Hands-On Session I: Exoplanet Occurrence Rates @SaganSummerWorkshop

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Galen Bergsten (Arizona/LPL), Gijs Mulders (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, remote), and Ilaria Pascucci (Arizona/LPL)

Presented as part of the 2025 Sagan Summer Workshop (July 21-25, 2025): Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics. For more information and the complete agenda, visit https://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2025/

Hands-On Session I: Exoplanet Occurrence Rates

Precursor Observations (Euclid, Hubble Space Telescope) - Sean Terry (Maryland, GSFC)

Prospects for Technosignatures - Jacob Haqq-Misra (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)

Welcome to the EXCALIBUR Tutorial - David Ciardi (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)

Fundamentals of Microlensing - Etienne Bachelet (Université Marie et Louis Pasteur)

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument: Expected Capabilities & Relevance to HWO - B. Mennesson (JPL)

Hands-On Sessions Overview - Elise Furlan (NExScI), Casey Lam (Carnegie), Macy Huston (UC Berkeley)

Overview of the Excalibur Data Products Working Example - Raissa Estrela (JPL)

Welcome and Opening Comments - Dawn Gelino and Chas Beichman (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)

2025 ExoExplorers: Nick Tusay (Penn State) K2-22b: Measuring Exposed Hot Rock Entrails with JWST

Introduction to Microlensing - Scott Gaudi (OSU), David Bennett (GSFC)