Planets Beyond the Solar System
and the Next Generation of Space Missions
A workshop, to be held at the Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, MD, from October 16 to 18, 1996.
The program will include:
- New programs for the detection and study of extra-solar planets
- Recent progress in the search for extra-solar planets
- The astrophysical context of planet detection
- Spin-offs and benefits of planet detection programs
Confirmed speakers include:
H. Thronson: The roadmap study and the NASA Origins Program
J-M Mariotti: European efforts
D. Latham: Radial velocity searches
A. Burrows: Models of planets following recent detections
K. Sahu: Detecting planets with microlensing
D. Sandler: Large aperture direct imaging
M. Shao: SIM, the Space Interferometry Mission
M. Colavita: Ground-based optical inferometry
R. Angel: Infrared interferometry
M. McCaughrean: Proto-stars and their environments
T. Henry: Low-mass companions to nearby stars
T. Brown: Photometric methods and limitations
G. Gatewood: Astrometric searches on the ground and in space
M. Simon: Planet formation the binary environment
C. Burrows: The Advanced Cameras on HST
R. Brown: Conference summary
Scientific Organizing Committee:
D. Soderblom (Chair), K. Noll, R. Allen; STScI
C. Beichman, M. Werner; JPL
P. Feldman; JHU
G. Marcy, SFSU/UCB
Register now
For further information:
Contact Dave Soderblom
E-mail soderblom@stsci.edu