AGENDA
Monday, November 14, 2016
8:00 – 9:00
Registration/Coffee
Café Azafran
9:00 – 9:20
Welcome
Ken Sembach, Director, STScI
9:20 – 9:50
Mark Clampin
Review of High Contrast Imaging In Space
Chair: Jeremy Kasdin
Session I: High Contrast Imaging Techniques: Instrument Design
9:50 – 10:10
Jean-François Sauvage
The Ground Based High Contrast Instrument SPHERE and Its eXtreme AO System - On-sky Results, Final Performance and Future Improvements
10:10 – 10:30
Johan Mazoyer
Correcting for Aperture Discontinuities with Deformable Mirrors for Future Space Telescopes
10:30 – 11:00
AM Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
Stuart Shaklan
Segmented Coronagraph Design and Analysis (SCDA) Study
11:30 – 11:50
Garreth Ruane
Comparing Apodization Methods for Vortex Coronagraphs on Segmented Aperture Space Telescopes
11:50 – 12:10
Garima Singh
Using the Low Order Calibrations to Improve Post Processing of High Contrast Images
12:15 – 1:45
Lunch
1:45 – 2:15
Poster Advertisements
Chair: Amaya Moro-Martin
Session 2: High Contrast Imaging of Circumstellar Disks
2:15 – 2:45
Hannah Jang-Condell
How to Search for Planets in Disks with High Contrast Imaging
2:45 – 3:05
Robin Dong
Observational Planet Formation in the Era of High Contrast Imaging in Space
3:05 – 3:25
Anthony Boccaletti
Combining Ground-based and Space-based High Contrast Imaging: The Fast Moving Structures in the AU Mic Debris Disk
3:25 – 4:10
PM Coffee Break
Posters: Bloomberg Building-4th Floor Lounge
4:10 – 4:40
Meredith Hughes
Outer Architectures of Debris Disks Planet-Disk Interactions
4:40 – 5:00
Tom Esposito
A New Ring Around a Young Star Resolved with STIS and GPI
5:00 – 5:20
Sasha Hinkley
A SPHERE Survey for the Sculptors in Two-Temperature Debris Disk Systems
5:20 – 6:20
Laurent Pueyo
JWST Information Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
8:15 – 9:00
Coffee
Chair: Alexandra Greenbaum
Session 3: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets
9:00 – 9:30
Caroline Morley
Exoplanetary Atmospheres with High Contrast Imaging
9:30 – 9:50
Mark Marley
Giant Planets in Reflected Light: What Science Can We Expect?
Kevin Wagner
Discovery and Space-based Characterization of a Benchmark Cool Jovian Planet in a Triple System
10:15 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:20
Stephen Durkan
High Contrast Imaging with Spitzer: Constraining the Frequency of Giant Planets out to 1000 au Separations
11:20 – 11:40
Kat Feng
Constraining Habitability and Atmospheric Properties through Reflected Light Observations of Terrestrial Exoplanets
11:40 – 12:00
Kyle Van Gorkom
Quantifying Confusion in the Hunt for ExoEarths
12:00 – 1:45
1:45 – 2:00
Group Photo
Front Steps of Muller Building
Chair: Carol Grady
Session 4: High Contrast Imaging Techniques, Applications
2:00 – 2:30
Elodie Choquet
High Contrast Data Analysis Techniques
2:30 – 2:50
Marie Ygouf
Roll or Not To Roll? Signal Detection Theory Applied to Space-Based Coronagraphic Instruments
2:50 – 3:10
Timothy J. Rodigas
2 > 1: Improving Space-based Exoplanet Imaging Using Visual Binaries
3:10 – 3:40
Daniel Rouan
The Diversity of High-Contrast Imaging Science
3:40 – 4:25
PM Coffee
4:25 – 4:45
Arthur Vigan
ZELDA, a Zernike Sensor for Accurate Calibration of Aberrations in Coronagraphic Instruments: Validation in VLT/SPHERE and Prospects for Future Missions
4:45 – 5:05
Thayne Currie
Detecting and Precisely Characterizing Exoplanets and Disks with Advanced Post-Processing Algorithms
5:05 – 5:25
Eduardo Bendek
Enhancing Direct Imaging Exoplanet Detection and Characterization with Astrometry
5:30 – 7:00
Posters/Reception
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Chair: Eric Mamajek
Session 5: Future of High-Contrast Observations in Space
Jean-Luc Beuzit
Applying Ground-based Knowledge to Future Space Missions
9:30 – 10:10
Jeremy Kasdin/
Nikole Lewis
The WFIRST Mission
Dean Hines
The EXoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE)
Alexandra Greenbaum
In-focus Wavefront Sensing for Future High Contrast Space Telescopes
11:40 – 12:20
Brad Peterson/
Karl Stapelfeldt
The Habex and LUVOIR Missions
Lunch/Workshop Adjourns
1:30 – 2:30
JWST High Contrast Imaging ERS Coordination Discussion
3:30 – 4:30
Anne Marie Lagrange
Fall Colloquium: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Current Status and Prospects
Thursday, November 17, 2016
8:30 – 8:35
Jeremy Kasdin
Introduction and Logistics
8:35 – 8:50
WFIRST Coronagraph Instrument Overview
8:50 – 9:10
Tyler Groff
IFS Design and Requirements
9:10 – 9:45
Kerri Cahoy
WFIRST CGI Draft Requirements
9:45 – 10:30
Open Discussion about Requirements
10:30 – 10:40
Break
Bahcall Auditorium
10:40 – 11:00
Bijan Nemati
Overview of WFIRST Simulations
John Krist
Coronagraph Image Speckle Modeling
Tyler Robinson
Noise Modeling and WFIRST Filter Selection
Margaret Turnbull/ Neil Zimmerman
WFIRST Data Processing and Community Challenges
12:00 – 12:30
Open Discussion
12:30
Adjourn