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 one-day meeting will be held on Friday, May 15th, 2026 and hosted by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
We can accommodate ~ 130 attendees.

American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York, New York 10024

There will be no registration fee to attend.

Abstracts will be due March 10, 2026, and the conference registration deadline will be April 15, 2026.

NOTE: We will be replacing poster presentations with 1 minute lightning talks.

For those attending, please remember to bring photo ID to check in with the security desk upon arrival. Entrance to AMNH is located off Central Park West below the main staircase (see map below).
The dress code for this meeting is casual.

AMNH does not provide lunch. For your convenience, a map of nearby restaurants has been compiled.

    SOC (Alphabetical)
  • Phil Armitage (CCA/Stonybrook)
  • Keaton Bell (CUNY)
  • Emily Calamari (AMNH)
  • Dax Feliz (CCA)
  • Jane Huang (Columbia)
  • Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (AMNH)
  • Malena Rice (Yale)
  • Niall Whiteford (AMNH)
  • Josh Winn (Princeton)

Schedule

Time Speaker Title
10:00 Opening Remarks Jane Huang, Malena Rice
10:10 Session One Chair: Dax Feliz
10:10 Thomas Pfeil How Dust Evolution Controls the Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks
10:20 Meredith Hughes Dynamical Masses of Debris Disk Host Stars
10:30 Yurou Liu Hot-Jupiter-Hosting Binary Systems are Preferentially Eccentric
10:40 Kostas Tsigaridis Is Earth special? The role of planetary configuration on climate
10:50 Jada Louison Probing the Formation Mechanisms of Brown Dwarfs and Planetary-Mass Objects using Keck/LRIS
11:00 David W. Hogg Precision measurement considerations for exoplaneteers
11:10 Nicholas D'Introno Protoplanetary Disk Chemistry in Binary Systems
11:20 Renata Wentzcovitch New Mineral Physics for Super-Earth Mantles: Iron-Bearing Phases at Terapascal Pressures
11:30 Brianna Zawadzki Probing the Collisional Cascade in AU Mic with Resolved Vertical Structures at Multiple Wavelengths
11:40 Tiger Lu A Massive Companion to the Ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b Suggests Formation Inside the Water-ice Line
11:50 1-Min Lightening Talks
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Session Two Chair: Emily Calamari
1:30 Kate Follette Fortuitous Discovery of Possible Disk Signatures Around a Planetary Mass Companion with JWST
1:40 Niamh O'Sullivan The Search for Supergranulation across Spectral Types
1:50 Amir Siraj Measuring the Dynamical Structure of the Distant Kuiper Belt
2:00 Ayanna Mann Multiwavelength Signatures of a Candidate Planetary Engulfment Event
2:10 Ryan Butler Unsafe for Children: Chandra Establishes the Hostile X-ray Environment of the Infant Transiting Exoplanet TIDYE-1b
2:20 Aida Behmard A Link Between Rocky Planet Density and Host Star Chemistry
02:30 Nicholas Saunders The Fate of Planets Orbiting Evolved Stars
02:40 Genaro Suarez Spectral Energy Distribution Analyzer (SEDA) for Modeling and Empirical Analysis of Ultracool Objects
2:50 1-Min Lightening Talks
3:00 Coffee Break
03:30 Session Three Chair: Keaton Bell
03:30 Madeline Maldonado Gutierrez Evaluating Planet Vetting Robustness Across TESS Photometric Pipelines
03:40 Zachary Langford Order-by-order Modeling of Exoplanet Radial Velocity Data
03:50 Daniel Yahalomi When One Planet Looks Like Two: Degeneracies and Demographics of Cool Gas Giants with Gaia DR4
04:00 Juan Espinoza-Retamal POSEIDON: The Dynamical Origins of Transiting Neptunes
04:10 Joseph Tang High-resolution ALMA imaging of the externally perturbed disk, WW Cha
04:20 Clara Sousa-Silva Spectra For and From Planetary Atmospheres
04:30 Closing Remarks
04:40 End of Program

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