2016 Astrophysics and Heliophysics/Space Physics Colloquia and Seminars See seminar/colloquium abstract (click on title of talk) for location and time. The Science Visitor and Colloquium Program sponsors the Astrophysics Colloquium series. Other JPL science seminars related to astrophysics, exoplanet science, heliophysics, and space physics may be listed here as a convenience to the JPL science community. Other Years: 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Date   Series   Speaker   Title     Mon   Dec 19     Christina Richey (ASRC Federal)   TBA     Thu   Dec 15     Evgenya Shkolnik (ASU)   TBA     Thu   Dec 8     Fabrice Gaillard (ISTO/CNRS--INSU)   TBA   Mon   Dec 5     Chris Carilli (NRAO)   TBA     Thu   Dec 1     Aaron Meisner (LBL)   NEOWISE Beyond the Main Belt: Searching for Planet Nine   Mon   Nov 28     Jeff Linsky (UC Boulder)   UV and X-ray Emission from Exoplanet Host Stars: Results of the MUSCLES HST Treasury Survey and Photochemistry in Exoplanet Atmospheres     Mon   Nov 21     Youngmin Seo (JPL)   Star Formation in the L1495-B218 Filaments in Taurus and Dynamical Stability of Filaments and Dense Cores     Fri   Nov 18     Yasuhito Narita (IWF Graz)   Turbulence in Space Plasmas - Solved and Unsolved Problems     Thu   Nov 10     Eric Agol (Univ. Washington)   Detection, Masses and Densities of Transiting Exoplanets with Dynamical Interactions     Tue   Nov 1     N. Jeremy Kasdin (Princeton Univ.)   Imaging Exoplanets from the Next Generation of Space Telescopes     Thu   Oct 27     Jason Glenn (Univ. Colorado Boulder)   A Fresh Look at Molecular Gas in Galaxies   Mon   Oct 24     Gijs Mulders (Univ. Arizona)   The Kepler Exoplanet Population around Different Types of Stars     Thu   Oct 20     Jean-Philipe Beaulieu (IAP)   Microlensing Mass Measurements Using KECK AO, Paving the Road for Euclid and WFIRST   Mon   Oct 17     Nicholas Achilleos (UCL)   Aspects of Discs in Astrophysical Systems   Mon   Oct 17     Sebastien Charnoz (Univ. Paris Diderot / IPGP)   Planet and Moon Formation (CANCELLED)     Thu   Oct 13     Alessandro Morbidelli (Nice Obs.)   Solar System Formation and Evolution: Hints to Discuss the Origin of the Diversity of Planetary Systems   Wed   Oct 12     Vanessa Moss (Sydney Obs. / CSIRO)   Searching for HI Absorption in Galaxies up to z = 1 with ASKAP-FLASH   Mon   Oct 10     Mislav Balokovic (Caltech)   Hard X-ray Spectroscopy of Obscured AGN with NuSTAR     Thu   Sep 29     Mara Salvato (MPE)   The eROSITA Surveys and the Follow-up   Mon   Sep 26     Paul Bellan (Caltech)   Mechanism that Removes Accretion Disk Angular Momentum While Driving Associated Bi-directional Astrophysical Jets     Thu   Sep 22     Joel Bergé (ONERA)   MICROSCOPE: Five Months After Launch   Mon   Sep 19     Mei-Yu Wang (Texas A&M)   Revealing the Nature of Dark Matter with Milky Way Dwarf Satellite Galaxies     Mon   Sep 12     Michael Troxel (Ohio State Univ.)   Cosmology from Weak Gravitational Lensing in the Dark Energy Survey     Mon   Aug 22     Jonas Lippuner (Caltech)   The Origin of Heavy Elements: r-Process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Mergers (CANCELLED)     Mon   Aug 15     Thomas Jarrett (Univ. Cape Town)   The Mid-infrared Extragalactic Sky: Toward a 3-D Roadmap of the Galactic Poles     Thu   Jul 21     James Kasting (Penn State)   Habitable Zones and the Search for Life on Planets Around Other Stars   Mon   Jul 18     Franck Le Petit (LERMA)   Some Challenges in the Simulation of the Physics and Chemistry of Photo-dissociation Regions     Thu   Jul 7     Andrea Isella (Rice Univ.)   