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

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

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

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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