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Monday 12th November

*08:30-09:00 Registration*

*09:00-09:30 Introduction*

09:00-09:10	Roberto Saglia	Welcome
09:10-09:30	David Pinfield	RoPACS and over-view

*09:30-10:55 WFCAM Transit Survey I*

09:30-09:50	Brigitta Sipocz	WTS: A near-infrared transit survey
09:50-10:10	Gabor Kovacs	WTS: Hot Jupiters around M-dwarfs, a sensitivity analysis
10:10-10:30	Michele Cappetta	WTS-1b
10:30-10:55	Jayne Birkby	WTS-2b: too close for comfort?

*10:55-11:15 Coffee*

*11:15-12:15 WFCAM Transit Survey II*

11:15-11:35	Jesus Zendejas	WTS Difference imaging
11:35-11:55	Niall Goulding	Periodic Variability of Spotted M dwarfs in WTS
11:55-12:15	Hristo Stoev	Classification of variable stars in the WFCAM Transit Survey

*12:15-13:00 Kepler I*

12:15-12:40	Martin Still	The Extended Kepler Project - New Discovery Space, Open Archives, Public Mission
12:40-13:00	Dimitris Mislis	High accuracy & long timescale light curves

*13:00-14:30 Lunch*

*14:30-15:15 Kepler II*

14:30-14:45	Stuart Taylor	Flow of planets, not weak tidal evolution, determines short-period distribution
14:45-15:00	David Armstrong	An automated search for circumbinary planets
15:00-15:15	Francesca Faedi	The SOAPS project: Spin-Orbit Alignement of Planetary Systems

*15:15-15:45 Coffee*

*15:45-17:00 Other transit surveys I*

15:45-16:10	Gaspar Bakos	Hat
16:10-16:30	J. Koppenhoefer	Pan-Planets
16:30-16:45	Sergio Hoyer	Transit Monitoring in the South (TraMoS) project
16:45-17:00	Ronny Errmann	YETI - search for young transiting planets


Tuesday 13th November

*08:30-09:00 Registration*

*09:00-11:15 Other transit surveys II*

09:00-09:25	Francesca Faedi	The SuperWASP and NGTS ultra wide field exoplanets surveys
09:25-09:50	Alessandro Sozzetti	APACHE
09:50-10:10	Enric Palle	LCOGT
10:10-10:30	Ignas Snellen	MASCARA
10:30-10:55	Christopher Broeg	CHEOPS
10:55-11:15	Michael Gillon	A transit survey targeting ultra-cool dwarfs

*11:15-11:35 Coffee*

*11:35-12:40 Eclipsing binaries*

11:35-11:55	Paul Steele	WD-BD eclipsing binaries
11:55-12:15	Max Kuznetsov	The spectroscopic study of M8.5-M9.5 stars and brown dwarfs
12:15-12:40	Matt Burleigh	Searching for planets around white dwarfs

*12:40-14:10 Lunch*

*14:10-15:35 Radial velocity I*

14:10-14:35	James Jenkins	The Search for Exoplanets at Universidad de Chile
14:35-14:55	John Barnes	Red Optical Planet Survey: A radial velocity search for low mass M dwarf planets
14:55-15:15	Mikko Tuomi	Signals embedded in the radial velocity noise
15:15-15:35	Xavier Bonfils	HARPS Low-mass/habitable/transiting planets orbiting M dwarfs

*15:35-15:55 Coffee*

*15:55-17:30 Radial velocity II*

15:55-16:10	Martin Kuerster	Jupiter analogues and planets of active stars
16:10-16:35	Andreas Quirrenbach	CARMENES
16:35-16:55	Mari-Cruz Galvez	Benchmark low-mass object in Moving Groups
17:55-17:15	(David Barrado)	Follow-up at Calar Alto of Kepler candidates: high spatial resolution imaging and spectroscopy


Wednesday 14th November

*08:30-09:00 Registration*

*09:00-09:40 Radial velocity III*

09:00-09:25	Luca Pasquini	New spectrographs for planet radial velocity searches
09:25-09:40	Guillem Anglada	Advances in spectral analysis of cool stars

09:40-10:40	Julia Epp (EU Office)	Introduction to EU Grants and Fellowships

*10:40-11:00 Coffee*

*11:00-12:40 Ultracool atmospheres and wide-field survey complementary science I*

11:00-11:25	Nicolas Lodieu	Ultracool dwarfs in open clusters and star-forming regions
11:25-11:45	Joana Gomes	Searching for benchmark systems containing ultra-cool dwarfs and white dwarfs
11:45-12:05	Avril Day-Jones	Measuring ultracool properties from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey
12:05-12:25	David Pinfield	Sub-stellar objects with habitable zone temperatures: a new search for Y dwarfs in WISE
12:25-12:40	Silvia Catalan	Cool white dwarfs in the WFCAM Transit Survey

