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PLATO ESP2025 – Planets throughout the Habitable Zone, 23-25 June 2025, Marseille (France)

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The meeting PLATO ESP2025 – Planets throughout the Habitable Zone is held in Marseille from 23 to 25 June 2025.

We are now about 2 years from the launch of the PLATO mission, whose primary aim is the detection and precise characterization of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of solar-like stars. It seems like an opportune time to review our knowledge of planets and how they arrive and evolve in their host HZ, as well as the stellar properties and stellar physics that influence the HZ itself. This objective also offers a valuable opportunity to revisit and refine our definition of the Habitable Zone and the conditions that make planets habitable. As part of this, we would like to assess what the likely impact of PLATO on our knowledge of HZ systems will be.

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Session Themes:

  1. PLATO mission – where are we? 
  2. Challenges in detection and validation of small, long orbital period planets. 
  3. Assessing planets habitability.
  4. The star-planet bond shaping habitability.

Important Dates:

  • Announcement: January 2025
  • Opening of pre-registration: 10 February 2025
  • Application for financial support: 1 April 2025
  • Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2025
  • Registration deadline: 15 May 2025
  • Conference: 23 – 25 June 2025

WHEN

From 23rd to 25th of June 2025.

WHERE 

The PLATO ESP2025 meeting will take place in “Amphithéâtre Gastaut”, at Aix-Marseille University Central, at the Pharo site in Marseille, France.

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SOC

  • David Brown (Warwick University)
  • Juan Cabrera (DLR)
  • Magali Deleuil (LAM) – co-chair
  • Ana Heras (ESA)
  • Hugh Osborn (Bern University)
  • Isabella Pagano (INAF)
  • Giampaolo Piotto (Padoue University)
  • Don Pollacco (Warwick University) – co-chair
  • Heike Rauer (DLR)
  • Paul Strøm (Warwick University)
  • Sophia Sulis (LAM)
  • Stéphane Udry (Genève University)
  • Tom Wilson (Warwick University)

LOC

  • Magali Deleuil (LAM) 
  • Salomé Grouffal (LAM) 
  • Nathan Hara (LAM) 
  • Sophia Sulis (LAM)
  • Hugo Vivien (LAM)
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