The iPLEX Spring 2017 Guest Speaker Schedule:
Please join us on Fridays from 12 to 1pm in UCLA Geology Building (Room 3-814), followed by lunch 1 to 2pm.
Apr 07: Jessie Christiansen (Caltech/JPL) – Taking the Galactic Exoplanet Census
Measuring the occurrence rate of extrasolar planets is one of the most fundamental constraints on our understanding of planets throughout the Galaxy. By studying planet populations across a wide parameter space in stellar age, type, metallicity, and multiplicity, we can inform planet formation, migration and evolution theories. The NASA Kepler mission was a space-based survey for transiting exoplanets, primarily focussed on measuring the occurrence rates of Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars. I will describe our ongoing efforts to catalogue the exoplanets in the Kepler field, including characterizing the survey completeness and reliability, and summarize our progress towards measuring robust occurrence rates. I will also describe the opportunity afforded by the NASA K2 mission, the successor to the Kepler mission, to expand occurrence rate calculations into a wider stellar parameter space.
Apr 14: Joseph O’Rourke (Caltech) – Generating Magnetic Fields in Earth, Venus, and Super-Earth Exoplanets
Earth’s global magnetic field has survived for at least 3.5 billion years, yet Venus lacks a dynamo today. I will explore possible explanations for this dichotomy and discuss related implications for the internal structure and evolution of massive, rocky exoplanets.
Apr 21: Peter Martin (Caltech) – A Young K-Ar Age of Jarosite in the Mojave 2 Sample at Gale Crater, Mars
Abstract TBA
Apr 28: Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich) – Talk Title and Abstract TBA
May 05: Thomas Navarro (UCLA) – Talk Title and Abstract TBA
May 12: Marta Bryan (Caltech) – Talk Title and Abstract TBA
May 19: Geoff Blake (Caltech) – Talk Title and Abstract TBA
May 26: Yoonyoung Kim (Seoul National University) – Talk Title and Abstract TBA
Jun 02: TBA
Jun 09: Chad Trujillo (Northern Arizona University) – Talk Title and Abstract TBA
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