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Thursdays at 11:00 AM Building 21, Room 183A Organizers: Aki Roberge, Marc Kuchner, & Hannah Jang-Condell If you'd like to give a talk, or wish to be added to the seminar email list, please send an email to Aki Roberge |
Upcoming Seminars | |||
Seminar on vacation for the month of August. | |||
Sept 3: | Paul Butler (Carnegie DTM) |
"The Expanding Doppler Planet Search" | |
Sept 17: | Brian Jackson (GSFC) | "Tides and Exoplanets" Alternate location: Building 21, Room 242 |
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Sept 24: | Nick Cowan (U of Washington) |
"Alien Maps of an Ocean-Bearing World" | |
Oct 1: | Marshall Perrin (UCLA) | ||
Oct 8: | William Ward (GSFC) | ||
Oct 15: | Catherine Neish (JHU-APL) | "Titan's Primordial Soup" | |
Oct 22: | Women in Astronomy 2009 Meeting in College Park MD | ||
Oct 29: | Patricia Boyd (GSFC) | ||
Nov 19: | Daniel Apai (STScI) | ||
2009 Seminars | |||
Jan 8: | AAS Meeting in Long Beach CA | ||
Jan 15: | Rob Olling (U of MD) | "Astrometric & Photometric Detection & Characterization of (massive) Extra-Solar Planets" | |
Jan 22: | Fergal Mullally (Princeton) | "Planets, Debris Disks, and White Dwarf Stars" | |
Jan 29: | John Chambers (Carnegie DTM) |
"Planet Formation, Oligarchic Growth, and Planetary Migration" | |
Feb 2: | Andrew Youdin (CITA) Monday at 3:00 PM |
Special Exoplanets Seminar -- "Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse" | |
Feb 5: | Remi Soummer (STScI) | "Exoplanet Community Report on Direct Optical Imaging" & "Recent Thoughts About Using a Starshade with JWST" | |
Feb 12: | Brian Wood (NRL) | "Stellar Wind Evolution and its Effects on Disks and Planetary Atmospheres" | |
Feb 19: | Dinshaw Balsara (Notre Dame) |
"Dust Settling in Turbulent Protostellar Accretion Disks" Alternate location: Building 21, Room 242 |
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Feb 26: | Thayne Currie (Harvard) | "The Time History of Protoplanetary Disk Evolution As Reconstructed From Spitzer" | |
Mar 4: | Wes Traub (JPL) Wednesday at 1:00 PM |
Special Exoplanets Seminar -- "Can Earth-Twins be Characterized with Transits?" | |
Mar 5: | Tracy Beck (STScI) | "Near Infrared Spectral Imaging of the Inner 200 AU Environments of T Tauri Stars" | |
Mar 12: | Susan Benecchi (STScI) | "Kuiper Belt Binaries and Collision Families: Probes of our Local Dust Disk" | |
Mar 19: | National Capital Area Disks Meeting II at U of MD | ||
Mar 26: | Evgenya Shkolnik (Carnegie DTM) |
"In Search of Magnetic Star-Planet Interactions: A Probe of Exoplanetary B-fields" | |
Apr 2: | Demos Kazanas (GSFC) | "Exact Solutions of the Isothermal Lane-Emden Equation with Rotation and Implications for the Formation of Planets and Satellites" | |
Apr 16: | Dennis Bodewits (GSFC) | "Cometary X-rays & Charge Exchange in the Solar Sytem" | |
Apr 23: | Missions for Exoplanets: 2010-2020 Meeting in Pasadena CA | ||
Apr 30: | Dimitri Veras (U of Florida) | "Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU" | |
May 7: | The Search for Life in the Universe Symposium at STScI | ||
May 8: | Jian Ge (U of Florida) Friday at 10:30 AM |
Special Exoplanets Seminar -- "The SDSS-III Multi-object APO Radial-Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey" Alternate location: Building 2, Room 8 |
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May 14, 21, 28: | Seminar on vacation while Room 183 is renovated. | ||
June 4: | James Muzerolle (STScI) | "Protoplanetary Disks with AU-scale Inner Holes and Gaps: Signposts of Planet Formation?" | |
June 25: | Ben Sargent (STScI) | "Dust Processing and Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks" | |
July 9: | Rosemary Killen (GSFC) | "Mercury's Exosphere: Composition, Variability and Implications for Source and Loss of Volatiles" | |
July 16: | Nelly Mouawad (U of MD) | "Mercury's Sodium Exosphere: Space and Ground-Based Observations" | |
July 30: | Andrew Rivkin (JHU-APL) | "Studying the Vermin: Asteroid Science for Astrophysicists" |