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March 2016
Systems Biology: On the Viability of Cellular Populations Under Stress Conditions
Prof. Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
The origin of the non mass dependent isotope fractionation in ozone. Cosmochemical Implications.
Prof. François Robert, Muséum National d’Historie Naturelle, Paris, France
Solving for the problem of stellar noise in radial velocity measurements to enable the detection of Earth-twins
Dr. Xavier Dumusque, Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland
Massive planets’ orbital migration in discs with various viscosity prescriptions
Dr. Xiaojia Zhang, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, U.S.A
Hot Jupiter Global Circulation Models
31.03.2016 Dr. Sebastien Fromang, CEA-Saclay, Paris, France THURSDAY, MARCH 31 – Same room and time
April 2016
Disk fragmentation and the formation of giant planets and brown dwarfs on wide orbits
06.04.2016 Dr. Eduard Vorobyov, Institut für Astrophysik, Universität Wien, Österreich
VERITAS: a Next Generation Radar to Explore the Surface of Venus
VERITAS: a Next Generation Radar to Explore the Surface of Venus Speaker: Dr. Scott Hensley, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Language: English
Terrestrial planet formation with N-body simulations
Dr. Simon Grimm, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland
Quantum Mechanics of Spectral Lines
Prof. Jonathan Tennyson (University College London, Department of Physics & Astronomy, U.K.)
The Chelyabinsk Airburst
20.04.2016 Dr. Olga Popova, Institute for Dynamics of Geospheres RAS, Moscow, Russia
Frontiers of Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization with the Hubble Space Telescope
Laura Kreidberg (University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy, U.S.A.)
May 2016
Simulations and Possible Observations of Circumplanetary Disks
04.05.2016 Dr. Judit Szulagyi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Chemical exchanges between a global ocean and an atmosphere on early Titan
11.05.2016 Dr. Nadejda Marounina, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique, Nantes, France
Atmospheric Chemistry and Biosignatures of Exoplanets
18.05.2016 CSH Dr. Renyu Hu (Caltech, Department of Astronomy, U.S.A.)
The Dynamical Evolution of Giant Planets and the Delivery of Atmophile Elements during Terrestrial Planet Formation
25.05.2016 Dr. Soko Matsumura, Division of Physics, Dundee, UK
June 2016
Venus Missions: Past, Present, Planned and Pretend
01.06.2016* Dr. David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute, Arizona, U.S.A.
Public Talk: “Listening to Venus” by Dr. David Grinspoon
Astrobiologist Dr. David Grinspoon will give a public talk on Venus, which includes a “live” performance of songs he wrote, on 3rd June 2016 (Friday) at UniS A003 from 18.00-19.00. Flyer
Geophysical habitability of Earth-like planets
ETH Zürich Astronomy, 09.06.2016, 14:00, HIT J 43.1, Prof. Stephen J. Mojzsis, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (http://isotope.colorado.edu/~mojzsis/) What makes an Earth-like planet geophysically habitable? The chemical makeup of a planet is as important to its habitable potential as its proximity to the “habitable zone”. Planetary elemental abundances govern mantle processes, and thus the nature of crust, atmosphere and hydrosphere. For example, without plate tectonics dictated by internal heat and mineral composition (translated into rheology), and liquid water, a sustained…
July 2016
Congress: Exoplanets I
The astronomical community is in an expansion phase of exoplanet science, especially with several American and European space missions (TESS, CHEOPS, PLATO, JWST) on the horizon (2017 to 2024). The new Exoplanets conference series aims to consolidate all aspects of exoplanet science and strike a balance between: Exoplanet theory, observations and instrumentation; Exoplanet discovery and atmospheric characterisation; Transiting and directly imaged exoplanets; Ground- and space-based surveys/missions; American and European participation. We aim to expand upon the “Planets” in the “Protostars…
