PROTO Workshop: Introduction to NASA Astrophysics and Opportunities - Hannah Jang Condell (NASA HQ) @SaganSummerWorkshop

Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

PROTO Workshop: A half-day PROfessional Tools and Opportunities (PROTO) Workshop held on Sunday, July 20, 2025 preceding the 2025 Sagan Summer Workshop (July 21-25, 2025).

The topic of the 2025 Sagan Summer Workshop is Silver Jubilee: Exoplanet Demographics. For more information and the complete agenda, visit https://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2025/

PROTO Workshop: Introduction to NASA Astrophysics and Opportunities - Hannah Jang Condell (NASA HQ)

Planet Formation and Evolution - Eve Lee (UCSD)

Studying Solar System Bodies as Exoplanets - Laura Mayorga (JHU/APL)

The AAS Journals Publication Process - Brian Jackson (Boise State)

Introduction: Chemistry of Exoplanet Atmospheres - Julie Moses (SSI)

Retrievals and Fitting Models to Data - Mike Line (Arizona State University)

$Optical Modeling Session I Sebastiaan Haffert This training session is part of the 2024 Sagan Summer Workshop on Advances in Direct Imaging: From Young Jupiters to Habitable Earths. For complete workshop information see: https://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2024/ Optical modeling plays an integral part in designing and analyzing the performance of high-contrast imaging systems. This hands-on session will teach you the basics of how such diffraction calculations are performed, for both space- and ground-based telescopes, and will provide valuable insights into the behavior of light within complex optical systems. We will use HCIPy for all simulations in this session. During this session, you will learn: How to compute point-spread-functions for telescope pupils. How different coronagraphs modify the light in pupil and focal planes. How to visually identify common alignment issues in coronagraphic images. How aberrations impact the coronagraphic image and how speckles interact. How to compute throughput for off-axis sources. Methods for speeding up computation of dynamic aberrations.$

Lessons Learned from the Solar System - Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester)

From Wobbles to Worlds - Jennifer Burt (JPL)

PROTO Workshop: Closing Remarks - Anjali Tripathi (JPL)

PROTO Workshop: NASA Proposal Writing Workshop - Tips & Tricks for Success - Christina Richey (JPL)

Future Facilities: MIRECLE - Kevin Stevenson (JHU/APL)