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Raluca Rufu, 303-226-0879 or raluca(at)boulder.swri.edu
Julien Salmon, 720-208-7203 or julien(at)boulder.swri.edu
Kelsi Singer, 303-226-5910 or ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
Sierra Ferguson, sierra.ferguson(at)swri.org
Rogerio Deienno, rogerio.deienno(at)swri.org
Sam Van Kooten, 303-226-5909 or svankooten(at)boulder.swri.edu
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Suggest a New Speaker HERE| Thu Mar 20, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Raluca Rufu | SwRI Boulder | Origin of compact exoplanetary systems | |
| Tue Mar 25, 2025
In 4th Floor CR + Webex | 11:00 am | Joe Masiero | Caltech/IPAC | Asteroid Mineralogy Revealed through Polarimetry and NEO Surveyor Update | |
| Tue Apr 1, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Douglas Hemingway | University of Texas | Icy ocean world interiors—techniques and implications | |
| Tue Apr 8, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Alessandro Morbidelli | Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur | Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: combining observations, simulations and cosmochemical constraints | |
| Abstract: | Observations of protoplanetary disks with ALMA have revealed a large diversity of properties, but also some common tendencies in terms of dust/gas density and radial extension ratios, as well as the appearance of features like rings and gaps or cavities. It is too late to observe the proto-solar disk, but many of its properties can be inferred from the current distribution of planetesimals and using cosmochemical constraints on the chronology of planetesimal accretion and the isotopic heterogeneity of the disk. I will review the available data which can be used to reconstruct the proto-solar disk. The view that emerges is that of a quite standard disk of about 90 au in gas radius and 45 au in dust radius, forming planetesimals at two distinct epochs (one of which very early, while the disk was presumably still in Class-0 or Class-1 stage) and evolving towards a transition disk at the appearance of Jupiter and Saturn. Similarities and differences with the PDS70 disk will be discussed. | ||||
| Tue Apr 15, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Krista Soderlund | University of Texas at Austin | TBD | |
| Tue Apr 22, 2025
In None | 11:00 am | None | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK DUE TO LUCY FLYBY OPS | ||
| Tue Apr 29, 2025
In None | 11:00 am | None | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK DUE TO LUCY FLYBY OPS | ||
| Tue May 6, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Mike Wong | University of California-Berkeley | TBD | |
| Tue May 13, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Matt Headman | University of Idaho | TBD | |
| Tue May 27, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Rutu Parekh | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | TBD | |
| Tue Jun 3, 2025 | 11:00 am | Ian Wong | Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) | TBD | |
| Tue Jun 17, 2025
In Room 4.615 | 11:00 am | Juan Lora | Yale University | TBD | |
| Tue Aug 19, 2025
In Room 424 + Webex | 11:00 am | Antonio F. Bertachini A. Prado | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE | TBD | |