Home page for Planetary Group Seminar/Journal Club

---

Meetings are held on Fridays from 11:30 to 12:30 in MAP 318. Typically, they last about 45 minutes, and are very informal. Everyone is welcome to bring lunch and participate. There will either be a research seminar or (preferably) a journal club. All aspects of astronomy are welcomed!

#	Date	Who	What
Fall 2009
#53	Dec 4	Kevin Stevenson	TBD
	Nov 27	no meeting	holiday
	Nov 20	no meeting	schedule conflict
#52	Nov 13	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#51	Nov 6	Richard Eastes	The short-term relationship between solar soft X-ray irradiances and equatorial total electron content (TEC)
#50	Oct 30	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#49	Oct 23	Mark Swain (JPL)	Exoplanet Spectroscopy: a bright present, a brilliant future
#48	Oct 16	Stuart Pilorz (SETI)	Thermal Emission from Saturn Ring Particles
	Oct 9	no meeting	DPS
#47	Oct 2	various	UCF Presentations at DPS
#46	Sep 25	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#45	Sep 18	Dan Britt	The Dar al Gani Meteorite Field
#44	Sep 11	Bob Macke	Enstatite Chondrite Physical Properties
#43	Sep 4	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#42	Aug 28	Josh Colwell	Science in a Suborbital Program
Spring 2009
#41	Apr 22	Nate Lust	Significance Analysis of Asteroid Pairs
#40	Apr 15	Emily Kramer	Infrared Studies of Cometary Gas
#39	Apr 8	Richard Eastes	The *Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission*
#38	Apr 1	Eduardo Martin	A Concept for an M Dwarf Planet Hunter
#37	Mar 25	Rohit Deshpande	Lithium: A Litmus Test for Brown Dwarfs
#36	Mar 18	Yan Fernandez	Some Unsolved Problems in Comets
	Mar 11	no meeting	spring break
#35	Mar 4	Kevin Baillie	Did Saturn's rings form during the Late Heavy Bombardment?
#34	Feb 25	various	How to Write, Read, and Judge an Observing Proposal
#33	Feb 18	Adam Burgasser (MIT)	The Brown Dwarf-Exoplanet Connection
#32	Feb 11	Dan Britt	Porosity in Asteroids
#31	Feb 4	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#30	Jan 28	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#29	Jan 21	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#28	Jan 14	Csaba Palotai	Precipitation
Fall 2008
#27	Dec 1	Yan Fernandez	Spins of Small MBAs
#26	Nov 17	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#25	Nov 10	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#24	Nov 3	Kelsey Hargrove	Spectra in Spain
#23	Oct 27	Florian Rodler	The Search for Starlight Reflected from Hot Jupiters
#22	Oct 20	Michael Kelley	Gemini Mid-IR Polarimetry of NGC 1068: Polarized Structures around the Nucleus
	Oct 13	no meeting	DPS
#21	Oct 6	Kevin Stevenson	Secondary Eclipse Photometry of GJ 436b in Six Spitzer Channels
#20	Sep 29	Jim Cooney	Cosmology and the LHC
#19	Sep 22	Bob Macke	What I Did on My Summer Vacation
#18	Sep 15	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#17	Sep 8	Joe Harrington	Photometry and Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Spring 2008
#16	May 21	Kelsey Hargrove	Infrared Spectra of Comet-Asteroid Transition Object 944 Hidalgo
#15	Apr 23	Nicolas Lodieu (IAC)	UKIDSS Discoveries of Brown Dwarfs in the Upper Sco OB Association and the Pleiades Cluster
#14	Apr 16	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
#13	Apr 9	Kevin Stevenson	Pulsation Velocity Curves of Cepheid Variables
#12	Apr 2	Bob Macke	Pre-Solar Grains in Meteorite Matrix
#11	Mar 26	Todd Bradley	Mercury Exospheric and Surface Spectral Measurements
#10	Mar 19	(freeform)	(An open discussion of various current topics)
	Mar 12	no meeting	spring break
#9	Mar 5	Yan Fernandez	Shiny Trojans
#8	Feb 27	Nate Lust	Old Observatory; New Technologies
#7	Feb 20	Josh Colwell	Saturn's Small Inner Satellites. The Equatorial Ridges of Pan an Atlas
#6	Feb 13	Jim Cooney	Measuring CMB Anisotropies - WMAP Results and Planck Goals
#5	Feb 6	Mike Kelley	Chondrule Formation and Early Solar System Mixing, or, Why Did STARDUST Return So Little Star Dust?
#4	Jan 30	Jonathan Langton (UCSC)	Atmospheric Dynamics on Unevenly Irradiated Jovian Planets
#3	Jan 23	Dan Britt	Orbital Forcing and Global Climate
#2	Jan 16	Humberto Campins	Marco Polo Mission and Proposed Work
#1	Jan 9	Joe Harrington	A Painless (but Quantitative) Introduction to Wavelets, with Planetary Examples

---

created oct 24 '07 by YRF. updated apr 23 '09.

---