2013-2014

From Exoplanet Reading Group

This is an archived year. Or maybe you want Current_schedule.

Fall 2013

10/14/13

Laura Kreidberg, "Clouds in the atmosphere of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b".

[[10/25/13

Adam Showman, "Atmospheric circulation of extrasolar giant planets", DoGS Friday Seminar.]]

[[10/28/13

Ray Pierrehumbert, "The Puzzle of Low-Density Super-Earths", NAI lecture, [1].]]

10/28/13

Gwenaël Boué, "Spin-orbit angle in compact planetary systems perturbed by an inclined companion".

11/11/13

Mini-workshop: Exoplanets after Kepler (Nov. 11, 2013)

[[11/20/13 *Wednesday*

BSLC 001, 3 pm

Ruth Murray-Clay gives the Astro Colloquium[2]

Origins of Gas Giant Planets ]]

11/25/13

Eric Gaidos from U of Hawaii, "A Thermometer for Goldilocks: Accurate Temperatures of Kepler M Dwarfs and Their Planets".

12/16/13

Tobias Schmidt from AIU Jena, "Mass determination of young directly imaged planet candidates and brown dwarfs"

Winter 2014

1/13/14

Feng Ding, Common 0.1 bar tropopause in thick atmospheres set by pressure-dependent infrared transparency, Robinson & Caitling (2014)

1/27/14

Kat Deck, MIT

[[1/29/14 *Wednesday*, BSLC 115, 3:00 PM

Bruce Macintosh gives the Astronomy colloquium, Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets ]]

2/3/14 **off-schedule**

Nick Cowan, "Water Cycling Between Ocean and Mantle: Super-Earths Need Not be Waterworlds"

2/10/14

No meeting due to Exoclimes conference.

2/24/14

Megan Bedell, "The peculiar solar composition and its possible relation to planet formation"

3/10/14

Ray Pierrehumbert, "Effective hydrodynamic hydrogen escape from an early Earth atmosphere inferred from high-accuracy numerical simulation"

Spring 2014

4/7/14

Meeting at Northwestern, all day. Please sign up for carpool via google docs (contact Dan Fabrycky for info)

4/14/14 Robin Wordsworth, "Abiotic Oxygen-dominated Atmospheres on Terrestrial Habitable Zone Planets"

4/21

Ray Pierrehumbert, Transit depth workshop part I

[[4/23, *Wednesday*, BSLC 115, 3:00 PM

Daniel Huber gives the Astro colloquium, Asteroseismology and Exoplanets: A Kepler Success Story]]

4/28

Ray Pierrehumbert, Transit depth workshop part II

5/8, *Thursday*, Hinds 176 (Goldsmith room), 3:00 PM

David Kipping, "Asterodensity Profiling: A New Tool for Studying Exoplanets"

5/12

Seth Teitler, "Why is there a Dearth of Close-In Planets around Fast-Rotating stars?"

6/2, *2 PM*

Ana Uribe, TBD

[[ 6/4, *Wednesday*, KPTC 206, 12:15 PM

Daniel Fabrycky, Computations in Science seminar, "Dynamics of Planetary Systems" ]]

[[ 6/4, *Wednesday*, BSLC 115, 3:00 PM

Heather Knutson, Astro Colloquium (topic TBA)]]

6/9

Cezary Migaszewski (Torun, Poland) -- planetary dynamics

6/23

Jun Yang, Strong Dependence of the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone on Planetary Rotation Rate

Summer 2014

7/7

Arxiv.org recent papers

7/21

Arxiv.org recent papers: the bulk compositions of super-Earths; a transiting planet near the snow line; and the 1% of scientific publishing

8/4, 8/18

Arxiv.org recent papers

8/25

Courtney Dressing (Harvard)

Frequency of potentially habitable planets around M dwarfs from Kepler data

9/15

Arxiv.org recent papers