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NASA Goddard Extrasolar Planets Seminar
Thursdays, 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM GSFC Building 34 (Room W120B most weeks) Organizers: Prabal Saxena, Clément Ranc, Erika Kohler, Joe Renaud, & Marc Kuchner If you'd like to give a talk, or wish to be added to the seminar email list, please contact an organizer. If you'd like to schedule a time to meet with any of our speakers at GFSC, contact their host. For more exoplanet-related talks at Goddard, see the LUVOIR Seminar Series. The seminar series is co-hosted by the GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration. Want to hear about even more exoplanet science? Then check out the local ChExo mini conference. |
| Upcoming Seminars |
| 2019 Seminars | ||||
| February 27th (12pm, E215) | Amaya Moro-Martín (STScI) | Interstellar objects and their potential role in planet formation | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 20th (12pm, E215) | Joey Taylor (UMD) | Tidal Heating Effects on Habitable Zone Widths due to Non-Synchronous Spin and Eccentric Orbits | Host: Joe Renaud | |
| February 6th (10am, E256) | Matej Malik (UMD) | How to quickly assess the presence of rocky planet atmosphere | Host: Joe Renaud | |
| January 31st | Peter Nagler (NASA Goddard) | The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) | Host: Michael McElwain | |
| January 27th | Arpita Roy (Caltech) | The Precision Radial Velocity Landscape | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| December 12th | Melinda Soares-Furtado (Princeton University) | Open Cluster Variability Searches: Evasive, Invaluable Probes | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| November 21st | Petr Pokorny (CUA/NASA Goddard) | Modeling our very own debris disk - how well do we know our own neighborhood and what can it tell us of its distant cousins? | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| October 17th | Hannah Jang-Condell (University of Wyoming) | Exoplanet Science at the University of Wyoming | Host: Marc Kuchner | |
| November 13th | Peter Vickers (Durham University) | Expecting the unexpected in the search for alien life | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| November 8th | Steven Silverberg (MIT Kavli Institute) | New Disk-Hosting Moving Group Members from Disk Detective | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| October 3rd | Sean Terry (part 1) & Ryan Felton (part 2), Catholic University of America | Comparing HST Observations of Bulge Stars to Galactic Population Synthesis Models in Preparation for the WFIRST Microlensing Survey (part 1) & Study of Barnard's Star B as an Analog for Titan-like Exoplanets (part 2) | Host: Joe Renaud | |
| September 26th | Gabriella Contardo (Flatiron Institute) | Deep Representation Learning, Binary Stars and Anomaly Analysis (Talk jointly held with the Machine Learning Seminar Series) | Host: Clément Ranc & Giada N. Arney | |
| August 13th | Yosuke Yamashiki (Kyoto University) | Impact of Stellar Superflares on Planetary Habitability | Host: Vladimir Airapetian | |
| August 2nd | Margaret Turnbull (SETI Institute) | Imaging Exoplanets with WFIRST | Host: Ravi Kopparapu | |
| July 25th | Hubert Klahr (MPIA Heidelberg) | From Pebbles to Asteroids, KBOs and Planetary Embryos: Or what is the Jeans-Mass for Planetesimals? | Host: Marc Kuchner | |
| June 27th | James Jackman (U. of Warwick) | Finding the biggest flares from the smallest stars with the Next Generation Transit Survey | Host: Allison Youngblood | |
| June 25th | Michele Silverstein (Georgia State Univ.) | Sizing Up Red Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood | Host: Joshua Schlieder | |
| June 7th | Eric Wolf (CU Boulder/LASP) | Exoplanet Modeling: Adventures in the Third Dimension | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| April 18th | McCullen Sandora (University of Pennsylvania) | Multiverse Predictions for Habitability | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| April 16th | Geoffrey Clayton (LSU) | R Coronae Borealis Stars: Products of White-Dwarf Mergers | Host: Gioia Rau | |
| April 11th | Savannah Jacklin (Vanderbilt University) | Using the UKIRT Microlensing Survey as a Pathfinder for WFIRST | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| March 21st | Sonny Harman (Columbia University) | Atmospheric Chemistry in the 3rd Dimension | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| March 14th | Erika Kohler (GSFC) | Laboratory Exploration of Exoplanet Cloud Formation | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 28th | Kevin Stevenson (STScI) | Into the Wild Green Yonder: Exoplanet Characterization in the Era of JWST | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 21st | Jasmeet Dhaliwal (Penn State University) | Linking magmatic outgassing and atmospheric chemistry - Implications for Earth & Beyond! | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 19th | Francesco Tombesi (Rome University) | Can Supermassive Black Holes Influence the Habitable Zone in Galaxies? | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| February 14th | Alex Howe (University of Michigan) | Atmosphere Retrieval of Planetary Mass Companions with the APOLLO Code | Host: Michael McElwain | |
