Invited and contributed talks

Below are PDFs of many of the talks presented at Mind the Gap. Abstracts for all contributions given in the programme. Tweets relating to the meeting can be viewed via the storify record of the meeting.

Jacqueline Faherty: The kinematics of young brown dwarfs (or free floating planets?) in nearby moving groups

Duncan Forgan: Population synthesis models of planets and brown dwarfs formed by disc instability and tidal downsizing

Bertrand Goldman: The Hyades cluster in the Pan-STARRS1 survey

Jaemin Lee: Atmospheric retrieval analysis of the directly imaged exoplanet HR 8799b

Stuart Littlefair: Optical aurorae on brown dwarfs

Federico Marocco: The peculiar L dwarf ULAS J222711-004547

Nathan Mayne: The effect of dynamical simplifications on models of hot Jupiter atmospheres

Katie Morzinski: Review: Direct imaging of exoplanets

Jonathan Nichols: Ultracool dwarf radio emissions: recent advancements and comparison with (extra-)solar-system planets

Nikolay Nikolov: Probing the atmosphere of HAT-P-1b with HST

Maddalena Reggiani: Giant planet and brown dwarf companions: no gap but local minima

Paul Rimmer: Non-equilibrium ion-neutral chemistry between brown dwarfs and exoplanets

Emily Rice: Young brown dwarfs as exoplanet analogs

David Sing: Exoplanet atmospheres: A decade of intriguing observations

Craig Stark: Coulomb explosion of dust in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and exoplanets

Rachel Street: Long baseline multicolour monitoring of the variable brown dwarf binary Luhman 16

Ingo Thies: Why BDs are special - evidence from the IMF and the spatial distribution

Arthur Vigan: First results of the international deep planet survey: the frequency of wide-orbit massive planets around A-stats

Duncan Wright: Detecting habitable zone planets around M dwarfs with the AAT