Most talks are expected to be 12 minutes (+3 min for questions)
A pdf version of the programme is available here.

Abstract booklet for posters & talks.

Tuesday 09 April 2024

09:00 - 10:00 Coffee & registration come early!
10:00 - 10:15 WelcomeLogistics, and Code of conduct
10:15 Liu PengyuA peculiar planetary-mass candidate imaged around a binary star
10:30 Osborne HannahA homogenous analysis of small planet masses.
10:45 Fairman CharlotteThe importance of optical Hubble observations in constraining retrieved atmospheric parameters of exoplanet transmission spectra.
11:00 Hammond MarkTwo-Dimensional Eclipse Mapping of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with JWST MIRI/LRS
11:15 Davis YasminUnderstanding M Dwarf Radius Inflation: Insights from Low- Mass Eclipsing Binaries
11:30 Robinson AlfieInvestigating the effect of radiation pressure on protoplanetary disc dispersal
11:45 poster pop-upsposters #1, 4, 5, 18, 32, 45, 54, 59, 60 & 67
12:00 - 13:30 Lunchprovided in the poster room
13:30 Williams JamiePlanet detections around white dwarfs
13:50 Madhusudhan NikkuThe Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life
14:05 Guest ElizabethUsing Machine Learning to Fill Data Needs in the ExoMol Database
14:20 Zhao YunpengPlanet formation in wind-driven discs via pebble accretion
14:35 Klein BaptisteUnderstanding stellar activity through eight years of Sun-as-a- star observations
14:50 Poster pop-upsposters #15, 17, 34, 35 & 38
15:00 - 15:30 Coffeein the poster room
15:30 Special sessionEquity, Diversity & Inclusion - academic life with families
16:45 Poster pop-upsposters #7, 19, 21, 24, 26, 41, 42, 43, 51 & 55
17:00 - 19:30 Poster sessionwith buffet dinner in the poster room

Wednesday 10 April 2024

09:00 McDonald CatrionaDelivering prebiotic feedstocks to habitable planets
09:20 Watson ChristopherCharacterising exoplanet atmospheres with Doppler tomography.
09:35 Penzlin AnnaReshaping protoplanetary disc around binaries through heat
09:50 Valentine DanielThe first eclipse map of the hot Jupiter WASP-17b
10:05 Poster pop-upsposters #2, 20, 22, 35 & 66
10:15 - 10:45 Coffeein the poster room
10:45 Alderson LiliAtmospheres Across the Radius Valley - First Results from the JWST COMPASS Program
11:00 Bayliss DanielDiscovering Non-Transiting Exoplanets with TESS
11:15 Schoettler ChristinaThe impact of internal and external perturbations on exoplanet architectures
11:30 Parker LukeInto the red: opening up the M-band for characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution
11:45 Poster pop-upsposters #13, 28, 37, 48, 52, 53, 56, 62 & 64
12:00 - 13:30 Lunchprovided in the poster room
13:30 Special sessionPublic Engagement
14:45 Poster pop-upsposters #14, 23, 27, 31, 33, 50, 44 & 58
15:00 - 15:30 Coffeein the poster room
15:30 Palethorpe LarissaGliese 12 b, A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 Parsecs
15:50 Ma SushuangAtmospheric clouds and hazes in the era of next-generation exoplanet data
16:05 Iglesias DanielaDisc evolution in intermediate-mass stars
16:20 Doyle LaurenThe TESS SPOC FFI Target Sample Explored with Gaia
16:35 Tahseen TaraAccelerating Atmospheric Simulation of Venus by Integrating a Machine-Learned Surrogate Radiative Transfer Scheme
16:50 - 17:00 Poster pop-ups
18:30 - 22:00 Conference dinner (need to register)at the Edgbaston Park Hotel

Thursday 11 April 2024

09:00 Ahrer Eva-MariaAligned vs misaligned hot Jupiters as a planet formation testbed: First look at JWST NIRSpec/G395H observations of three exoplanets
09:20 Blake (Tze-En) ChangApplying Neural Network-Based Emulator of non-LTE Radiative Transfer on Stellar Activity
09:35 Yip Kai HouLessons learnt from engaging the global ML community through the Ariel Data Challenge.
09:50 Johnston HeatherThe rise and fall of the giant planet occurrence rate
10:05 Wakeford HannahAnnouncement from Hubble User Committee
10:15 - 10:45 Coffeein the poster room
10:45 Williams JoePebble drift in HD 163296 - Constraining the mass of dust and ice reaching the terrestrial planet formation region
11:05 Yang JingxuanEvidence of Ammonia in the Atmosphere of WASP-43b
11:20 Kerins EamonnThe Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey
11:35 O'Sullivan NiamhEnhancing Exoplanet Detection: Tackling Supergranulation in Earth-Twin Surveys
11:50 Grant DavidIdentifying and locating cloud species from their mid-IR vibrational mode absorption
12:05 - 13:45 Lunchprovided in the poster room
13:45 Anna John AncyThe significance of mitigating stellar activity in the search for Earth twins.
14:00 Chen XueqingMapping atmospheric structures on the nearest brown dwarfs
14:15 Dash SpandanUsing high resolution cross correlation spectroscopy to probe oxygen fugacity regimes in lava ocean worlds
14:30 Elms AbbigailOldest white dwarf planetary systems in the Galaxy
14:45 Heinke LinusCharacterizing the Atmosphere of the Warm Sub-Saturn Exoplanet HAT-P-12b with JWST
15:00 Hooton MatthewA first look at the atmospheres of three planets with a compact system with JWST/NIRSpec
15:15 Final comments
15:30 - 16:30 Coffeein the poster room

Friday 12 April 2024

09:30 - 12:00 Strategic meeting (for permanent researchers and senior research fellows)