Program of
workshop on "Young Planetary Systems"

Jena 15-17 November 2010

Sunday14 November 2010
arrival of most participants
from 6 until 8 pmice-breaker get-together party

In Schiller's garden house, Schillergaesschen 2, next to astrophysics institute and opposite of Jena Theater with finger-food buffet dinner and non-alcoholic drinks (free of charge)

With short tours of Schiller garden house (7 pm), the astrophysics dust laboratory (7:30 pm), and amateur astronomers telescope (8 pm), all next door.



 
Monday - Wednesday Nov 15-17 in Hotel Schwarzer Bär, Jena center
(each talk includes 5 min for questions)

 
Monday15 November 2010
Monday morning:Observing Planetary Systems
09:00hWelcomeRalph Neuhäuser
09:15hDirect imaging of exo-planets Ralph Neuhäuser (AIU Jena)
09:30hExperiences with NICI, the high-contrast coronographic imager of GEMINI observatoryAglae Kellerer (IfA Hawaii)
09:45hRadial velocity planet searchesAndrzej Niedzielski (Torun)
10:15hBroadening-function technique - new tool in the RV search of exoplanetsTheo Pribulla (AIU Jena)
10:30h coffee break
11:00hExtrasolar Transiting Planets: Detection and False Positive RejectionGuillermo Torres (CfA Harvard)
11:30hDebris disks observed with HerschelAlexander Krivov (AIU Jena)
12:00hThe architecture of planetary systems like HR 8799 and eps Eri Martin Reidemeister (AIU Jena)
12:15hRadial velocity stability of red giantsGrzegorz Nowak (Torun)
12:30hlunch break
Monday afternoon:Planetary interior and Interferometry
14:00hInterior of Giant PlanetsRonald Redmer (Rostock)
14:25hTransiting planets and the Love number Ulrike Kramm (Rostock)
14:50hInterior models for GJ1214b Nadine Nettelmann (Rostock)
15:05hAstrometric planet detectionTristan Röll (AIU Jena)
15:20hAMBER overview Fabien Malbet (Grenoble)
15:45h Mammut for ESO VLT UTs and VLTI Stefano Minardi (IAP Jena)
16:00hcoffee break
16:30hBus leaves for Astro-Photonics and Optics Labs in Jena-Beutenberg Campus
17:00hTour of Astro-Photonics and Optics Labs
18:00hBus leaves for dinner at restaurant in Jena-Ziegenhein
18:30hWorkshop dinner
21:30hBus leaves for Hotel "Schwarzer Bär", Jena center

 
Tuesday16 November 2010
Tuesday morning:Transit Timing Variations and Telescope Network
09:00hTransit Timing Variations of Wasp-3 and -10Gracjan Maciejewski (AIU Jena)
09:30hThe dynamics of the transiting planetary system WASP-3Florian Freistetter (Heidelberg)
09:45hTorun Center for Astrophysics ObservatoryToma Tomov (Torun)
10:00h Possibilities for observations of exoplanets in BulgariaDinko Dimitrov (Sofia)
10:15hObservational astronomy at the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)Martin Vanko (Tatranska Lomnica)
10:30hcoffee break
11:00hIntroduction of instruments in Gunma Astronomical Observatory and transit observation at GAO Kengo Tachihara (NAOJ, Japan)
11:15hCosmic Variability Studies in TaiwanWen-Ping Chen (Taiwan)
11:30hTransit Observations from the Peter van de Kamp Observatory (Swarthmore, PA, USA) Eric Jensen (Swathmore, USA)
11:45hPlanet projects at the new Wendelstein 2m telescopeJohannes Koppenhöfer (München)
12:00hLunch in Hotel "Schwarzer Bär"
13:00hObservational astrophysics at the Venezuela National ObservatoryCesar Briceno (Merida, Venezuela)
13:15hRobotic optical and infrared monitoring projects in the southern hemisphere Rolf Chini (Uni Bochum and OCA)
13:30hByurakan Observatory in ArmeniaTigran Movessian (Byurakan):
13:45hBEST-1 at OHP and BEST-2 at OCAAnders Erikson (DLR Berlin)
14:00h Astrometric, Photometric, and Spectroscopic Observations of Trumpler 37 in the 1980's and early 1990'sLarry Marschall (Gettysburg)
14:15hSTELLAKlaus Strassmeier (AIP Potsdam)
14:30hSTELLA Open Cluster Survey Daniel Fügner (AIP Potsdam
14:45hTransit Doppler ImagingMatthias Müller (AIP Potsdam)
15:00hThe University Observatory Jena - Technical and Scientific Projects 2006 - 2010Markus Mugrauer (AIU Jena)
15:15hcoffee break
16:00hBus leaves for tour to our observatory in Grossschwabhausen near Jena
16:30hTour of Observatory (3 telescopes and 4 instruments)Markus Mugrauer and Reinhard Schielicke (AIU Jena)
18:00hfinger-food buffet dinner and non-alcoholic drinks (free of charge)
(observations of Wasp-12 and 25 Ori ongoing if weather ok)
20:30hBus leaves for Hotel "Schwarzer Bär", Jena center

 
Wednesday17 November 2010
Wednesday morning:Session 1 - Space observations
09:00hHigh precision astrometric mission for the detection of terrestrial planets in the Habitable Zone of FGK starsFabien Malbet (LAOG Grenoble)
09:15hTransit search from space with CoRoT and PLATOHeike Rauer (DLR Berlin)
09:45hThe Kepler Mission: Overview and ResultsGuillermo Torres (CfA Harvard)
10:15hcoffee break
Wednesday morning:Session 2 - Young Extra-solar planet Transit Initiative (=YETI)
10:45hObservations of Tr-37 in ChinaXu Zhun (China)
11:00hOverview of YETI projectRalph Neuhäuser (AIU Jena)
11:15h Variable stars in Truempler-37 and follow-up of the first transit candidateRonny Errmann (AIU Jena)
11:45hAbruptive Variability of Young StarsSeline Chia-Ling Hu (Taiwan)
12:00hThe 25 Ori clusterCesar Briceno (Merida, Venezuela)
12:15h25 Ori monitoring - first resultsStefanie Rätz (AIU Jena)
12:30hlunch break (in Jena center at own costs)
Wednesday afternoon:Young Extra-solar planet Transit Initiative (cont'd)
14:00hRound-table discussion on YETI and TTV projects (possibly with signature of MoU)
15:30hcoffee break
Round-table discussion cont'd
end of workshop
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