Talks from Previous Years
Organizers: Aki Roberge, Marc Kuchner, & Daniel Jontof-Hutter
Thursdays at 11:00 AM
Building 21, Room 183
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Talks from Previous Years Organizers: Aki Roberge, Marc Kuchner, & Daniel Jontof-Hutter Thursdays at 11:00 AM Building 21, Room 183 |
| 2008 Seminars | |||
| Dec 18: | Derek Richardson (U of MD) |
"Rotational Breakup as the Origin of Small Binary Asteroids" | |
| Dec 11: | Sally Heap (GSFC) | "The Direct Path to Finding Earth-Like Planets" | |
| Dec 4: | Pavel Machalek (STScI) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 |
"Thermal Emission of Exoplanets with Spitzer" | |
| Nov 27: | No talk -- Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| Nov 20: | Ilaria Pascucci (JHU) | "The Clearing of Protoplanetary Disks and of the Solar Nebula -- How Common is the History of the Solar System?" | |
| Nov 17: | Rory Barnes (U of AZ) Monday at 3:30 PM Building 2, Room 8 |
Special (Exo)Planetary Seminar -- "Planetary Habitability Near Low-Mass Stars" | |
| Nov 13: | John Debes (GSFC) | ||
| Nov 6: | Geronimo Villanueva (GSFC) | "Mapping of Biomarker Gases on Mars: Evidence for Local Release" | |
| Oct 30: | No talk -- Spitzer Disks Conference in Pasadena CA | ||
| Oct 23: | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) | "The Historical Record of Zodiacal Dust and What it Means for TPF" & "Measuring Dwarf Planets With SIM" | |
| Oct 16: | Marty Bitner (STScI) | "H2 Emission from Protoplanetary Disks" | |
| Oct 9: | Christine Chen (STScI) | "The Origin and Evolution of Dust and Gas in Debris Disks" | |
| Oct 2: | Stephen Redman (Penn State) |
"PRVS Pathfinder: Achieving Precision Radial Velocities in the Near-Infrared" | |
| June 5: | Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie DTM) | "Compositions of Circumstellar Disks and Implications for Planets Within Them" | |
| May 27: | Kaspar von Braun (MSC)
Alternate Day |
"Directly Determined Radii and Effective Surface Temperatures of Exoplanet Host Stars" | |
| May 15: | Ron Allen (STScI) | "The Space Interferometry Mission: Taking the Measure of the Universe" | |
| May 8: | Claudia Knez (U of MD) | "Ice Composition in Dense Molecular Clouds" | |
| Apr 24: | Frank Shu (UC San Diego) | "Protoplanetary Disks and YSO Jets" | |
| Apr 17: | Vladimir Airapetian (Catholic U/GSFC) | "Auroral Processes and Atmospheric Response of Jupiters Around Red Giants" | |
| Apr 10: | Ruslan Belikov (GSFC) | "The Search for Other Earths: High Contrast Coronagraphy at Princeton" | |
| Mar 27: | Henry Throop (SWRI) | "Planet Formation in Young Star Clusters" | |
| Mar 13: | Doug Hamilton (U of MD) Alternate time 4 PM |
"Jupiter's Shadow Sculpts Its Gossamer Rings" | |
| Feb 21: | Dan Durda (NASA HQ / SWRI) |
"Size-Frequency Distributions of Dust-Size Debris from the Impact Disruption of Chondritic Meteorites" | |
| Feb 20: | Jonathan Levine (U of Chicago) Alternate day |
"Nuclear Astrophysics on the Micron Scale: Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry of Presolar Grains and Interplanetary Dust Particles" | |
| Feb 7: | Casey Lisse (JHU-APL) | "Dusty Disks & Comets: Clues to the Formation and Evolution of the Solar System" | |
| Jan 31: | John Debes (CIW-DTM) | "Tracking Planetesimals from the Cradle to the Grave" | |
| Jan 24: | Stephen Ridgeway (NASA HQ) |
"Conversations on Optical Interferometry: Extended Stellar Atmospheres, Planning for the Future, and the IAU" | |
