Summer Program 2019
The Summer 2019 Program saw a record number of applicants and saw a significant concentration of visitors in exoplanet atmospheres.
Seminar Speakers
- Tad Komacek, University of Chicago, “The atmospheric circulation of ultra-hot Jupiters”
- Molly Kosiarek, UC Santa Cruz, “The Sun as a Test Case for using Photometry to Inform Radial Velocity fits”
- Diana Powell, “Inhomogeneous Clouds on Hot Jupiters: Insights from size distribution dynamics”
- Kassandra Anderson, Cornell University, “In-situ Excitation of Warm Jupiter Eccentricities: Implications for Dynamical Histories & Migration”
- Xianyu Tan, Oxford University, “Brown dwarf weather”
- Jake Taylor, Oxford University, “Mitigating biases in retrieval of hot planets using JWST”
- Danica Adams, Caltech
- Emily Pass, University of Waterloo, “Fundamental properties of ultracool dwarfs from archival high-resolution spectra”
- Daria Desiderà, University of Padova, “Exploiting the potential of Low-Resolution spectrophotometry to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres”
- Joe Zalesky, Arizona State University, Atmospheric Characterization of Brown Dwarfs, HRCC, and Graphics Cards
- Daniella Bardalez-Gagliuffi, American Museum of Natural History
- Johanna Vos, American Museum of Natural History, “Variability of Young Brown Dwarfs”
- Ishan Mishra, Cornell University
- Jasmina Blecic, New York University, Abu Dhabi, “Clouds in 1D and Self-Consistency in 2D Retrieval”
- Michael Line, Arizona State University, “An incoherent potpourri of fun exo-atmospherey things….”
- Daniel Thorngren, UC Santa Cruz, “The Cause of Hot Jupiter Inflation”
- Patricio Cubillos, Space Research Institute, Austria, “Atmospheric Characterization in the NUV”
- Paul Mollière, University of Leiden, “Retrieving (cloudy) emission spectra”
- Elena Manjavacas, Keck Observatory, Hawaii, “Cloud Atlas: Rotational Spectral Modulations and Potential Sulfide Clouds in the Planetary-mass, Late T-type Companion Ross 458C”
- Ansgar Wehrhahn, Uppsala University, Sweden, “High Resolution Transit Spectroscopy with CRIRES+”
- Tiffany Kataria, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “A laboratory-to-model approach to understanding exoplanet biosignatures”
- Huazhi Ge, UC Santa Cruz, “On the road to simulate non-hydrostatic atmospheric dynamics on Jupiter”
- Brittany Miles, UC Santa Cruz, “Non-equilibrium CO Chemistry in the Coldest Brown Dwarfs”
- Katelyn Allers, Bucknell University, “Designing Custom Filters for Brown Dwarf and Exoplanet Characterization”
- Erica Gonzales, UC Santa Cruz, “TRENDS High-Contrast Imaging Survey: A Compendium of VLM Benchmark Objects”
- Trent Dupuy, Gemini Observatory, “HGCA stuff”
- Jacqueline Faherty, American Museum of Natural History
- Megan Tannock, University of Western Ontario, “Spectroscopy of brown dwarfs and the implication of fast rotation”
- Emily Martin, UC Santa Cruz, “Instrumentation for exoplanets”
- Zhoujian “ZJ” Zhang, University of Hawaii, “Forward Modeling of Late-T Atmospheres”
- Katie Morzinski (University of Arizona Steward Observatory), Jenny Patience (Arizona State University), Phil Hinz (UC Santa Cruz), “Trade-offs in designing the MMT AO exoPlanet characterization System (MAPS) including its 1-5um high-res spectrograph ARIES”
- Neale Gibson, Queen’s University Belfast, “Atmospheres of transiting planets: what do we really know?”
- Jessica Luna, University of Texas, Austin, “Investigating the Mineralogy of Clouds in Brown Dwarf Atmospheres”
- Brendan Bowler, University of Texas, Austin, “Population-level Eccentricity Distributions of Imaged Exoplanets and Brown Dwarf Companions”
- Eric Lopez, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, “Introducing the NASA Exoplanet Modeling Analysis Center”
- Timothy Brandt, UC Santa Barbara
- Jordan Stone, University of Arizona
- Naor Movshovitz, UC Santa Cruz
Attendees
- Danica Adams, Graduate Research Assistant, California Institute of Technology
- Katelyn Allers, Associate Professor, Bucknell University
- Kassandra Anderson, Graduate Student, Cornell University
- Daniella Bardalez-Gagliuffi, Post Doc, American Museum of Natural History
- Jasmina Blecic, Post Doc, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- Brendan Bowler, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
- Timothy Brandt, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Aarynn Carter, Graduate Student, University of Exeter
- Patricio Cubillos, Post Doc, Space Research Institute, Austria
- Daria Desiderà, Graduate Student, University of Padova, Italy
- Ian Dobbs-Dixon, Assistant Professor, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- Trent Dupuy, Assistant Astronomer, Gemini Observatory
- Jacqueline Faherty, Senior Scientist, American Museum of Natural History
- Neale Gibson, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University Belfast
- Tiffany Kataria, Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Tad Komacek, Post Doc, University of Chicago
- Michael Line, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
- Michael Liu, Professor, University of Hawaii
- Eric Lopez, Research Space Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Jessica Luna, Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin
- Elena Manjavacas, Support Astronomer, Keck Observatory, Hawaii
- Stanimir Metchev, Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
- Ishan Mishra, Graduate Student, Cornell University
- Paul Mollière, Post Doc, University of Leiden
- Caroline Morley, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
- Katie Morzinski, Assistant Astronomer, University of Arizona Steward Observatory
- Emily Pass, Graduate Student, University of Waterloo
- Jenny Patience, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
- Sascha Quanz, Senior Staff Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Maria Steinrueck, Graduate Student, University of Arizona
- Jordan Stone, Post Doc, University of Arizona
- Xianyu Tan, Post Doc, University of Oxford
- Megan Tannock, Graduate Student, University of Western Ontario
- Jake Taylor, Graduate Student, University of Oxford
- Quang Tran, Graduate Student, University of Texas
- Johanna Vos, Post Doc, American Museum of Natural History
- Ansgar Wehrhahn, Graduate Student, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Joe Zalesky, Graduate Student, Arizona State University
- Zhoujian “ZJ” Zhang, Graduate Student, University of Hawaii
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