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October 2017
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New trends in modeling granular media: applications to geosciences and planetary exploration
Jose E. Andrade,
George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering; Cecil and Sally Drinkward Leadership Chair,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Reflections of Mars: Using Orbital Radar Observations to Discover Climate Signals and More
Isaac Smith,
Research Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the duration of extreme precipitation events with climate warming and links to atmospheric dynamics
Paul O'Gorman,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 9th, 2017
8:40am
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12:30pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
What a marginal sea's evolution can tell you: From subduction to rifting and spreading
Zhen Sun,
Professor,
Department of Marine Geology,
South China Sea Intitute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Hot Jupiters: Inflation & Roche-lobe Overflow
Sivan Ginzburg,
The Racah Institute of Physics,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Dynamical chaos as a tool for characterizing multi-planet systems
Daniel Tamayo,
Centre for Planetary Sciences & Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oxygen isotope fractionation in the CaCO3-DIC-H2O system
James Watkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Oregon,
Monday, October 16th, 2017
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Studying Planetary Atmospheres in an Exoplanet Era
Renyu Hu,
Research Scientist,
Exoplanet Discovery and Science,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling of Cloud Microphysics. Can we do better?
Wojciech Grabowski,
Senior Scientist,
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory,
NCAR,
Monday, October 23rd, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Of Babies and bathwater: can we reconstruct the global carbon cycle using the chemistry of ancient carbonate sediments?
John A. Higgins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Michael Chaffin,
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rethinking the abyssal ocean circulation: bottom-intensified mixing on slopes
Jörn Callies,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 30th, 2017
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A deep thermal plume in the mantle beneath Hawaii? Constraints from tomography and reflection seismology
Robert D. van der Hilst,
Schlumberger Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Head of Department,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
3:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Nancy Thomas,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Michael Wong,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,