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NASA Goddard Exoplanet Seminar
Thursdays, 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM (US Eastern Time) Virtually on Zoom Organizers: Joe Renaud (GSFC 698), Prabal Saxena (GSFC 693), Alison Farrish (GSFC 674), Kellen Lawson (GSFC 667), Erika Kohler (GSFC 691), Thomas Fauchez (GSFC 693), & Estelle Janin (UCL) The best way to stay up to date with the latest Exoplanet seminar news is by joining our mailing list. You must be on GSFC network to use that link. However, anyone is welcome to join the list even with a non-NASA email, simply email Joe Renaud if you would like to be added. If you would like to give a talk, or recommend someone else as a speaker, please contact one of the hosts listed above. Also contact us if you are interested in becoming a host, we always need more volunteers! If you'd like to schedule a time to meet with any of our speakers at GFSC, please contact the host listed with the speaker. For more exoplanet-related talks at Goddard, see the LUVOIR Seminar Series or the Technosignature Seminar Series. Want to hear about even more exoplanet science? Then check out the local ChExo mini conference. The NASA Goddard Exoplanet Seminar Series is co-hosted by the GSFC Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration, the Solar System Exploration Division, and the Astrophysics Science Division. |
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| Upcoming Seminars |
| Jan. 26th | Aida Behmard (Caltech) | How Common is Planet Engulfment? | Host: Alison Farrish. |
| Feb. 16th | Tessa Fisher (ASU) | TBA | Host: Estelle Janin. |
| Mar. 3rd | Lili Alderson (ASU) | TBA | Host: Prabal Saxena. |
| Mar. 9th | Martin Cordiner (GSFC/CUA) | TBA | Host: TBD. |
| 2022 Seminars | |||
| See all of the recorded 2022 seminars here. | |||
| Dec. 1st | Guillaume Chaverot (University of Geneva) | First Exploration of the Entire Runaway Greenhouse Transition with a 3D GCM | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Nov. 21st | Eric Gaidos (U. of Hawai'i - Mānoa) | "Dipper Stars": A Serendipitous Window into the Realm of Planet Formation | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Nov. 17th | Jens Kammerer (STScI) | High-Contrast Imaging of Substellar Companions with Current and Future Space Telescopes | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Nov. 10th | Jorge Martinez-Palomera (NASA Ames/BAERI) | Kepler Bonus: 400,000+ New Light Curves from Kepler's Background Sources | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Nov. 3rd |
Arika Egan (University of Colorado) | Small Satellites and Science: An Overview of the CUTE CubeSat Mission | Recorded talk is not available. |
| Oct. 13th | Kellen Lawson (University of Oklahoma) | The Lord of the Rings: Understanding Planet Formation Through Planet-forming Disks | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Sep. 22nd | Tyler Richey-Yowell (Lowell Observatory) | A Photometric and Spectroscopic Analysis of the High-Energy Evolution of K Stars | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Sep. 8th | Christophe Lovis (Uni. of Geneva) | High-contrast, high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanets with VLT-RISTRETTO | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Aug. 25th | Kristin Showalter Sotzen (JHU/APL) | Prospects for Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres Using Low SNR Methods | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| July 29th | Mona El Morsy (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique) | A Prototype Instrument for the Direct Characterization of Young Giant Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jun. 30th | Erin May (JHU/APL) | Spitzer's Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jun. 23rd | Stephen Kane (Uni. of California, Riverside) | Planetary Habitability Anchor-Points or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Venus" | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jun. 16th | Caprice Phillips (Ohio State University) | Detecting Potential Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Gas Dwarfs | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jun. 9th | Nick Wogan (Uni. Washington) | Rapid Timescales for an Oxic Transition During the Great Oxidation Event | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| May 26th | Ishan Mishra (Cornell) | Providing New Constraints on the Surface Composition of Europa (and Beyond) | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| May 25th | Ian Crossfield (KSU) | JWST Precursor Science: Rocky Exoplanets and Chemical Abundances | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| May 12th | Jon Zink (Caltech) | Assessing Galactic Influences on Planet Formation with Exoplanet Demographics | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Apr. 28th | Tom Evans (Max Planck) | Prospects of biosignature detection with JWST: a TRAPPIST-1e case study | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Apr. 14th | Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University) | Exoplanet Exploration After the 2020 Decadal Survey | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Mar. 24th | Leon Ofman (CUA/GSFC) | Automated identification of transiting exoplanet candidates in TESS data using AI/ML methods | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| 2021 Seminars | |||
