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: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Date   Series   Speaker   Title     Thu   May 23     Ignas Snellen (Leiden Obs.)   Exoplanets and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life     Thu   May 2     Andrea Lommen (Haverford Coll.)   TBA     Thu   Apr 25     Ted Bergin (Univ. Michigan)   TBA     Thu   Apr 11     Dimitri Veras (Univ. Warwick)   Planetary Systems Around Post-main-sequence Stars     Thu   Apr 4     Christoph Mordasini (Univ. Bern)   TBA     Thu   Mar 28     Michael Werner (JPL)   TBA     Thu   Mar 14     David Kaiser (MIT)   TBA   Mon   Mar 11     Kat Feng (UCSC)   TBA     Thu   Feb 28     Kevin Heng (Univ. Bern)   TBA     Thu   Feb 7     Diana Dragomir (MIT)   TBA   Mon   Feb 4     Mario Damiano (JPL)   Two Lenses for Glasses: Low- and High-resolution Spectroscopic Observations of Exoplanetary Atmospheres     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