NASA Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies Talks

Talks are held at NASA Ames (directions) in building N245:

Colloquia in the Auditorium and Room 215 for seminars

Contact Tom Greene if you'd like to give a talk and Yvonne Ibarra for logistics support.

A list of Ames area hotels can be found here.

2009 Seminars & Colloquia (click on each talk for details)
Jan 21: Jaymie Matthews (UBC) A suitcase full of exoplanets
Feb 12: Webster Cash (U. Colorado) The New Worlds Observer: Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Earth-like Planets
Feb 26: Joshua Winn (MIT) The Transits of Extra-solar Planets
Mar 30: Drake Deming (NASA GSFC) The EPOXI/EPOCh Investigation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets (SEMINAR: Room 215)
Apr 02: Travis Barman (Lowell) Young and Old Exoplanets: Observations and Theory (SEMINAR: Room 215)
May 20: James Graham (UC Berkeley) Direct Detection of Exoplanets (SOFIA Colloquium: Bldg. N211, Room 205)
July 10: Pavel Machalek (STScI) Thermal Emission of Hot-Jupiters with Spitzer IRAC (SEMINAR: Room 215)
Aug 14: Morris Podolak (Tel Aviv Univ.) On the Location of the Snowline in Protostellar Disks (SEMINAR: Room 215)
Aug 18: Andrew Skemer (U. AZ, Steward) Grain Growth and Planet Formation from Ground-Based Adaptive Optics to JWST (SEMINAR: Room 215)
Sep 8: Ben Oppenheimer (AMNH) Comparative Exoplanetary Science
Oct 16: Mark Swain (JPL) Exoplanet Spectroscopy: a bright present, a brilliant future (SOFIA Colloquium: Bldg. N211, Room 205)
Nov 16: Jessie Christiansen (CfA) First Transiting Extrasolar Planet Results from the NASA EPOXI Mission (SEMINAR: Room 215)
Nov 23: Dimitri Veras (U. Florida) Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU
Dec 10: Didier Saumon (LANL) Of Brown Dwarfs and Hot Young Planets
2010 Ames Exoplanet Talks
Jan 19: William Borucki (NASA ARC) First Results from the Kepler Mission