| See all of the recorded 2021 seminars here. | |||
| Jan. 27th (2022) | Denis Sergeev (Uni. of Exeter) | Dichotomy of the Atmospheric Circulation on TRAPPIST-1e | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Dec. 9th | Jennifer Carter (SUNY) | Analyzing Photometric Emissions of Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Dec. 16th | Kielan Wilcomb Hoch (UC San Diego) | Moderate Resolution Spectroscopy of Directly Imaged Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Dec. 2nd | Quentin Changeat (Uni. College London) | Atmospheric studies in the era of next generation telescopes | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Nov. 18th | Kaitlin Rasmussen (University of Michigan) | Constraining the Drake Equation: The Past, Present, and Future of the Search for Life | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Oct. 14th | Noah Tuchow (Penn State) | Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Assessing the Habitable Histories of Stellar Systems | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Sep. 30th | Salva Turyshev (NASA JPL) | Solar Gravity Lens Telescope Concept Presentation | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Sep. 16th | Paolo Sossi (ETH - Zurich) | Redox State of Earth's Magma Ocean and its Venus-like Early Atmosphere | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Sep. 2nd | Shubham Kanodia (Penn State) | From Pixels to Population: New Tools to Understand M Dwarf Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Aug. 19th | Joshua Krissansen-Totten (UC - Santa Cruz) | Using Coupled Atmosphere-interior-redox Models to Predict Terrestrial Planet Atmospheric Evolution and Anticipate Oxygen False Positives | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Aug. 5th | Matt Clement (Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory) | Challenges with Habitability Around M-Dwarfs and the Case for External Giant Planets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jul. 22nd | Meredith MacGregor (U. of Colorado - Boulder) | Discovery of an Extremely Short Duration Flare from Proxima Cen Using Millimeter through FUV Observations | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jul. 8th | Xinting Yu (UC Santa Cruz) | How to identify surfaces on exoplanets: without seeing them | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jun. 24th | Tessa Fisher (ASU) | What Atmospheric Chemical Reaction Network Topology Can Tell Us About Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jun. 10th | Martina Preiner (Heinrich Heine University) | The Geochemical Pattern of Biochemistry | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| May 27th | Ingo Waldmann (Uni. College London) | Deep Learning Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| May 13th | Peter Woitke (St. Andrews University) | A Simple Classification of Exoplanet Atmospheres Based on Their H-C-N-O Abundances. | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Apr. 29th | Michaela Walterova (DLR, Berlin) | Thermal and Orbital Evolution of Terrestrial Exoplanets | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Apr. 15th | Tobias Meier (University of Bern) | Interior Dynamics of Tidally-Locked super-Earths | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Apr. 1st | Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi (American Museum of Nat. History) | System Architectures as Fossils of Brown Dwarf and Giant Planet Formation | Watch the recorded talk here
(Missing very beginning). |
| Mar. 18th | Benjamin Hayworth (Penn State) | Space Weather and the Origin of Life | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Mar. 4th | Travis Berger (University of Hawaii) | Precise Demographics of Kepler Exoplanets in the Gaia Era | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Feb. 4th | Peter Gao (UC-Santa Cruz) | Deciphering Aerosols in Exoplanet Atmospheres | Recorded talk is not available, but you can find the slides here. |
| Jan. 21st | Arika Egan (U. of Colorado) | The CUTE CubeSat Mission: Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres with Small Satellites | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Jan. 7th | Daniel Thorngren (U. of Montreal) | Delayed Cooling and Reinflation of Hot Jupiters | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| 2020 Seminars | |||
