During these times of COVID, exciting exoplanet science is still taking place from home offices across the country and around the globe. People are sharing their work online giving wider access to talks.
To have your exoplanet talk listed here, please fill in this Google Form
Events will be listed on this page by month, and also on this Google calendar
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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Feb. 12
1:00 pm (PST) |
ExoExplorer Science Series | Caprice Phillips (Ohio State University) | Detecting Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of super-Earths with JWST | Tiffany Kataria |
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Feb. 12
1:00 pm (PST) |
ExoExplorer Science Series | Samson Johnson (Ohio State University) | Science Enabled by the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey | Tiffany Kataria |
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Feb. 11
11:00 pm (PST) |
ExoPAG SIG 3 | Laura Kreidberg (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) | How to 'See' the Atmosphere of a Transiting Exoplanet | Daniel Larsen |
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Feb. 8
12:10 pm (EST) |
Penn State/CEHW | Toby Tyrrell (University of Southampton) | Occurrence of long-term planetary habitability in a 100,000 planet simulation | Dan Stevens |
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Feb. 1
12:10 pm (EST) |
Penn State/CEHW | Trevor David (Flatiron) | Exoplanetary Evolution | Dan Stevens |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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Jan. 28
11:20 am (PT) |
ExoPAG SIG 3 | Chris Mankovich (Caltech) | Fuzzy cores in our prototypical gas giants: evidence from Juno and Cassini | Daniel Larsen |
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Jan. 28
11:00 am (PT) |
ExoPAG SIG 3 | Ravit Helled (University of Zurich) | Formation, evolution, and structure of giant planets | Daniel Larsen |
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Jan. 25
11:00 am (PT) |
PSU/CEHW | Kamber Schwarz (Arizona/LPL) | The Cold and Massive Protoplanetary Disk GM Aurigae | Daniel Larsen |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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Dec. 10
11:20 am (PT) |
ExoPAG SIG 3 | Caroline Dorn (University of Zurich) | Possible interiors of TRAPPIST-1 planets | Daniel Larsen |
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Dec. 10
11:00 am (EST) |
ExoPAG SIG 3 | Eric Agol (Univ. of Washington) | Transit-timing and photodynamics of the TRAPPIST-1 system | Dan Stevens |
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Dec. 7
12:10 pm (ET) |
Penn State/CEHW | Phil Arras (U Va) | Accretion of dust by extrasolar planets | Dan Stevens |
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Dec. 2
11 am (ET) |
GSFC/SEEC | Claudio Maccone (Intl. Academy of Astronautics/Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Torino) | Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) for Biosignatures, SETI and Interstellar Telecommunications | Ravi Kopparapu |
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Dec. 1
3 pm (PT) |
University of Washington Astrobiology Program | Giada Arney (NASA GSFC) | Venus: The Exoplanet Next Door | Daniel Larsen |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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Nov. 16
12:10 pm (ET) |
GSFC/SEEC | Narsireddy Anugu (U of AZ) | New optical interferometry instrumentation and exploiting them for protoplanetary disks and exoplanets | Dan Stevens |
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Nov. 9-13
mornings (PT) |
NExScI | various speakers | Exoplanet Demographics Conference | Ellen O'Leary |
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Nov. 12
11 am (PT) |
Univ. of Washington | Mark Marley (NASA Ames) & Victoria Meadows (University of Washington) | Spectra of Solar System Planets for Exoplanet Scientists | Daniel Larsen |
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Nov. 12
11 am (PT) |
NASA JPL | Mathias Nowak (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) | The ExoGRAVITY Large Program: New Constraints on Planet Formation Models from Dual-field Optical Interferometry | email the JPL Astrophysics Colloquium for link |
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Nov. 4
11 am (ET) |
GSFC/SEEC | Svetlana Berdyugina (Leibniz Inst. for Solar Physics/Univ. of Freiburg) | Structural Technosignatures: How can they be spatially resolved? | Ravi Kopparapu |
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Nov. 2
12:10 pm (ET) |
GSFC/SEEC | Lily Zhao (Yale) | EXPRES: A Next-Generation Spectrograph | Dan Stevens |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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Oct. 21
11 am (ET) |
GSFC/SEEC | Gavin Schmidt (NASA GISS) | Learning from the Anthropocene: Techosignatures in geological archives? | Ravi Kopparapu |
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Oct. 14
11 am (ET) |
GSFC/SEEC | Theresa Fisher (ASU) | Atmospheric Chemical Reaction Network Topology as a Potential Technosignature for Exoplanets | Ravi Kopparapu |
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Oct. 8
11 am (PDT) |
Univ. of Washington | Elisabeth Newton (Dartmouth) | The Advantages and Challenges of M Dwarfs as Planet Hosts | Daniel Larsen |
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Oct. 5
