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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, Sarah Logsdon, Clément Ranc, & 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. |
| Upcoming Seminars |
| 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 | |
| January 31st | Kevin Stevenson (STScI) | TBD | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| February 5th | Joshua Blackman (University of Tasmania) | TBD | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| February 7th | Jasmeet Dhaliwal (Penn State University) | TBD | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| 2018 Seminars | ||||
| 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 Université / 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 | |
| 2017 Seminars | ||||
| December 19th | Clément Ranc (GSFC) | Microlensing at the space era: mass and distance measurement of stars and planets in the Milky Way | Host: Sarah Logsdon | |
| December 12th | Sarah Logsdon (GSFC) | Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: Discovery, Characterization, and High-Precision Instrumentation | Host: Marc Kuchner | |
| November 28th | Aparna Bhattacharya (GSFC) | Measuring Mass of Wide Orbit Low Mass Exoplanets | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| November 14th | Dmitry Savransky (Cornell) | Optimization of Mission Scheduling for Exoplanet Direct Imagers | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| November 7th | Sarah Ballard (MIT) | "There Must Be a Better Way": Leveraging the Thousands of Known Systems to Inform Exoplanet Follow-up | Host: Elisa Quintana | |
| October 24th | David Bennett (GSFC) | Gravitational Microlensing Finds All the Cool Planets | Host: Clément Ranc | |
| October 17th | Anthony Harness (Princeton) | Progress in Sub-scale Testing and Optical Model Validation of Starshades | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| October 5th | James Cho (Queen Mary University London) | Storms and Jets on Giant Planets | Host: Vlad Airapetian | |
| October 3rd | Allison Youngblood (GSFC) | The High-Energy Radiation and Particle Environment Around M Dwarfs with Exoplanets | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| August 30th | Beth Biller (U Edinburgh Royal Observatory) | Detecting and Characterizing Exoplanets with Direct Imaging | Host: Josh Schlieder | |
| July 11th | Jackie Villadsen (NRAO) | Radio Observations of M-dwarf Space Weather | Host: Prabal Saxena | |
| June 20th | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) | Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 | Host: Brian Hicks | |
| 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 | Noé Kains (STScI) | Constraining the Masses of Compact Objects with Astrometric Microlensing: from Black Holes to Exoplanets | Host: Clément 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 | |
