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NASA Goddard Extrasolar Planets Seminar
Thursdays, 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM GSFC Building 34 (Room W120B most weeks) Organizers: Joe Renaud, Prabal Saxena, Erika Kohler, Thomas Fauchez, & Estelle Janin The best way to stay up to date with the latest Exoplanet seminar news is by joining our email listserv which you can do here. 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, 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 |
| April 29th (11am, SEEC Zoom) | Michaela Walterova (DLR, Berlin) | Thermal and Orbital Evolution of Terrestrial Exoplanets | Host: Joe Renaud | |
| May 13th (11am, SEEC Zoom) | Peter Woitke (St. Andrews University) | A Simple Classification of Exoplanet Atmospheres Based on Their H-C-N-O Abundances. | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| May 27th (11am, SEEC Zoom) | Ingo Waldmann (Uni. College London) | Deep Learning Exoplanets | Host: Estelle Janin | |
| June 10th (11am, SEEC Zoom) | Martina Preiner (Heinrich Heine University) | The Geochemical Pattern of Biochemistry | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| 2021 Seminars | ||||
| April 15th | Tobias Meier (University of Bern) | Interior Dynamics of Tidally-Locked super-Earths | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| April 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 (Apologies, but the very beginning was not recorded). | |
| March 18th | Benjamin Hayworth (Penn State) | Space Weather and the Origin of Life | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| March 4th | Travis Berger (University of Hawaii) | Precise Demographics of Kepler Exoplanets in the Gaia Era | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| February 4th | Peter Gao (UC-Santa Cruz) | Deciphering Aerosols in Exoplanet Atmospheres | Recorded talk is not available, but you can find the slides here. | |
| January 21st | Arika Egan (U. of Colorado) | The CUTE CubeSat Mission: Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres with Small Satellites | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| January 7th | Daniel Thorngren (U. of Montreal) | Delayed Cooling and Reinflation of Hot Jupiters | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| 2020 Seminars | ||||
| December 3rd | Sarah Moran (JHU) | Chemistry of Super-Earth and Mini-Neptune Hazes from Laboratory Experiments | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| November 19th | Kara Brugman (ASU/Carnegie) | Petrological experiments to determine compositions of rocky exoplanet partial melts | Recorded talk not available. | |
| November 12th | Kim Bott (UC-Riverside) | The invisible giants: Signatures of hot Jupiters and smaller, cooler, worlds in polarized light | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| October 29th | Gudmundur Stefansson (Princeton) | New insights into M-dwarf planetary systems with precision radial velocity facilities | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| October 22nd | Anjali Piette (Cambridge) | Deciphering Thermal Emission Spectra of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| October 15th | Stephanie Olson (Purdue) | Exo-oceanography and the Detectability of Exoplanet Life | Watch the recorded talk here. | |
| 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 | |
