IPAC Exoplanet Conference: Spirit of Lyot 6

Driven by great progress in exoplanet research over the past two decades, the field of high contrast imaging is assuming a larger and larger role in the future of astrophysics. Since 2007, the Spirit of Lyot Conference series has brought together the instrumentalists whose innovations push the field forward with the scientists who utilize those capabilities to better understand exoplanets, circumstellar disks, stellar outflows, and AGN.  With the new capabilities offered by JWST, ongoing upgrades to coronagraphs on large ground telescopes, the upcoming launch of the Roman Space Telescope and its coronagraph instrument, the looming onset of extremely large telescopes on the ground, and an invigorated technology development program in support of NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, it is time to meet again to consider these developments and future directions for the field.