TESS Science Conference I

July 29 - Aug 2 2019, MIT / Cambridge, USA

  • February 1st: Open abstract submission.
  • March 1st: Splinter session abstract deadline.
  • March 20th: Open registration and requests for financial support.
  • May 1st: Talks and posters abstract deadline, financial support requests deadline.
  • May 31st: Announcement of the program and decisions on financial support requests.
  • June 14th: Regular registration deadline.
  • July 29th: The first day of the Conference.

List of Attendees

  • Harrison Abbot - Australian National University
  • Elisabeth Adams - Planetary Science Institute
  • Brett Addison - University of Southern Queensland
  • Conny Aerts - Institute of Astronomy; KU Leuven
  • John Ahlers - NASA/GSFC & USRA
  • Julian David Alvarado Gomez - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Eliana M. Amazo-Gomez - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
  • David Armstrong - University of Warwick
  • Daniel Bayliss - University of Warwick
  • Jacob Bean - University of Chicago
  • Juliette Becker - University of Michigan
  • Tim Bedding - University of Sydney
  • Charles Beichman - NExSCI/IPAC
  • Bjorn Benneke - University of Montreal
  • Christine Benoit - Harvard College Observatory
  • David Berardo - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Bruce Berriman - Caltech/IPAC-NExScI
  • Zach Berta-Thompson - University of Colorado Boulder
  • Zoe de Beurs - University of Texas at Austin
  • Allyson Bieryla - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Jayne Birkby - University of Amsterdam
  • Gary Blackwood - NASA JPL
  • Francois Bouchy - Geneva Observatory
  • Luke Bouma - Princeton University
  • Dominic Bowman - KU Leuven
  • Pat Boyce - Boyce Research Initiatives and EducationFoundation
  • Padi Boyd - NASA GSFC
  • Rafael Brahm - Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Yoni Brande - University of Maryland / NASA GSFC
  • Christopher Burke - MIT
  • Jennifer Burt - MIT Kavli Institute
  • Derek Buzasi - Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Jonathan Byrne - Randall Boyd Planetarium; Emmanuel College
  • Ilaria Carleo - Wesleyan University
  • Theron Carmichael - Harvard University
  • Quentin Changeat - University College London
  • David Charbonneau - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard-Smithsonian
  • Ashley Chontos - Institute for Astronomy; University of Hawaii
  • Jessie Christiansen - NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
  • David Ciardi - Caltech/IPAC-NExScI
  • Agnieszka Cieplak - NASA GSFC / CRESST-II
  • Catherine Clark - Northern Arizona University; Lowell Observatory
  • Jake Clark - University of Southern Queensland
  • Ryan Cloutier - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Ann Marie Cody - NASA Ames Research Center
  • Ofer Cohen - University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Karen Collins - CfA/SAO
  • Isabel Colman - The University of Sydney
  • Lorenzo S. Colombo - Universita degli Studi di Padova
  • Knicole Colon - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Brian Cook - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Ian Crossfield - MIT
  • Adam Crutcher - University of Michigan
  • Kaiming Cui - National Astronomical Observatories; Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jason Curtis - Columbia University
  • Paul Dalba - University of California Riverside
  • Ashley Davidson - St. Paul's School intern at MIT
  • Tansu Daylan - MIT
  • Bartlomiej Debski - Jagiellonian University
  • Drake Deming - University of Maryland
  • Hannah Diamond-Lowe - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Jiayin Dong - The Pennsylvania State University
  • John Doty - Noqsi Aerospace Ltd
  • Diana Dragomir - MIT
  • Courtney Dressing - University of California; Berkeley
  • Jason Eastman - Harvard University
  • Simon Ebo - University of Central Lancashire
  • Billy Edwards - University College London (UCL)
  • Nora Eisner - University of Oxford
  • Nestor Espinoza - Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie
  • Zahra Essack - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Tom Evans - MIT
  • Michael Fausnaugh - MIT
  • Adina Feinstein - University of Chicago
  • Rachel Fernandes - Department of Planetary Sciences & Lunar and Planetary Laboratory; The University of Arizona
  • Tara Fetherolf - University of California Riverside
  • William Fong - MIT
  • Akihiko Fukui - University of Tokyo
  • Eric Gaidos - University of Hawaii
  • Varun Ganapathi - Alpha Health Inc. (Formerly Stanford/Google)
  • Aylin Garcia Soto - MIT
  • Juliana Garcia-Mejia - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Dawn Gelino - NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
