New York Area Exoplanets Meeting
Important Information
New York Area Exoplanets seeks to connect astronomers in the greater New York area working in the field of exoplanet science (or related ventures) for a one day conference in NYC.
This year’s meeting will be held on Thursday, May 30th, 2024 from 9AM - 5PM and hosted by the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute.
We can accomodate ~ 100 attendees.
Flatiron Institute, CCA
162 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10010
There will be no registration fee to attend.
The abstract deadline is Friday, April 5th by midnight EST.
Registration for the 2024 meeting is now closed.
For those attending, please remember to bring photo ID to check in with the front desk upon arrival. Entrance to the Flatiron Institute is located off Fifth Avenue on 21st Street.
The dress code for this meeting is casual.
If you registered for the 2024 meeting but no longer plan to attend, please contact the SOC at your earliest convenience.
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SOC (Alphabetical)
- Phil Armitage (CCA)
- Megan Bedell (CCA)
- Emily Calamari (CUNY/AMNH)
- Jane Huang (Columbia)
- Malena Rice (Yale)
- Niall Whiteford (AMNH)
- Josh Winn (Princeton)
Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Title | |
| 08:30 | Coffee (Optional) | ||
| 09:00 | Introductory Remarks | Malena Rice | |
| 09:15 | Session One | Chair: Phil Armitage | |
| 09:15 | Clara Sousa-Silva | Spectroscopic Data: Promises and Problems for Atmospheric Studies | |
| 09:30 | W. Garrett Levine | Exoplanet Aeronomy: A Case Study of WASP-69b’s Variable Thermosphere | |
| 09:45 | Akash Gupta | The story of hydrogen and water: insights into the interaction between atmospheres and interiors using quantum mechanics | |
| 10:00 | Sabina Sagynbayeva | How planets help us understand stars: a hierarchical model for mapping stellar surfaces | |
| 10:15 | Donald Glaser | The Unexpected Habitability and Biosignature Detectability of Arid Exoplanets | |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 | Session Two | Chair: Josh Winn | |
| 11:00 | Eric Jensen | Planetary Orbital Inclination in Binaries: From Disks to Planets | |
| 11:15 | Konstantin Gerbig | Aligning Planet-Hosting Binaries via Dissipative Precession in Circumstellar Disks | |
| 11:30 | Brianna Zawadzki | Resolving Vertical Structures in Millimeter Debris Disk Observations with ARKS | |
| 11:45 | David Hernandez | Multiple timestep reversible N-body integrators | |
| 12:00 | Tiger Lu | Super-Puffs may have High Obliquities - Implications for Tidal Inflation and Exorings | |
| 12:15 | Lunch | ||
| 01:15 | Session Three | Chair: Niall Whiteford | |
| 01:15 | Colette Salyk | JDISCS: JWST-MIRI spectroscopy of planet-forming regions | |
| 01:21 | Wenrui Xu | Gravitational self-regulation in young disks: theory meets observation | |
| 01:27 | Roberto Tejada Arevalo | Equations of State and Miscibility Curves for Jovian Planet Evolution Models | |
| 01:33 | Shirin Zaidi | Can Streaming Instability Be Triggered in Very Young Disks? | |
| 01:39 | Matteo Cantiello | Observational Signatures of Exoplanetary Engulfments | |
| 01:45 | Victoria DiTomasso | The Lone Transit: Characterizing a Long-Period Neptune-Sized Exoplanet, HD60779b | |
| 01:51 | Yubo Su | Spin-orbit Resonances and Tidal Synchronization of Close-in Rocky Planets | |
| 01:57 | Elena Manjavacas | What are the First JWST/NIRSpec spectra revealing about Young Brown Dwarfs? | |
| 02:03 | Seth Redfield | A Summary of the STScI Working Group Report on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST | |
| 02:09 | Ben Cassese | JWST's Upcoming Exomoon Search | |
| 02:15 | Attila Varga | The age and and high energy environment of the very young transiting exoplanet host star TOI-1227 | |
| 02:30 | Breakout Discussions | Chair: Megan Bedell | |
| 03:30 | Session Four | Chair: Emily Calamari | |
| 03:30 | Daniel Yahalomi | Not So Fast Kepler-1513: A Perturbing Planetary Interloper in the Exomoon Corridor | |
| 03:45 | Cheng-Han Hsieh | The Giant Planet Formation Time Window: An Observational Perspective | |
| 04:00 | Caprice Phillips | Substellar Formation: From Retrievals to Stellar Abundance Determination | |
| 04:15 | Genaro Suárez | Explaining the Diversity of The Coldest Extrasolar Worlds | |
| 04:30 | Jackie Faherty | Methane Emission on the Coldest Brown Dwarf | |
| 04:45 | Closing Remarks | Jane Huang | |
| 05:00 | End of Program |