MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011 — 10:00 a.m. EDT—Kepler Press Conference at the American Astronomical Society in Boston: "NASA's KEPLER MISSION: A PROGRESS REPORT" This press conference had Five Panelists: (1) William J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Center; Introductory Remarks), (2) David W. Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Multiple-Planet Candidates Tell Us About Planetary Systems and Show Promise for Confirming Small Planets), (3) Francois Fressin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; A New Method to Validate Planets Exemplified by the Discovery of Kepler 10c.), (4) Geoffrey W. Marcy (Univ. of California, Berkeley; From Observations to Statistics: Estimating the Intrinsic Population of Planets), (5) Soren Meibom (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Determining the Ages of Stars and Kepler's Bounty of Stellar Astrophysics). With permission of the American Astronomical Society.