  • Megan Gialluca - Northern Arizona University
  • Emily Gilbert - University of Chicago
  • Ana Glidden - MIT
  • Max Goldberg - Caltech
  • Alex Granados - Wellesley College
  • Lisa Grossman - Science News
  • Samuel Grunblatt - University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
  • Sascha Grziwa - RIU; Planetary Research; at the University of Cologne
  • Hans Moritz Guenther - MIT
  • Maximilian Guenther - MIT
  • Natalia Guerrero - MIT
  • Zhao Guo - Pennsylvania State University
  • Nader Haghighipour - Institute for Astronomy; University of Hawaii
  • Sam Halverson - MIT
  • Eunkyu Han - Boston University
  • Henggeng Han - National Astronomical Observatories; CAS
  • Diana Hannikainen - Sky & Telescope
  • Emil Hanzevack - College of William & Mary
  • Caleb Harada - University of Maryland, College Park
  • Jacob Harburg - MIT
  • Kevin Hardegree-Ullman - Caltech/IPAC-NExScI
  • Raphaelle Haywood - Harvard College Observatory
  • Matthias He - The Pennsylvania State University
  • Brian Healy - Johns Hopkins University
  • Ana M. Heras - European Space Agency
  • JJ Hermes - Boston University
  • Daniel Hey - University of Sydney
  • Nora Hoch - Wellesley College
  • Klaus Hodapp - University of Hawaii; Institute for Astronomy
  • Daniel Holdsworth - University of Central Lancashire
  • Matthew Holman - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Thomas Holoien - Carnegie Observatories
  • Ward Howard - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Xu Huang - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Daniel Huber - University of Hawaii
  • Douglas Hudgins - NASA Headquarters
  • Spencer Hurt - Harvard College
  • Mma Ikwut-Ukwa - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Kate Isaak - European Space Agency/ESTEC
  • James Jenkins - Universidad de Chile
  • Jon Jenkins - NASA ARC
  • Nada Jevtic - Bloomsburg University
  • Cole Johnston - KU Leuven
  • Andres Jordan - PUC; Chile
  • Dave Jordan - University of Georgia
  • Anders Justesen - Stellar Astrophysics Centre; Aarhus University
  • Petr Kabath - AI ASCR
  • Stella Kafka - AAVSO
  • Lisa Kaltenegger - Carl Sagan Institute Cornell
  • Stephen Kane - University of California Riverside
  • Nobuyuki Kawai - Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Julia Keller - MIT
  • Eliza Kempton - University of Maryland
  • John Kielkopf - University of Louisville
  • Emil Knudstrup - Stellar Astrophysics Centre; Aarhus University
  • Michael Kotson - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Laura Kreidberg - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Ethan Kruse - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Kristine Wai Fun Lam - Technical University Berlin
  • David Latham - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Jacob Levin - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Alan Levine - MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics
  • Gang Li - University of Sydney
  • Tanda Li - The University of Sydney
  • Jorge Lillo-Box - European Southern Observatory (ESO)
  • Jack Lissauer - NASA Ames Research Center
  • John Livingston - University of Tokyo
  • Robert Lockwood - Northrop Grumman, Inc.
  • Pratik Lonare - Fergusson College ;Pune; India
  • Mercedes Lopez-Morales - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Dana Louie - University of Maryland
  • Rodrigo Luger - Flatiron Institute
  • Michael Lund - Caltech/IPAC-NExScI
  • Hiroyuki Maehara - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  • Eric Mamajek - NASA JPL
  • Francois Martel - Espace Inc.
  • Chris Martin - The Kavli Foundation
  • David Martin - University of Chicago
  • Radha Mastandrea - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Emelyn Matos - MT
  • Elisabeth Matthews - MIT
  • Peter McCullough - Johns Hopkins University
  • Scott McDermott - MIT Kavli
  • Aylin McGough - University of Wyoming
  • Kim McLeod - Wellesley College
  • Amber Medina - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard and Smithsonian
  • Nicholas Mehrle - MIT
  • Kristo Ment - Harvard University
  • Travis Metcalfe - Space Science Institute
  • Ismael Mireles - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Teo Mocnik - UC Riverside
  • Laszlo Molnar - Konkoly Observatory; MTA CSFK
  • Joey Mombarg - Institute of Astronomy; KU Leuven
  • Marco Montalto - Universita di Padova
  • Benjamin Montet - University of Chicago
  • Paul Mooney - Intune.Network
  • Susan Mullally - Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Domenico Nardiello - Universita degli Studi di Padova
  • Norio Narita - Astrobiology Center
  • Jose-Dias do Nascimento Jr do Nascimento - CfA-SAO & UFRN
  • James Neff - National Science Foundation