| Dec. 3rd | Sarah Moran (JHU) | Chemistry of Super-Earth and Mini-Neptune Hazes from Laboratory Experiments | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Nov. 19th | Kara Brugman (ASU/Carnegie) | Petrological experiments to determine compositions of rocky exoplanet partial melts | Recorded talk not available. |
| Nov. 12th | Kim Bott (UC-Riverside) | The invisible giants: Signatures of hot Jupiters and smaller, cooler, worlds in polarized light | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Oct. 29th | Gudmundur Stefansson (Princeton) | New insights into M-dwarf planetary systems with precision radial velocity facilities | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Oct. 22nd | Anjali Piette (Cambridge) | Deciphering Thermal Emission Spectra of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| Oct. 15th | Stephanie Olson (Purdue) | Exo-oceanography and the Detectability of Exoplanet Life | Watch the recorded talk here. |
| 2019 Seminars | |||
| Feb. 27th | Amaya Moro-Martín (STScI) | Interstellar objects and their potential role in planet formation | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Feb. 20th | Joey Taylor (UMD) | Tidal Heating Effects on Habitable Zone Widths due to Non-Synchronous Spin and Eccentric Orbits | Host: Joe Renaud |
| Feb. 6th | Matej Malik (UMD) | How to quickly assess the presence of rocky planet atmosphere | Host: Joe Renaud |
| Jan. 31st | Peter Nagler (NASA Goddard) | The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) | Host: Michael McElwain |
| Jan. 27th | Arpita Roy (Caltech) | The Precision Radial Velocity Landscape | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Dec. 12th | Melinda Soares-Furtado (Princeton University) | Open Cluster Variability Searches: Evasive, Invaluable Probes | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Nov. 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 |
| Oct. 17th | Hannah Jang-Condell (University of Wyoming) | Exoplanet Science at the University of Wyoming | Host: Marc Kuchner |
| Nov. 13th | Peter Vickers (Durham University) | Expecting the unexpected in the search for alien life | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Nov. 8th | Steven Silverberg (MIT Kavli Institute) | New Disk-Hosting Moving Group Members from Disk Detective | Host: Clément Ranc |
| Oct. 3rd | Sean Terry & Ryan Felton, (Catholic Uni. of America) | Comparing HST Observations of Bulge Stars to Galactic Population Synthesis Models in
Preparation
for the WFIRST Microlensing Survey (Terry) and Study of Barnard's Star B as an Analog for Titan-like Exoplanets (Felton) |
Host: Joe Renaud |
| Sep. 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 |
| Aug. 13th | Yosuke Yamashiki (Kyoto University) | Impact of Stellar Superflares on Planetary Habitability | Host: Vladimir Airapetian |
| Aug. 2nd | Margaret Turnbull (SETI Institute) | Imaging Exoplanets with WFIRST | Host: Ravi Kopparapu |
| Jul. 25th | Hubert Klahr (MPIA Heidelberg) | From Pebbles to Asteroids, KBOs and Planetary Embryos: Or what is the Jeans-Mass for Planetesimals? | Host: Marc Kuchner |
| Jun. 27th | James Jackman (U. of Warwick) | Finding the biggest flares from the smallest stars with the Next Generation Transit Survey | Host: Allison Youngblood |
| Jun. 25th | Michele Silverstein (Georgia State Univ.) | Sizing Up Red Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood | Host: Joshua Schlieder |
| Jun. 7th | Eric Wolf (CU Boulder/LASP) | Exoplanet Modeling: Adventures in the Third Dimension | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Apr. 18th | McCullen Sandora (University of Pennsylvania) | Multiverse Predictions for Habitability | Host: Clément Ranc |
| Apr. 16th | Geoffrey Clayton (LSU) | R Coronae Borealis Stars: Products of White-Dwarf Mergers | Host: Gioia Rau |
| Apr. 11th | Savannah Jacklin (Vanderbilt University) | Using the UKIRT Microlensing Survey as a Pathfinder for WFIRST | Host: Clément Ranc |
| Mar. 21st | Sonny Harman (Columbia University) | Atmospheric Chemistry in the 3rd Dimension | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Mar. 14th | Erika Kohler (GSFC) | Laboratory Exploration of Exoplanet Cloud Formation | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Feb. 28th | Kevin Stevenson (STScI) | Into the Wild Green Yonder: Exoplanet Characterization in the Era of JWST | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Feb. 21st | Jasmeet Dhaliwal (Penn State University) | Linking magmatic outgassing and atmospheric chemistry - Implications for Earth & Beyond! | Host: Prabal Saxena |
| Feb. 19th | Francesco Tombesi (Rome University) | Can Supermassive Black Holes Influence the Habitable Zone in Galaxies? | Host: Clément Ranc |
| Feb. 14th | Alex Howe (University of Michigan) | Atmosphere Retrieval of Planetary Mass Companions with the APOLLO Code | Host: Michael McElwain |
| Feb. 5th | Joshua Blackman (University of Tasmania) | Exoplanet Characterization with Microlensing and Adaptive Optics | Host: Clément Ranc |
