Overview

Hear plenary talks from leaders across a wide range of topics, including terrestrial exoplanet observations, challenges in atmospheric retrievals, the solar system–exoplanet connection, brown dwarfs as a laboratory for understanding exoplanet atmospheres, the imprint of planet formation on exoplanet atmospheres, atmospheric escape, direct imaging observations, and future directions for the field. Confirmed speakers include David Charbonneau, Megan Weiner Mansfield, Michael Line, Christopher Barnet, David Kipping, Jonathan Lunine, Sasha Hinkley, Jacqueline Faherty, Karin Oberg, Caroline Dorn, Ruth Murray-Clay, Diana Powell, and Sara Seager. Come network with colleagues in a single-track, discussion-rich format.

Exoplanet Atmospheres 2026 will focus on the topic of exoplanet atmospheres, which is one of the hottest areas of astronomy and planetary science today. This conference is timely, with JWST operational, continued advances in ground-based instrumentation and techniques, and the growing importance of atmospheres in demographic studies. The conference will cover all kinds of planets (rocky and giant, close-in and distant), techniques (transits, direct imaging, high-resolution), wavelengths (X-ray to mid-IR), and processes (formation, evolution, winds, chemistry, exchange with the interior, life). The basic premise is a meeting that can serve the whole community and that can be a forum for exchange of ideas between the different areas of this broad topic. In the spirit of the Extreme Solar Systems conference, we will focus this conference on new, cutting-edge results and synthesis of key areas by top experts.

Banner image: Artist's impression of the planet WASP-39 b and its star. [NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI)]
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