Name: On the shoulders of giants
Start: 2026-03-25T07:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Archivio di Stato - Torino, Italy

On the shoulders of giants

from Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (7:00 AM) to Friday, March 27, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 23, 2026
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

7:00 AM All the recordings of the presentations are available in the following Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t8x-NjaTDCzgYH-L5-wdHKRUq8FGUcuU?usp=sharing
All the recordings of the presentations are available in the following Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t8x-NjaTDCzgYH-L5-wdHKRUq8FGUcuU?usp=sharing
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:40 AM

9:40 AM Greetings and introduction to the meeting

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on short-period low-mass planets: from solar system to exoplanetary systems: Session 1
Session 1
10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

10:10 AM The big and the small: how giant planets shape their smaller neighbours (invited talk) - Bertram Bitsch (University College Cork, Ireland)

10:40 AM Super Earth formation in systems with cold giants - Claudia Danti (Center for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on short-period low-mass planets: from solar system to exoplanetary systems
11:30 AM - 12:05 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Kepler-139: A case of Sweeping Secular Resonances leading to system non uniformity - Matthew Doty (Rice University, USA)

11:45 AM Giant Planets Grow to at Most 2% of Host Mass via Core Accretion - Keming Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:05 PM Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on inner low-mass planets in the habitable zone: from solar system to exoplanetary systems
12:05 PM - 12:35 PM
Contributions

12:05 PM Water delivery to inner rocky planets driven by outer giants (invited talk) - Sean Raymond (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on inner low-mass planets in the habitable zone: from solar system to exoplanetary systems
2:30 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM The impact of Jupiter-like planets on the potential habitability of exoEarths (invited talk) - Jonathan Horner (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

3:00 PM A detailed study of the effects of cold Jupiters on the formation and composition of terrestrial planets - Nader Haghighipour (Planetary Science Institute, Institute for Astronomy-Hawaii, USA)

3:20 PM Giants in the cradle - Part 1: exploring how Jupiter’s birth shaped the compositional evolution of the inner Solar System - Diego Turrini (INAF-Torino, Italy)
3:40 PM Poster pop-up session

3:40 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on inner low-mass planets in the habitable zone: from solar system to exoplanetary systems
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM Giants in the cradle - Part 2: exploring how forming giant planets alter the composition of inner planets with HD163296 - Danae Polychroni (INAF-Torino, Italy)

4:30 PM Exocomets and Their Impact on Planets in the Habitable Zone - Alain Lecavelier des Etangs (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris - CNRS, France)
4:50 PM Cold Jupiters OR inner low-mass planets: statistical properties
4:50 PM - 5:55 PM
Contributions

4:50 PM Cold Jupiters and the Architecture of Planetary Systems: What We Know and What We Miss (invited talk) - Anne-Marie Lagrange (Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics, France)

5:15 PM Cold Jupiters around intermediate-mass stars: occurrence rates from a 20-year CORALIE RV survey - Emile Fontanet (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

5:35 PM Long-term evolution of cold Jupiter magnetism - Daniele Viganò (Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain)
6:00 PM Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Thursday, March 26, 2026
9:00 AM Cold Jupiters OR inner low-mass planets: statistical properties
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Demographics of sub-Neptunes at Short Orbital Periods, and out to the Habitable Zone (invited talk) - Gijs Mulders (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

9:25 AM Constraining the Migration Channels of Warm Jupiters Using Population-Level Eccentricities - Marvin Morgan (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
9:45 AM Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - inside-out
9:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

9:45 AM Results from the Kepler-Keck Giant Planet Search (invited talk) - Lauren Weiss (University of Notre Dame, USA)

10:10 AM Results from the TESS-Keck Distant Giants Survey (invited talk) - Judah Van Zandt (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
10:35 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - inside-out
11:05 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM Results from the HARPS-N Survey of Kepler, K2, and TESS small-planet systems (invited talk) - Luca Naponiello (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:30 AM The Jupiter/super-Earth connection from global samples: How gas giants shape the lives of small worlds (invited talk) - Marta Bryan (University of Toronto, Canada)

11:55 AM Searching for Cold Jupiters with VLT/SPHERE in planetary systems hosting close-in low-mass planets - Célia Desgrange (European Southern Observatory, Chile)
12:15 PM Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - outside-in
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

12:15 PM Searching for inner low-mass companions to cold Jupiters (invited talk) - Matteo Pinamonti (INAF-Torino, Italy)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - outside-in
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM JAS: a Jovian Architectures Survey to uncover the links between outer giant planets and their inner systems - Diana Dragomir (University of New Mexico, Mexico)

2:50 PM Occurrence rates of small close-in planets in the presence of cold Jupiters - Alessandro Ruggieri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:10 PM Only the least massive outer-giant planets occur more frequently in the presence of inner super-Earths - Etienne Lefèvre Florján (Aix-Marseille University, France)

3:30 PM Digger Deeper into Jovian-Host Systems with the Extreme Precision Spectrograph: Preliminary Survey Results - Alex Polanski (Lowell Observatory, USA)
3:50 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - outside-in
4:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM A new scaled Solar-System analog around a nearby bright star - Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

4:35 PM Evidence of a long-period giant companion around Tabby's star, and the search of similar systems - Cristina Madurga Favieres (University of Warwick, UK)

4:50 PM Bridging discovery spaces: a multi-technique view on inner and outer worlds - Domenico Barbato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

5:05 PM ARDENT: including dynamical constraints in RV detection limits - Manu Stalport (University of Liège, Belgium)

5:20 PM Assessing the impact of stability on occurrence rates of inner planets with outer giant companions - Thomas Baycroft (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
8:00 PM Social Dinner at the Restaurant "La Via del Sale"
Social Dinner at the Restaurant "La Via del Sale"
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday, March 27, 2026
9:00 AM Future prospects and instruments
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Expectations from PLATO (invited talk) - Juan Cabrera (German Aerospace Center, Germany)

9:20 AM Expectations from current and future radial-velocity surveys (invited talk) - Joao Faria (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

9:40 AM Gaia: Expectations from DR4 and beyond (invited talk) - Timothy Brandt (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA)

10:00 AM The ELT’s Promise for Planet Formation and Exoplanet Exploration - Gael Chauvin (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany)

10:20 AM Expectations from HWO and LIFE: future space telescopes to look for life in the universe (invited talk) - Eleonora Alei (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Future prospects and instruments
11:10 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM A Galactic Census of Exoplanets from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Scott Gaudi (University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy, USA)

11:30 AM Three-Dimensional Constraints on Planet Orbits with Radial Velocities and Gaia - Alexander Wallace (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

11:45 AM Probing the Earliest Stages of Gas Giants and Brown Dwarfs with New Adaptive Optics Capabilities at Keck - Michael Liu (University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy, USA)

12:00 PM SpeckleNet: a deep learning framework to improve detection sensitivity of giant planets - Carles Cantero Mitjans (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
12:15 PM Discussion and conclusions
Discussion and conclusions
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM

4:00 PM Cultural Event
Cultural Event
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM