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2026 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop Posters and Pops


Poster/Pop Submission Site

The poster/pop deadline is July 13, 2026. No submissions via email will be accepted.

Posters

Both in-person and remote attendees are invited to submit electronic posters, which will be grouped by science area and added to the workshop website. All posters must contain original research and be broadly related to the topic of the workshop. We will not accomodate unrelated topics. Each poster should be a one-page document with some text and figures explaining research methods and results (see last year's workshop page for some example posters). Please only include logos from institutions with which you are affiliated; do not use the NASA or NExScI logos unless you are affiliated with these institutions.

In-person poster presenters may also bring a printout of their poster to mount on the provided poster boards on a first-submitted, first-served basis; due to space considerations, we may not be able to accommodate all in-person posters. The poster printout should have maximum dimensions of 4 feet (120 cm) wide by 4 feet (120 cm) high. We do not have the ability to print posters here at Caltech, but there is a nearby Fedex facility if on-site printing is needed.

Use of AI tools in poster preparation is permitted for tasks such as language editing, formatting, coding assistance, or figure preparation. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and appropriate citation of all submitted content, including text, analyses, figures, and conclusions. Any substantive use of AI tools should be disclosed during submission. AI systems may not be listed as authors, and generated content must not include fabricated data, citations, or scientific results.

A webinar on tips and tricks for effective communication with scientific posters was held on June 23, 2026. Please see this link for a link to the presentation.

Poster Pops

Pops are short, oral advertisements for your poster. If you submit a pop, you must submit a poster.

In-person attendees should submit up to two slides, and will give their poster pop in-person.

Remote attendees who submit a poster can submit a recorded poster pop. If space allows, these will be included in the pop presentations during the meeting. Inclusion in the in-person agenda is limited by the number of slots available (40), and will therefore be based on the relevance to the topics covered by the workshop, as well as adherence to the 90-second maximum length. Remote attendees will not present a live pop.

All poster pops should be no longer than 90 seconds in length. If you are submitting a poster and a pop, you will need to make two separate submissions. Do not forget to add your name to your poster and pop!

The poster pop schedule can be found here.

In-person poster presenters are numbered in alphabetical order (by last name) in the table below. In-person attendees should hang their poster on the poster board corresponding to this number. Remote poster presentations are listed at the end of the table.

