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Seminars: September 2010-July 2011
September 2010
September 1
Natalia Gomez Perez
CIW/DTM
“Planetary Dynamos: A puzzle all the way from Mercury to Neptune”
September 8
James Natland
University of Miami
“Cold Fusion at Hot Spots"
September 15
Todd Henry
Georgia State University
“Grab your map to the stars: a tour of the sun’s neighborhood”
September 22
Richard Walker
University of Maryland
“New insights to late stages of planetary accretion for earth, moon, and mars”
September 29
Galina Bulanova
University of Bristol
“Diamonds: Messengers from the deep”
October 2010
October 6
Gordon Walker
University of Victoria
“ From large velocities to tiny accelerations: the early success in Doppler detection of exo-planets”
October 13
Danny Glavin
NASA Goddard
“Amino Acids in Asteroids and Comets: Implications for the Origin of Life on Earth and Possibly Elsewhere”
October 20
Audrey Bouvier
Arizona State University
“Recent Advances in U-Pb chronometry and implications for the formation of the Solar System”
October 21
Nick Woolf
University of Arizona
“A new look at what life is and how it began”
October 27
Daniel Apai
Space Telescope Science Institute
“The Cool Atmospheres of Hot Planets: Planetary Eclipse and High-Contrast Observations”
November
November 3
Sebastien Lepine
American Museum of Natural History
“A systematic census of nearby M dwarf stars: the best places to search for Earth-like planets?”
November 10
Sally Dodson-Robinson
University of Texas at Austin
“A Spitzer IRS Study of Debris Disks Around Planet-Host stars”
November 11*
Catherine Rychert
University of Bristol
“Strong Along-Arc Variations in Attenuation in the Mantle Wedge Beneath Costa Rica and Nicaaragua”
November 12*
Catherine Rychert
University of Bristol
“Seismic Imaging of Upper Mantle Discontinuities: Implications for the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary”
November 17
John Hernlund
University of British Columbia
“Dynamical Evolution of Earth’s Deep Interior”
November 18*
John Hernlund
University of British Columbia
“Dynamical Instability of Partially Molten Asthenosphere”
December
December 1
Steven Charnley
NASA Goddard
"Interstellar organic chemistry"
December 8
Fred Ciesla
University of Chicago
“Calibrating our Clocks: CAIs and the Birth of Our Solar System”
December 15
AGU
December 22
No Seminar
December 29
Campus Closed for Holidays
January 2011
January 5
No Seminar
January 13
Thorsten Becker
University of Southern California
"Convective dynamics of the upper mantle from global geodynamic modeling and structural seismology"
January 19
Evgenya Shkolnik
CIW/ DTM
"Star-Planet Interactions: The Tidal and Magnetic Influence of Hot Jupiter on their Host Stars"
January 26
Nick Moskovitz
CIW/ DTM
"Differentiation of the earliest planetary bodies in the Solar System"
February 2011
February 2
Sebastian Tappe
University of Alberta
"The Carbonatite Conundrum: Perspectives from a diamond province in Greenland-Labrador"
February 3
Amy Barr
Southwest Research Institute
"Fingerprints of Planet Formation and Dynamical Evolution Recorded on Jupiter's Moon Casllisto"
February 9
Wendy Nelson
CIW/ DTM
"Geochemical insights into early volcanism in the East African Rift System"
February 16
Craig Manning
UCLA
"Geofluids at the Extremes: Terrestrial and Planetary Contexts"
February 18
Richard Carlson
CIW/DTM
"A recipe for Earth formation"
February 23
Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Magma oceans and the early evolution of terrestrial planets"
February 25
Edward Young
UCLA
"Astronomical and cosmochemical stable isotopic perspectives on the birth of the solar system: a tale of transdisciplinary science"
March 2011
March 1
Ed Garnero
Arizona State University
"Using Seismology to Decipher Multi-Scale Processes in Planetary Interiors"
March 2
No Seminar
March 9
No Seminar
LPSC Conference
March 16
Jonathan O'Neil
CIW/DTM
"A window through the Hadean time: The Nuvuaggittuq greenstone belt as a vestige of Earth's primitive crust"
March 23
Scott Tremaine
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
"Black holes in the centers of nearby galaxies"
March 30
Eli Dwek
NASA Goddard
"The Origin of Dust in the Early Universe"
April 2011
April 1--FRIDAY
Meghan Miller
USC
"From structure to dynamics: New insights into the Western US from the Earthscope USArray Project"
April 6
Christopher Herd
University of Alberta
"Heterogeneous Organic Matter in the Tagish Lake Meteorite"
April 13
Julia Lee
Harvard- Smithsonian, CFA
"Condensed Matter Astrophysics: A New Technique for Determining the Quantity and Composition of Interstellar Dust using X-rays from Black Holes"
April 20
Erwan Mazarico
NASA Goddard
"Planetary Geodesy: the Moon and beyond"
April 27
Marion Le Voyer
NIST
"Volatiles in arc volcanoes: insights from melt inclusions and their host mineral"
May 2011
May 4
Christian Miller
CIW/DTM
"New thoughts on rhenium and molybdenum: Chasing after the ancient organic carbon cycle"
May 11
NO SEMINAR
MESSENGER STM
May 17
Jorge Vazquez
USGS
"Dating the evolution of voluminous rhyolite at Quaternary calderas using ion microprobe analysis"
May 18
Josef Dufek
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Multi-scale Dynamics in in Eruptive Processes"
May 25
Albert Fahey
NIST
"Further Studies of Post-detonation Nuclear debris: Surfaces, Fallout and Fission-Product Isotopic Systems"
June 2011
June 1
Thomas Statler
NSF
"Spinning Little Asteroids Up and Down"
June 2
Maxim Ballmer
University of Hawaii
"Beyond classical mantle plume theory: new insights into the origin of Hawaiian volcanism"
June 8
Susan Benecchi
CIW/DTM
"Tracing the Migration of the Giant Planets using Small Bodies in the Outer Solar System"
June 15
Christopher Stark
CIW/DTM
"Finding the Needle in the Haystack: How Exozodiacal Dust May Obscure Images of ExoEarths"
June 22
Wendy Nelson
CIW/DTM
"Geochemical insights into early volcanism in the East African Rift System"
June 29
David Nesvorny
SWRI
"Cometary origin of the zodiacal cloud, micrometeorites and radar meteors"
July 2011
July 6
Alex Bortvin
CIW: Department of Embryology
"The taming of the dark matter of the genome"
July 13
No Seminar
July 20
Amy McAdam
NASA Goddard
"Interpreting the Signatures of Aqueous Alteration on Mars"
July 27
Julio Chaname
CIW/DTM
"The versatility of wide stellar binaries: from low-mass stars to the nature of dark matter"
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