25th International Microlensing Conference

List of Participants and Accepted Abstracts

The conference will be held from August 31 to September 2, 2022 (in hybrid format), at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne Université.

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Name Affiliation Participation Presentation Title
1 Natasha Abrams UC Berkeley in-person Contributed talk Assessing the Impact of Binary Systems on Microlensing: Adding Binary Systems to SPISEA and PopSyCLE
2 Michael Albrow University of Canterbury virtual
3 Jay Anderson STScI in-person Contributed talk An Ongoing HST SNAP Survey of Historical Microlensing Events
4 Étienne Bachelet IAP in-person Contributed talk Unique opportunities of a Euclid-Roman joint survey
5 Makiko Ban Warsaw Obs. virtual Contributed talk Candidate of the microlensing planet not toward the bulge
6 Richard K. Barry NASA Goddard in-person
7 Fran Bartolić St. Andrews Univ. in-person Contributed talk Differentiable modeling of binary and triple lens light curves using the "caustics" code
8 Jean-Philippe Beaulieu IAP in-person
9 David Bennett NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD in-person Contributed talk Cold Planet Demographics from Microlensing and Radial Velocity Surveys
10 Aparna Bhattacharya UMD in-person Contributed talk Mass Measurement Updates with Keck AO Image Analysis
11 Joshua Blackman UTAS in-person Contributed talk A Jovian Analog Orbiting a White Dwarf Star
12 Ian Bond Massey virtual Contributed talk The MOA 16 Year Dataset
13 Valerio Bozza University of Salerno in-person Contributed talk VBBinaryLensing's extension to astrometric microlensing
14 Jonathan Brashear The Catholic University of America virtual
15 Arnaud Cassan IAP in-person Contributed talk Interferometric observations of Gaia19bld
16 Sun-Ju Chung KASI virtual
17 William Dawson LLNL in-person Contributed talk Black Holes Hiding in Plain Sight
18 Martin Dominik St. Andrews virtual
19 Raquel Forés-Toribio Valencia Univ. virtual Contributed talk Single epoch astrometric microlensing in lensed quasars
20 Akihiko Fukui University of Tokyo virtual Contributed talk Tomo-e Gozen and MuSCAT3: new survey and follow-up facilities in the northern hemisphere
21 Scott Gaudi OSU virtual Contributed talk The Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey
22 Elizabeth Gonzalez IATE-CONICET virtual
23 Antonio Herrera Martin University of Toronto virtual Contributed talk (pre-recorded) Modeling approaches for planetary events, the cases of OGLE-2018-BLG-0677 and KMT-2021-BLG-0919
24 Yuki Hirao Osaka Univ. virtual
25 Markus Hundertmark ARI, University of Heidelberg in-person
26 Macy Huston Penn State University virtual
27 Stela Ishitani Silva NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / The Catholic University of America. in-person Contributed talk Identifying Gravitational Microlensing Events in Photometric Light Curves with a Deep Neural Network
28 Maja Jabłońska Warsaw Obs. in-person Contributed talk Nearby dark lens hiding in Gaia DR3 astrometry
29 Samson Johnson JPL virtual
30 Zofia Kaczmarek Cambridge Univ. in-person Contributed talk The promise of Gaia and Roman for astrometric microlensing
31 Norita Kawanaka Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University virtual
32 Pierre Kervella LESIA in-person Contributed talk Gravitational lensing events in the Alpha Centauri system: opportunities for exoplanet detection and beyond
33 Renee Key Swinburne University of Technology in-person Poster AMPM: broadening constraints on asteroid-mass PBH dark matter via microlensing
34 Somayeh Khakpash Delaware Univ. virtual
35 Rintaro Kirikawa Osaka Univ. virtual Contributed talk (pre-recorded) Analysis of Planetary Microlensing Event OGLE-2014-BLG-0221, with a Jupiter Mass Ratio Planet Orbiting a Late-Type Star, or Possibly a Stellar Remnant
36 Jonas Klüter Louisiana State Univ. in-person Contributed talk Prediction of astrometric microlensing events a unique option to derive single-star masses
37 Iona Kondo Osaka Univ. in-person Contributed talk Prediction of the Planet Detection Rates by the PRIME Microlensing Survey
38 Naoki Koshimoto NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD in-person Contributed talk No Large Dependence of Planet Frequency on Galactocentric Distance
Poster A Tool for Gravitational Microlensing Events Simulation with a Galactic Model Based on Gaia and Microlensing Data
39 Katarzyna Kruszyńska Warsaw Obs. in-person Contributed talk Microlensing event highlights in Gaia Science Alerts
40 Renkun Kuang Tsinghua University virtual Contributed talk Light Curve Calculations for Triple Microlensing Systems
41 Casey Lam UC Berkeley virtual Contributed talk Searching for isolated black holes with astrometric microlensing using HST
42 Jessica Lu UC Berkeley virtual Invited talk Black Holes in the Milky Way
43 Martin Makler ICAS/ICIFI/UNSAM (Argentina) virtual
44 Shude Mao Tsinghua University virtual Contributed talk Earth Two (ET) mission
45 Jean-Baptiste Marquette Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux in-person
46 Iain McDonald Manchester Univ. virtual Contributed talk Discovery of new free-floating planet candidates with K2 Campaign 9
47 Julie E. McEnery NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in-person Invited talk TBA
48 Antoine Mérand ESO in-person Contributed talk Observing microlensing using optical interferometry: a bright future
