Planets Beyond the Solar System
and the Next Generation of Space Missions

The program will include:

• New programs for the detection and study of extra-solar planets
• Recent progress in the search for extra-solar planets
• The astrophysical context of planet detection
• Spin-offs and benefits of planet detection programs

Confirmed speakers include:

H. Thronson: The roadmap study and the NASA Origins Program
J-M Mariotti: European efforts
D. Latham: Radial velocity searches
A. Burrows: Models of planets following recent detections
K. Sahu: Detecting planets with microlensing
D. Sandler: Large aperture direct imaging
M. Shao: SIM, the Space Interferometry Mission
M. Colavita: Ground-based optical inferometry
R. Angel: Infrared interferometry
M. McCaughrean: Proto-stars and their environments
T. Henry: Low-mass companions to nearby stars
T. Brown: Photometric methods and limitations
G. Gatewood: Astrometric searches on the ground and in space
M. Simon: Planet formation the binary environment
C. Burrows: The Advanced Cameras on HST
R. Brown: Conference summary

Scientific Organizing Committee:

D. Soderblom (Chair), K. Noll, R. Allen; STScI
C. Beichman, M. Werner; JPL
P. Feldman; JHU
G. Marcy, SFSU/UCB

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