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Reminder: every weekday at 10:00am we have Coffee Discussions in the Founders' Room. Also, all talks should be recorded and available through the KITP site: @http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/exoplanets10/ ***Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room** **FR=Founders' Room** ⬆Top
 * ~ **Week 1** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Jan 25 || 10:00AM || SSR || Coordinators || //Organizational Meeting// || All participants ||
 * || 12:15pm || Aud || **Gabi Kotliar** || //Understanding correlated electron materials starting from first principles: where do we stand ?// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue Jan 26 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wed Jan 27 || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Phil Marshall, Stanford** || //Finding and Using Strong Gravitational Lenses// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu Jan 28 || 11:00am || MSR || **Burrows & Menou** || //Program opening discussion// || 20 min talk + 20 min discussion ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Konacki** || //The radial velocity TATOOINE search for circumbinary planets// || 20 min talk + 20 min discussion; [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 2:30pm || Aud || **Udry** || //Current Census of the Low-Mass Planet Population// || 20 min talk + 20 min discussion; [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Fri Jan 29 || 11:00am || SSR || **Dobbs-Dixon** || //Radiation Hydrodynamics of Irradiated Gas Giants// || 20 min talk + 20 min discussion; [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Rauscher** || //Developing General Circulation Models for Hot Jupiters// || 20 min talk + 20 min discussion; [|ppt file of talk] ||
 * ~ **Week 2** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 1 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Kristen Menou** || //How Unusual Is Our Solar System?// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Feb 2 || 11:00am || MSR || **Gordon Ogilvie** || //Mechanisms Of Tidal Dissipation in Planet-Star Interactions// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Rosemary Mardling** || //Q-based Models and Their Use// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Wed, Feb 3 || 2:00pm || MSR || **Miguel** **Eckstein** || //Linking Neurons to Individual Differences in Perceptual Skill// || KITP Colloquium, All welcome. ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Jeff Cooke** || //High-redshift Galaxy Interactions: Implications On the Nature of Lyman-alpha Emitting and Lyman-alpha Absorbing Galaxies// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Feb 4 || 11:00am || MSR || **Dong Lai** || //Dynamical Tides in Exotic Stellar Binaries// || [|ppt file of talk] ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Daniel Fabrycky** || //Tidal Influence on Orbital Dynamics// || [|ppt file of talk] ||
 * Fri, Feb 5 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 3** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 8 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, Feb 9 || 11:00am || Aud || **Wes Traub** || //Finding an Earth via Astrometry and Radial Velocity// || [|ppt file of talk] ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Stéphane Udry** || //Earth-mass Planets with Radial Velocity Methods// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Wed, Feb 10 || 2:00pm || Ocean Room ||  || //Spin-Orbit (mis-)Alignment Theory// || discussion ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Dong Lai** || //Exciting Waves and Modes in Black-Hole Accretion Disks// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Feb 11 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Fri, Feb 12 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 4** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 15 ||  ||   || **Presidents Day** || //UCSB Holiday// || //**No scheduled events at KITP**// ||
 * Tue, Feb 16 || 11:00am || MSR || **Alex Wolszczan** || //Radio Detection of Exoplanets// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Ray Jayawardhana** || //Characterizing Hot Jupiters From the Ground// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Adam Burrows** || //How Do Core-Collapse Supernovae Explode?// || Physics Department Colloquium ||
 * Wed, Feb 17 || 3:00pm || Ocean Tower ||  || //N-body simulations & planet formation// || breakout session ||
 * Thu, Feb 18 || 11:00am || MSR || **Douglas Lin** || //Modeling Planet Populations I// || [|ppt file of talk] ||
 * || 1:30pm || Aud || **Ed Thommes** || //Modeling Planet Populations II: Interactions and Distant Giant Planets// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 3:30pm || Ocean Tower ||  || //Planetary evolution during the late stages of stellar evolution// || breakout session ||
 * Fri, Feb 19 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 5** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Feb 22 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Mukund Thattai** || //The Unreasonable Irrelevance of Mathematics to Biology// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Feb 23 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Susanne Pfalzner** || //The Influence Of The Cluster Environment On Star-Disc Systems// || [|ppt file of talk], [|movie file] ||
 * Wed, Feb 24 || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Mateusz Ruszkowski** || //How Galaxy Motions and Thermal Conduction Conspire to Heat the Cool Cores in Galaxy Clusters// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Feb 25 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Christophe Sotin** || //Super-Earths vs. Mini-Neptunes: Can We Tell The Difference?// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Fri, Feb 26 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 6** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 1 || 12:15pm || Aud || **TBA** || //TBA// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Mar 2 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Shigeru Ida** || //Formation of Non-Resonant, Multiple, Close-In Super-Earth Systems// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 4:00 pm || Broida 1640 || **Christophe Sotin** || //Thermal Convection and Plate Tectonics on Earth-Like Exoplanets// || Physics department colloquium ||
 * Wed, Mar 3 || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Yuval Birnboim** || //Virial Shocks in Galaxy and Cluster Halos// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Mar 4 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Heather Knutson** || //An Observer's Perspective on Circulation in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres// ||  ||
 * Fri, Mar 5 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 7** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 8 || 12:15pm || Aud || **TBA** || //TBA// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, All welcome. ||
