Conference Schedule

A pdf with the full conference programme and abstracts is available to download here: Conference programme pdf.  

Thursday 26/06/2025 Code
Time
12:00 – 13:00 ARRIVAL
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
Session 1 Chair: Charle Bowesman
14:00 – 14:40 Jonathan Tennyson The ExoMol Project: Progress and Updates 01
14:40 – 15:00 Vatsal Panwar High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Ultra-Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Perspectives from the Roasting Marshmallows on Gemini South 05
15:00 – 15:40 Ryan MacDonald Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Over All Wavelengths 02
15:40 – 16:00 TEA BREAK
Session 2 Chair: Andrei Sokolov
16:00 – 16:40 Robert Hargreaves HITRAN2024: Data for Planetary Atmospheres 04
16:40 – 17:00 Miroslaw Schmidt Molecular Bands in High-Resolution Spectra of Kapteyn’s Star (M1.5 VI) Across a Broad Spectral Range from 3800 to 10,400 Å 07
17:00 – 17:20 Chiara Schleif High-Resolution Overtone Spectroscopy of H3O+ 06
17:20 – 17:40 Jeanna Buldyreva Updates and New Sections of the CoLine Database 03
17:40 – 18:00 Ruohan Liu Exploring the Atmospheres of Sub-Neptunes Through Retrievals and Forward Modelling 01
18:00 – 19:00 DINNER
19:00 – 22:00 QUIZ (Ryan Brady & Oleksiy Smola)
Friday 27/06/2025
08:00 – 09:00 BREAKFAST
Session 3 Chair: Alex Smola
09:00 – 09:40 Peter Bernath Laboratory Astrophysics for Cool Stars and Exoplanets 08
09:40 – 10:00 Qing-He Ni ExoMol Extensions: ExoAtom and ExoPhoto - Spectroscopic Databases for Atomic and Molecular Photodissociation 01
10:00 – 10:40 Jayne Birkby Exploring Complex Chemistry in Exoplanet Atmospheres at High Spectral Resolution 09
10:40 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4 Chair: Marco Pezzella
11:00 – 11:40 Giovanna Tinetti Towards a Chemical Survey of Exoplanets 01
11:40 – 12:00 Alexandro Collado UV Absorption Cross-Section of HCN for Photochemistry Modelling of Hot Exoplanets 10
12:00 – 12:20 Sushuang Ma Exploring the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter WASP-39b: Using Available Opacity Data 01
12:20 – 12:40 Charles Bowesman Non-LTE Opacities and Radiative Transfer for Exoplanets 01
12:40 – 14:00 LUNCH
Session 5 Chair: Perri Armando
14:00 – 14:40 Yamila Miguel Characterising Hot Rocky Exoplanets: Insights from Lava Oceans and Atmospheric Interactions 12
14:40 – 15:00 Andrei Sokolov Temperature-Dependent Photoabsorption Spectra and Photodissociation Rates of the Carbyne Radical (CH) 01
15:00 – 15:20 Elias Ehl UV Dual Comb Spectroscopy – Ultra-High Resolution Molecular Spectra in Milliseconds 14
15:20 – 15:40 Michael Roman Missing Opacity in the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune? 15
15:40 – 16:00 TEA BREAK
Session 6 Chair: Sushuang Ma
16:00 – 16:40 Patrick Tisserand Hydrogen Deficient Carbon-Rich Supergiant Stars: Tracing their Atmospheres Rich in the Oxygen-18 Isotope to their White Dwarf Merger Origin 16
16:40 – 17:00 Armando Perri Temperature-Dependent Photodissociation Cross-Sections and Rates for H2S and NH 01
17:00 – 17:20 Parul Janagal Blue Skies Space - A New Model for the Future of Space-Based Research Data 18
17:20 – 17:40 James O’Donoghue Probing the Most Revealing Layers of the Giant Planets 17
18:00 – 19:00 DINNER
19:00 – 20:30 POSTERS
Saturday 28/06/2025
07:00 - 08:00 Conference run
08:00 – 09:00 BREAKFAST
Session 7 Chair: Elizabeth Guest
09:00 – 09:40 Hannah Wakeford The Importance of UV-Optical Spectra of Giant Exoplanets 19
09:40 – 10:00 Mitchell Yzer The Opportunities and Challenges of Using Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectroscopy to Detect Atmospheric Technosignature Gases in Exoplanets 09
10:00 – 10:20 Ahmed Al-Refaie Next Generation Methods for Simulating Exoplanet Atmospheres 01
10:20 – 10:40 Ray Jayawardhana Spectroscopy of Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Objects and their Disks with JWST 20
10:40 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 8 Chair: Kyriaki Kefala
11:00 – 11:40 Sarah Casewell Irradiated Brown Dwarfs and Their Desert 21