| Jan 17: | Francis O'Donovan (GSFC) | "The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanets Survey (TrES)" | |
| Jan 16: | John Carr (NRL) Alternate day |
"Organic Molecules and Water in Protoplanetary Disks" | |
| 2007 Seminars | |||
| Dec. 20: | Dave Spiegel (Columbia U) |
"Climatic Habitability" | |
| Dec. 13: | Ludmilla Kolokolova (U of MD) |
"What We Can Learn About Cosmic Dust from Photopolarimetric and Thermal Infrared Data: Example of Comet Dust" | |
| Dec. 6: | David Golimowski (JHU) |
"Coronagraphic Imaging of Dusty Debris Disks: Sifting the Rubble of Planet Formation" | |
| Nov. 29: | Lee Mundy (U of MD) Alternate time 11:30 AM | "Insights into Star Formation and Dust Properties from the Spitzer c2d Legacy Project" | |
| Nov. 8: | Peter McCullough (STScI) |
"XO Planets: Very Recent Results from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes" | |
| Nov. 1: | Sean Solomon (CIW-DTM) |
"The MESSENGER Mission to Mercury: Seeking Clues to the Formation and Evolution of the Inner Solar System" | |
| Oct. 25: | Nicolas Iro (GSFC) | "A Time-Dependent Model for Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres" | |
| Oct. 18: | Mike Mumma (GSFC) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 |
"Astrobiology at Goddard Space Flight Center" | |
| Oct. 4: | Scott Sheppard (CIW-DTM) |
"Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System" | |
| Sept. 27: | Alan Boss (CIW-DTM) Alternate time 10:30 AM | "A Heretic's Approach to Solar System Formation" | |
| Aug. 13: | Jason Steffen (Fermilab) Alternate day and time Monday at 2 PM | "Detecting Terrestrial Planets in Transiting Planetary Systems" | |
| July 19: | Vladimir Airapetian (Catholic U/GSFC) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "Extrasolar Planets in the Radio" | |
| July 12: | Christine Chen (NOAO) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "IRS Spectroscopy of IRAS Discovered Debris Disks" | |
| June 14: | Doug Hamilton (U of MD) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "Neptunian Satellites: Origins and Evolution" | |
| May 24: | David Lary (GSFC) | "Modeling and Data Assimilation for Planetary Atmospheres" | |
| May 10: | Egemen Kolemen (Princeton) | "Dynamics and Control of an Occulter-Based Planet-Finding Mission" | |
| May 3: | Robert Naeye (GSFC) | "My Experience in the Magazine Business and the Journalist/Scientist Relationship" | |
| Apr. 19: | Guillem Anglada (University of Barcelona) | "The Gaia (ESA) Mission Overview: From Exoplanets to Fundamental Physics Across the Galaxy" | |
| Apr. 12: | Jeff Valenti (STScI) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "The Link Between Stellar Metallicity and Planets" | |
| Apr. 5: | Mercedes Lopez-Morales (CIW-DTM) | "High-Precision Transit Photometry: Radii, Albedos, and Satellites of Extrasolar Planets" | |
| Mar. 29: | Ian Jordan (STScI) | "External Occultation: Past, Present, and Future" | |
| Mar. 22: | Margaret Turnbull (STScI) | "Homes Away from Home: Life Among the Stars" | |
| Mar. 15: | Tim Livengood (GSFC) | "Quirks of the Planets (That We Know About)" | |
| Mar. 8: | Sally Heap (GSFC) | "The Terrestrial Planet Finder - Occulter" | |
| Mar. 1: | Chris Stark (U of MD) | "Debris Disk Structures Induced by Terrestrial-Mass Planets" | |
| Feb. 8: | Daniel Jontof-Hutter (U of MD) | "The Effect of Gas Drag and Radiation Pressure on Dust Around Beta Pictoris" | |
| Jan. 25: | Avi Mandell (GSFC) | "Using NIR Emission Lines to Trace the Thermodynamics of Circumstellar Disks" | |
