PLANETARY LUNCH (Course ESS286A) [2009-09-29 Update]


Fall 2009: Geology Room 4677, 12:00 - 13:00 (key 51100)

DATE SPEAKER INSTITUTE SUBJECT
Sep 24 -- -- No Meeting
Oct 01 Rachel Smith UCLA, Earth & Space Observations of Unusual CO Fractionation in Young Stellar Objects
Oct 08 -- -- DPS WEEK: No Meeting
Oct 15 Hilke Schlichting CITA, Toronto Collisions in the Kuiper Belt
Oct 22 Joe Masiero Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thousand Asteroid Lightcurve Survey
Oct 29 Michal Drahus UCLA, Earth & Space Microwave Spectra of Comets
Nov 05 Gerbs Bauer Jet Propulsion Laboratory WISE Planetary Protection
Nov 12 Paul Hayne UCLA, Earth & Space Snow Clouds and the CO2 Cycle on Mars
Nov 19 Dimitri Veras University of Florida, Dept. Astronomy Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Objects Beyond 100 AU in Planetary Systems
Nov 26 -- -- Thanksgiving Vacation: No Talk
Dec 03 Yohai Kaspi Caltech, Geological & Planetary Deep Convection in Gas Giant Planets

Planet Lunch talks are held 12:00 - 13:00 and are informal in nature. Bring your (planet) lunch and bring your questions.


Other Talks of Interest

September 30, Ed Young (UCLA), B star enrichment of the protosolar molecular cloud. Geochemistry Seminar. Geology 4660 at 4:00pm.

October 15, Ben Zuckerman (UCLA), The search for intelligent life in the Universe ("SETI"), and why it will fail. Physics Dept. Colloquium.

October 29, Andrew Ingersoll, (Caltech), Enceladus plume data points to liquid water. ESS Colloquium.

November 12, Dave Paige (UCLA), Diviner at the Moon, ESS Colloquium

November 19, Jon Lunine (U. Az), New Cassini results on polar processes on Titan . ESS Colloquium.


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