Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds
IV^th Azores International Advanced School in Space Sciences
17-27 July 2016, Horta, Faial, Azores Islands, Portugal

Program
The schedule for the full stay of 11 days is available here.

The planned program items include the following courses (CA/CE), tutorials (TA/TE) and public events (P):

The teaching component (C) includes:

CA1	An Introduction to Stellar Modeling    PDF  Víctor Silva Aguirre (Aarhus Univ., Denmark)
CA2	Theory of Stellar Oscillations    PDF  Margarida Cunha (IA, Portugal)
CA3	Helioseismology and the Solar-Stellar Connection    PDF  Guy Davies (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
CA4	Data Analysis in Asteroseismology    PDF Tiago Campante (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
CA5	Stellar Inversion Techniques    PDF  Daniel Reese (Paris Observatory, France)
CA6	Asteroseismology of Red Giants and Galactic Archaeology    PDF Saskia Hekker (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany)
CA7	Synergies between Asteroseismology and Exoplanetary Science    PDF  Daniel Huber (Univ. of Sydney, Australia)
CE1	Exoplanetary Science: An Overview    PDF  Nuno Santos (IA & U.Porto, Portugal)
CE2	Analysis of Photometric Time Series  Thomas Barclay (NASA Ames, USA)
CE3	Deriving High-Precision Radial Velocities    PDF Pedro Figueira (IA, Portugal)
CE4	Modeling Light and Velocity Curves of Exoplanet Hosts    PDF Rodrigo Díaz (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
CE5	Characterization of Exoplanet-Host Stars    PDF Vardan Zh. Adibekyan (IA, Portugal)
CE6	Noise Sources in Photometry and Radial Velocities    PDF Mahmoudreza Oshagh (IA, Portugal & Georg-August-Univ. of Göttingen, Germany)
CE7	Theory of Planetary Formation and Migration    PDF Christoph Mordasini (Univ. of Bern, Switzerland)
CE8	Exoplanet Atmospheres    PDF David Ehrenreich (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)

The hands-on component (T) includes:

TA1	Asteroseismic Data Analysis with DIAMONDS     PDF Enrico Corsaro (CEA, France) + Tiago Campante (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
TA2	Asteroseismic Stellar Modeling with AIMS    PDF Mikkel Lund (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) + Daniel Reese (Paris Observatory, France)
TE1	Detecting Planetary Transits and Radial-Velocity Signals Susana Barros (IA, Portugal) + João Faria (IA, Portugal)
TE2	Measuring Stellar Atmospheric Parameters  Daniel Andreasen (IA, Portugal) + Nuno Santos (IA & U.Porto, Portugal)

The public events (P) include:

P1	“The Exoplanet Landscape: Present and Future”  Pedro Figueira (IA, Portugal)
P2	“Tertúlia: The Future in Asteroseismology and Exoplanet Research” Chairs: Nuno Santos (IA & U.Porto, Portugal), Mário Monteiro (IA & U.Porto, Portugal), Tiago Campante (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)

Students are requested to bring their own laptop (with Wi-Fi connection) to the School in order to participate in the hands-on sessions.