Summer Program 2018

The Summer 2018 Program was our largest to date, with nearly 60 visitors to campus over three weeks.

Seminar Speakers

  • Peter Gao, UC Berkeley, “Cloudy Skies on Distant Worlds”
  • Jordan Stone, University of Arizona, “LEECH Exoplanet Survey”
  • Hannah Jang-Condell, University of Wyoming, “Interpreting Protoplanetary Disk Images”
  • Kazumasa Ohno, Tokyo institute of Technology, “Microphysical Modeling of KCl Clouds on Warm Exoplanets”
  • Alexandra Greenbaum, University of Michigan, “Aperture masking on JWST with NIRISS-AMI”
  • Julien Lozi, Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme AO, “Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics, a high contrast instrument paving the way towards PSI”
  • Jennifer Burt, MIT, “Getting Our Priorities in Order: TESS Follow-up with the APF”
  • Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad, Arizona State University, “The Influence of Water Self-Broadening on the Spectra of High Metallicity Exoplanet Atmospheres”
  • Chuhong Mai, Arizona State University, “Explore Cloud Assumptions with JWST”
  • Graham Lee, University of Oxford, “3D Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer”
  • Manoj Joshi, University of East Anglia, Potential effects of oceans on terrestrial exoplanet climate and habitability
  • Lorenzo Pino, University of Amsterdam, “Combining low- to high-resolution transmission spectra of hot Jupiters”
  • Eric Lopez, NASA Goddard, “The Sub-Neptune Desert and its Dependence on Stellar Type: Controlled by Lifetime X-ray Irradiation”
  • Johannes Staguhn, NASA Goddard, Detector Requirements for MIR Transit Spectroscopy with OST
  • Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter, “3D Exoclimatology: Chemistry, Clouds & Dynamical Processes”
  • Diana Powell, University of CA Santa Cruz, “Cloud Formation on Hot Jupiters and Brown Dwarfs”
  • Huazhi Ge, University of CA Santa Cruz, “Using Jupiter’s Light Curves from the UV to the Mid-IR to Study the Light Curves on Brown Dwarfs and Direct-Imaging Planets”
  • David Kasper, University of Wyoming, “Characterizing Giant Exoplanets through Multiple Broadband Transit Observations”
  • Tristan Guillot, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, “Unveiling Jupiter’s interior with Juno: A dry atmosphere, deep winds and perhaps a fuzzy core”
  • Angie Wolfgang, Pennsylvania State University, “Empirical Mass-Radius Relations in the Era of TESS”
  • Daniel Carrera, Pennsylvania State University, “Identifying inflated super-Earths and photo-evaporated cores”
  • Zack Briesemeister, University of CA Santa Cruz, “High Contrast Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy with ALES”
  • Paul Mollière, Leiden Observatory, “Detecting Isotopologues in Exoplanet Atmospheres”
  • Taisiya Kopytova, Arizona State University, “Machine learning community tool for characterizing exoplanets”
  • Alexander Stephan, University of CA Los Angeles, “A-type Stars, the Destroyers of Worlds: The lives and deaths of Jupiters in evolving stellar binaries”

Attendees

  • Tristan Guillot, Faculty, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur
  • Hannah Jang-Condell, Faculty, University of Wyoming
  • Mike Line, Faculty, Arizona State University
  • Stephen Lines, Faculty, University of Exeter
  • Michael Liu, Faculty, University of Hawaii
  • Nathan Mayne, Faculty, University of Exeter
  • Caroline Morley, Faculty, Harvard
  • Paul Robertson, Faculty, University of California Irvine
  • Katelyn Allers, Associate Professor, Bucknell University
  • Neale Gibson, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University Belfast
  • Robin Wordsworth, Assistant Professor, Harvard
  • Julien Lozi, Senior Scientist, Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme AO
  • Manoj Joshi, Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia
  • Eric Lopez, Research Scientist, NASA
  • Rob Zellem, Researcher
  • Natasha Batalha, Post Doc, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Jenn Burt, Post Doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Daniel Carrera, Post Doc, Pennsylvania State University
  • Diana Dragomir, Post Doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Alexandra Greenbaum, Post Doc, University of Michigan
  • Sam Halverson, Post Doc, University of Pennsylvania
  • Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Post Doc, University of California Berkeley
  • David Kasper, Post Doc, University of Wyoming
  • Taisiya Kopytova, Post Doc, Arizona State University
  • Tiffany Kataria, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Graham Kim Huat Lee, Post Doc, University of Oxford
  • Emily Martin, Post Doc, University of California Los Angeles & University of California Santa Cruz
  • Paul Molliere, Post Doc, Leiden University
  • Arpita Roy, Post Doc, California Institute of Technology
  • Jordan Stone, Post Doc, University of Arizona
  • Johanna Teske, Post Doc, Carnegie Observatory
  • Ji Wang, Post Doc, California Institute of Technology
  • Sharon Wang, Post Doc, Carnegie Observatory
  • Angie Wolfgang, Post Doc, Pennsylvania State University
  • Lorenzo Pino, Research Assistant, University of Genevieve
  • Kevin Stevenson, Research Assistant, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad, Graduate Student, Arizona State University
  • Chuhong Mai, Graduate Student, Arizona State University
  • Kazumasa Ohno, Graduate Student, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Eleanor Spring, Graduate Student, University of Amsterdam
  • Alexander Stephan, Graduate Student, University of California Los Angeles
  • Yao Tang, Graduate Student, Peking University
  • Ziyan Xu, Graduate Student, University of Peking
  • ZJ Zhang, Graduate Student, University of Hawaii
  • Mara Zimmerman, Graduate Student, University of Wyoming
  • Samuel Belier, Undergrad, Bucknell University