ExoPAG 33 – Program
Overview | Program | Registration | Venue | Resources | Early Career Talks | Policies and Conduct
Agenda
(Updated 12/4/2025 )
Venue: Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Room: TBD
All times in Phoenix Time (PST +1 hour, EST +2 hours, UTC -7 hours)
JANUARY 3, 2026
| Session 1 (Chair: Ian Crossfield) | Speaker | Time (MST) | Duration (H:MM) |
| Registration & Science Networking | N/A | 8:30 AM | 0:30 |
| Welcome | Ian Crossfield (KU) | 9:00 AM | 0:15 |
| NASA Headquarters Exoplanet Exploration Program Update | Joshua Pepper (NASA HQ) | 9:15 AM | 0:30 |
| Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Office Update | Dawn Gelino (JPL) | 9:45 AM | 0:15 |
| ExEP Science Update | Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) | 10:00 AM | 0:15 |
| Early Career Talk: Understanding the late stages of planetary system formation | Kadin Worthen (JHU) | 10:15 AM | 0:15 |
| Early Career Talk: Revisiting Disk Masses with CO Isotopologues | Dingshan Deng (UA) | 10:30 AM | 0:15 |
| BREAK (30 min) | 10:45 AM | 0:30 | |
| Roman- Rubin exoplanet synergy | Rachel Street (LCO), remote | 11:15 AM | 0:15 |
| Getting Ready for Gaia DR4 | Sarah Blunt (UCSC) | 11:30 AM | 0:15 |
| Roman and Transiting Exoplanets | Robby Wilson (UMD/ GSFC) | 11:45 AM | 0:15 |
| Roman and microlensing: precursor studies | Sean Terry (UMD/ GSFC) | 12:00 PM | 0:15 |
| AI for Exoplanet Modeling/Analysis | Isaac Malsky (JPL) | 12:15 PM | 0:15 |
| LUNCH BREAK (90 min) | 12:30 PM | 1:30 | |
| Session 2 (Chair: TBD) | Speaker | Time (MST) | Duration (H:MM) |
| SAG 23 update: Exo-Zodiacal Dust & Direct Imaging | John Debes (STScI), remote | 2:00 PM | 0:15 |
| Early Career Talk: Investigating Core Induction Effect on Atmospheric Escape from Rocky Exoplanets and Implications for Habitability | Laura Chin (BU) | 2:15 PM | 0:15 |
| Early Career Talk: The Orbital Dynamics of Small Stars and their Exoplanets | Sheila Sagear (UF) | 2:30 PM | 0:15 |
| NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), NASA Exoplanet Archive Update | Jessie Christiansen (NExScI) | 2:45 PM | 0:15 |
| SAG 24 update: Starshade Observations | Stuart Shaklan (JPL) | 3:00 PM | 0:15 |
| SAG 26 update: HWO Reflectance Spectroscopy | Renyu Hu (PSU/JPL) | 3:15 PM | 0:15 |
| ExEP Technology Update | Nick Siegler (JPL) | 3:30 PM | 0:15 |
| BREAK (30 min) | 3:45 PM | 0:30 | |
| Session 3 (Chair: TBD) | Speaker | Time (MST) | Duration (H:MM) |
| Meeting Summary: The Great Link | Adina Feinstein (MSU), remote | 4:15 PM | 0:15 |
| Meeting Summary: Transits to Trends | Diana Dragomir (UNM), remote | 4:30 PM | 0:15 |
| SIG 2 update: Exoplanet Demographics | Rachel Fernandes (PSU) | 4:45 PM | 0:15 |
| Meeting Summary: Know Thy Star 2 | David Ciardi (Caltech/IPAC) | 5:00 PM | 0:15 |
| Community Q&A | 5:15 PM | 0:45 | |
| ADJOURN | 6:00 PM | ||
JANUARY 4, 2026
| Session 4 (Chair: TBD) | Speaker | Time (MST) | Duration (H:MM) |
| Registration & Science Networking | N/A | 8:30 AM | 0:30 |
| New CHEOPS Observing Opportunities | Bruno Merín (ESA), remote | 9:00 AM | 0:15 |
| Rocky Worlds DDT | Néstor Espinoza (STScI) | 9:15 AM | 0:15 |
| CHIANTI Database | Ken Dere (GMU) | 9:30 AM | 0:15 |
| Early Career Talk: The Science Potential of Characterizing Gas Giant Exoplanets with HWO | Beck Dacus (UCSD) | 9:45 AM | 0:15 |
| Early Career Talk: Orbit-Fitting Methodology for the SHERA SMEx Mission Concept | William Roberson (NMSU) | 10:00 AM | 0:15 |
| BREAK (30 min) | 10:15 AM | 0:30 | |
| Session 5 (Chair: Ian Crossfield) | Speaker | Time (MST) | Duration (H:MM) |
| HWO Cross-PAG SIG Update | Laura Mayorga (APL), remote | 10:45 AM | 0:15 |
| SAG 25 update: Technosignatures | Sofia Sheikh (UC Berkeley) | 11:00 AM | 0:15 |
| Roman Coronagraph Instrument Time Prioritization | Justin Hom (UA) | 11:15 AM | 0:15 |
| Open Mic Exoplanet Community Forum: Discuss new issues: new SIGs/SAGs, potential new ExoPAG Findings, suggestions for ExEP or ExoPAG action, announcements, etc. | Lead: Ian Crossfield | 11:30 AM | 0:45 |
| ADJOURN | 12:15 PM | ||
| Executive Committee Session | 12:15 PM | 0:45 | |
| Joint PAG Session 2pm TBC | |||