| February 5th | Joshua Blackman (University of Tasmania) | Exoplanet Characterization with Microlensing and Adaptive Optics | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| 2018 Seminars | ||||
| December 11th | Manuel Guedel (University of Vienna) | Cosmic Pathways to Habitable Planets and Life | Host: Vladimir Airapetian | |
| November 15th | Jacob Haqq-Misra (Blue Marble Institute) | Escaping the Great Filter: The Future of Civilization and the Search for Technosignatures | Host: Ravi Kumar Kopparapu | |
| November 8th | Joseph Rodriguez (Harvard-CfA) | Planetary Archaeology: Connecting Observations of the Inner Regions of Planetary Systems with Formation Scenarios | Host: Knicole Colón | |
| November 6th | Jonathan Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz) | New windows on Giant Planet Structure and Composition | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| October 25th | Rachael Roettenbacher (Yale) | Imaging and Surveying Spotted Stars | Host: Sarah Logsdon | |
| October 18th | Miguel Montargès (KU Leuven) | Mass loss of evolved stars: high angular resolution results | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| October 15th | Martin Turbet (Sorbonne University / University of Chicago) | Possible climates and habitability of planets orbiting very low mass stars with a Global Climate Model | Host: Thomas Fauchez | |
| September 27th | Evan Rich (University of Oklahoma) | A Tale of Variability: HD 163296's travels though Spatial, Spectral and Time Domains | Host: Steven Silverberg | |
| September 17th | Daniel Angerhausen (Center for Space and Habitability - University of Bern, Switzerland) | Understanding Alien Worlds with (flying) Telescopes and Artificial Intelligence | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| September 13th | Yutong Shan (Harvard) | Unconventional uses of conventional space telescopes to crack open new parameter spaces in exoplanet science | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| August 23rd | Christian Delacroix (Princeton) | Exoplanet imaging techniques for NASA/WFIRST and European ELT/METIS | Host: Tyler Groff | |
| August 16th | Steven Silverberg (GSFC) | New Discoveries with Disk Detective: M Dwarfs, Peter Pan Disks, and More | Host: Sarah Logsdon | |
| July 19th | Joseph Renaud (George Mason University) | Tidally Disturbing the Question of Exoplanet Habitability | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| July 10th | Eliad Peretz and John Mather (GSFC) | Remote Occulter for the 2020's (Joint Exoplanet/ASD Colloquium) | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| June 7th | Michael Quinton (Edinburgh Napier University) | Sonification of Exosolar Planetary Systems | Host: Ravi Kopparapu | |
| May 24th | Clémence Fontanive (University of Edinburgh) | Brown dwarf binaries: from statistics to formation and evolution | Host: Eric Lopez | |
| May 17th | Oza Apurva (University of Bern) | Distinguishing Exogenic and Endogenic Volatiles in Extrasolar Giant Planet Exospheres | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| May 3rd | Sarah Dodson-Robinson (University of Delaware) | Best Practices for Ground-based Protoplanetary Disk Mass Measurements | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| April 5th | Sarah Millholland (Yale) | Data-Driven Dynamics of Planetary Systems | Host: Elisa Quintana | |
| March 29th | Carey Lisse (JHU-APL) | Recent Results from the NIR Disk Spectroscopy (NIRDS) Survey | Host: Marc Kuchner | |
| March 15th | Dana Louie (UMD) | Simulated JWST/NIRISS Transit Spectroscopy of Anticipated TESS Planets Compared to Select Discoveries from Space-Based and Ground-Based Surveys | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| February 20th | Patrick Whelley (GSFC) | Volcanoes of the Solar System with a Look to Extrasolar Planets | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 13th | Samuel Hadden (Harvard) | Characterizing Kepler's Multi-planet Systems | Host: Elisa Quintana | |
| February 6th | Peter Plavchan (George Mason) | The Promise of Precise Radial Velocity Surveys for Exoplanets | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| January 30th | Alan Boss (Carnegie DTM) | An Observationally Constrained Hybrid Theory of Planet Formation | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| January 23rd | Jaehan Bae (Carnegie DTM) | Rings, gaps, and spiral arms in protoplanetary disks: footprints of forming planets | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| January 17th | Peter Gao (UC Berkeley) | Understanding Exoplanet Aerosols using Solar System Analogs | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| January 16th | Jason Wang (UC Berkeley) | Finding and Characterizing Planets with the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey | Host: Avi Mandell | |