Poster Presentations
Poster # Author Title (click title to view poster)
1 Agazzi, Mariasole Aurora (ETH Zurich) Rotation-Speed Optimization for Planet Detection in a LIFE-like Nulling Interferometer
2 Balaji, Sricharan (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Modeling the early stage of post-main sequence evolution of Hot and Warm Jupiters
3 Caceres, Lucciana (University of Kansas) High-Resolution Spectroscopy and GCM Simulations with Magnetic Effects: Ti and Fe in the Atmosphere of TOI-2109b
4 Carrasco, Evan (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Institute for Astronomy) RATTLED BUT NOT BROKEN: The Partially Broken Resonant Chain TOI-1246 and Its Non-Transiting Companions
5 Castro, Zachary (California State University, Northridge) The Effect of Dust Scattering on Spectral Indices in Upper Scorpius
6 Cheng, Vincent (University of Hawaii at Hilo) Measuring the Mass of the Youngest Sub-Neptune, K2-33b, with 3 Years of VLT/CRIRES Spectral Data
7 Chin, Laura (Boston University) Drawing Atmosphere–Interior Connections: Mantle Resistivity and Atmosphere Escape
8 Collins, Sean (University of Michigan) A Compact Pair of Giant Planets near the 2:1 Mean Motion Resonance around TOI-3850
9 Consiglio, Antonio (Unisa-University of Salerno/INFN/INAF) SETTING UP A STRATEGY FOR TRIPLE-LENS MODELING
10 D'Angiolillo, Skylar (University of California, Riverside) Orbital Dynamics as a Habitability Diagnostic for Nearby Planetary Systems
11 Discavage, Joseph (University of Kansas) Characterizing Exoplanets across the Radius Valley using data from NASA's TESS Mission
12 Elliott, Ashley (Louisiana State University) The Roman GBTDS All-Star Catalog
13 Gale, Bridget (UCSC) Exploring the Neptune Desert in Binary Star Systems
14 Garcia Soto, Aylin (Boise State University) Citizen Science Project: Flares in Open Clusters
15 Hand, Joseph (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) The Missing Link: Explaining the Origin of V1298 Tau's Broken Resonance Chain
16 Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) The Near-Infrared Transit Explorer (NITE)
17 Kuffskie, Maggie (University of Alabama) Atmospheric Evolution Around Evolved Stars
18 Lastovka, Matthew (University of Maryland - College Park) Inferring Planet Occurrence Rates in Different Galactic Populations: Connecting K2 and Roman
19 Maller, Jared (The University of Georgia) Characterizing Gravitational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks around Hosts with Different Stellar Masses
20 Mazziotti, Nicolas (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Preparing for Gaia DR4: Detecting Long-Period Giant Planets with Astrometry
21 Moquin, Julie (NASA GSFC/SURA) One Man's TraSHDUMP is Another Man's Treasure: An Exoplanet Candidate in the Kepler Bonus Light Curves
22 Nunota, Kansuke (The University of Osaka) Fast Detection and Classification of Planetary Anomalies in Roman Microlensing Light Curves
23 Papazyan, Ani (California State University Northridge) Modeling the Effects of Dust Scattering on the Sub-mm/mm fluxes in Protoplanetary Disks
24 Premnath, Pranav (UC Irvine) Searching for GEMS: Building the Largest Volume-Limited Sample of Giant Planets around M Dwarfs
25 Rhem, Maleah (University of Kansas) Searching for Long-Period Giants within K2 Planetary Systems
26 Skinner, Brett (Univeristy of New Mexico) Uncovering Long-Period Exoplanets in TESS Data Through Single-Transits
27 Tamaoki, Takuto (University of Osaka) Fast Two-Star Modeling of High-Resolution Images toward Joint Light-Curve and Image Fitting of Microlensing Events
28 Tiburcio, Emelly (Louisiana State University) Color-Surface Brightness Relations with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
29 Tuson, Amy (UMBC / NASA GSFC) Long-Period Transiting Exoplanets in the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey
30 Whyte, Caldon (Florida Institute of Technology) White Dwarf Exoplanets: 3-D Chemistry-Climate Modeling in Synchronous Rapid Rotation Regime
31 Zaman, Md Abdullah Al (University of Kansas) Towards Precise Eta-Earth Estimates: Homogenous Reanalysis of Planetary Parameters and Statistical Validation for 187 Kepler Habitable and Near-Habitable Zone Confirmed and Candidate Planets
remote Jatin (Rayat Bahra University) Evaluation of Exoplanet Validation Metrics for TESS Objects of Interest Using Light Curves
remote Khandelwal, Akanksha (Instituto de Astronomía UNAM, Mexico City, México) Validation of TOI-7413 b: A Neptunian Planet on the Neptunian Ridge Around an M Dwarf
remote Lehtmets, Alexandra (University of Tartu) Can the tail transit without a planet?
remote Naik, Ajinkya (IUCAA, Pune) Disentangling Exoplanet Transits with NestAR
remote Nakamori, Moyuru (Hiroshima International School) Physics-Informed Transit Diagnostics for Limited-Data Triage of TESS Planet Candidates
remote Nandi, Rudra Protap (Satkhira Government College) Refining the Orbit of TrES-3 b through Transit Photometry
remote O. Kovacs, Andre (Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics Mackenzie (CRAAM)) OVERCOMING STELLAR ACTIVITY IN THE ANALYSIS OF TRANSIT AND ECLIPSE TIMING VARIATIONS OF WASP-52 b
remote Páez, Santiago (Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Ground-based multiband transit follow-up with OPTICAM and SAINT-EX at OAN-SPM
remote Pandey, Shreesham (Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India) Detectability of General-Relativistic Apsidal Precession in Short-Period Transiting Giant Planets to Be Discovered by the Roman GBTDS
remote Pichardo Marcano, Manuel (Instituto de Astronomía-UNAM) Searching for Earth-sized planets around brown dwarfs with SAINT-EX

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