Blue Dots meeting #6

The next Blue Dots meeting will be hosted at ISSI in Bern on March 25th and 26th, in conjunction with the meeting of the ISSI team led by Helmut Lammer.

Participants:

 Roy Alonso
 Vincent Coudé du Foresto
 Stefan Dieters (for Jean-Philippe Beaulieu)
 Malcolm Fridlund
 Lisa Kaltenegger
 Maxim Khodachenko (Wednesday only)
 Fabien Malbet
 Marc Ollivier
 Jean Schneider
 Franck Selsis
 Mike Shao
 Daphne Stam (for Govianna Tinetti)
 Stephane Udry (Thursday only)

Agenda:

Wednesday, March 25th

 9h30 - 10h10: ESA news and EPRAT status (Fridlund+ discussion)
 10h10 - 10h30: Report on CNES prospective forum (Ollivier + discussion)
 10h30 - 11h00: Blue dots report, status and community feedback (Foresto & discussion)

- 11h00 - 11h30: coffee break

 11h30 - 12h15: Reviewing the key science questions: Planetary atmospheres and surfaces (Stam & discussion)
 12h15 - 13h00: Reviewing the key science questions: Habitability criteria (Kaltenegger & discussion)

- 13h00 - 14h30: lunch

 14h30 - 16h00: Reviewing the critical questions (discussion, all)
 15h15 - 16h00: Pathways conf. status, presentation of new Web site (Ribas + discussion)

- 16h00 - 16h30: coffee break

 16h30 - 17h15: Preparing the future: Europlanet funding possibilities (Lammer), turning Blue Dots into an institutionalized european network (with support for PhDs, postdocs etc.) ?
 17h15 - 18h00: Discussion on Pathways conf. (all): review invited speakers, satellite meetings, action items

- 20h00: dinner at Zunft zu Webern in the old town (Gerechtigkeitsgasse 68)

Thursday, March 26th

 9h30 - 11h00: Detecting habitable planets by astrometry (Shao, 45mn + 45mn discussion): potential & planned missions

- 11h00 - 11h30: coffee break

 11h30 - 13h00: Detecting habitable planets by radial velocity techniques (Udry, 45mn + 45mn discussion): potential & planned projects

- 13h00 - 14h30: lunch

 14h30 - 15h00: Discussion: complementarity between the two techniques
 15h00 - 15h30: Discussion: what remains to be clarified before drawing conclusions in the report ?
 15h30 - 16h00: Preparing the next cycle: action items