The Penn State Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds is proud to announce the Third Workshop on Extremely Precise Radial Velocities to be held in State College, Pennsylvania, USA, Aug 14-17, 2017. Following the tradition of previous workshops, participants will dig into the “nuts and bolts” of exoplanetary discovery and orbit characterization via Doppler velocimetry, and be a forum for practitioners to discuss challenges, lessons learned, and the details of their work, “warts and all”.

This edition of the workshop will focus on:

– specific hardware challenges
– lessons learned from the newest generation of EPRV instruments
– statistical methods for signal extraction and analysis
– physical models and diagnostics of stellar granulation, activity, and other sources of jitter
– machine learning methods for Doppler extraction and jitter diagnostics

As with previous workshops, there will be a mix of plenary talks, breakout sessions, and posters.

We anticipate there will be travel support for some participants, especially junior participants, and we encourage strong international participation from all of the teams working on the EPRV problem.  Overseas participants may wish to extend their stay in the US to experience the total solar eclipse the following Monday. The path of totality is not near the conference, but many scenic sites in the US will be, including the Carolina coast, the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, and the Grand Tetons of Wyoming.

Pre-registration is available now at the conference website:  http://bit.ly/EPRVIII

There will be a limited number of spaces for on-site childcare for children under 6, which we hope to subsidize—advance notice will be required, so interested participants should contact Jason Wright ([email protected]) ASAP for more information.