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NASA Goddard Extrasolar Planets Seminar
Tuesdays, 12:00 AM -- 1:00 PM GSFC Building 34 (Room W120B most weeks) Organizers: Brian Hicks, Prabal Saxena, Clement Ranc, & Marc Kuchner If you'd like to give a talk, or wish to be added to the seminar email list, please send an email to Brian Hicks. 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. |
| Upcoming Seminars |
| June 20th | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) | Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| July 11th | Jackie Villadsen (NRAO) | Radio Observations of M-dwarf Space Weather | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| 2017 Seminars | ||||
| May 23rd | Sharon Xuesong Wang (Carnagie DTM) | Finding Terrestrial Planets with Precise Radial Velocities | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| May 18th | Natasha Batahla (Penn State / GSFC) | A Synergistic Approach to Interpreting Planetary Atmospheres | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| May 16th | Noe Kains (STScI) | Constraining the Masses of Compact Objects with Astrometric Microlensing: from Black Holes to Exoplanets | Host: Clement Ranc | |
| May 2nd | Eric Lopez (GSFC) | Understanding Planet Formation by Studying the Evolution of Hot Neptunes and Super-Earths | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| April 25th | Elisa Quintana (GSFC) | Solving the Puzzles of Planet Formation in the Modern Era of Planet-hunting | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| April 20th | Jessie Christiansen (NExScI) | Elusive Earths: Taking the Galactic Exoplanet Census | Host: Elisa Quintana | |
| April 11th | Andrew Eberhardt (U Washington / GSFC) | Direct Imaging Access to Habitable Zone Orbits | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| March 28th | Neil Zimmerman (GSFC) | Imaging Exoplanets with Future Space Telescopes | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| March 21st | Peter Driscoll (Carnegie DTM) | Exodynamos: Theory and Detection | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| March 7th | Josh Schlieder (GSFC) | Small Stars and Small Planets from the First Two Years of K2 | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| February 21st | Chaintanya Giri (Tokyo Tech) | Carbon: Where is it all hidden? | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 14th | Brian Hicks (UMCP / GSFC) | Laboratory Efforts and Analysis Towards Direct Imaging with Segmented Space Telescopes | Host: Marc Kuchner | |
| February 7th | Katherine Garcia-Sage (Catholic U / GSFC) | Magnetic Protection of the Atmosphere of Proxima b | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| January 31st | Paul Dalba (Boston University) | Prospects for Atmospheric Characterization of Kepler's Cold, Long-Period Exoplanets | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| January 23rd | Susan Thompson (NASA ARC) | Creating the Final Kepler Catalog | Host: Elisa Quintana | |
| January 17th | Vladimir Airapetian (NASA GSFC) | Detecting Beacons of Life from G-K-M Dwarfs | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| January 10 | Johan Mazoyer (STScI) | High Contrast Imaging: From Active Correction to Observation of Circumstellar Disks | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| 2016 Seminars | ||||
| November 29 | Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie DTM) | Circumstellar Disks: Ages, Compositions and Structures | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| November 8 | Sally Blumenthal (NASA GSFC) | The Role of Disequilibrium Chemistry in Giant Gas Exoplanets and Implications for Observing with JWST | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| November 1 | Meredith MacGregor (Harvard) | Millimeter Studies of Nearby Debris Disks | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| October 24 | Tyler Groff | The CHARIS IFS at Subaru | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| October 18 | Daniel Angerhausen | Goodbye Goddard Talk | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
| October 11 | Valeri Makarov (USNO) | Rotational states of habitable exoplanets | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| October 4 | Sukrit Ranjan (Harvard) | Boundary Conditions for Abiogenesis: Constraints on the UV Environment Relevant to Prebiotic Chemistry on Primitive Planetary Bodies | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
| Spetember 27 | Dennis Conti (American Association of Variable Star Observers) | The Role of Amateur Astronomers in Exoplanet Research | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| August 16 | Catalina Urrejola (Pontifical Catholic University, Chile) | Life at the dry edge: lessons from the Atacama desert | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
| July 19 | Tom Wilson (Exeter) | 3D Extinction Mapping of Molecular Clouds and Probabilistic Catalogue Matching | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| June 21: | David Amundsen (NASA-GISS) | Simulations of HD 209458b using the UK Met Office Global Circulation Model, the Unified Model | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| May 17: | Jacob Haqq-Misra (Blue Marble Space Institute) | Limit cycles, moist greenhouses, and planetary oblateness at the boundaries of the habitable zone | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
| May 10: | Julien de Wit (MIT) | Atmospheric Characterization of Planets Beyond the Solar System | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
| May 3: | Johanna Teske (Carnegie DTM) | Exoplanet Genetics: What Host Star Chemical Abundances Reveal about Exoplanets | Host: Hannah Wakeford | |
| March 22: | Steven Silverberg (GSFC, Oklahoma) | A Comprehensive Analysis of the Activity of GJ 1243 | Host: Marc Kuchner | March 15: | Natasha Batalha (GSFC, PSU) | A Community Tool for Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | March 8: | Jonathan Gagne (Carnegie DTM) | BASS-Ultracool: Finding Isolated planetary-mass Objects in the Neighborhood | Host: Marc Kuchner | March 1: | Holly Sheets (UMD) | Statistical Characterization of Reflection and Refraction in the Atmosphere of sub-Saturn Kepler Planet Candidates | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | February 9: | Mamadou N'Diaye (STScI) | New Coronagraph Designs for Future Large Space Observatatories | Host: Daniel Angerhausen |
| February 16: | Joe Filippazzo (CUNY) | Fundamental Parameters of Substellar Objects | Host: Marc Kuchner | |
| February 2: | Veselin Kostov (NASA GSFC) | Planets with two suns | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
| January 19: | Michael Way (NASA-GISS) | Was Venus the first habitable planet of our solar system? | Host: Daniel Angerhausen | |
