MSC Transits Conference 2008

Transits: Exoplanet and Stellar Astrophysics
April 7-11, 2008

PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been merged with IAUS 253, to be held in Boston, MA, in May 2008.

Abstract
There is broad interest in the contributions made by precision photometric measurements of exoplanet and stellar transits. This broad interest, combined with results from Spitzer, CoRoT, and the upcoming Kepler mission, make the time right for a conference on transit-based science. This conference will survey the breadth of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics relevant to transit techniques, and place transiting planet astrophysics in the larger context of our knowledge of exoplanet systems.

Workshop Location & Date
PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been merged with IAUS 253 , to be held in Boston, MA, in May 2008. For more information, please see the IAUS website: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2008/IAUS253/

Preliminary List of Topics

Physics of Exoplanets from transiting measurements -- bulk properties and atmospheres
Results, Roles, and Impacts of ground and space-based photometric surveys
Planetary system formation & architectures: the relative roles of transiting and other detection/characterization techniques
Correlation of planetary system & host-star properties
eta_Earth: how we measure it -- what it tells us
Stellar Astrophysics from Eclipsing Binaries
Impacts of Future Large-Scale Variability Surveys

Last update: 2/4/2008