Past Seminars
& Recordings
2024 Speakers
February 26, Allison Youngblood (NASA Goddard):
February 20, Gabriele Gugno (Michigan):
February 5, Achrène Dyrek (CEA Paris-Saclay): Exoplanetary atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope - First results from the European ExoMIRI team, recording
2023 Speakers
Is AD Leo featuring a polarity reversal of the large-scale magnetic field? Long-term monitoring across near-infrared and optical domains with SPIRou, ESPaDOnS and NARVAL.
Stefano Bellotti
(IRAP / ESA)
February 20 2023
Recording / fb live
Observing active small bodies with HST and JWST: an examination of the feline-like, cometary byproducts of the planetary formation process
Bryce Bolin
(NASA Goddard)
March 6 2023
Aperture Masking Interferometry
with the JWST
Joel Sánchez Bermúdez
(IA-UNAM)
March 13 2023
Embargoed for now
Circumbinary discs: Planet formation in a dynamically complex environment
Rebecca Martin
(University of Nevada)
March 27 2023
No recording
ALMA Band 3 Observations of the ONC Proplyds
Nicholas Ballering
(University of Virginia)
April 3 2023
No recording
Orbital Evolution of Giant Planets After the Main Sequence
Nicholas Saunders
(University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)
May 8 2023
No recording
Investigating the link between winds/outflows, disk substructures and protoplanets
Justyn Campbell-White
(ESO)
June 5 2023
No recording
Three Perspectives on Planetary Outflows
Shreyas Vissapragada
(Harvard CfA)
September 5 2023
No recording
Understanding the formation and evolution of exoplanets via transmission spectroscopy
James Kirk
(Imperial College London)
October 9 2023
No recording
Three Perspectives on Planetary Outflows
Shreyas Vissapragada
(Harvard CfA)
September 5 2023
No recording
Constraining the Formation of Directly Imaged Exoplanets Using Instrumentation and Orbit Fitting Techniques
Clarissa Do O
(UC San Diego)
October 30 2023
No recording
Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
Siyi Xu
(Gemini North)
November 6 2023
No recording
New Views of Debris Disks
David Wilner
(Harvard CfA)
December 4 2023
No recording
Anisotropic Planetary Winds: Insights from the Helium Line
Fabienne Nail
(University of Amsterdam)
December 11 2023
No recording
2022 Speakers
Detecting Potential Biosignatures in the Atmsopheres of Gas Dwarfs with JWST
(Ohio State University)
Recording
The hunt
for co-orbital planets
(Center for Astrobiology, CSIC-INTA)
Using polluted white dwarfs to understand the bulk composition of exo-planetary material
(Univ. of Cambridge)
High Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
(UC Santa Cruz)
The Internal Happenings of Dwarf Planet Haumea: Connections to Exoplanet Interiors
Jessica Noviello (@JessicaNoviello)
(NASA GSFC)
Two Quick Tales: How Protoplanetary Disks Accrete and Their Evolution into Debris Disks
Joan Najita (NOIRLab)
Monday April 4, 3:30pm EST, co-hosted with the JHU Wine&Cheese,
No recording
Hidden Exoplanet Populations
Recent results from EXPRES spectrograph, plus new method of stacking periodograms to reveal aggregate planetary signals.
No recording
Weakened magnetic braking supported by asteroseismic rotation rates of Kepler dwarfs
Oliver Hall (ESA/ESTEC)
April 25 2022
No recording
Multi-scale photometry of Jupiter’s icy moons
Ines Belgacem (ESA/ESAC)
May 9 2022
Recording
Everything you need to know about the future LIFE mission
Daniel Angerhausen, Eleonora Alei, Felix Dannert, Timothy Gebhard
(ETH Zurich )
The outer reaches of exo-systems: studying exoplanets, brown dwarfs and debris disks at the widest separations with direct imaging and radial velocities
Elizabeth Matthews
(Observatoire de Genève => MPIA)
October 17 2022
Recording / fb live
Testing Planet Formation Pathways via Disk Observations and Exoplanet Demographics
(University of Arizona)
October 19 2022
No recording
Understanding the Evolution of the Early Solar System through Paleomagnetism of Meteorites
Cauê Borlina
(JHU)
October 24
Recording / fb live
Characterizing magnetospheric accretion and extinction in Orion OB1b with ULLYSES
Caeley Pittman
(Boston University)
Oct 31 2022 🎃
Recording / fb live
The CUTE CubeSat: A Dedicated Small Satellite Studying Ultra-Hot Jupiters
Arika Egan
(CU Boulder/LASP)
November 7 2022
not recorded
Understanding the multiplicity of stars in the field using Monte Carlo simulations
Rebecca Houghton
(University of Sheffield)
November 21 2022
Characterizing Protoplanetary Disks Using ALMA and 2D Thermo-chemical models
Jenny Calahan
(University of Michigan)
December 5 2022
Observations and characterization of young giant exoplanets with JWST/MIRI
Mathilde Mâlin
(Observatoire de Paris Meudon)
December 16 2022
Population Studies of Exoplanet Atmospheres with HST WFC3
Billy Edwards
(University College London)
December 16 2022
From HST to JWST - New tools to analyse exoplanet spectroscopic observations from space
Angelos Tsiaras
(Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
December 16 2022
fb live / recording, starts at 29:20
Automated Search for Exocomet Transits in HARPS
Raphael Bendahan-West
(U. Warwick)
December 19 2022
recording / fb live
2021 Speakers
Extremely Precise Radial Velocities: The EXPRES Pipeline
(Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona)
Deeper Looks at Several Unique Roman Telescope Coronagraph Targets
Gemini-LIGHTS: a new unbiased polarized light survey of protoplanetary disks around intermediate mass stars
Simulating the Effects of Outer Giant Planets on Inner Super-Earths with In Situ Formation Models
High-contrast integral field spectropolarimetry of planet-forming disks
Moderate Resolution Spectroscopy of Directly Imaged Planets
Kielan Hoch (Wilcomb)
Chemistry of Embedded Disks: Prevalent Complex Organic Molecules and Shock-excited Sulfur-bearing Molecules
(Univ. Virginia)
Detecting variability in late-T Brown Dwarfs
Natalia Lucía Oliveros Gómez
(Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia => Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico)
Recording
2020 Speakers
Experimental investigations and astronomical observations of interstellar ices
Danna Qasim
(NASA GFSC)
Chronology of the Earliest Formed Solids in the Protosolar Disk
(Lunar and Planetary Institute/NASA Johnson Space Center)
The Puzzling Nature of the Large TNO Varuna
System architectures as fossils of brown dwarf and giant planet formation
A Thousand Earths: An Atmospheric Biosignature Survey with a Novel Space Observatory
Image Reconstruction in Infrared Interferometry
Terrestrial Planet Formation and the Early Instability Scenario
Matthew Clement
(Carnegie DTM)
No recording