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: 2016 2017 2018 2019 Date   Series   Speaker   Title     Thu   Oct 3     J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC / UCO Lick Obs.)   Resolving the Mass and Magnetic Fields of Gas in and Around Galaxies with Fast Radio Bursts     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     Mon   Jul 22     Eckhart Spalding (Univ. Arizona)   TBA     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.)   TBA     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