Workshop Overview:
The primary objective of the workshop is to merge our understanding of exoplanets with our knowledge of planets within our solar system to advance the understanding of planetary systems in general. Exoplanets provide a broad context for the study of what is unique vs common for the planets within our solar system as well as providing observations of planetary systems across various stages of evolution. The planets within our solar system can be studied in more detail and thus provide planetary templates for interpreting the relatively sparse exoplanet data. A key objective of the workshop is to identify future exoplanet observables and solar system mission measurements that will enable significant progress and synergy between the two fields of study. Three focus areas for the first week of the workshop are:
- Formation and evolution of our solar system and the role of giant planets
- Interpreting observations of planetary atmospheres, degree of mixing and possible late stage pollution
- Key Outstanding Questions: Future Measurement Objectives for Exoplanets and our solar system
Team Leads
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Caltech/JPL
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California Institute of Technology
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SwRI
This study is co-funded by the Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution and the Southwest Research Institute.
The preliminary schedule is available here in pdf.
- Fred Adams – University of Michigan
- Sushil Atreya – University of Michigan
- Scott Bolton – Southwest Research Institute
- Mike Brown – Caltech
- Adam Burrows – Princeton University
- James Cho – Brandeis University
- Anton Ermakov – Stanford University
- Jose Rafael Fuentes – Caltech
- Chris Glein – Southwest Research Institute
- Paul Hartogh – Max Planck Institute
- Jagat Kafle – Brandeis University
- Yohai Kaspi – Weizmann Institute of Science
- Steven Levin – JPL
- Cheng Li – University of Michigan Ann Arbor
- Dimitri Mawet – Caltech
- William McKinnon – Washington University in St. Louis
- Yamila Miguel – Leiden Observatory | SRON
- Burkhard Militzer – University of California, Berkeley
- Caroline Morley – University of Texas at Austin
- Emily Rickman – European Space Agency / Space Telescope Science Institute
- Jean-Baptiste Ruffio – University of California, San Diego
- Jessica Spake – Carnegie Observatories
- Karl Stapelfeldt – JPL
- Dave Stevenson – Caltech
- Mark Swain – JPL
- Giovanna Tinetti – King’s College London
- Ngoc Tuan Truong – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
- Jerry Xuan – University of California, Los Angeles/University of California, Santa Barbara
- Maayan Ziv – Weizmann Institute of Science
Parking (for Visitors and for JPL Personnel)
For Visitors: From the Arroyo Parkway, turn right (east) on Del Mar Avenue. Proceed approximately one and a quarter miles. The Caltech campus will be on your right. Turn right (south) onto Wilson Avenue. Turn right into the North Wilson Structure and park in an unmarked spot.
Visitor parking permits may be purchased through Caltech’s mobile parking payment system Honk Mobile. Visitors can purchase a parking session at payment signs in the campus lots including scan-to-pay (QR code) and text-to-pay options. Study participants: use the parking instructions sent via email to purchase a parking permit through Caltech’s mobile parking payment system Honk Mobile.
For JPL Personnel: JPLers may use their JPL hang tag for parking. Please park in an unmarked spot in the North Wilson Structure located on Wilson Avenue.
