19th International Conference on Microlensing

12, 2-hour sessions over three days

Suggested session topics:

  • Microlensing with Big data
  • New discoveries in microlensing
  • Lens modeling
    • What is the state-of-the-art now
    • What are the challenges ahead
    • How can we approach those problems
    • Mini primer dedicated to modeling
    • Computational aspects, challenges and opportunities
  • Crowded Field photometry
    • State-of-the art
    • New approaches
    • Computational aspects, challenges and opportunities
  • Data challenges - microlensing for the unwashed masses
  • Higher order microlensing effects
    • Theoretical considerations
    • How to model these effects
    • State-of-the-art in modeling
  • Observatory modeling
    • Observatory systematics
    • Vis-a-vis higher order effects
    • Vis-a-vis more complex lens geometries
  • Other Galactic bulge science
    • Bulge modeling
    • Milky Way central black hole research
    • Globular clusters
  • Planetary system formation history
    • Calibration of models using microlensing planets
    • Statistical
  • Other collateral/ancillary science
    • What could be derived directly from ground and space-based microlensing data sets - as is
    • What other observations or changes to the current schema could improve ancillary science output
  • Space-borne ulensing missions
    • WFIRST
    • SAG 11 Report
    • Euclid
      • A description of the Euclid microlensing survey
      • Status update
      • Microlensing capabilities
      • Parallax capabilities when used with ground and WFIRST observatories
  • Ground-based microlensing in the era of WFIRST and Euclid
    • What ground observatories could do during these missions
    • Optimization of ground campaigns for increased science gain
    • Precursor ground observations
  • Unbound planets
    • Finding masses
    • Calibration of FF population mass estimates in the absence of simultaneous parallax for most detections
  • Black holes, white dwarfs and other non-exoplanet lenses