| Jan. 18: | Ruslan Belikov (Princeton) | "Toward 1010 Contrast for Terrestrial Exoplanet Detection: High Contrast Imaging with a Shaped Pupil Coronagraph" | |
| 2006 Seminars | ||||
| Dec. 14: | John Wisniewski (GSFC) | "Resolved and Unresolved Structure in Circumstellar Disks" | ||
| Dec. 7: | John Debes (CIW-DTM) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "Red, Grey, and Blue: The Different Albedo Spectra of Resolved Circumstellar Disks" | ||
| Nov. 30: | Rich Barry (GSFC) | "Interferometric Observations of the Nova RS Ophiuchi" | ||
| Nov. 16: | Dave Chuss (GSFC) Alternate location Building 21, Room 242 | Discussion of "Rounding up the Wanderers: Optimizing Coronagraphic Searches for Extrasolar Planets" by Eric Agol | ||
| Oct. 26: | Carol Grady (GSFC) Alternate location Building 2, Room 8 | "The Disk and Environment of a Young Vega Analog : HD169142" | ||
| Oct. 12: | Inga Kamp (STScI) | "The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks: Boundary Conditions for Planet Formation" | ||
| Oct. 5: | Discussion of "Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy" | |||
| Sept 14: | Alan Boss (CIW-DTM) | "Gas Giant Planet Formation: Theory vs. Observation" | ||
| June 29: | Bradford Behr (USNO) | |||
| May 25: | Giovanna Tinetti (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) | "Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with Reflected, Emitted and Transmitted Spectra" | ||
| May 18: | Fred Ciesla (CIW-DTM) | |||
| May 11: | Harri Vanhala (USRA/NCESSE) | |||
| April 27: | Steve Lubow (STScI) | |||
| April 20: | Ke Zhang (U of MD) | |||
| April 13: | Graeme Lufkin (U of MD) | |||
| April 6: | Jeremy Richardson (GSFC) | |||
| March 31: | Ted von Hippel (UT Austin) |
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| March 30: | No seminar due to Astrobiology Science Conference (Washington DC) | |||
| March 23: | Sara Seager (CIW-DTM) | "From Hot Jupiters to Hot Earths" | ||
| March 16: | No seminar due to TPF-C STDT meeting | |||
| March 2: | Hannah Jang-Condell (CIW-DTM) | |||
| Feb 23: | Bill Oegerle (GSFC) | "Dust Disks and Planets (?) Around Massive Stars" | ||
| Feb 16: | Tony Mallama | "Orbital Phase Curves of the Terrestrial Planets" | ||
| Feb 2: | Kailash Sahu (STScI) | "The Discovery of a New 5.5 Earth mass planet Using Microlensing" | ||
| Jan 19: | Arsen Hajian (USNO) | "The Dispersed FTS: A New Tool for Planet Hunting" | ||
| Jan 12: | No seminar due to AAS meeting (Washington DC) | |||
| 2005 Seminars | ||||
| Dec 15: | Drake Deming (GSFC) | |||
| Dec 8: | Johannes Staguhn | "Probing Protoplanetary Disks and Extrasolar Planets with the Suborbital Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)" | ||
| Dec 1: | Dominic Benford (GSFC) | "Resolving and Searching for Debris Disks in the Submillimeter" | ||
| Nov 17: | Amir Giveon (Princeton) and Ron Shiri (GSFC) | Amir's Powerpoint, Ron's Powerpoint | ||
| Nov 16: | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) Alternate day | "Reading the Resonant Signatures of Planets in Debris Disks" Stellar and Extragalactic Lunch Talk |
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| Nov 10: | Mark Clampin (GSFC) | |||
| Oct 27: | Rick Lyon | "Coronagraphic Nulling for Exo-Solar Planetary Detection and Characterization" | ||
| Oct 20: | No seminar due to Nearby Resolved Debris Disks Meeting (STScI) | |||
| Oct 13: | Discussion of Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Meeting (Nice, France) | |||
| Sept 29: | Bill Danchi (GSFC) | |||
| Sept 22: | Bruce Woodgate (GSFC) | "The 10th Planet" | ||