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


Date Speaker Title
Jan 14; von Karman 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 Radiative Transfer in Protoplanetary Disks, Or:
Catching Planet Formation in the Act
May 29, Thurs, 4:00 Mark McConnell (UNH) Coded Aperture Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation
June 5, Thurs, 4:00 Christian Marois (LLNL) Direct Exoplanet Detection with Ground-Based Telescopes
June 9 Gene Serabyn (JPL) Keck Nuller Detection of Exozodi Dust Very Close to Vega
June 12, Thurs, 4:00 Ann Hornschemeier (Goddard) X-Rays from Galaxies Outside the Local Universe
June 16 Chun Ly (UCLA) Cosmic Evolution of Galaxies over Eleven Billion Years
June 23 Jason Marshall (JPL) Mid- to Far-IR SEDs of
Submillimeter-selected Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
June 30 Jorge Pineda (JPL) (Sub)mm Line Emission from the LMC:
Star Formation in Low Metallicity Environments
July 7 Pieter Deroo (JPL) Stable Disks around Dying Binaries Stars: a Common Phenomenon
July 28 Angelle Tanner (JPL) Molecular Spectroscopy of Transiting Extrasolar Planets
as Seen from the Earth and Sky
Aug 4 William High (Harvard) Galaxy Cluster Redshifts in About a Minute
Aug 11 Sarah Bridle Dark Energy from Cosmic Shear
Aug 26, Tues, 11-3 Postdoc Research Day (von Karman)
Sept 1 no talk Labor Day
Sept 8 Ming Zhao (Michigan) Closure Phase Studies toward Direct Detection of Hot Jupiters
Sept 22, von Karman Umstaetter et al (JPL) PostDoc PosterDay Talks
Sept 25, Thurs, 1:00 B. C. Low (UCAR) The Parker Theory of Spontaneous Formation of Electric Current Sheets
Oct 13 Art Congdon (JPL)
Oct 20 Michael Zemcov (JPL) CIBER
Oct 27 Tim Eifler (Bonn) Measuring Cosmic Shear with the Ring Statistics
Nov 3 Chief Scientist All Hands Meeting (von Karman)
Nov 10 Ben Dobke (JPL)
Nov 17 Charles Bailyn (Yale)
Nov 24
Dec 1
Dec 8
Dec 15
Dec 22
Dec 29

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

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