12:10 pm (EDT) |
Penn State/CEHW | Greg Gilbert (Univ. of Chicago) | The Architectures and Dynamics of Kepler's Multiplanet Systems | Dan Stevens |
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Oct. 2
3:30 pm (MDT) |
Univ. of New Mexico | Kaitlin Kratter (Univ. of AZ) | The Companions of stars across the mass ratio spectrum (contact organizer for connection info.) | Diana Dragomir |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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August 31
12:10 pm (EDT) |
Penn State/CEHW | Travis Berger (Univ. of Hawai'i/Institute for Astronomy) | The Influence of Stellar Age on Kepler Exoplanet Demographics | Dan Stevens |
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August 27
8 am (PDT) |
KITP/UC Santa Barbara | Exostar Redux Conference (various speakers) | Accurate Stellar Properties, Star-planet Interactions | Victor Silva Aguirre |
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August 27
3 pm (EDT) |
JPL/Caltech | Sean Andrews (Harvard Smithsonian CfA) | Substructures in Protoplanetary Disks: Overview and Future Prospects | Joe Lazio |
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August 26
8 am (PDT) |
KITP/UC Santa Barbara | Exostar Redux Conference (various speakers) | Accurate Stellar Properties, Star-planet Interactions | Victor Silva Aguirre |
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August 24
12:10 pm (EDT) |
Penn State/CEHW | Joe Ninan (Penn State) | Using He10830 as a probe to understand the evaporating atmospheres of exo-planets | Dan Stevens |
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August 12
11 am (PDT) |
NASA ExEP/JPL | Feng Zhao (JPL) | please contact organizer for connection information | Brendan Crill |
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August 6
11 am (PDT) |
Univ. of Washington | Laura Schaefer (Stanford) |
Tutorial Talk and Discussion: Volatile Solubilities in Rocks
The discussion will focus on Kite et al. (2020) Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes |
Vikki Meadows |
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August 6
3 pm (EDT) |
JPL/Caltech | Karin Oberg (Harvard) | High-Resolution Chemistry in Planet-Forming Disks | Joe Lazio |
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August 3
11 am (MST) |
Univ. of Arizona | Debanjan Sengupta (NASA Ames Research Center) | Title TBA | Serena Kim |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
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July 27
11:00 am (MST) |
Univ. of Arizona | Molly Kosiarek (UC Santa Cruz) | Photometry as a Proxy for Stellar Activity in Radial Velocity Analyses | Serena Kim |
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July 20-23
8:30 am (PDT) |
NExScI | Sagan Summer Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocity | Presentations available on YouTube | Sagan Workshop |
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July 20
11 am (MST) |
Univ. of Arizona | Megan Mansfield (The University of Chicago) | Title TBA | Serena Kim |
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July 16
4:00 pm (EDT) |
NASA GSFC/Carnegie DTM | Julien Girard (STScI) | Roman Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge | Knicole Colon |
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July 15
2:00 pm (EDT) |
Harvard University | Theron Carmichael (Harvard Univ.) | Transiting brown dwarfs and applying gyrochronology to their host stars | Theron Carmichael |
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July 13
11 am (MST) |
Univ. of Arizona | Samantha Scibelli (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona) | Title TBA | Serena Kim |
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July 10
9 am (PDT) |
NASA Ames | Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting (various speakers) | Agenda | Tom Greene |
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July 10
6:30 am (UTC) |
Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) | Ramses M. Ramirez (ELSI) | Planetary habitability thresholds and respiratory limits for complex life | Thilina Heenatigala |
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July 6
11 am (MST) |
Univ. of Arizona | Nienke van der Marel (University of Victoria) | Title TBA | Serena Kim |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
| May 19 | Univ. of Washington | Zoe Todd (Harvard Univ.) | What Can the Planetary Environment Tell Us About Origins of Life? | Daniel Larsen |
| May 14 | ETH Zürich | Sascha Quanz (ETH Zürich) | The Science of LIFE: Current Status, Open Questions & Ways to Participate | Daniel Angerhausen |
| May 14 | ETH Zürich | Denis Defrère (Univ. of Liège) | LIFE: Measurement Principle and Technology Requirements | Daniel Angerhausen |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
| April 14 | Univ. of Washington | Jason Barnes (Univ. of Idaho) | Dragonfly: NASA's Titan Astrobiology Rotorcraft Lander | Daniel Larsen |
| Date/Time | Host Institution | Speaker | Title & Viewing Link | Contact |
| October 15 | Univ. of Washington | Andrew Rushby (UC Irvine) | Effects of Land Coverage and Host Star SED on the Albedo of Terrestrial Worlds | Daniel Larsen |
| October 8 | Univ. of Washington | Adam Frank (Univ. of Rochester) | Blowing Away Exoplanets: The Photo-evaporation of Planetary Atmospheres | Daniel Larsen |
Questions? chenderson@ipac.caltech.edu
(last updated March 26th, 2021 11:36:21)
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