11:40 – 12:00 Jack Davey Investigating the Influence of Asymmetric Error Bars in Retrievals of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra 01
12:00 – 12:20 Louis Siebenaler New Mean-Opacity Tables for Probing Stable Stratification in Giant Planets 12
12:20 – 12:40 Elizabeth Guest Predicting the Rotational Dependence of Line-Broadening Using Machine Learning 01
12:40 – 14:00 LUNCH
Session 9 Chair: Davey Jack
14:00 – 14:40 Éric Hébrard Some Like it Hot, Some Like it Cold, Some Like it Mild but Old: Chemical Kinetics of (Exo)planetary Atmospheres 22
14:40 – 15:00 Sergey Yurchenko How to Characterise Uncertainties in Molecular Opacities: An ExoMol Study 01
15:00 – 15:20 Matthieu Ravet Multi-Modal Atmospheric Characterisation of β Pictoris-b: Adding High-Resolution Continuum Spectra from GRAVITY 11
15:20 – 15:40 David Haegele RACER (RApid Calculation of Exoplanetary Radiative Opacities): a New PYTHON Package to Efficiently Calculate Opacities 13
15:40 – 16:00 TEA BREAK
Session 10 Chair: Qinghe Ni
16:00 – 16:40 Jo Barstow Three Years of Transiting Exoplanet Spectroscopy with JWST 25
16:40 – 17:00 Gopal Hazra Constraining Atmospheric Evaporation Rate From Gas Giants by Simultaneous Modelling of Lyman-α, Hα and Helium Transit Spectra 24
17:00 – 17:20 Haitao Li The Earth 2.0 (ET) Space Mission 33
17:20 – 18:20 DISCUSSION
19:00 – 21:00 DINNER
21:00 – 23:00 KAROKE
Sunday 29/06/2025
08:00 – 09:00 BREAKFAST
Session 11 Chair: Arianna Saba
09:00 – 09:40 Helgi Hróðmarsson Addressing Laboratory Challenges in the VUV for Exoplanet Atmospheres: Photodissociation and Photoionization 10
09:40 – 10:00 Oleksiy Smola Towards a Spectroscopic Potential Energy Surface of Methanol 01
10:00 – 10:20 Rafael Rianco-Silva A Study of Very High-Resolution Visible Spectra of Titan: Line Characterisation in Visible CH4 and the Search for C3 26
10:20 – 10:40 Marco Pezzella NRMolCol: Inelastic Scattering Data for (exo)Planetary Atmospheres 27
10:40 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 12 Chair: Ryan Brady
11:00 – 11:40 Patricio Ernesto Cubillos Upper-Atmosphere Exoplanet Constraints from Ultraviolet Transmission Observations 28
11:40 – 12:00 J. Tennyson, R. MacDonald,  H. Wakeford,  R. Hargreaves CONFERENCE SUMMARY
12:00 END OF CONFERENCE 

Affiliation codes

1

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London
2

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews
3

Institut UTINAM UMR CNRS 6213, Université Marie et Louis Pasteur
4

Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Atomic and Molecular Physics Division
5

University of Warwick
6

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
7 NCAC, Toruń
8

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
9

Department of Physics, University of Oxford
10

Paris-Est Créteil University
11

Laboratoire J.-L. Lagrange, Université Côte d'Azur
12

Leiden Observatory
13

Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
14

Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology
15

Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
16

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
17

Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
18

Blue Skies Space
19

School of Physics, HH Wills Laboratory, University of Bristol
20

Johns Hopkins University
21

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester
22

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter
23

Institute of Physics, University of Rzeszów
24 IIT Kanpur
25 Open University
26

Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco, Lisbon, Portugal
27

Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università G. Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, 66100 Chieti, Italy
28

INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, I-10025 Pino Torinese To, Italy
29

Khalifa University, Department of Physics, Abu Dhabi
30

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
31

Department of Surface and Plasma Science, Charles University, Prague
32

University of Jordan
33

National Space Science Center, CAS; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter; Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS