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 in NASA's 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 communities' scientific and technical understanding of the objectives of the Navigator Program. No workshop was held in 2008 and workshops from 1999-2002 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 Astronomical Interferometry in the Optical and Near-Infrared
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 Conference
September 2024: NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) Symposium
November 2020: Exoplanet Demographics
March 2019: Kepler & K2 Science Conference V
June 2017: Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV
February 2017: 21st International Microlensing Conference
September 2016: ExSoCal2016: An Exoplanet Orbital Interaction
November 2015: K2 Science Conference
September 2015: ExSoCal2015: An Exoplanet Orbital Interaction
November 2013: Kepler Science Conference II
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
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 2-3 years and are for current and past Sagan/Michelson graduate student and postdoctoral fellows to present current or past research results and will highlight many of their cutting-edge efforts as well as to discuss career paths and to network. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
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.
