15.35: Tereza Constantinou (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
Was Venus ever habitable?

15.35 - 15.55: Supriyo Ghosh (University of Hertfordshire)
Highlight talk: A novel technique to suppress modal noise in multi-mode circular fibres

15.55 - 16.10: Stefan Kraus (University of Exeter)
ExSEL -- Exeter Star & Exoplanet Lab:  Instrumentation for studying exoplanets & planet formation at highest resolution

16.10 - 16.25: Laura Rogers (University of Cambridge)
Using polluted white dwarfs to probe bulk exoplanetary composition

16.30 - 18.00
Poster viewings

9.30 - 9.50: Luke Keyte (UCL)
Highlight talk: Azimuthal C/O Variations in a Planet-Forming Disk

9:50 - 10:05: Fatemeh Zahra Majidi  (Blue Skies Space Ltd.)
MAUVE : A UV-Vis spectroscopy facility dedicated to studying the magnetic activity of active stars

10:05 - 10:20: Joanna Barstow (The Open University)
JWST/MIRI retrievals confirm SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b

10.20 - 10:35: Mark Hammond (University of Oxford)
Fitting eclipse maps with an appropriate smoothness assessed by cross-validation

10.35 - 10.50: Subhanjoy Mohanty (Imperial College London)
Planetary Mass Derived Directly from Transmission Spectroscopy

10.50 - 11.05: Agnibha Banerjee (The Open University)
The Effect of Centrifugal Force on Transmission Spectra and Retrievals

11.40 - 12.40: Ares Osborn (University of Warwick) & Amy Bonsor (University of Cambridge)

Intro to EDI session
Contributed EDI talks

14.00 - 14.20: Jorge Fernández Fernández (University of Warwick)
Highlight talk: XMM-Newton observations of the sun-like star LTT 9779

14.20 - 14.35: Matthew Standing (The Open University)
The search for circumbinary planets

14.35 - 14.50: Lalitha Sairam (University of Birmingham)
Journey into circumbinary systems: Discovering the first planet and unlocking new frontiers

14.50 - 15.05: Ethan Schreyer (Imperial College London)
Using helium 10830 Å transits to constrain planetary magnetic fields

15.05 - 15.20: Vatsal Panwar (University of Warwick)
The curious case of high-metallicity and high C/O atmosphere of the hot Jupiter tau Bootis b

16.00 - 14.20: Mei Ting Mak (University of Exeter)
Highlight talk: 3D simulations of the Archean Earth and tidally-locked planet with varying photochemical hazes

16.20 - 16.35: Tobias G. Meier (University of Oxford)
Exploring the convection regimes of super-Earth K2-141b

16.35 - 16.50: Marina Lafarga Magro (University of Warwick)
Constraining the presence of water and clouds in the hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO

16.50 - 17.05: Samantha Thompson (University of Cambridge)
HARPS3 and the Terra Hunting Experiment

17.05 - 17.20: Federica Rescigno (University of Exeter)
The longitudinal, line-of-sight magnetic flux as a proxy for stellar activity

17.20 - 17.30: Vincent Van Eylen (MSSL/UCL)
Poster prize winners
Closing remarks