2018 Autumn Scottish Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Meeting

We invite you to join us for the seventh Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf meeting which will be held in the Rooftop Gallery at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. This is the fourth Autumn meeting in a series of bi-annual, informal meetings alternating between the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh.

2018 Schedule:   

10:00 Arrival and Welcome Coffee in the IfA Rooftop Gallery

Morning Session:

10:30  Ken Rice

            The origin of the super-Earth radius gap

10:50  Beth Biller

            Variability as a 3-d probe of exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres

11:10  Clemence Fontanive

            The high binary fraction of hosts to brown dwarf desert inhabitants

11:30 Mariangela Bonavita

            The hunt for the DeltaMu companions

11:50 Duncan Forgan

            A Game-Theoretic Approach to Planetesimal Growth

12:10 Martin Dominik

            Open Science – Policies for creative researchers?

12:20 Pop-ups:

            Craig Stark:  Simulation of Alfven Ionization in Substellar Atmospheres

            Alistair Glasse:  A Europe-wide strategy for a JWST EBD 'survey'.

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Afternoon Session: Brainstorming ideas for next-generation projects

15:00 Coffee

15:30 ROE seminar with Sijme-Jan Paardekooper: http://www.roe.ac.uk/ifa/seminars/

Previous meetings: 

https://sebd6.sciencesconf.org

https://sebd5.sciencesconf.org/

4th Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Meeting

3rd Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Meeting

2nd Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Meeting

1st Scottish Exoplanet / Brown Dwarf Meeting