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Wednesdays, 11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM Building 34, Room E215 Organizers: Thayne Currie, Marc Kuchner, & Michael McElwain If you'd like to give a talk, or wish to be added to the seminar email list, please send an email to Thayne Currie. If you'd like to schedule a time to meet with any of our speakers at GFSC, contact their host. |
| 2012 Seminars | |||||
| Jan 4: | Daniel Jontof-Hutter (UMD)) | Dynamics in Dusty Rings: Magnetic Field Effects on Orbiting Dust Grains | Host: Marc Kuchner | ||
| Jan 18: | Hanno Rein (Institute for Advanced Study) | Multi-planetary systems, Saturn's Rings and the collisional N-body code REBOUND | Host: Marc Kuchner | ||
| Feb 8: | Markus Janson (Princeton) | Direct Imaging Constraints on Planet Formation | Host: Mike McElwain | ||
| Feb 15: | Mariangela Bonavita (University of Toronto) | Making a MESS (Multi-purpose Exoplanet Simulation System) | Host: Mike McElwain | ||
| Feb 29: | Joleen Carlberg (Carnegie DTM) | Investigating Planet Engulfment by Red Giant Stars | Host: Marc Kuchner | ||
| Mar 7 : | Steve Schwartz (UMD) | Simulations of Granular Processes on the Surfaces of Solid Solar System Bodies | Host: Marc Kuchner | ||
| Mar 21: | Wade Henning (Goddard Space Flight Center) | Supertidal Terrestrial Exoplanets | Host: Marc Kuchner | ||
| April 4: | Casey Lisse (APL) | Host: Thayne Currie | |||
| Apr 11: | Emily Rice (American Museum of Natural History) | Host: Mike McElwain | |||
| Apr 25: | Soko Matsumura (UMD) | Host: Marc Kuchner | |||
| 2011 Seminars | |||||
| Jan 5: | AAS talks practice | ||||
| Jan 12: | AAS Meeting & ExoPAG Meeting in Seattle WA | ||||
| Jan 19: | Chad Bender (Penn State) | "Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets with Precise Ground-Based Spectroscopy" | |||
| Feb 2: | Anand Sivaramakrishnan (STScI) | "Sparse Aperture Interferometry with JWST Tunable Filter Imager's Non-Redundant Mask" | |||
| Feb 23: | Tyler Groff (Princeton) | "Optimal Focal Plane Wavefront Control in Polychromatic Light for High Contrast Imaging" | |||
| Mar 9: | Nikku Madhusudhan (MIT) | "Carbon-Rich Exoplanets" | |||
| Mar 16: | Timothy Rodigas (Arizona) | "Seeing in Red: What Imaging at 3 - 5 Microns Can Tell Us About Planets and Disks" | |||
| Mar 23: | Dmitry Savransky (Princeton) | "Probabilities in Planet Finding" | |||
| Mar 30: | Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State) |
"Precision Radial Velocities in the Near-Infrared Y and H bands with the Penn State Pathfinder Instrument & New Calibration Sources" | |||
| Apr 13: | Informal Signposts of Planets Mini-Workshop at GSFC | ||||
| Apr 27: | Dean Hines (STScI) | "Planetary Systems and the Prospect for Life in the Stellar Graveyard" | |||
| May 4: | Jessica Donaldson (U of MD) | "Herschel PACS Observations and Modeling of the Tucana-Horologium Association" | |||
| May 18: | Jennifer Wiseman (GSFC) | ||||
| June 8: | Thomas Hearty (GSFC) | "Observations of a Habitable World: Whole Earth Spectra with the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)" | Host: Marc Kuchner | ||
| July 27: | Karen Collins (U. Louisville) | Exoplanet Atmosphere and Transit Timing Variation Science with Sub-meter Class Telescopes | Host: John Debes | ||
| August 3: | Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI) | "Protoplanetary Disk Surfaces: An Observational Review" | Host: Aki Roberge | ||
| August 17: | Carol Grady | Debris Disks in Aggregate: Toward Understanding the Scattered-Light Detection Rate | Host: John Debes | ||
| Sept 21: | Chris Stark (CIW-DTM) | "Exozodiacal Dust: Noise and Signal for Exoplanet Detection" | Host: TBD | ||
| September 28: | Discussion of Extreme Solar Systems Meeting | ||||
| Oct. 5: | Ben Zuckerman (UCLA) | A Zoo of Extrasolar Planet(esimal) Compozitions Derived from Externally-Polluted White Dwarfs | Host: TBD | ||
| Oct. 18-20: | SIGNPOSTS of PLANETS conference | Oct. 26: | Remi Soummer (Space Telescope Science Institute) | Orbital Motion of HR8799 b,c,d Using HST Data from 1998 | Host: TBD | Nov. 2: | Meg Schwamb (Yale) | Planet Hunters | Host: Marc Kuchner |
| Nov 9: | Christine Trombley (Rochester Institute of Technology) | A Novel Approach to Simulataneous Spectral Subtyping in Stellar Clusters | Host: Mike McElwain | ||
| Nov 16: | Laurent Pueyo (Johns Hopkins) | Towards a More Exhaustive Understanding of Exoplanetary Worlds with Direct Imaging | Host: Thayne Currie | ||
| Friday, Dec 2: | Margaret Turnbull | Mission Specs for a Habitable Planet Hunting Expedition: It's a Jungle Out There! | Dec 7: | Alexis Carlotti (Princeton) | Optimal 2D Apodizations for Arbitrary Apertures | Host: Mike McElwain |
| Dec 14: | Bob Vanderbei (Princeton) | New Pupil Masks for High-Contrast Imaging | |||