Current schedule

From Exoplanet Reading Group

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Meetings are usually in the upper geosci conference room (Hinds 451). They take place generally on Mondays at 3 pm.

Other exoplanet-themed talks and events at UChicago, beyond this reading group, are shown in double brackets.

Schedules from past years: 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014

Go to: Fall 2014, Winter 2015

Spring 2015

3/30

Batygin & Laughlin - Jupiter's Decisive Role in the Inner Solar System's Early Evolution

Demory et al. - HST transit search for Alpha Cen Bb

Raddi et al. - Likely detection of water-rich asteroid debris in a metal-polluted white dwarf

Goldblatt - Habitability of waterworlds

4/6

Batygin & Laughlin, continued discussion

Batygin et al. - Dynamical Evolution of Multi-Resonant Systems: the Case of GJ876

Schwartzman - The Case for a Hot Archean Climate and its Implications to the History of the Biosphere

Pillitteri et al. - FUV flaring and potential accretion on HD189733

Maxted et al. - A comparison of gyrochronological and isochronal age estimates for transiting exoplanet host stars

(Date TBD

Nicolas Dauphas, Geochemical perspective on planet formation.)