Current schedule

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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 2014

1/5

Recent arXiv papers:

Vanderburg et al. - new super-Earth discovered from K2 data

Dressing et al. - mass measurement of Kepler-93b

Ngo et al. - Friends of Hot Jupiters direct imaging survey


1/12, 1:30 PM, LASR conference room

Talk by Michael Meyer (UTH Zurich): "Building a Predictive Theory of Planet Formation: Extrapolation versus Phenomenology in the Era of Direct Imaging."


1/26

Fred Ciesla on his latest publication: Sulfurization of Iron in the Dynamic Solar Nebula and Implications for Planetary Compositions

Recent results on the XO-2 system: Demasso et al. 2015, Teske et al. 2015


2/2

Recent arXiv papers:

Mazeh et al. - Kepler photometric amplitudes & spin-orbit alignments

Campante et al. - Kepler-444 system

2/9

Leconte et al. - asynchronous rotation of low-mass, close-in planets

Glein et al. - serpentinization & H2 generation on Enceladus


(Date TBD

Nicolas Dauphas, Geochemical perspective on planet formation.)