 * Tue, Mar 9 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Bradley Hansen** || //Empirical Calibration of Tidal Qs// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Siegfried Glenzer** || //Mega-joule Experiments On The National Ignition Facility - On The Road To Produce a Microscopic Star In The Laboratory// || Physics department colloquium ||
 * Wed, Mar 10 || 2:00pm || MSR || **Stanley Deser** || //Quantum Gravity and Its (Dis)contents// || KITP colloquium ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Lauren Spencer** || //Life on Mars: New Evidence from Martian Meteorites// || Astrophysics colloquium ||
 * Thu, Mar 11 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Jean-Michel Desert** || //Observations of Hot Jupiter Evaporation// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Fri, Mar 12 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 8** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 15 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, Mar 16 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Travis Barman** || //Observations and Models for the Young Exoplanet HR 8799 b// ||  ||
 * Wed, Mar 17 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thu, Mar 18 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Karl Stapelfeldt** || //Debris Disk Clues to Nearby Exoplanets// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Fri, Mar 19 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 9** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Mar 22 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Mirjam Cvetic** || //String Theory Bridges to Particle Physics and Cosmology// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, all welcome ||
 * Tue, Mar 23 || 1:30pm || Aud || **John Johnson** || //Stellar Mass Matters// || [|pdf file of talk] ||
 * Wed, Mar 24 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thu, Mar 25 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Christoph Mordasini** || //Planetary Population Synthesis - Comparing Theory and Observation// || file of talk available [|here] ||
 * Fri, Mar 26 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Week 10, Mar 29 - Apr 2: Conference** **[|schedule], Conference online talks**
 * ~ **Week 11** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 5 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Brigitte Roethlein** || //"Scientists are Geeks" contra "Journalists are Clueless:" How to improve a difficult relationship// || Blackboard Lunch Seminar, all welcome ||
 * Tue, Apr 6 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Melvyn Davies** || //How Stellar Encounters Affect Planetary Systems// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Saul Teukolsky** || //Simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Gravitational Waves// || Physics department colloquium ||
 * Wed, Apr 7 || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Rajat Thomas** || //Reionization with LOFAR// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Apr 8 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Fri, Apr 9 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 12** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 12 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, Apr 13 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Margaret Pan** || //Revisiting the (RV) Exoplanet Eccentricity Distribution// ||  ||
 * Wed, Apr 14 || 2:00pm || MSR || **Dieter Luest** || //Strings at the LHC// || KITP colloquium ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Adriano Fontana** || //A Combined VLT and WFC3 View on High Redshift Galaxies// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Apr 15 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Fri, Apr 16 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **Week 13** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 19 || 12:15pm || Aud || **Sri Sastry** || //The Physics of Glasses// || Blackboard lunch ||
 * Tue, Apr 20 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Eric Ford** || //Secular Evolution of Multiple Planet Systems and Implications for the Planet Scattering Model// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Mike Cates** || //Statistical Mechanics of Motile Bacteria// || Physics department colloquium ||
 * Wed, Apr 21 || 1:30pm || Aud || **Rachel Courtland, Brigitte Roethlein + 3 scientists.** || //On and Off the Record: How to Talk to Journalists// || Journalists in Residence. Who are these assistants? ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Laura Sales** || //The Origin of Compact Spheroids and Extended Disks Galaxies at z=2// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Apr 22 || 1:30pm || Aud || **James Cho** || //TBA// ||  ||
 * Fri, Apr 23 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 14** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, Apr 26 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, Apr 27 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Greg Laughlin** || //M-dwarfs, Metallicities and Planet Formation// || **CANCELED** ||
 * Wed, Apr 28 || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Hakim Atek** || //The Lyman-alpha Emission Line As a Cosmological Tool// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, Apr 29 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Fri, Apr 30 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 15** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, May 3 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, May 4 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Wed, May 5 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Thu, May 6 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Batygin and Stevenson** || //Inflating Hot Jupiters with Ohmic Dissipation// ||  ||
 * Fri, May 7 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 16** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, May 10 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, May 11 || 2:00pm || Aud || **Fred Adams** || //The Birth Environment of the Sun// ||  ||
 * || 4:00pm || Broida 1640 || **Robert Kennicutt** || //An Overview and Census of Star Formation in the Universe// || Physics department colloquium ||
 * Wed, May 12 || 4:00pm || Broida 3302 || **Robert Kennicutt** || //The Star Formation Law: Unraveling the Physics of the Star Formation Ecosystem// || Astrophysics seminar ||
 * Thu, May 13 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Fri, May 14 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ~ **Week 17** ||~ __Time__ ||~ __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * Mon, May 17 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Tue, May 18 ||  ||   ||   || **KISS/KITP Mini-Workshop on Future Space Probes of Exoplanets** || [|schedule] ||
 * Wed, May 19 ||  ||   ||   || **KISS/KITP Mini-Workshop on Future Space Probes of Exoplanets** ||   ||
 * Thu, May 20 || 2:00 pm || Aud || **Neal Turner** || //Where Planets Form: The Dead Zone in Protostellar Disks// ||  ||
 * Fri, May 21 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||