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2015 NAE FOE Presentation

I presented a talk at this year’s National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposium on Starlight Suppression (note that there are embedded videos in the talk that will only play in Adobe PDF viewers).

SPIE Optics + Photonics

We attended SPIE Optics and Photonics conference in San Diego, CA. Joyce Fang presented her paper “State Estimation in Optical System Alignment using Monochromatic Beam Imaging” in Optical Design and Systems Engineering session. Dmitry Savransky presented his paper on “Blind Source Separation Approaches for Exoplanet Signal Extraction.”

Presenting 51 Eri b

The GPIES team is proud to announce our first new exoplanet discovery: 51 Eri b. We’ve gotten some amazing press coverage, including a Cornell Chronicle article on highlighting the Cornell team’s contributions. The discovery appears in the current issue of Science.

Speakers and Participants Announced for NAE’s 2015 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

I will be speaking at this year’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. See full press release here.

Spirit of Lyot 2015

We present the latest analysis of the ongoing GPIES survey at the Spirit of Lyot conference in Montreal. See the poster here.

SPIE DSS 2015

We attended SPIE DSS 2015 Defense, Security and Sensing conference in Baltimore, MD. Joyce Fang presented her poster Automated Optical System Alignment and Low Order Wavefront Sensing in the poster session.

SGRS 2015 Poster Session

The Sibley Graduate Research Symposium (SGRS) and prospective graduate student visit weekend were held March 6th-7th. Daniel Garrett represented SIOSlab at the poster session with his poster titled: WFIRST-AFTA Exoplanet Imaging Mission Simulation.

AAS 225

We attended the 225th American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, WA. Amongst lots of exciting new results and interesting presentations, there was a GPI press release about our first year on sky and the beginning of the campaign, as well as two presentations from SIOSlab: a talk about WFIRST mission modeling and a poster on RV followup imaging by Aastha Acharya.

GPIES Begins

November 7th-12th was the first observing run of the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES). This is an 890 hour campaign to discover and directly image new, young, giant planets around nearby stars using the GPI instrument. This run also fell on the one year anniversary of GPI’s first light at the Gemini South observatory. The data we collected over the last week mark the start of a three year campaign, which should produce dozens of new discoveries and will help advance our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. Many thanks to the rest of the GPIES team and the crew at Gemini South for an incredible week.

99 Minutes of GPIES (including moonrise)