Wunch Talks are held on Wednesdays at 12:30pm in Peyton Hall, room 33 (Old Tea Room).
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Next Talk
Date: Dec 19 Speaker: Ilaria Pascucci Title:
Disk Dispersal and the Formation of Planets
Abstract:
Recent discoveries of extrasolar giant planets have revealed a surprising
diversity of planetary systems, with many unlike our Solar System. Where does
this diversity come from? To find this out we need to understand how
protoplanetary disks evolve and determine the time scale and physical
mechanisms for their dispersal.
I will present the observational constraints on the lifetime of
protoplanetary disks highlighting recent results from the Spitzer Space
Telescope. I will discuss what these observations tell us about the formation
of terrestrial and giant planets around other stars and the boundary
conditions they provide for theories of planet formation.
Schedule
Date
Speaker
Title
Sept 19
Kevin Hand Stanford
On the Physics and Chemistry of the Ice Shell and Sub-surface Ocean of
Europa
Sept 26
Ruth Murray-Clay UC Berkeley
Three Problems in Planet Formation: The Kuiper Belt, Hot Jupiters, and Transitional Disks
Oct 3
Arthur Congdon Rutgers
Strong Lensing by Massive Black Holes
Oct 10
Jeremy Tinker KICP/Chicago
Reverse-Engineering Galaxy Formation
Oct 17
Fergal Mullally Princeton
Searching for Planets around White Dwarf Stars
Oct 24
Guilhem Lavaux IAP
Observational biases in Lagrangian reconstruction of cosmic velocity fields
Oct 31
Matt McQuinn Harvard
The Large-scale Structure of Reionization and its Effect on
Lyman-alpha Emitter Surveys
Nov 7
Eric Johnson Princeton
Hot Jupiters: Dynamical Tides and Mass Loss
Nov 14
N.M. Forster Schreiber MPE Garching
New Insights on High Redshift Galaxies from SINS
Nov 21
Daniel Cumberbatch Oxford
Sterile neutrinos as subdominant warm dark matter
Nov 28
Kartik Sheth Caltech
The Redshift Evolution of Galactic Structures (Bars, Bulges & Disks) at z < 1 from COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble
Sequence
Dec 5
Neelima Sehgal Rutgers
Measuring the Growth of Structure with Multi-Wavelength Surveys of Galaxy Clusters