About

The third Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science symposium (ERES III) was held at Yale University in New Haven, CT on 12 and 13 June, 2017.

ERES is held annually on a rotating basis between partner institutions. In 2016, it was held at Cornell University; in 2017, at Yale; and in 2018, it will be held again at Pennsylvania State University.

ERES aims to give younger researchers (in particular graduate students and postdocs) an opportunity to talk about research in the broader field of exoplanet science.

Call for Feedback

We would greatly appreciate feedback in order to improve the planning and organisation of future iterations of ERES. We urge all attendees to fill in the post-conference survey (link provided in debriefing email).

Program

Schedule of Events

Scientific Program

Presentations

• Stellar Studies
  1. Melinda Soares-Furtado — Detecting Exoplanet Transits in Crowded Regions with Image Subtraction
  2. Emily Sandford — Know the Planet, Know the Star: Precise Stellar Parameters with Kepler
  3. Earl P. Bellinger — Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanet Host Stars with Asteroseismology
• Atmospheres
  1. Wilson Cauley — Exploring the Contrast Effect for HD 189733 b
  2. Kyle Sheppard — Evidence of Water Emission From Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
  3. Leo Liu — Precision Photometry for Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization with WIRC-POL
  4. Arthur Adams — Characterizing Exoplanet Phase Curve Photometry using Blackbody Models
  5. Alexandria Johnson — Studying of Exoplanet Clouds by Earth Means
• Climates and Habitability
  1. John Zanazzi — Triaxial Deformation and Asynchronous Rotation of Rocky Planets in the Habitable Zone of Low-Mass Stars
  2. Adiv Paradise — The Habitability of Frozen Worlds
  3. Thea Kozakis — Biosignatures and UV Environments of Earth-Like Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
  4. Jack O'Malley-James — Surface UV Radiation on the Habitable Zone Planets of the TRAPPIST-1 System
  5. Darryl Seligman — A Vorticity-Preserving Hydrodynamical Scheme for Modeling Accretion Disk Flows
• Direct Imaging
  1. Jean-Baptiste Ruffio — Improving and Assessing Planet Sensitivity for GPIES with a Forward Model Matched Filter
  2. Sarah Blunt — Orbits for the Impatient: a Faster Method for Fitting the Orbits of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
• Radial Velocity
  1. Jacob Luhn — The Flicker-Jitter Relation and Planets Around Subgiants
  2. Allen Davis — Insights on the spectral signatures of stellar jitter from PCA
  3. Lily Zhao — Observational Constraints on Planets in the Alpha Centauri Star System
  4. Samson A. Johnson — Synopsis of the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)
  5. Ryan Blackman — Accounting for Chromatic Atmospheric Effects on Barycentric Corrections
  6. Ryan Petersburg — Modal Noise Mitigation for Fiber-fed Spectrographs
• Architecture and Dynamics
  1. Songhu Wang — Improved Masses for the Potentially Habitable TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  2. Sarah Millholland — Supervised Learning Detection of Sixty Non-Transiting Hot Jupiter Candidates
  3. Matthias Yang He — Modeling Period and Period Ratio Distributions of Exoplanetary Systems
  4. Miranda Herman — Spin-Orbit Precession of the Hot Jupiter Kepler-13Ab
  5. Jonathan Jackson — The Origin of Kepler-419b: A Path to Tidal Migration Through Secular Eccentricity Modulation

Posters

• Eileen Gonzales — Examining Cloud, Metallicity, and Gravity Signatures in Brown Dwarfs
• Prajwal Niraula — A Search for Planets in Selected K2 Targets
• Mahmuda Afrin Badhan — Deciphering Hot Exoatmospheres with the Atmos Photochemical Modeling Tool for Future Missions
• Dax Feliz — Revisiting Proxima Centauri b
• Joel Ong — Extreme Precision Wavelength Calibration with Laser Frequency Combs
• Joseph Schmitt — A Search for Lost Planets in the Kepler Multi-Planet Systems and the Discovery of a Long Period, Neptune-sized Exoplanet Kepler-150 f
• Kaloyan Penev — Variable Tidal Dissipation from Observations

Participants

We thank all attendees for their participation. See you all next year!

Smiling faces of ERES III attendees

Presentations

We will host PDF versions of posters and slide presentations as they become available.

Logistics

Please click here for information on how to get to New Haven and Yale.

Meeting Location

The primary conference location is Room A51, at the Watson Center, which is accessible by Yale Shuttle on the Blue, Red and Orange lines. Please use the Sachem Street entrance; A51 will be on your left when you enter.

More information about the Yale Shuttle system can be found here.

Accommodation

Conference rates are available at the following hotels:

• The New Haven Hotel is located downtown, at walking distance (a 20 minute walk away) from the conference venue at the Yale School of Management. We have a block of rooms reserved at the conference rate of US $160 per night for single or double rooms; please check your confirmation email for a registration link. Note that rooms must be booked by the 19th of May to enjoy the conference rate.

• The Omni New Haven Hotel is also centrally located, and is also at walking distance from the conference venue.

• The Quinnipiack Club and The Study at Yale are also located near the conference venue, but do not offer conference rates. You may also wish to consider alternative lodging arrangements (e.g. AirBNB).