Exoplanets
All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus
Director: David Gross (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Organizers:
David Stevenson (Caltech)
Re'em Sari (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Through systematic lectures on the foundations of planetary origin, evolution and structure, this School will provide the background needed to explore and interpret the remarkable detection of thousands of exoplanets around other stars. This sets the stage for a more detailed understanding of their properties and system architecture in the coming decade.
Speakers:
Dave Charbonneau, Harvard University
Tristan Guilliot, Nice Observatory, France
Yoram Lithwick, Northwestern University
Tsevi Mazeh, Tel Aviv University
Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Santa Barbara
Adam Showman, University of Arizona Tuscon
Giovanna Tinetti, University College London
Scott Tremaine, IAS, Princeton