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== Fall 2012 ==

10/1/12

Introductory Meeting

3 minutes from each of the ~20 attendees

TAAC 67

[[ 10/2/12
"Fast track to find an inhabited exoplanet" Brinson Lecture, Adler Planetarium
David Charbonneau from Harvard University ]]

[[ 10/3/12
"How to Find the Nearest Habitable Exoplanets" Astro Dept. Colloquium
David Charbonneau from Harvard University ]]

[[ 10/8/12
"Characterizing Super-Earth Exoplanets with Transmission Spectroscopy:
Applications to GJ1214b" Theory underlying observations of transits.
Bjoern Benneke visitor from MIT ]]

[[ 10/11/12
"Transit Anomalies in Extrasolar Planets"
Geza Kovacs visitor from Konkoly Observatory, Budapest ]]

10/15/12

[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7408/full/nature11301.html "Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system"] Sanchis-Ojeda, Fabrycky, Winn, et al. 2012

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4362 "Planet-Planet Eclipse and the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect of a Multiple Transiting System: Joint Analysis of the Subaru Spectroscopy and the Kepler Photometry"] Hirano et al. 2012

Dan Fabrycky

Hinds 451

[[ 10/26/12 @ 3:30 "Atmospheric chemistry of water worlds" seminar
by Ray Pierrehumbert in Hinds 101 ]]

10/29/12

[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11572.html "An Earth-mass planet orbiting α Centauri B"] Dumusque et al. 2012

Laura Kreidberg

Hinds 451

[[Tues. 11/6/12 @ 1:00 "Indication of insensitivity of weathering behavior and
habitable zone to surface land fraction" practice seminar by Dorian
Abbot in Hinds 451]]

11/12/12

40 min: [http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4245 "Two nearby sub-Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in the GJ 436 system"] Stevenson et al. 2012; Kevin Stevenson

20 min: [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6101/1511 "Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multiplanet System"] Orosz et al. 2012; Daniel Koll

[[ 11/14/12 "Infrared Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres" Astronomy Colloquium
Drake Deming visitor from University of Maryland, College Park ]]

11/26/12

[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...730L...9L "Discovery of a Candidate for the Coolest Known Brown Dwarf"] Luhman et al. 2011

[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...739...81L "Discovery of a Companion at the L/T Transition with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer"] Loutrel et al. 2011

Camilo Delgado

12/10/12

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3744 "Direct Imaging Discovery of a `Super-Jupiter' Around the late B-Type Star Kappa And"] Carson et al. 2012

Joe Carson visitor from College of Charleston

== Winter 2013 ==

1/7/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2095 "Gravoturbulent Planetesimal Formation: The Positive Effect of long-lived Zonal Flows"] Dittrich, Klahr, and Johansen 2012

Ana Uribe

1/22/13

Gwenael Boue
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5603 "Planets Near Mean-Motion Resonances"] Petrovich, Tremaine, & Malhotra 2012

[[ 1/28/13

Mars and the problem of planetary habitability

visitor Edwin Kite from Caltech

LOCATION: Hinds 101, 3 pm.]]

2/5/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3145 "Planetary System Disruption by Galactic Perturbations to Wide Binary Stars"] Kaib, Raymond, & Duncan 2013

Nathan Kaib

2/19/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1922 "On the Stability of Super-Earth Atmospheres"] Heng & Kopparla 2012

Jun Yang

3/5/13

[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7438/full/nature11914.html "A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet"] Barclay et al. 2013

Daniel Koll

[[ 3/12/13
Field trip to Northwestern U to see
Joshua Carter
[https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=dnFkNGhzbHQ3MDAzaWxkOHRzOWExcTFpNDggZmlibHAwajhnajhpNjk4ZnFtbnZrbDhkYWtAZw&ctz=America/Chicago&pli=1&sf=true&output=xml "Photodynamics: revealing the secrets of the lowest-mass planets and stars"] ]]

[[ 3/13/13

Astrophysics Colloquium: The Road to 100 Earths

Debra Fischer from Yale

LOCATION: BSLC 115, 3:30 pm.]]

3/19/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1141 "Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy... using Wide-Field Camera 3 on HST"] Deming et al. 2013

Laura Kreidberg

== Spring 2013 ==

4/1/13 -- Open discussion of all attendees. Please give an update to your research or interests.

4/15/13 Duration Drifts in Kepler Sean Mills

4/29/13 Manuscript in Prep., Dorian Abott / Jun Yang

[[ 5/10/13

Joe Kirschvink from Caltech

Geosci Colloquium, 3 pm.]]

5/13/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7079 "3D climate modeling of close-in land planets: Circulation patterns, climate moist bistability and habitability"]

Rob Wordsworth

Tuesday (avoiding Memorial Day) 5/28/13

[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...768..143Z "Low-mass Planets in Protoplanetary Disks with Net Vertical Magnetic Fields: The Planetary Wake and Gap Opening"] Zhu, Stone, and Rafikov 2013

Alissa Bans

6/10/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4180 "Transits and occultations of an Earth-sized planet in an 8.5-hour orbit"] Sanchis-Ojeda et al. 2013

Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda visiting from MIT

6/12/13

Tutorial on tides in solid bodies

Gwenael Boue

== Summer 2013 ==

6/17/13

"[[Clouds in Wacky Climates]]," a talk to be publicly presented at the Chapman conference on planetary atmospheres.

Dorian Abbot

6/24/13

[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/doi/10.1093/mnras/stt895 "Catastrophic evaporation of rocky planets"] Perez-Becker & Chiang

Arieh Konigl

[[7/8/13

Talk: Planet Hunters: Searching for Exoplanets with 500,000 Eyes

Meg Schwamb, visiting from Yale University]]

7/22/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3266 "Water loss from terrestrial planets with CO2-rich atmospheres."] Wordsworth & Pierrehumbert

Robin Wordsworth

8/5/13

[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/07/17/science.1239560 "Imaging of the CO Snow Line in a Solar Nebula Analog"]

Laura Kreidberg

8/19/13

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1670 Tidally Locked Exoplanets] -- Mills & Abbot, in press at ApJL

Sean Mills

8/26/13

Free-form meeting --> talk about your own work or summarize a recent paper that interested you.

[[9/9/13

Greg Gilbert]]

9/23/13

Water vapor, Clouds, and Thermal Emission of Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets, by Yang, Abbot, Cowan

Jun Yang

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