PROTO Workshop: Landscape for Exoplanet Research @SaganSummerWorkshop

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Panel: Chas Beichman (NExScI), Heather Cegla (University of Warwick, remote), Stephen Kane (UC Riverside), Emily Rickman (ESA/STScI, remote), and Jessica Spake (Carnegie); moderated by Anjali Tripathi (JPL)

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: Landscape for Exoplanet Research

Twenty-Five Years of Transiting Planets - Joshua Winn (Princeton)

Observations: Transmission - Hannah Wakeford (University of Bristol)

Roman Microlensing Planet Yields - Farzaneh Zohrabi (LSU)

VLTI: Exoplanet Interferometry - Guillaume Bourdarot (MPE)

Hands-on Session I: Reducing JWST Data: From Raw Data to Light Curves - Kevin Stevenson (JHU/APL)

Methylated Gases: A Class of Exoplanet Biosignatures - Michaela Leung (UC Riverside)

Future Facilities: ELTs - Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego)

Mapping the 3D Structure of Exoplanet Atmospheres using Transit Spectroscopy - Emily Rauscher(UMich)

Prospects for Biosignatures - Eddie Schwieterman (UC Riverside)