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

2010 Seminars
Jan 11: Paul Butler (Carnegie DTM) "The Earthbound Planet Search Program"
Jan 18: No Seminar Martin Luther King Day
Mar 8: No Seminar Hubble Fellows Symposium
Apr 5: Stella Kafka (Carnegie DTM) "Activity on the Secondary Stars of Cataclysmic Variables: Nature or Nurture?"
Apr 14: Robert Fosbury (HST ECF)
Alternate Day
Alternate Room, CafeCon
"Spectra of Earth"
April 26: David Lafreniere (U Montreal) "JWST's TFI: (T)uned (F)or (I)maging Exoplanets"
May 3: No Seminar May Symposium: Stellar Populations in the Cosmological Context
May 31: No Seminar Memorial Day
June 21: Dmitry Savransky (Princeton) "Stellar Reflex Astrometry Applications for Planet-Finding"
June 30: Kevin Heng (IAS)
Alternate Day
"Exoplanetary Astrophysics: Vortices, Atmospheres and Debris Disks"
July 6: Leslie Hebb (Vanderbilt)
Alternate Day
"Unique Discoveries from the SuperWASP Transiting Planet Survey"
July 12: Catherine Espaillat (CfA) "Planet Formation in Dusty Disks Around Young Stars"
July 26: John Carr (NRL) "Water and Organic Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks: Spitzer Spectroscopy of T Tauri Stars"
Aug. 2: Abhijit Chakraborty (PRL-Thaltej) "PARAS: India's First High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph for Precision Radial Velocity Exoplanet Studies"
Aug. 16: Justin Rogers (STScI)
Alternate Room, CafeCon
"Ground-Based Photometric Detections of Hot Jupiter Thermal Emission"
Sept. 6: No Seminar Labor Day
Sept. 13: No Seminar Delivery of Volatiles and Organics Workshop
Sept. 20: Bill Danchi (GSFC) "Infrared Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanets: Can we detect Earth-twins on a budget?"
Sept 27: William Bains (MIT) "Reducing Life to Chemistry: Redox Chemistry and Biosignatures"
Oct 4: Tae-Soo Pyo (Subaru) "Probing the Launching Mechanism of Young Stellar Outflows with [Fe II] Emission"
Oct 11: Laurent Pueyo (STScI) "High Contrast Spectroscopy for Exo-Planetary Science"
Oct. 18: David Spiegel (Princeton) "Climatic Habitability, Generalized Milankovitch Cycles, and Hot Jupiter Atmospheres"
Nov. 1: Veronica Roccatagliata (STScI) "Multi-wavelength Observations of Protoplanetary Disks to Constrain the Disk Evolution"
Nov. 15: Isa Oliveira (Leiden)
Alternate Room, S322
"Tracing the Evolution of Dust in Protoplanetary Disks"
Dec. 6: Thayne Currie (GSFC) "High-Contrast Imaging and Atmospheric Modeling of Massive Planets"
Dec. 13: Peter Plavchan (IPAC) "Young Stars in the Time Domain"

Previous year's Schedules: 2008 2009

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