*12:40-14:10 Lunch*

*14.10-14:55 Ultracool atmospheres and wide-field survey complementary science II*

14:10-14:25	Leigh Smith	A 2 Epoch Proper Motion Catalogue from the UKIDSS Large Area Survey
14:25-14:40	Zenghua Zhang	Purple dwarfs: new L subdwarfs from UKIDSS and SDSS
14:40-14:55	Alexander Mustill	WD planets

*14:55-15:35 Astrobiology*

14:55-15:20	Antonio Garcia-Munios	Lunar eclipses: Probing the atmosphere of an inhabited planet
15:20-15:35	Rene Heller	Constraints on exomoon habitability

*15:35-15:55 Coffee*

*15:55-16:45 Planet formation*

15:55-16:20	Doug Lin	The diverse origin of hot Jupiters and super Earths
16:20-16:45	Dimitris Stamatellos	Planet formation by disc fragmentation

*19:30 Conference Dinner*


Thursday 15th November

*08:30-09:00 Registration*

*09:00-11:05 Characterization of host stars*

09:00-09:25	Jeff Valenti	Spectroscopic analysis of cool stars - implications for planet formation
09:25-09:50	Sandra Jeffers	Realistic limitations of detecting planets around young active stars
09:50-10:10	Yakiv Pavlenko	New procedure of the fine analysis of spectra of F- G- K- stars
10:10-10:30	Oleksiy Ivanyuk	Spectroscopic abundance analysis of the 100 stars from the CHEPS sample
10:30-10:50	Andy Moya	Pulsating stars harbouring planets
10:50-11:05	Barbara Rojas-Ayala	M dwarf Metallicities and Temperatures from K-band Spectra

*11:05-11:20 Coffee*

*11:20-12:25 CoROT*

11:20-11:40	Hans Deeg	CoRoT: past, present and future
11:40-12:00	Hannu Parviainen	Secondary eclipses in the CoRoT light curves
12:00-12:25	Juan Cabrera	Derivation of the parameters of CoRoT planets

*12:25-13:05 Transit spectroscopy*

12:25-12:45	Ignas Snellen	The future of ground-based high-dispersion spectroscopy
12:45-13:05	Felipe Murgas	Transit Spectroscopy with GTC

*13:05-14:20 Lunch*

*14:20-15:20 Model atmospheres*

14:20-14:45	Derek Homeier	Cool Dwarfs and Hot Giants - Atmosphere Models across the Substellar Transition
14:45-15:05	Grygorii Polinovskyi	Modelling of telluric spectra in the framework of 1D approach
15:05-15:20	Vivien Parmentier	Mechanisms affecting the composition of Hot Jupiters atmospheres

*15:20-15:40 Coffee*

*15:40-17:10 Direct detection of planets*

15:40-16:05	Ernst de Mooij	Ground-based secondary eclipse observations
16:05-16:20	Peter Wheatley	NGTS: The Next Generation Transit Survey
16:20-16:40	Nadia Kostogryz	A spectral differential characterization of low-mass companions
16:40-16:55	Marie Eve-Naud	A distant planetary-mass companion to a young M star
16:55-17:10	Ian Crossfield	Re-evaluating the Very Hot Jupiter WASP-12b


Friday 16th November

*09:00-10:35 Planetary disks*

09:00-09:25	Leonardo Testi	Alma
09:25-09:50	Barbara Ercolano	Dispersal of proto-planetary disks
09:50-10:10	Olga Zakhozhay	Spectral energy distributions of fragmenting protostellar disks
10:10-10:35	Ngoc Phan Bao	Outflows and Disks of Brown Dwarfs with SMA, CARMA and ALMA

*10:35-10:55 Coffee*

*10:55-12:55 Future space missions I*

10:55-11:20	Matthew Stuttard	Astrium
11:20-11:45	Giovanna Tinnetti	EChO
11:45-12:05	James Frith	Targets for future space missions
12:05-12:30	Juan Cabrera	PLATO
12:30-12:55	Anthony Boccaletti	SPICES

*12:55-14:25 Lunch*

*14:25-15:10 Future space missions II*

14:25-14:50	Alessandro Sozzetti	GAIA
14:50-15:10	Carlos del Burgo	PHASES

*15:10-15:30 Coffee*

*15:30-16:15 Future space missions III*

15:30-15:55	Jean-Philippe Beaulieu	Space-based micro-lensing planet searches
15:55-16:15	Eduardo Martin	Euclid legacy

*16:15-16:30 Closing remarks*

*16:30 Finish*