Tuesday 21 March    
    Time (CET)      
    09:00

    Synergies/Recap

    Veerle Sterken, Nader Haghighipour

    		    
    Stellar/solar activity and interaction with planet  
    09:15

    Stellar magnetic fields, stellar winds, and their impact on exoplanets (Invited)

    Sudeshna Boro Saikia, University of Vienna
    09:45

    The host star as a crucial factor for the prevalence of Earth-like Habitats

    Manuel Scherf, Austrian Academy of Sciences
    10:00

    The interaction of Mars’s ionosphere with the solar wind and crustal magnetic fields

    David Andrews, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
    10:15

    Magnetic interaction of stellar coronal mass ejections with the atmosphere of close-in exoplanets: comparison with Ly-alpha transits

    Gopal Hazra, University of Vienna
    10:30

    The Sun as a testbed for understanding stellar variability and improving exoplanet confirmation and characterisation (Invited)

    Heather Cegla, University of Warwick
    11:00 Coffee Break    
    11:30

    High-resolution spectroscopic follow-up of known exoplanet-hosts and candidates: star-planet connection

    Edita Stonkute, Vilnius University
    11:45

    Studying and finding planets via star-planet interactions

    Robert Kavanagh, ASTRON
    Ionospheres, magnetospheres, plasma environment  
    12:00

    Investigating the influence of the 2007 Martian global dust storm on the bow shock and induced magnetospheric boundary

    Catherine Regan, University College London
    12:15

    The Implications of Electrical Conductivity Models of Uranus and Neptune

    Deniz Soyuer, University of Zurich
    12:30

    Degenerate induced magnetospheres: from Venus and Mars to exoplanets

    Stas Barabash, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
    12:45

    Investigating the role of crustal magnetic fields on Mars’ ionospheric dynamics with MARSIS-Mars Express

    Dikshita Meggi, University of Leicester
    13:00 Lunch    
    Habitability & exobiology  
    14:00

    Life and habitability (Invited)

    Charles Cockell, U. Edinburg
    14:30

    Inward transport of comets as a source of habitable zone dust

    Jessica Rigley, University of Cambridge
    14:45

    Relevance of initial radioactive heat budgets and the loss of primordial atmospheres for the evolution of Earth-like habitats

    Helmut Lammer, Space Research Institute
    15:00

    Extraterrestrial life may be relatively common but oh so difficult to detect!

    Frances Westall, CNRS-Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire
    15:15

    Studying the impact of cosmic rays on the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1e with the model suite INCREASE

    Konstantin Herbst, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
    15:30

    The effect of galactic kinematics on exoplanet systems and their potential habitability

    Scarlett Royle, Liverpool John Moores University
    15:45 Posters    
    16:00 Coffee Break    
    16:30 Poster session    
    18:00 End of Day 2