JPL Astrophysics Luncheon Seminars
Monday 12:00-1:00, Room 169-336
Scheduled Speakers for 2008:


Date Speaker Title
Jan 14; von Karmen Mark Swain (JPL) Detection & Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Jan 21 no talk Martin Luther King Day
Jan 24, Thurs, 4:00 Mark Marley (Ames) The Planetary Science of Exoplanets
Jan 28 Joseph Rhee (UCLA) Search for Main Sequence Stars with Warm Dust:
Implication for Terrestrial Planet Formation
Jan 31, Thurs, 4:00 Doug Lin (UCSC) Hot Earths around G & M Stars
Feb 4 Amir Giveon (JPL) Coronagraph Wavefront Correction by Electric Field Conjugation
Feb 11 Jonathan Lunine (Arizona) Delivery of Water to Exo-Earths: Insights from Our World
Feb 14, Thurs, 1:00 Konstantinos Tassis (Chicago) Protostar Formation in Magnetic Molecular Clouds
Feb 14, Thurs, 4:00 John Johnson (Hawaii) Planet Hunting In New Stellar Domains
Feb 18 no talk Presidents' Day
Feb 19, Tues, 11:30 Gary Melnick (Harvard CFA) SWAS
Feb 21, Thurs, 4:00 Gary Melnick (Harvard CFA) Cosmic Inflation Probe
Feb 22, Friday various Center for Exoplanet Studies (CES) Fair
Feb 25 Michael Werner (JPL) 1547 Days of Spitzer Science
Feb 28, Thurs, 1:30 Gary Case (LSU) Low Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Galactic Black Holes
Feb 28, Thurs, 4:00 Steve Beckwith (STScI) Detecting Life's Signatures in Extrasolar Planets
Mar 3 Colette Salyk (CalTech) Protoplanetary Disk Evolution:
New results from High-resolution Spectroscopy
Mar 7, Thurs, 3:00 Jeremy Ostriker (Princeton) How are galaxies made?
Mar 10 Drake Deming (Goddard) Light from Extrasolar Planets
Mar 13, Thurs, 1:30 Jim Fienup (Rochester) Sidelobe Reduction & Super-Resolution by Spatially Variant Apodization
Mar 17, 12:00 Nestor Fernandez (IAS) Cosmic Infrared Background
Mar 17, 2:00 Beth Biller (Hawaii) SDI
Mar 18-21 JPL Disk Initiative Workshop Planet Formation Processes and
Development of Prebiotic Environments
Mar 20, Thurs, 4:00 Aki Roberge (Goddard) Gas & Dust in Debris Disks:
Clues about the Late Stages of Planetary System Formation
Mar 24 Michael Ireland (CalTech) Mapping the Shores of the Brown Dwarf Desert
with Aperture Masking Interferometry
Mar 27, Thurs, 4:00 Christophe Sotin (JPL) Extrapolating Solid Earth Models to Terrestrial Exoplanets
Mar 31
Apr 3, Thurs, 4:00 Neal Turner (JPL) Exoplanet Origins in Dead Zones of Protostellar Disks
Apr 7 Nicholas Chapman (JPL) Dust Structure & Composition in Molecular Clouds & Cores
Apr 10, Thurs, 4:00 Steve Stahler (Berkeley) Clustered Star Formation
Apr 14 Antigona Segura (UNAM) Biosignatures on Habitable Planets: Lessons from Earth
Apr 21 Erin Smith (UCLA) 3.3um PAH emission observed with FLITECAM
Apr 24, Thurs, 4:00 Peter Plavchan (MSC/JPL) Unveiling Disks around M Stars
Apr 28 Masanori Nakamura (LANL) Extragalactic Jets
May 1, Thurs, 4:00 Ellyn Baines (CHARA) Visiting Exoplanets using the CHARA Array
May 5 Sloane Wiktorowicz (CalTech) High-Precision Polarimeter to Measure
Black Hole & Exoplanet Masses
May 8, Thurs, 4:00 Jane Rigby (OCIW) Lensed Star-Forming Galaxies & Obscured AGN
May 12 Thayne Currie (CfA) Spitzer Constraints on
Circumstellar Disk Evolution & Terrestrial Planet Formation
May 15, Thurs, 4:00 Malcolm Fridlund (ESA) Exoplanet Missions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
May 19 Carl Melis (UCLA) Active Accretion & Planet Formation around Old Stars
May 22, Thurs, 4:00 Dimitri Mawet (JPL) Phase Mask Coronography: Scientific Results and Perspectives
May 26 no talk Memorial Day
May 27, Tues, 12:00 Hannah Jang-Condell
May 29, Thurs, 4:00 Mark McConnell (UNH) Coded Aperture Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation
June 2 Ming Zhao (Michigan) Closure Phase Studies toward Direct Detection of Hot Jupiters
June 5, Thurs, 4:00 Christian Marois (LLNL) Direct Exoplanet Detection with Ground-Based Telescopes
June 9 Gene Serabyn (JPL) Keck Nuller and Palomar Science Results
June 12, Thurs, 4:00 Ann Hornschemeier (Goddard)
June 16 Chun Ly (UCLA)
June 19, Thurs, 4:00 Josh Grindley (CfA)
June 23 Jason Marshall (JPL)
June 30 Jorge Pineda (JPL)
July 7 Pieter Deroo (JPL)
July 14
July 21
July 28
Aug 4
Aug 11 Greg Huey (JPL)
Aug 18
Aug 25
Sept 1 no talk Labor Day

Previous Speakers: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

General directions for speakers
contact: Geoffrey.Bryden@jpl.nasa.gov