  • Elisabeth Newton - Dartmouth College
  • Tam Nguyen - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Belinda Nicholson - University of Southern Queensland
  • Louise Nielsen - Geneva Observatory
  • Prajwal Niraula - MIT
  • Ryan Oelkers - Vanderbilt University
  • Hugh Osborn - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
  • James Owen - Imperial College London
  • Fiona Powers Ozyurt - Wellesley College
  • Andras Pal - Konkoly Observatroy
  • Enric Palle - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
  • Myeong-Gu Park - Kyungpook National University
  • Anna Payne - Institute for Astronomy; University of Hawaii
  • May Gade Pedersen - KU Leuven
  • Joshua Pepper - Lehigh University
  • Randy Persinger - Aerospace
  • Merrin Peterson - Universite de Montreal
  • Ashley Piccone - University of Wyoming
  • Giampaolo Piotto - Universita di Padova
  • Emese Plachy - Konkoly Observatory; MTA CSFK
  • Peter Plavchan - George Mason University
  • Geisa Ponte - Centro de Radioastronomia e Astrofisica Mackenzie
  • Florian Quatresooz - EAPS
  • Didier Queloz - U. Cambridge
  • Sam Quinn - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Andreas Quirrenbach - Landessternwarte Heidelberg
  • Seth Redfield - Wesleyan University
  • Timothy Van Reeth - Institute of Astronomy; KU Leuven
  • Neill Reid - STScI
  • Howard Relles - CfA; Harvard
  • George Ricker - MIT
  • Elizabeth Ricker - NeuroEducate
  • Ryan Ridden-Harper - Australian National University
  • Joey Rodriguez - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Jan van Roestel - California Institute of Technology
  • Benjamin Roulston - Boston University
  • Pamela Rowden - The Open University
  • Alexander Rudat - The Aerospace Corporation
  • Surangkhana Rukdee - Harvard College Observatory
  • Jennifer van Saders - University of Hawaii
  • Sarah Schmidt - Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
  • Jeremy Schnittman - NASA Goddard
  • Richard Schwarz - Patashnick Voorheesville Observatory
  • Sara Seager - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lizhou Sha - MIT
  • Benjamin Shappee - University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy
  • Avi Shporer - MIT
  • Jeffrey Smith - SETI Institute
  • Krista Lynne Smith - Stanford University
  • Clara Sousa-Silva - MIT
  • Alton Spencer - Danbury High School
  • Becky Steele - University of Louisville
  • Hannah Stickler - Wellesley College
  • Martin Still - NASA
  • Chris Stockdale - Hazelwood Observatory
  • Jan Subjak - Charles University; Prague; Czech Republic
  • Rohan Subramani - Yorktown High School
  • Vyshi Suntharalingam - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Pal Szabo - Konkoly Observatory MTA CSFK
  • Patrick Tamburo - Boston University
  • Naylynn Tanon Reyes - San Diego Mesa College | NASA GSFC
  • Jamie Tayar - Institute for Astronomy; University of Hawaii
  • Johanna Teske - Carnegie Observatories
  • Chris Tinney - UNSW Sydney
  • Guillermo Torres - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Megan Trivedi - MIT
  • Joseph Twicken - SETI Institute/NASA Ames Reseach Center
  • Anastasiia Uvarova - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Patrick Vallely - The Ohio State University
  • Andrew Vanderburg - University of Texas at Austin
  • Roland Vanderspek - MIT
  • Valeriy Vasilyev - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
  • Steven Villanueva - MIT
  • Jesus Villasenor - MIT
  • Jeffrey Volosin - NASA
  • William Waalkes - University of Colorado; Boulder
  • Qinan Wang - Department of physics and astronomy; Johns Hopkins University
  • Songhu Wang - Yale
  • Wei Wang - National Astronomical Observatories; Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Nevin Weinberg - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sarah Wells - Space.com
  • Tim White - The Australian National University
  • Josh Winn - Princeton University
  • Jennifer Winters - Center for Astrophysics ; Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Robert Wittenmyer - University of Southern Queensland
  • Ian Wong - MIT
  • Deborah Woods - MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Duncan Wright - University of Southern Queensland
  • Huiqin Yang - National Astronomical Observatories of China
  • Xinyu Yao - Lehigh University
  • Brianna Zawadzki - Penn State
  • Christine Zeiser - LSS-College; Wiesbaden; Germany
  • Joel Thomas Zeiser - BNS-College; Konigstein; Germany
  • Li Zeng - Harvard University
  • Zhuchang Zhan - MIT
  • George Zhou - SAO
  • Sebastian Zieba - Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics; University of Innsbruck; Austria
  • Carl Ziegler - University of Toronto

Last updated August 5th