Planetary talks take place from noon-1pm on Thursdays, and are followed by lunch with the speaker. The seminar room is on the third floor of the Geology building (Slichter 3853), just down the hall from the cast dinosaur skeleton.
Spring 2013 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 04/04/2013 | UCLA Graduate Students | Highlights from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) |
| 04/11/2013 | Harold Connolly (City University of New York) | OSIRIS-REx: NASA’s New Frontiers 3 Sample Return Mission from Asteroid 1999 RQ36 |
| 04/18/2013 | TBA | TBA |
| 04/25/2013 | Scott Sheppard (Carnegie Institute of Washington) | Sculpting the Outer Solar System: The Trojans, Kuiper Belt and Beyond |
| 05/02/2013 | Michael Le Bars (UCLA/CNRS) | TBA |
| 05/09/2013 | Veronika Heber (UCLA) | TBA |
| 05/16/2013 | Natalie Hinkel (JPL/Caltech) | Stellar Abundances in Exoplanet Hosts and Non-hosts |
| 05/23/2013 | Christophe Sotin (JPL) | Are high-density exoplanets the un-decompressed naked cores of gas giants? |
| 05/30/2013 | Julia Fang (UCLA) | TBA |
| 06/06/2013 | Hilke Schlichting (UCLA) | Saving the best for last! |
Winter 2013 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 01/10/2013 | Journal Club | |
| 01/17/2013 | Journal Club | |
| 01/24/2013 | Ben Greenhagen (JPL) | Properties of the Lunar Regolith Revealed by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer |
| 01/31/2013 | Emma Rainey (UCLA – ESS) | Measuring Thermal Conductivity at High Pressures and Temperatures in the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil |
| 02/07/2013 | Wendy Panero (Ohio State University) | Probing Planetary Interiors: From Earth to Extrasolar Planets |
| 02/14/2013 | Burkhard Militzer (UC Berkeley) | Ab initio Calculations of Core Erosion in Jupiter and Superionic Water in Neptune |
| 02/21/2013 | Journal Club | |
| 02/28/2013 | Kenneth Williford (JPL) | Looking for Life on Mars (on Earth) |
| 03/07/2013 | Journal Club | |
| 03/14/2013 | Journal Club | |
Fall 2012 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 9/27/2012 | Ashwin Vasavada (JPL) | NASA’s Curiosity Rover: 50 Days on Mars |
| 10/4/2012 | No Seminar | |
| 10/11/2012 | Anya Portyankina (UCLA) | Martian Polar Terrains in Spring: Observations, Modeling, and Laboratory Experiments |
| 10/18/2012 | Ben Zuckerman (UCLA) | TBD |
| 10/25/2012 | No Seminar | |
| 11/1/2012 | Bruce Bannerdt (JPL) | TBD |
| 11/8/2012 | Edwin Kite (Caltech) | TBD |
| 11/15/2012 | TBD | MESSENGER |
| 11/22/2012 | No Seminar – Thanksgiving | |
| 11/29/2012 | Joao Rafael Dias Pinto (UCLA) | TBD |
Spring 2012 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 4/5/2012 | Ming-Chang Liu (Taiwan Nat’l Univ) | A Heterogeneous Solar Nebula as Sampled by CM Hibonite |
| 4/12/2012 | John Wasson (UCLA) | Vesta and extensively melted asteroids: why HED meteorites are probably not from Vesta |
| 4/19/2012 | Michael Busch (UCLA) | Close Asteroid-Earth Encounters: The Cases of 2005 YU55 and 1950 DA |
| 4/26/2012 | Emily Foote, Jean-Pierre Williams (UCLA) | Laboratory and Diviner Bidirectional Reflectance Measurements of Apollo Soils / Interpreting LRO Diviner observations of fine-scale lunar surface thermal variability |
| 5/3/2012 | Seth Jacobson (UC Boulder) | Small Asteroid Evolution |
| 5/10/2012 | Jennifer Scully/Liz Palmer (UCLA) | The geology of Vesta: much more than crater counting! / An Experiment of Opportunity: Searching for Volatiles on Vesta with Radar |
| 5/17/2012 | Jessica Watkins/Emma Rainey (UCLA) | Spatial and Temporal Relationships of Landslides in Valles Marineris, Mars: Constraints on their Triggering Mechanisms / Heat flow in the Earth and the thermal conductivity of the mantle |
| 5/24/2012 | Kevin McKeegan (UCLA) | Al Nier centennial: celebrating a great planetary scientist |
| 5/31/2012 | Carrie Nugent/Sebastiano Padovan (UCLA) | Yarkovsky drift and near-Earth asteroids |
| 6/7/2012 | Matt Walker/Alex Granna (UCLA) | Ice on Europa/Librations in a Spheroid |
Winter 2012 Schedule
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 1/12/2012 | Heather Knutsen (UCLA) | Life on the Edge: Planetary Atmospheres in Extreme Environments |
| 1/19/2012 | Ben Zuckerman (UCLA) | Formation of Rocky Planets (with Remarkable Results from WISE) |
| 1/26/2012 | Ryuji Morishima (UCLA) | Thermal Emission From Saturn’s Rings |
| 2/2/2012 | Jasper Kok (Cornell) | How Does Sand Move on Mars |
| 2/9/2012 | Dave Stevenson (Caltech) | Titan Structure and Tides |
| 2/16/2012 | Damon Landau (JPL) | Asteroid Retrieval |
| 2/23/2012 | Erik Asphaug (UCSC) | Giant Impacts, Hit and Runs, and Splats |
| 3/1/2012 | Britney Schmidt (Univ. of Texas) | Science on Ice |
| 3/8/2012 | Brian Trease (JPL) | Engineering Frontiers in Planetary Surface Missions at JPL |
| 3/15/2012 | Shantanu Naidu/Julia Fang (UCLA) | Binary Asteroids/Triple Asteroids |