THURSDAY,OCTOBER 4

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:00  Introductions

9:30  Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Wendy Freedman, Rus Hemley: The origins of this initiative and goals for the meeting

10:15 Alan Boss – Exoplanets and collaborations

10:45 Break

11:00 George Cody – Linking life's origins on Earth to retention of planetary volatiles

11:20 Alan Dressler – Science at Observatories

11:40 Yingwei Fei – An integrated approach to understand the evolution and

composition of planetary cores

12:00 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

2:00 Alexander Goncharov – Developing experimental technology necessary for

exploring planets in our solar system and around other stars

2:20 Matt Fouch – Planetary geophysics instrumentation

3:00 Break

3:30 Jeff Crane – PFS design, construction and performance

3:50 Steve Shectman – The radial velocity survey, the observing strategy

4:10 Paul Butler – Planetary discoveries and the phenomenology of planetary systems

4:30 Discussion: Science questions for the future, what Carnegie can do best

6:30 Dinner

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5

8:30 Continental breakfast

9:00 Alycia Weinberger – disks

9:20 Andrew Steele – Search for life on Mars; A strategy designed to find the unknown

unknowns

9:40 Ron Cohen – Metallization of iron oxides in planetary bodies

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Break

10:45 Discussion (1) Goals of center, (2) First projects, (3) Structure (visitors, telecons, workshops…)

12:00 Lunch