2019 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: 2018 2019 2020 2021 Date   Series   Speaker   Title     Thu   Dec 12     Noémie Globus (NYU / Flatiron Inst.)   On the Origin of the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic-rays     Thu   Dec 5     Giusi Micela (INAF)   High Resolution Spectroscopy for Exoplanets     Thu   Nov 21     Richard Teague (TBA)   Witnessing the Dynamics of Planetary Assembly   Mon   Nov 18     Anowar Shajib (UCLA)   Increased Hubble Tension with a New Measurement of the Hubble Constant using Strong Lensing     Thu   Nov 14     Hubert Klahr (MPIA)   The Origin of Vortices and Rings in Disks around Young Stars     Thu   Nov 7     Patrick Slane (CfA)   The X-ray Sky in High Definition: Twenty Years of Science with the Chandra X-ray Observatory   Mon   Nov 4     Rosalie McGurk (Carnegie Obs.)   Optical and Mechanical Design for the ROSIE Integral Field Unit on the Magellan IMACS     Thu   Oct 31     Edith Fayolle (JPL)   Understanding Ice-gas Interactions in Star- and Planet-forming Regions through Laboratory Studies     Thu   Oct 24     Angelle Tanner (MSU)   A Matter of Perspective: Exoplanet Discoveries, Studies and Compilations   Mon   Oct 21     Daniel Gilman (UCLA)   New Constraints on the Nature of Dark Matter with Quadruple-image Strong Gravitational Lenses     Mon   Oct 14     Benjamin Racine (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)   Measurements of Degree-Scale B-mode Polarization with the BICEP/Keck Experiments at South Pole     Thu   Oct 10     Karan Jani (Vanderbilt Univ.)   Intermediate-mass Black Holes in the Era of Gravitational-wave Astronomy     Thu   Oct 3     J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC / UCO Lick Obs.)   Constraining Progenitor Models and Cosmology with New Localizations of Fast Radio Bursts     Thu   Sep 26     Zhaohuan Zhu (UNLV)   Using Disk Substructures to Reveal the Young Planet Population   Mon   Sep 23     Joshua Blackman (Univ. Tasmania)   A Giant Planet around a White Dwarf: Adaptive Optics follow-up of Microlensing Events     Thu   Sep 19     Farisa Morales (on behalf of Michael Werner) (JPL)   Latest Results from the Palomar 200-inch Telescope     Thu   Sep 12     Bradford Benson (KICP)   Cosmic Microwave Background Observations with the South Pole Telescope     Thu   Sep 5     Nickolas Solomey (Wichita State Univ.)   Developing a Neutrino Detector for Space Flight     Thu   Aug 1     Sébastien Viscardy (BIRA-IASB)   Searching for CH4 Source Regions on Mars Using a GCM: Application to the MSL-PFS Spike in June 2013     Thu   Jul 25     Nicholas Ross (Univ. Edinburgh)   Quasar Astrophysics, Multi-messager Astronomy, and What We are Doing Now, Before LISA Flies   Mon   Jul 22     Eckhart Spalding (Univ. Arizona)   High Contrast Interferometry with LBTI     Thu   Jul 18     John Conklin (Univ. Florida)   The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna: Observing mHz Gravitational Waves from Space     Thu   Jul 11     John Bally (Univ. Colorado Boulder)   Protostellar Explosions, IR Transients, Ejected Stars, and the IMF   Mon   Jul 8     Johanna Teske (Carnegie Inst.)   A Southern Hemisphere RV Follow-up Program for TESS with PFS/Magellan II     Mon   Jul 1     Marcell Tessenyi and Max Joshua (Blue Skies Space Ltd.)   Twinkle: A Low-Earth Orbit Visible and Infrared Spectroscopy Observatory     Thu   Jun 27     Paul Hartogh (MPS)   Submillimeter Wave Heterodyne Observation of the Solar System     Thu   Jun 20     Bradford Benson (KICP)   (POSTPONED UNTIL 12 SEPTEMBER)   Mon   Jun 17     David Nataf (JHU)   Clues to Globular Cluster Formation     Tue   Jun 11     Marco Velli (JPL)   Parker Solar Probe: Understanding the Solar Corona and Solar Wind     Thu   Jun 6     Aida Kirichenko (UNAM)   Optical Studies of Millisecond Pulsar Binary Systems   Mon   Jun 3     Marco Velli (JPL)   First Perihelion Results from Parker Solar Probe (POSTPONED UNTIL 11 JUNE SPACE PHYSICS JOURNAL CLUB)     Thu   May 30     Dara Norman (NOAO)   Five Reasons to Care about the Decadal Survey's "State of the Profession" Section   Wed   May 29     Dara Norman (NOAO)   Facing and Tackling the Resource Challenges that Accompany Time Domain Science     Thu   May 23     Ignas Snellen (Leiden Obs.)   