Parallel sessions

This session will cover the field of exoplanet atmospheres in the 2020s and beyond with (1) a panel of experts, discussing upcoming research in the era of state-of-the-art telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), and (2) a session with contributed talks focusing on speakers at an early career stage. For both sessions we will make sure to have a diverse range of speakers. (1) We will organise a panel of experts, discussing upcoming space missions and novel telescopes which are expected to bring new insights in the field of exoplanet atmospheres. There is a large community of astronomers from all around the UK preparing for these so we expect great discussions. We plan to invite three speakers for the panel, covering a range of expertise from the modelling and theoretical side to the data reduction side. In addition to our invited panellists, we will review the abstract submissions for contributed talks from (2) and potentially invite up to 2 further speakers to join the panel. This will allow us to expand our panel with researchers who were not on our radar but would enhance the discussion. (2) The focus of the second session will be on the research carried out by early career researchers (ECRs) in the field of exoplanet atmospheres, to give them an opportunity to share their work and discuss with fellow ECRs both within and outside the field. Our sessions will create an opportunity for local exoplanet atmosphere researchers to connect and discuss their work, with one session demonstrating the exciting research that will be done with upcoming ground- and space-based telescopes and one session having a particular focus on promoting the work of early career researchers.