International Conference on Exoplanets and Planet Formation (EPF)

Shanghai, China | December 8-12, 2025
Organized by Tsung-Dao Lee Institute 

About the Conference

The International Conference "Exoplanets and Planet Formation" (EPF 2025) will be held in Shanghai from December 8 to 12, 2025, organized by the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Following the success of the first EPF conference in December 2017, this event will cover all aspects of exoplanetary astrophysics, including:

• Exoplanet detection and characterization (mass-radius relations, atmospheres, demographics and statistics, etc);
• Planet formation and dynamical evolution;
• Related topics such as star formation, binaries and multiples, and Solar System formation.

Format: Oral talks + poster presentations (displayed throughout the conference). No parallel sessions.

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Organizing Committees

Main Organizers

Dong Lai (TDLI/Cornell)
Josh Winn (Princeton)
Yanqin Wu (Toronto)
Fabo Feng (TDLI)
Xianyu Tan (TDLI)

Local Organizing Committee (LOC)

Lisa Duan
Fabo Feng
Xianyu Tan
Billy Zhou
Darius Modirrousta-Galian

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

Dong Lai (TDLI/Cornell): Chair
Josh Winn (Princeton): co-Chair
Yanqin Wu (Toronto): co-Chair
Xuening Bai (Tsinghua)
Myriam Benisty (MPIA)
Alan Boss (Carnegie Institute)
Eugene Chiang (Berkeley)
David Charbonneau (Harvard)
Carsten Dominik (Amsterdam)
Ruobing Dong (PKU)
Jonathan Fortney (UCSC)
Jian Ge (SHAO)
Thomas Henning (MPIA)
Shigeru Ida (Tokyo Tech)
Jianghui Ji (PMO)
Heather Knutson (Caltech)
Eiichiro Kokubo (NAOJ)
Anne-Marie Lagrange (Grenoble)
Doug Lin (UCSC)
Michael Liu (Hawaii)
Shude Mao (Westlake)
Alessandro Morbidelli (OCA)
Richard Nelson (QMU)
Enric Palle (Canarias)
Sara Seager (MIT)
Scott Tremaine (IAS Princeton)
Aumary Triaud (Birmingham)
Josh Winn (Princeton)
Jilin Zhou (NJU)

Venue: 

Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel 上海淳大万丽酒店
719 Yingchun Road, Lianyang District, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China, 200135
上海浦东联洋新社区迎春路719号

We look forward to welcoming you to Shanghai!

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