Agenda

The workshop will open at 10:30 (talks start at 11:00) and end by 18:00.

10:30 ------Registration, tea and coffee

11:00 Angelos Tsiaras (UCL), "Atmospheric observations of K2-18b"

11:30 Jesus Maldonado (Osservatorio Palermo), "Observational constraints of the star K2-18".

11:50 Simon Joyce (University of Leicester), "XMM observations of K2-18".

12:10 Quentin Changeat (UCL), "JWST & ARIEL observations of K2-18b".

12:30 James Owen (Imperial College), "Theoretical predictions for the retention and loss of primordial atmospheres on small worlds".

13:00 –----- Lunch

14:00 Diana Valencia (University of Toronto), TBC

14:30 Martin Turbet (University of Geneva), "Possible nature(s) and habitability of K2-18b: point of view of a numerical climate modeler"

15:00 Benjamin Charney (Observatoire de Paris), "1D atmospheric modelling of mini-Neptunes"

15:30 –------ Coffee break

16:00 Jérémy Bourgalais (LATMOS), "Classification of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes based on the Main Ions in the Thermosphere"

16:30 Subhanjoy Mohanty (Imperial College), "Habitability of Terrestrial-Mass Planets in the Habitable Zone of M Dwarfs"

17:00 David Waltham (Royal Holloway), "The trouble with Red Dwarfs"

17:30 – General discussion

18:00 –------ End of meeting

Logistics

Due to a strike action at UCL, the workshop will be held in a venue very close to Russell Square (one tube stop from St Pancras station), i.e. at:

St.Giles, 154 Southampton Row, Holborn, WC1B 5JX, London.

If you would like to remotely participate in the workshop, please inform Giovanna Tinetti (g.tinetti@ucl.ac.uk) and Emma Dunford (e.dunford@ucl.ac.uk) who will send dial in details separately.

Workshop about K2-18b