Day 1| Wednesday, October 24, 2018

• The PLATO mission – Don Pollacco/Heike Rauer
  

Session: Impacts of stellar activity on planet detection and candidate ranking  – Chair: Juan Cabrera

• Planet detection in presence of stellar noise, review of methods – Sascha Grziwa (invited)
• The Variable Variability of Stars: Four Years of Kepler – David Ciardi
• The Impact of Stellar Variability on the Detection of Transiting Earth-like Planets – Jon Jenkins
• Detection of extrasolar moons in the presence of stellar variability – Rene Heller

Session: Planet characterization in presence of stellar activity – Chair: Szilard Csizmadia

• Characterization of long-period small planets in presence of stellar activity – Susana Barros (invited)
• Robust Transiting Exoplanet Radii in the Presence of Starspots – Morris Brett
• Exoplanet and stellar activity: white light vs. multicolor photometry – Mahmouzedra Oshagh
  
• Stellar oscillation and planet characterization: what asteroseismology can do for small planet characterization – Vincent Van Eylen (invited)
• Stellar ages and planetary evolution: the CHRONOS initiative – David Barrado
  
• Advantages of the multicolour photometry in characterisation of exoplanets – Valeriy Vasilyev
  
• Measuring starspot physical properties with Kepler/K2 and high resolution near IR spectroscopy – Michael Gully-Santiago
  

Day 2 | Thursday, October 25, 2018

Session: Theory and modelling of stellar activity and variability – Chair: Isabella Pagano

• Methods to remove stellar activity for planet detection – Suzanne Aigrain (invited)
• Space-borne photometry, stellar activity, and small planets – Nuccio Lanza (invited)
• TOSC: an algorithm for the tomography of spotted transit chords – Gaetano Scandariato
  
• Modelling stellar activity and its effects on planet detection – Yvonne Unruh (invited)
• Applying results on stellar variability from convection simulations to exoplanet detection – Heather Cegla (invited)
• Testing the GPS method in the Sun as a Kepler Star – Eliana M. Amazo-Gómez
  
• Understanding the Sun to discover Earth-twin planets with the HARPS-N Solar Telescope – Luca Malavolta
  
• Three years of solar radial velocities on the approach to solar minimum – Andrew Collier-Cameron
  

Session: Effect of stellar activity on planetary evolution and habitability – Chair: Richard Nelson

• Evolution of primary H/He atmospheres due to stellar activity – Christoph Mordasini (invited)
• Stellar activity as a driving force behind the loss processes from atmospheres of terrestrial planets – Kristina Kislyakova (invited)
• Effect of stellar variability on terrestrial planet atmospheres – Lee Grenfell (invited)
• Atmospheric characterization of exoplanets around active stars – Sara Khalafinejad
  
• Radial Velocity support to K2 and TESS – David Armstrong

Day 3 | Friday, October 26, 2018

Session: Radial Follow-up : lessons learned and strategy to mitigate stellar effects – Chair Alexandre Santerne

• Radial Velocity in support to K2 and TESS data – Davide Gandolfi
  
• High precision ir spectroscopy for RV studies – Ignasi Ribas
• Detecting Radial Velocity Variations due to Starspot Jitter in the CARMENES Survey for Exoplanets – Sepideh Sadegi 

Session: New RV facilities and new stellar effects diagnostics

• SPIROU new spectropolarimeter – Jean-François Donati
  
• ESPRESSO at the level of 10 cm/s – Francesco Pepe
  
• Strongly mitigating the stellar activity signal in radial velocity – Xavier Dumusque
  
• PLATOSPec new RV follow-up facility – Petr Kabath

Session:  Atmospheric characterisation and impact of stellar effects – Chair Stéphane Udry

• The effect of stellar variability on characterising exoplanet atmospheres with high resolution spectroscopy – Jayne Birkby
• The effect of stellar variability on characterising exoplanet atmospheres with transmission and emission spectroscopy from space   –  Jean-Michel Desert
• Stellar contributions to the line profiles of high-resolution transmission spectra of exoplanets – Francesco Borsa
• Disentangling the albedo of the exoplanet from the stellar activity –  Luisa Maria Serrano