Ringed Disks Observed by ALMA: Implications for Planet Formation     Thu   Jun 30     Claire Chandler (NRAO)   A cm-Wavelength View of Star Formation with the Jansky VLA   Mon   Jun 27     Philip Bull (JPL)   Tales from Theory Space: Progress on Dark Energy in the Last Decade     Thu   Jun 23     Christine Chen (STScI)   Dusting for Prints of Exoplanetary Systems   Tue   Jun 21     B-G Andersson (NASA ARC)   Why Interstellar Grains Align and Why You Should Care   Tue   Jun 21     Angelos Vourlidas (JHU/APL)   Coronal Mass Ejections: A Tutorial and Lessons Learned for Exoplanet Space Weather   Mon   Jun 20     Yan Betremieux (JPL)   A Journey Through the Refractive Layers of Exoplanetary Atmospheres     Thu   Jun 16     Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)   WFIRST Mission: The Dark Side and Other Worlds     Thu   Jun 9     Karin Öberg (CfA)   The Icy Chemistry of Planet Formation     Thu   Jun 2     Mark Halpern (UBC)   CHIME: Measuring the Expansion History of the Universe with 21 cm Radiation     Thu   May 26     Josh Frieman (Fermilab / Univ. Chicago)   Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey (CANCELLED)   Wed   May 25     Adam Riess (JHU / STScI)   A New Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe   Mon   May 23     Andrew Romero-Wolf (JPL)   Topic: Gravity Waves (CANCELLED)     Thu   May 19     Nick Seymour (Curtin Univ.)   Exploring the Low Frequency Universe with the Murchison Widefield Array   Mon   May 16     Nicola Schneider (Univ. Cologne)   Radiative Feedback and Filaments: The Requisites for Massive Star-formation?     Mon   May 9     Douglas Clowe (Ohio Univ.)   Through a Lens, Darkly     Thu   May 5     Jacob Bortnik (UCLA)   A Machine-learning Reconstruction of the Coupled Inner Magnetospheric Environment   Mon   May 2     Shigeru Wakita (NAOJ)   Constraints on Planetesimals from their Thermal Evolution     Thu   Apr 21     Rolf Kuiper (Univ. Tuebingen)   Protostellar Outflows, Radiation Pressure, and Ionization Feedback from Massive (proto)Stars   Mon   Apr 18     Takashi Hosokawa (Univ. Tokyo)   Formation of Extremely Massive Stars and Origins of Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe     Thu   Apr 14     Andrew Siemion (U.C. Berkeley)   The Breakthrough Listen Initiative: Our Boldest Effort to Answer Our Oldest Question     Thu   Apr 7     Rachel Mandelbaum (CMU)   Intrinsic Galaxy Alignments and the Cosmic Web     Thu   Mar 31     Nienke van der Marel (Univ. Hawaii)   Planet Formation in the ALMA Era: Gas and Dust in Protoplanetary Disks   Mon   Mar 28     Hironao Miyatake (JPL)   Evidence of Halo Assembly Bias in Massive Clusters     Thu   Mar 24     Kevin Bundy (Kavli IMPU)   Galaxy Death and the Role of "Red Geysers"   Mon   Mar 21     Emmanuel Schaan (Princeton Univ.)   Prospects for Calibrating the Shear Multiplicative Bias with CMB Lensing (CANCELLED)     Thu   Mar 17     Alexie Leauthaud (Kavli IPMU)   Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys     Thu   Mar 10     Tom Abel (Stanford Univ.)   Dark Matter Dynamics   Mon   Mar 7     Tim Brandt (IAS Princeton)   Disrupted Globular Clusters as the Source of the Galactic Center GeV Excess     Thu   Mar 3     Michele Vallisneri (JPL)   LIGO's First Detection: Context, Sociology, and Implications   Wed   Mar 2     Natasha Batalha (Penn State)   A Community Tool for Transiting Exoplanet Science with the James Webb Space Telescope (LOCATION CHANGED TO 168-427)   Mon   Feb 29     Sunil Golwala (Caltech)   A Wide-Area Submillimeter Imaging and Spectroscopy Survey     Thu   Feb 25     Sarah Tuttle (UT Austin)   Simple Instruments for Complicated Physics   Mon   Feb 22     David Neufeld (Johns Hopkins Univ.)   Small Interstellar Molecules and What They Can Tell Us     Thu   Feb 18     Fred Ciesla (Univ. Chicago)   The Early Stages of Planet Formation: Connecting Meteoritic and Protoplanetary Disk Observations   Tue   Feb 16     Michele Vallisneri (JPL)   GW150914: LIGO's First Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger     Thu   Feb 11     Merav Opher (Boston Univ.)   The Structure of the Heliosphere Revisited: Magnetized Jets Driven by the Sun   Mon   Feb 8     Roberto Assef (Univ. Diego Portales)   Hot, Dust-Obscured Galaxies     Mon   Feb 1     Paolo Serra (JPL)   Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies with Planck, Herschel and Other Sub-millimeter Surveys     Thu   Jan 28     Brad Hansen (UCLA)   Long Term Evolution of Compact Planetary Systems   Mon   Jan 25     Gary Zank (CSPAR UAH)   The Interaction of Stellar Winds with the Interstellar Medium (ISM) – of Use to Exoplanet Studies?     Thu   Jan 21     Andrew Bunker (Univ. Oxford)   The High Redshift Universe with HST and JWST     Thu   Jan 14     Katherine Kretke (SwRI-Boulder)   From Pebbles to Planets       Site Manager: Webmaster: CL 08-3220