The CPS organizes and hosts 6 Planet Days each year at the University of Toronto, Scarborough campus. Each retreat typically involves 2 distinguished international visitors and 1 UofT speaker. Ample time is reserved for discussions and new exchanges of ideas. These retreats serve as gathering points for the entire University of Toronto Earth / Solar System / Exoplanet community.

2015/16 Planet Days:

• Wednesday 20th April 2016

  Speakers:
  • Debra Fisher, Yale University
    The Search for 100 Earths
  • Christian Marois, University of Victoria
    From Imaging Gas Giant Planets with the Gemini Planet Imager to Habitable Earth-like planets with the ELTs
  • Lisa Esteves, University of Toronto
    Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Observations: The atmosphere of the super-Earth 55 Cnc e and phase-curves of Kepler planets



• Wednesday 24th February 2016

  Speakers:
  • Konstantin Batygin, California Institute of Technology
    An Unseen Planet in the Solar System
  • Daniel Lafreniere, Université de Montreal
    Exoplanets beyond a few astronomical units: what can we learn from them?
  • Daniel Tamayo, University of Toronto
    Irregular Satellites and the Mystery of Saturn’s Moon Iapetus



• Wednesday 13th January 2016

  Speakers:
  • Eric Agol, University of Washington
    Utilizing transit timing to measure densities of transiting exoplanets
  • Daniel Fabrycky, University of Chicago
    Planets around binary stars
  • Jeffrey Chilcote
    Revealing Exoplanets through High-Contrast Imaging