STScI Star and Planet Formation Seminar Series

Co-organizers: Christine Chen & Tracy Beck

Mondays at Noon
STScI Auditorium

If you'd like to give a talk, please email Christine Chen or Tracy Beck

2008 Seminars
May 19: Christine Chen (STScI) "A Possible Icy Kuiper Belt Around HD 181327"
May 26: No Seminar Memorial Day
June 2: Tracy Beck (STScI) "T Tau! An Enigmatic Eponym"
June 16: John Wisniewski (GSFC) "The Time Variable Behavior of Protoplanetary Disks"
June 19: Kate Su (Arizona-Steward)
Alternate Day
Alternate Room, Muller 112
"Worlds in Collision: Debris Disk Evolution from Spitzer's Observations"
June 30: Carol Grady (GSFC) "A Decade of HST Coronagraphy of Protoplanetary and Transitional Disks"
July 15: Mike Sitko (U Cincinnati)
Alternate Day
"Variability of the Inner Dust Structure in PMS Disk Systems"
July 28: John Debes (Carnegie-DTM) "Searching for the Planetary Survivors of Stellar Death"
Aug. 4: Angelle Tanner (JPL) "Molecular Spectroscopy of Transiting Hot Jupiters"
Aug. 12: Casey Lisse (JHU-APL)
Alternate Day
Alternate Time, 4pm
"Dusty Disks & Comets: Clues to the Formation and Evolution of the Solar System"
Aug. 13: Jack Lissauer (NASA-Ames)
Alternate Day
Alternate Time, 1:30pm
"Terrestrial Planet Growth in Binary Star Systems & The Kepler Mission"
Aug. 14-16: Local Conference The Great Planet Debate: Science as Process
Aug. 25: Marty Bitner (STScI) "H2 Emission from Protoplanetary Disks"
Sept. 1: No Seminar Labor Day
Sept. 8: Ilaria Pascucci (JHU) "Planet Formation in Multiple Star Systems"
Sept. 22: Daniel Apai (STScI) "Planet Formation around the Sun and Other Stars: Thermal Processing of Pre-planetary Materials"
Oct. 6: Remi Soummer (STScI) "The Exoplanet Community Report in preparation for the Decadal Survey"
Oct. 13-17: Local Conference IAU Symposium No. 258: The Ages of Stars
Oct. 20: Hannah Jang-Condell
(U of MD/GSFC)
"Observable Signatures of Planet Formation in Disks"
Nov. 10: Kailash Sahu (STScI) "Limits on Substellar and Planetary-Mass Objects through Microlensing from SWEEPS Data"
Nov. 17: Ben Sargent (STScI) "Spitzer IRS Spectroscopic Studies of Dust Composition of Protoplanetary Disks"
Nov. 24: Anand Sivaramakrishnan (AMNH) "Sparse aperture interferometry with a non-redundant mask on JWST"
Dec. 1: Marc Kuchner (GSFC) "Exozodiacal Dust and Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets"
Dec. 8: Sean Brittain (Clemson) "The Observation of Warm Gas in Transitional Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars"
Dec. 15: Massimo Robberto (STScI) "Evidence for a Photoevaporated Circumbinary Disk in Orion"

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