October 15, 2019

Speaker: Matthew Holman

Contact Information: mholman@cfa.harvard.edu

Title: The Continuing Search for Planet Nine

Abstract: Several lines of evidence, both theoretical and observational, indicate that additional planets in the outer solar system remain to be discovered. Most recently, attention has been focused on 'Planet Nine',a few Earth mass planet with a moderate inclination at a distance of a few hundred AU (Trujillo & Sheppard 2014, Batygin & Brown 2016, Brown & Batygin 2016). I will review this evidence for the existence of this body and will present a variety of approaches that are being used to find it.

Visit Schedule:

Wednesday (Oct 16, 2019)

(visitor room: 105A )

  • 9:30 a.m.: Josh Winn (Peyton 125)

  • 10:00 a.m.: Nate Lust (Peyton 110)

  • 10:30 a.m.: Astro Coffee

  • 11:00 a.m.: Joel Hartman (Peyton 134)

  • 11:30 a.m.:

  • 12:00 p.m.: Gaspar Bakos (P133)

  • 12:30 p.m.: Wunch (Peyton 033)

  • 2:00 p.m.: Luke Bouma (Peyton 023A)

  • 2:30 p.m.: Samuel Yee (Peyton 021)

  • 3:00 p.m.: Dan Tamayo (Peyton 110)

  • 3:30 p.m.: Alexandros Papamatthiou (Peyton 110)

  • 4:00 p.m.: Melinda Soares-Furtado (Peyton 020)

  • 4:30 p.m.: Ed Turner (Peyton 208)

  • 5:00 p.m.: Kassandra Anderson (Peyton 104)

  • 5:30 p.m.: Jeremy Goodman (Peyton 129)

  • 6:00 p.m.: DINNER WITH HOST - meet in Grand Central

Dinner Sign-up (grad students & postdocs are encouraged; 8 MAX) - add your name here:

1. Speaker: Matt Holman

2. Faculty host: Josh Winn

3. Postdoc host: Dan Tamayo

4. Luke Bouma

5. Melinda Soares-Furtado

6. Samuel Yee

7. FREE

8. Kassandra Anderson

NO MORE THAN 8 PEOPLE (otherwise it is very difficult to properly interact with the speaker)