2021 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Virtual Workshop

The workshop will address how transformational new datasets are allowing us to address key questions about the formation and evolution of planets and their potential habitability; topics will include:

• Properties of transiting young planets detected by the Kepler/K2 and TESS missions
• Gaia identification of groups of young stars and determination of their ages
• Properties of planets and disks imaged directly with ground-based faculties (e.g., Gemini/GPI, SPHERE/VLTI, Keck and ALMA) and space-based telescopes (Spitzer, HST and, soon, JWST)
• Environment influence of an active young star on the evolution of the primordial atmosphere of a young planet
• Theoretical bases for the formation and evolution of a planetary systems, including both the disk and planets