Exoplanets and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life   Mon   May 20     Marcelo Alvarez (U.C. Berkeley)   The Connection between Large Scale Structure and the Cosmic Microwave Background     Thu   May 16     Tom Prince (JPL)   Gravitational Wave Astrophysics without the Waves   Mon   May 13     Jessi Muir (Stanford Univ.)   Testing the Standard Cosmological Model with the Dark Energy Survey     Thu   May 9     Keith Olive (Univ. Minnesota)   Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Post Planck   Mon   May 6     Natasha Batalha (UCSC)   Atmospheric Models at the Onset of Next-Generation Telescopes     Thu   May 2     Andrea Lommen (Haverford Coll.)   The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky   Mon   Apr 29     Ryan Loomis (NRAO)   Tracing Chemical Inheritance in Protoplanetary Disks     Thu   Apr 25     Ted Bergin (Univ. Michigan)   Chemical Structure and Finding Proto-Planets in the Age of ALMA   Mon   Apr 22     Marco Velli (JPL)   First Perihelion Results from Parker Solar Probe (POSTPONED UNTIL 3 JUNE)     Thu   Apr 18     Sarah Shandera (Penn State)   Dark Black Holes   Mon   Apr 15     Przemek Mroz (Warsaw Univ. Obs.)   Exploring the Free-Floating Planet Population with Gravitational Microlensing     Thu   Apr 11     Dimitri Veras (Univ. Warwick)   Planetary Systems Around Post-main-sequence Stars (CANCELLED)   Mon   Apr 8     Tom Esposito (U.C. Berkeley)   Debris Disk Results from the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Resolving Dusty Disks on Solar System Scales with Polarimetry     Thu   Apr 4     Christoph Mordasini (Univ. Bern)   A New Generation of Planetary Population Syntheses   Mon   Apr 1     Luis‑Henry Quiroga Nunez (Leiden Obs.)   Synergies Between Gaia and VLBI Astrometry     Thu   Mar 28     Michael Werner (JPL)   Recent Results from the 5-m Palomar Telescope   Mon   Mar 25     Simon Birrer (UCLA)   Probing Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lenses     Thu   Mar 21     Clara Sousa-Silva (MIT)   Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational Chemistry     Thu   Mar 14     David Kaiser (MIT)   Quantum Entanglement: Recent Tests, New Applications   Mon   Mar 11     Kat Feng (UCSC)   Advancing Spectral Retrievals in the Era of Large Space-based Telescopes     Mon   Mar 4     Tansu Daylan (MIT)   Probing the Small-scale Structure in Strongly Lensed Systems via Transdimensional Inference     Thu   Feb 28     Kevin Heng (Univ. Bern)   Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Extracting Chemical Abundances from Spectra of Exo-atmospheres   Mon   Feb 25     Mario Damiano (JPL)   Two Lenses for Glasses: Low- and High-resolution Spectroscopic Observations of Exoplanetary Atmospheres     Thu   Feb 21     Lori Allen (NOAO)   (CANCELLED)   Tue   Feb 19     Rajkumar Hajra (NARL)   High-Speed Solar Wind Streams and Corotating Interaction Regions: Some Study on Interplanetary Characteristics, Evolution and Impacts     Mon   Feb 11     Greg Herczeg (KIAA)   (CANCELLED)     Thu   Feb 7     Diana Dragomir (MIT)   First Results and the Bright Future of the TESS Mission     Thu   Jan 31     Yanqin Wu (Univ. Toronto)   Studying Planet Formation with a Sample of 5000   Mon   Jan 28     Jason Wang (Caltech)   Capturing Footage of Young Jovian Worlds     Thu   Jan 24     Antonija Oklopčić (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)   Probing the Escaping Exoplanet Atmospheres     Thu   Jan 17     Jessica Werk (Univ. Washington)   Why Circumgalactic Matter Matters for Galaxy Evolution   Mon   Jan 14     Bharat Ratra (Kansas State Univ.)   Spatial Curvature, Dark Energy Dynamics, Neither, or Both?       Site Manager: Webmaster: CL 08-3220