titan, enceladus, rings, and haze

Titan, Enceladus, Rings, and Haze [Cassini Imaging Team]

Astronomy 383L - Spring 2014

Cosmos Seminar

W 3:00 · RLM 15.216B · Not for credit Spring 2014

Professor

Daniel Jaffe

RLM 16.342 · (512) 471-2877 · email

Schedule

Date

Speaker

Title

 

Jan 15

Dan Jaffe

University of Texas at Austin

Organizational meeting.

 

Jan 22

No talk scheduled.

 

Jan 29

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 5

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 12

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 19

No talk scheduled.

 

Feb 26

Sadegh Kochfar

University of Edinburgh

(Exgal Seminar Talk): "Quo Vadis Galaxy Formation?"

abstract

 

Mar 5

Brendan Bowler

California Institute of Technology

The Cosmos Seminar this week will be held on Thursday, 6 March, at 3:30 PM in the Exgal Seminar slot. (host: Dan Jaffe) "The Outer Architecture of Planetary Systems"

High-contrast imaging is a powerful tool to probe the outer architecture of planetary systems and directly study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. Adaptive optics imaging surveys have primarily focused on intermediate- and high-mass stars, revealing a handful of self-luminous planets. Yet M dwarfs have largely been neglected despite having more favorable planet-star contrasts and representing about 75% of all stars. I will discuss current constraints on planetary systems beyond ~10 AU, focusing in particular on discoveries and new statistical results from the Planets Around Low-Mass Stars (PALMS) high-contrast AO imaging survey at Keck and Subaru. With a sample size of over 120 young M dwarfs, PALMS is the largest direct imaging planet search in this stellar mass regime. Altogether, complementary planet-finding techniques sensitive to a broad range of separations are beginning to map the complete architecture of giant planets around the most common stars in our galaxy.

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Mar 12

Spring Break: March 10-14. No talk scheduled.

 

Mar 19

Katherine Mack

University of Melbourne

(host: Emily McLinden) "Known Unknowns of Dark Matter Annihilation over Cosmic Time"

abstract

 

Mar 26

No talk scheduled today. This week's Cosmos Seminar "Effective Writing" presentation by Dr. Kormendy is being held on Thursday during the Exgal Seminar time-slot.

 

Apr 2

Christa Gall

Dark Center, Copenhagen

(host: Volker Bromm) "Dust in the Early Universe: The Origin of Dust"

 

Apr 9

Kelle Cruz

Hunter College/AMNH

(host: Adam Kraus) "Progressing Towards a Better Astronomy"

abstract

 

Apr 16

No talk scheduled.

 

Apr 23

Kevin Bundy

University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU

(host: Niv Drory) (Tinsley Scholar: Exgal Group) "MaNGA: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory - an IFU Survey of 10,000 Galaxies"

abstract

 

Apr 30

Speaker: TBA

Affiliation: TBD

"Title: TBA"