STScI Star and Planet Formation Seminar Series

Co-organizers: Christine Chen & Tracy Beck

Fridays at 1pm
Lyman Spitzer Boardroom

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

2011 Seminars
Jan 24: Scott Fleming (U of Fl) "Desert Dwellers and Dynamic Duos: Brown Dwarf and Binary Star Science from Exoplanet Surveys"
Feb 7: Tracy Beck (STScI) "A Search for Near IR Ro-vibrational H2 Emission from the Disks of Young Stars"
Feb 21: Casey Lisse (JHU-APL) "Preliminary Results from the Recent Flyby of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 by EPOXI"
Apr 11: Mark Wyatt (I of A) "What's around nearby stars: dust, debris and planets"
Sep 2: Hanno Rein (Princeton) "Models of the Dynamical Evolution of Multi-Planetary Systems and Their Observability"
Sep 23: Meeting Debriefing Extreme Solar Systems II
Oct 7: Andrew Steele (Carnegie)
Alternate Time, 12:30pm
Planets, Life and the Universe Lecture Series
Oct 14: Rebecca Martin (STScI) "Accretion Outbursts on to Young Stars and Planets"
Oct 21: Rita Mann (HIA)
Kevin Flaherty (U of A)
"Infrared Variability of Transition Disks: Signs of Complex Disk Structure"
"The Potential to Form Planets in the Orion Nebula"
Oct 28: Joanna Bulger (Exeter) "Resolving Disks and Binaries in A-Star Debris Disks"
Nov 4: Daniel Apai (U of A)
Alternate Time, 12:30pm
Planets, Life and the Universe Lecture Series
Nov 18: Zhaohuan Zhu (Princeton) "FU Orionis outbursts and Transitional disks: What do they tell us about protoplanetary disk accretion and planet formation"
Dec 2: Karen Meech (U of Hawaii)
Alternate Time, 12:30pm
Planets, Life and the Universe Lecture Series
Dec 9: Russel White (GSU) "The Search for Young Hot Jupiters"
Dec 16: Claude Aime (Universite Nice Sophia-Antipolis) "TBD"

Previous year's Schedules: 2008 2009 2010

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