The Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshops are held annually and provide opportunities for students, postdocs, and researchers to learn about the engineering and scientific application of exoplanet-related techniques used by the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program.
2025: Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics
2024: Advances in Direct Imaging: From Young Jupiters to Habitable Earths
2023: Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Next Twenty Years
2022: Exoplanet Science in the Gaia Era
2021: Circumstellar Disks and Young Planets
2020: Extreme Precision Radial Velocity
2019: Astrobiology for Astronomers
2018: Did I Really Just Find an Exoplanet?
2017: Microlensing in the Era of WFIRST
2015: Exoplanetary System Demographics: Theory and Observations
2014: Imaging Planets and Disks
2013: Workshop cancelled due to federal government sequestration.
2012: Working with Exoplanet Light Curves
2011: Exploring Exoplanets with Microlensing
2010: Stars as Homes for Habitable Planetary Systems
2009: Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Prior to 2008, the Sagan Summer Workshops were called the Michelson Summer Schools . They were aimed at advancing the scientific and technical understanding of the objectives of the Navigator Program. No workshop was held in 2008, and workshops from 1999 to 2002 were hosted by institutions other than the Michelson Science Center/NExScI.
2007: Planetary Transits: Detection to Characterization
2006: Frontiers of Interferometry: Stars, Disks, and Terrestrial Planets
2005: Discovering New Worlds Through Astrometry
2004: Frontiers of High Contrast Imaging in Astrophysics
2003: Interferometry Overview
2002: Interferometry Theory and Techniques
2001: Interferometry Techniques
2000: Astrophysics with Optical Interferometry
1999: Interferometry Summer School
NExScI has had a role in organizing the following conferences.
February 2025: Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet 2
September 2024: NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium
December 2023: ExSoCal 2023
November 2020: Exoplanet Demographics
March 2019: Kepler & K2 Science Conference V
September 2018: ExSoCal 2018
November 2017: Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet
September 2017: ExSoCal 2017
June 2017: Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV
February 2017: 21st International Microlensing Conference
September 2016: ExSoCal 2016
November 2015: Kepler & K2 Science Conference III
September 2015: ExSoCal 2015
November 2013: Kepler Science Conference II
February 2012: Science with a Wide-field Telescope in Space and The 16th International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing
May 2011: Exploring Strange New Worlds: From Giant Planets to Super Earths
August 2010: Astronomy of Exoplanets with Precise Radial Velocities
April 2009: Missions for Exoplanets 2010-2020
September 2008: SIM Science Studies Workshop
November 2006: Cool Stars 14
October 2005: Protostars and Planets V
March 2005: From Disks to Planets: New Observations, Models & Theories
November 2004: Star-Planet Interactions and Implications For Habitability
The Sagan Fellows Symposia are held every two to three years and are for current and past Sagan/Michelson graduate student and postdoctoral fellows to present current or past research results. These symposia highlight the cutting-edge efforts of the fellows, as well as discussion of career paths and networking. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
(last updated March 5th, 2025 15:14:07)
The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program.