49 Shota Miyazaki Osaka virtual Contributed talk (pre-recorded) Revealing Short-period Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs in the Galactic Bulge Using the Microlensing Xallarap Effect with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
50 Marc Moniez IJCLab-IN2P3 in-person Contributed talk Impact of binary sources in the estimation of the detection efficiency of microlensing
Poster Impact of parallax on long duration microlensing events toward the Magellanic Clouds
Contributed talk [On behalf of Tristan Blaineau:] Search for intermediate mass black holes by combining MACHO and EROS data
51 Przemek Mróz Warsaw Obs. virtual Contributed talk Measuring the dark stellar remnant mass function with OGLE and Gaia EDR3 data
52 Greg Olmschenk NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in-person Invited talk Understanding Neural Networks for Photometric Data
53 Knut Olsen NSF's NOIRLab virtual Invited talk Optimizing the Rubin LSST Survey Strategy
54 Matthew Penny Louisiana State Univ. virtual
55 Scott Perkins LLNL in-person
56 Radoslaw Poleski Warsaw Obs. in-person Contributed talk A joint analysis of ground-based and space-based data for a short event K2C9-2016-BLG-1
57 Kerianne Pruett LLNL in-person Contributed talk Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter Simulations Using PopSyCLE
58 Clément Ranc ARI, University of Heidelberg in-person Contributed talk (pre-recorded) Lens Detection from High-resolution Follow-up Observations of OGLE-2006-BLG-332L breaks Microlensing Model Degeneracies
59 Gioia Rau NASA Goddard Space Flight Center virtual
60 Natalia Rektsini UTAS in-person Contributed talk High angular resolution images yield a mass measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132
61 Antonio Rodriguez Caltech in-person Contributed talk Microlensing Events in the Galactic Plane with the Zwicky Transient Facility
62 Paolo Rota Università degli Studi di Salerno in-person Contributed talk Xallarap as a contaminant in planetary microlensing
63 Krzysztof Rybicki Weizmann; Warsaw Obs. virtual Contributed talk Astrometric microlensing in the Gaia16aye event
64 Kailash Sahu STScI virtual Contributed talk Detection and Mass Measurement of Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Holes through Astrometric Microlensing
65 Sedighe Sajadian Isfahan University of Technology virtual Contributed talk Sensitivity to habitable planets in the Roman microlensing survey
66 Parisa Sangtarash Isfahan virtual
67 Yuki Satoh Osaka Univ. in-person Contributed talk OGLE-2019-BLG-0825 ; Identified Xallarap Effect of ~5.5 days Affects Binary-lens Parameters in Planetary Candidate Microlensing Event
68 Noam Segev Weizmann Inst. virtual Contributed talk Towards the detection of isolated black holes
69 Sarang Shah Indian Institute of Astrophysics virtual Contributed talk (pre-recorded) Analysis of Gravitational Microlensing Event: OGLE-2018-BLG-0380
70 Yossi Shvartzvald Weizmann Institute of Science virtual
71 Jan Skowron Warsaw Obs. in-person Contributed talk Importance of and degeneracies in xallarap as illustrated by planeraty event OGLE-2017-BLG-0114
72 Rachel Street Las Cumbres Observatory virtual Contributed talk OMEGA Project: Microlensing across the whole sky
73 Christopher Stubbs Harvard virtual
74 Takahiro Sumi Osaka Univ. virtual Contributed talk Status of the PRIME NIR Microlensing Experiment
75 Daisuke Suzuki Osaka virtual Contributed talk Extinction study toward the inner milky way with Subaru HSC
76 Sean Terry UC Berkeley in-person Contributed talk A New Method to Break the Central Perturbation Degeneracy in High Magnification Microlensing Events
77 Yiannis Tsapras ARI, University of Heidelberg virtual
78 Andrzej Udalski Warsaw Obs. virtual
79 Aikaterini Vandorou NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD in-person Contributed talk Keck vs Spitzer: A new mass-measurement for OGLE-2016-BLG-1195
80 Anibal Varela Universidad de San Martin Argentina virtual Poster Impact of Rubin precursor observations on Microlensing events in Roman
81 Himanshu Verma IIT Bombay in-person Contributed talk Potential of Gaia to constrain Primordial Black Holes using astrometric microlensing
82 Mark Walker Manly in-person Contributed talk Microlensing by dense gas clouds
83 Joachim Wambsganss ARI, University of Heidelberg in-person
84 Lukasz Wyrzykowski Warsaw Obs. in-person Contributed talk Microlensing events from all over the sky from Gaia
85 Hongjing Yang Tsinghua University virtual Contributed talk KMTNet HighMagFinder opens a new phase of following up
86 Philip Yock Auckland Univ. virtual Contributed talk (pre-recorded) Proposal to test a Newtonian galactic model by observing gravitationally lensed stars, brown dwarfs and planets found by the Argus Array
87 Weicheng Zang Tsinghua University virtual Contributed talk KMTNet AnomalyFinder: Systematic Planetary Anomaly Search
88 Keming Zhang UC Berkeley virtual Contributed talk A Ubiquitous Unifying Degeneracy in 2-body Microlensing Systems
89 Wei Zhu Tsinghua University virtual Contributed talk Microlensing Analysis Guided by Intelligent Computation (MAGIC)
90 Pawel Zielinski Institute of Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun in-person Contributed talk Spectroscopic classification of microlensing events alerted by Gaia
91 Farzaneh Zohrabi Louisiana State Univ. virtual