Name: On the shoulders of giants
Start: 2026-03-25T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-27T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Archivio di Stato - Torino, Italy

On the shoulders of giants

from Wednesday, 25 March 2026 (08:30) to Friday, 27 March 2026 (18:00)

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

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:40

09:40 Greetings and introduction to the workshop
Greetings and introduction to the workshop
09:40 - 10:10
10:10 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 - 11:00
Contributions

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

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

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

11:45 Giant Planets Grow to at Most 2% of Host Mass via Core Accretion - Keming Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:05 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 - 12:35
Contributions

12:05 Water delivery to inner rocky planets driven by outer giants (invited talk) - Sean Raymond (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 14:30
14:30 Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on inner low-mass planets in the habitable zone: from solar system to exoplanetary systems
14:30 - 15:40
Contributions

14:30 The impact of Jupiter-like planets on the potential habitability of exoEarths (invited talk) - Jonathan Horner (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)

15:00 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)

15:20 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)
15:40 Poster pop-up session

15:40 - 15:45

15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:10
16:10 Formation of gaseous giant planets and their impact on inner low-mass planets in the habitable zone: from solar system to exoplanetary systems
16:10 - 16:50
Contributions

16:10 Giants in the cradle - Part 2: exploring how forming giant planets alter the composition of inner planets with HD163296 - Danae Polychroni (INAF-Torino, Italy)

16:30 Exocomets and Their Impact on Planets in the Habitable Zone - Alain Lecavelier des Etangs (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris - CNRS, France)
16:50 Cold Jupiters OR inner low-mass planets: statistical properties
16:50 - 17:55
Contributions

16:50 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)

17:15 Cold Jupiters around intermediate-mass stars: occurrence rates from a 20-year CORALIE RV survey - Emile Fontanet (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

17:35 Long-term evolution of cold Jupiter magnetism - Daniele Viganò (Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE-CSIC) Barcelona, Spain)
18:00 Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
18:00 - 19:00
Thursday, 26 March 2026
09:00 Cold Jupiters OR inner low-mass planets: statistical properties
09:00 - 09:45
Contributions

09:00 Demographics of sub-Neptunes at Short Orbital Periods, and out to the Habitable Zone (invited talk) - Gijs Mulders (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

09:25 Constraining the Migration Channels of Warm Jupiters Using Population-Level Eccentricities - Marvin Morgan (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
09:45 Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - inside-out
09:45 - 10:35
Contributions

09:45 Results from the Kepler-Keck Giant Planet Search (invited talk) - Lauren Weiss (University of Notre Dame, USA)

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

11:05 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 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 Searching for Cold Jupiters with VLT/SPHERE in planetary systems hosting close-in low-mass planets - Célia Desgrange (European Southern Observatory, Chile)
12:15 Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - outside-in
12:15 - 12:40
Contributions

12:15 Searching for inner low-mass companions to cold Jupiters (invited talk) - Matteo Pinamonti (INAF-Torino, Italy)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:30
14:30 Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - outside-in
14:30 - 15:50
Contributions

14:30 JAS: a Jovian Architectures Survey to uncover the links between outer giant planets and their inner systems - Diana Dragomir (University of New Mexico, Mexico)

14:50 Occurrence rates of small close-in planets in the presence of cold Jupiters - Alessandro Ruggieri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:10 Only the least massive outer-giant planets occur more frequently in the presence of inner super-Earths - Etienne Lefèvre Florján (Aix-Marseille University, France)

15:30 Digger Deeper into Jovian-Host Systems with the Extreme Precision Spectrograph: Preliminary Survey Results - Alex Polanski (Lowell Observatory, USA)
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:20
16:20 Cold Jupiters AND inner low-mass planets (individual systems and statistical analyses) - outside-in
16:20 - 17:50
Contributions

16:20 A new scaled Solar-System analog around a nearby bright star - Silvano Desidera (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:35 Evidence of a long-period giant companion around Tabby's star, and the search of similar systems - Cristina Madurga Favieres (University of Warwick, UK)

16:50 Bridging discovery spaces: a multi-technique view on inner and outer worlds - Domenico Barbato (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

17:05 ARDENT: including dynamical constraints in RV detection limits - Manu Stalport (University of Liège, Belgium)

17:20 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)
20:00 Social Dinner at the Restaurant "La Via del Sale"
Social Dinner at the Restaurant "La Via del Sale"
20:00 - 23:00
Friday, 27 March 2026
09:00 Future prospects and instruments
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Expectations from PLATO (invited talk) - Juan Cabrera (German Aerospace Center, Germany)

09:20 Expectations from current and future radial-velocity surveys (invited talk) - Joao Faria (Université de Genève, Switzerland)

09:40 Gaia: Expectations from DR4 and beyond (invited talk) - Timothy Brandt (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA)

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

10:20 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 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Future prospects and instruments
11:10 - 12:15
Contributions

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

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

11:45 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 SpeckleNet: a deep learning framework to improve detection sensitivity of giant planets - Carles Cantero Mitjans (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
12:15 Discussion and conclusions
Discussion and conclusions
12:15 - 12:45

16:00 Cultural Event
Cultural Event
16:00 - 18:00

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