| Month |
Day |
Topic |
| January |
23 |
Mike Endl--radial velocity detection. How low can you go? |
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30 |
Don Winget--timing methods, with emphasis on white dwarfs. Can planets survive their star's death?? |
| February |
6 |
Bill Cochran and Nairn Baliber--transit detection, from ground-based programs to Kepler. |
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_
|
13 |
Fritz Benedict--astrometric detection, from ground-based programs to GAIA and beyond. |
|
_
|
20 |
Russell White--direct (imaging) detection. Coronagraphs, nulling interferometers, hypertelescopes, TPF, Darwin, and more! |
|
_
|
27 |
Brad Behr--gravitational lensing detection |
| March |
6 |
Neal Evans--disks as sites of planet formation. Or are they? |
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|
13 |
SPRING BREAK |
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_
|
20 |
Sheila Kannappan and Brad Behr--"Rare Earth?" Galactic and stellar constraints on habitable planets (this might take a second session). |
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|
27 |
Kanappan and Behr, continued. |
| April |
3 |
John Scalo--habitable planets around red and brown dwarfs. |
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|
10 |
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|
17 |
John Scalo--irradiated planetary atmospheres: radiative transfer and secondary electron production; chemical and biological effects. |
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|
24 |
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| May |
1 |
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