2012-2013
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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
"Alignment of the stellar spin with the orbits of a three-planet system" Sanchis-Ojeda, Fabrycky, Winn, et al. 2012
"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
"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: "Two nearby sub-Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in the GJ 436 system" Stevenson et al. 2012; Kevin Stevenson
20 min: "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
"Discovery of a Candidate for the Coolest Known Brown Dwarf" Luhman et al. 2011
"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
"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
"Gravoturbulent Planetesimal Formation: The Positive Effect of long-lived Zonal Flows" Dittrich, Klahr, and Johansen 2012
Ana Uribe
1/22/13
Gwenael Boue "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
"Planetary System Disruption by Galactic Perturbations to Wide Binary Stars" Kaib, Raymond, & Duncan 2013
Nathan Kaib
2/19/13
"On the Stability of Super-Earth Atmospheres" Heng & Kopparla 2012
Jun Yang
3/5/13
"A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet" Barclay et al. 2013
Daniel Koll
[[ 3/12/13
Field trip to Northwestern U to see
Joshua Carter
"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
"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
Rob Wordsworth
Tuesday (avoiding Memorial Day) 5/28/13
"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
"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
"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
"Water loss from terrestrial planets with CO2-rich atmospheres." Wordsworth & Pierrehumbert
Robin Wordsworth
8/5/13
"Imaging of the CO Snow Line in a Solar Nebula Analog"
Laura Kreidberg
8/19/13
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
