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Heidelberg

TOWARD OTHER EARTHS

DARWIN / TPF AND THE
SEARCH FOR
EXTRASOLAR
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS 		Darwin
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY                                                                         22-25 APRIL 2003
Scientific Program
  Tuesday, 22 April 2003
  08:00 - 09:00 Registration
  09:00 - 09:10 Th. Henning   Welcome
  09:10 - 09:40 M. Harwit   How will we find the way to our goal? (Introductory lecture)
  Session 1: Methods of planet searches (Chair: Pascale Ehrenfreund)
  09:40 - 10:10 M. Mayor   Statistical properties of giant planets
  10:10 - 10:40 G. Wiedemann   Spectroscopy as a Tool
  10:40 - 11:00   Coffee break
  11:00 - 11:30 J. Hough   Polarimetry as an aid to the detection of extrasolar planets
  11:30 - 12:00 A. Quirrenbach   Astrometry as a precursor to Darwin/TPF
  12:00 - 12:30 D. Segransan   New Search Strategies
  12:30 - 13:00 J. Tarter   SETI: Another way to find habitable worlds
  13:00 - 14:30   Lunch break
  Session 2: Mission overviews (Chair: Malcolm Fridlund)
  14:30 - 15:00 A. Karlsson   The technology of Darwin
  15:00 - 15:30 D. Coulter   NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder mission overview
  15:30 - 15:50   Coffee break
  Session 3 (part 1): Projects and their role as precursors (Chair: Tom Herbst)
  15:50 - 16:10 C. Grady   High-contrast coronographic imaging with HST/STIS:
   the current potential for planet finding
  16:10 - 16:40 S. Beckwith   JWST as a precursor to Darwin/TPF
  17:00 - 19:00 City/Castle tour
  19:30 - 20:30 J. Tarter   Public Lecture: "SETI: Science Fact, not Fiction"
  Wednesday, 23 April 2003
  Session 3 (part 2): Projects and their role as precursors (Chair: Chas Beichman)
  08:00 - 08:30 P. Barge   COROT: A first space mission to find terrestrial planets
  08:30 - 09:00 W. Borucki   Kepler: A mission to find Earth-size planets
  09:00 - 09:30 F. Favata   The Eddington mission
  09:30 - 09:45 J. Trauger   Eclipse: Technology and mission concept for a coronographic
   imaging survey of nearby planetary systems
  09:45 - 10:00 W. Danchi   The Fourier-Kelvin Stellar Interferometer (FKSI)
  10:00 - 11:30 Coffee break and Poster Session   (in parallel: Press Conference )
  11:30 - 12:00 M. Shao   SIM: Search for terrestrial planets
  12:00 - 12:15 M. Swain   The Antarctic Planet Interferometer: A concept for extrasolar planetary science
  12:15 - 12:45 E. Serabyn   The Keck interferometer nuller
  12:45 - 14:15 Lunch break
  Session 3 (part 3): Projects and their role as precursors (Chair: Andreas Quirrenbach)
  14:15 - 14:45 P. Hinz   Ground-based nulling searches for exo-solar systems with the MMT and LBT
  14:45 - 15:15 M. Feldt   The VLT Planet Finder
  15:15 - 15:45 M. Schoeller   The VLTI - ramping up for full science operation
  15:45 - 16:15 P. Gondoin   The GENIE project
  16:15 - 16:40   Coffee break
  Session 4 (part 1): Planet formation and evolution (Chair: Harold Yorke)
  16:40 - 17:10 L. Mundy   Protoplanetary disks
  17:10 - 17:30 R. Liseau   Gas in Debris disks
  17:30 - 17:50 A. Boss   Formation of gas and ice giant planets
  18:15 Buses to Königstuhl/MPIA
  18:30 - 21:00 Reception at MPIA
  Thursday, 24 April 2003
  Session 4 (part 2): Planet formation and evolution (Chair: Thomas Henning)
  08:00 - 08:30 G. Wurm   The formation of terrestrial planets
  08:30 - 09:00 W. Kley   Evolution of planets in disks
  09:00 - 09:30 R. Nelson   Disk-planet and planet-planet interaction
  09:30 - 10:00 D. Lin   Planet-planet interaction
  10:00 - 10:20   Coffee break
  10:20 - 10:40 J. Steinacker   Detection of planets in disks
  10:40 - 11:00 W. Brandner   Substellar companions to brown dwarfs - 1st steps towards a direct detection
  Session 5: Astrobiology in the context of Darwin/TPF (Chair: Wesley Traub)
  11:00 - 11:30 P. Ehrenfreund   Origin of life
  11:30 - 12:00 D.J. Des Marais   The planetary consequences of emerging biospheres
  12:00 - 13:30   Lunch break
  13:30 - 14:00 J. Schneider   Review of visible vs. IR characterization of planets and biosignatures
  14:00 - 14:30 N. Prantzos   The Fermi paradox revisited
  15:20 - 18:30 Boat trip
  Friday, 25 April 2003
  Session 6: Finding and characterizing extrasolar planets (Chair: Michel Mayor)
  08:00 - 08:30 R. Angel   Prospects for giant and terrestrial exoplanet detection from the ground
  08:30 - 09:00 W. Traub   Extrasolar planet characteristics in the visible wavelength range
  09:00 - 09:30 M. Ollivier   Finding and characterizing extrasolar planets at infrared wavelengths
  09:30 - 10:00 F. Allard   Models of extrasolar giant planets
  10:00 - 10:30   Coffee break
  10:30 - 11:00 A. Burrows   The spectral signatures of irradiated giant planets
  11:00 - 11:30 F. Selsis   The spectroscopic study of exoplanetary atmospheres with DARWIN/TPF
  11:30 - 12:00 A. Léger   A possible new kind of terrestrial planet: temperated Uranus
  12:00 - 13:30   Lunch break
  Session 7: Darwin and TPF: science and technology (Chair: Alain Léger)
  13:30 - 14:00 N. Woolf   Interferometers and coronographs: The potential and realities
   of looking for other Earths
  14:00 - 14:30 C. Beichman   Interferometry and coronographic approaches: The technology of TPF
  14:30 - 15:00 S. Volonté   The search for exoplanets in the ESA Science programme
  15:00 - 15:20 R. Flatscher   Darwin nulling interferometer breadboard I: system engineering and
   measurements
  15:20 - 15:40   Coffee break
  15:40 - 16:10 M. Fridlund   The Darwin mission - scientific constraints on preparatory activities
  16:10 - 16:40 H. Roettgering   Astrophysical imaging with Darwin
  16:40 - 17:10 R. Liseau   Outreach: Can DARWIN/TPF re-introduce an interest in physics
   in the general public?
  17:10 - 17:30 H. Yorke   Conference Summary
  17:30 Conference End
Note:   All talk times include at least 5 minutes for discussion!
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