Previous Seminars & Colloquia
5/1/14 – Althea Moorhead: The meteoroid fluence at Mars due to comet Siding Spring
4/11/14 – Ji Wang: Advance Our Knowledge of Planets In the Habitable Zone and Beyond
4/4/14 – Diana Dragomir: In the Spotlight: Small Planets Transiting Bright Stars
3/21/14 – Christopher House: Icy-world Ceres Explorer (ICE), a Low-cost Astrobiology Mission to the Icy (Dwarf) Planet that We Can Reach and Explore!
3/7/14 – Ming Zhao: Studying the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters with Novel
High-Precision Observations
2/28/14 – Jessi Cisewski: An Introduction to Approximate Bayesian Computation with an
application to exoplanet eccentricity distributions
2/14/14 – James Kasting: Is the Earth rare?
2/7/14 – Knicole Colon: Characterizing the Atmospheres of Super-Earths and Hot-Jupiters
with Narrow-Band Photometry
1/31/14 – Rachel Worth: Seeding Life on the Moons of the Outer Planets
1/15/14 – Lisa Kaltenegger: Finding a second Earth – a fascinating interdisciplinary puzzle
12/13/13 – Dimitri Veras: The Fate of Exoplanetary Systems and the Consequences for White Dwarf Pollution
11/8/13 – Quinn Konopacky: Characterization of the HR 8799 Planetary System: Spectroscopy and Orbits
10/25/13 – Katherine Deck: The dynamics and stability of (Kepler) multi-planet systems
10/18/13 – Joshua Pepper: The Next Steps in Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
10/4/13 – Ivan Ramirez: High-precision chemical abundance analysis of Sun-like stars
with planets
9/27/13 – Rory Barnes: Tides in the Habitable Zone
9/20/13 – Lucy Lim: The OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
9/13/13 – Jon Swift: Kepler’s Smallest Stars and Their Planetary Systems
9/6/13 – Fabienne Bastien: A Photometric Variability Sequence Tracing the Evolution of
Sun-like Stars
4/19/13 – Adam Kraus: Giant Planets Caught at Formation
4/10/13 – Jill Tarter: The Allen Telescope Array – New Strategies and Instrumentation
for SETI and Radio Astronomy
4/5/13 – Mike Nolan: Arecibo Radar studies of Near-Earth Asteroids
4/3/13 – Lucianne Walcowicz: Understanding Exoplanets in Light of their Host Stars: Stellar Astrophysics and Kepler
3/22/13 – Eric Mamajek: A Transiting Extrasolar Ring System: A Step Closer to Studying the Formation and Early Evolution of Extrasolar Moons
3/20/13 – Jonathan Lunine: Titan from the Inside Out
3/15/13 – Rebekah Dawson: Some assembly required: Nature’s instruction booklet for planetary migration
2/22/13 – Matija Cuk: Making the Moon from a fast-spinning Earth
2/1/13 – Marc Kuchner: What can images of dusty debris disks tell us about extrasolar planets?
1/31/13 – Eric Ford: Building a CyberScience Toolbox to Characterize Extrasolar Planets: Practical Parallel Algorithms for Bayesian Analyses of Astronomical Surveys
1/25/13 – Howard Bond: HD 140283: the oldest star in the solar neighborhood
12/7/12 – John Monnier: Imaging the Surfaces of Stars
11/30/12 – Yuka Fujii: Exploring the Landscale of Habitable Exoplanets via Their Disk-integrated Colors and Spectra: Indications for Future Direct Imaging Observations
11/12/12 – Ming Zhao: Ground-based Detections of Thermal Emission from Hot Jupiters
10/19/12 – Ron Gilliland: Current and future Kepler projects
09/28/12 – Jason Wright: Keeping up with the Kardashevs
09/20/12 – Steve Vogt: An Update on the Habitable-Zone Planet Gliese 581g
08/31/12 – Joleen Carlberg: Investigating Planet Engulfment by Red Giant Stars
06/08/12 – D. C. Nguyen: Spectroscopic Multiplicity in Young Stars: Scorpius-Centaurus
06/08/12 – Nathan De Lee: Combing the Desert: Brown Dwarfs in the SDSS-III MARVELS Survey
12/07/11 – Paul Butler: Finding Habitable Planets Around Nearby Stars A&A Colloquium
11/16/11 – David Charbonneau: The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet A&A Colloquium
11/11/11 – Mike McElwain: Exoplanetary Science: Instrumentation, Observations, and Expectation CEHW Seminar
11/04/11 – Eduardo Martin: Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets come of Driving Age CEHW Seminar
10/28/11 – Will Fischer: A Significant Source of I, Y, and J-Band Excess Emission in Classical T Tauri Stars CEHW Seminar
10/21/11 – Ravi Kopparapu: A photochemical model for the carbon-rich planet WASP-12b CEHW Seminar
09/02/11 – James Lloyd: “Retired” Planet Hosts: Not So Massive, Maybe Just Portly After Lunch CEHW Seminar
04/29/11 – Jackie Faherty: The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project CEHW Seminar
04/20/11 – Jeff Valenti: Exoplanets Characterization and Other Science with JWST A&A Colloquium
04/13/11 – Ben Oppenheimer: Project 1640: Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets A&A Colloquium
04/08/11 – Andrej Prsa: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Modeling Eclipsing Binary Stars CEHW Seminar
04/01/11 – Cullen Blake: Searching for Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars CEHW Seminar
03/25/11 – Rachel Worth: Seeding of Life on Moons of the Outer Planets CEHW Seminar
03/18/11 – Scott Fleming: Desert Dwellers and Dynamic Duos: Brown Dwarf and Binary Star Science from Surveys CEHW Seminar
03/04/11 – Marshall Perrin: Direct imaging of exoplanets: From adaptive optics to JWST and beyond CEHW Seminar
02/16/11 – Diana Valencia: Characterizing Super-Earths A&A Colloquium
01/19/11 – Gaspar Bakos: Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets, from Discovery to Characterization A&A Colloquium
11/19/10 – Philip Muirhead: Precise Near-Infrared Radial Velocities with TEDI CEHW Seminar
11/17/10 – Ray Jayawardhana: Characterizing Exoplanets A&A Colloquium
11/05/10 – Lynn Carter: Volcanoes on the Moon and Mars: New insights from radar observations CEHW Seminar
10/29/10 – John Bochanski: Determining the Metallicity of Low Mass Stars CEHW Seminar
10/08/10 – John Debes: The Link Between Dusty White Dwarfs and Planets CEHW Seminar
03/17/10 – Ruth Murray-Clay: Frontier Planets: Formation and Dynamics at Wide Separations A&A Colloquium
02/03/10 – Debra Fischer: Searching for Planets in the alpha Centauri System A&A Colloquium
01/27/10 – Stephen Kane: Scanning the Parameter Space of Exoplanets with TERMS A&A Colloquium
12/04/09 – Dimitri Veras: Formation, survival, and detectability of planets beyond 100AU CEHW Seminar
12/02/09 – Adam Burrows: Theoretical Frontiers of Exoplanet Research A&A Colloquium
09/30/09 – Pawel Artymowicz: With or without planets: Planet migration and the origin of disk structure A&A Colloquium
09/16/09 – John Johnson: The Golden Age of Exoplanet Spin-Orbit Measurements A&A Colloquium
05/22/09 – Andrzej Niedzielski: Planets around intermediate-mass stars CEHW Seminar
04/03/09 – Chad Bender: Direct, Ground Based Spectroscopy of Non-transiting Exoplanets CEHW Seminar
