PTYS/LPL Colloquium Archive

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Colloquia are held in Kuiper 308 or 312, beginning at 3:45 p.m. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Kuiper Atrium.

OSIRIS-REx Encounters Bennu: Initial Assessment from the Approach Phase

Let’s Make a Ribonucleotide: RNA World as the First Molecular ‘Ecosystem’

Martian Meteorites: Windows into the Martian Interior and Volcanism

The Evolution of Volatile Molecules During Planet Formation

The Formation and Evolution of Ceres' Occator Crater and its Bright Faculae

Near-Earth Objects as Applied Planetary Science

Atmosphere-Mantle Feedbacks: Importance of Mantle Oxidation State

The Seismometer to Investigate Ice and Ocean Structure

Prospects for Unseen Planets Beyond Neptune

Robots Under the Ice, and One Day, In Space?

Fire and Water in the Early Solar System: Tales of Volcanism and Sources of Water on Planetesimals

Before and After Solar System Formation: Insights from Micrometeorites

Unravelling the Origin and Evolution of Magmatic Lunar Volatiles

Atmospheres and Climates of Rocky Exoplanets: What Earth Teaches Us About Them, and What They Can Teach Us About Earth

New Perspective on the Origin of the Moon

Laboratory Astrophysics: Isotopic and Structural Analysis of Presolar SiC

The Formation Environment of the Solar System: A Perspective from Short-Lived Radionuclides

Speak Your Science

Seeing the Solar System through Robot Eyes

The Geologic History Of Water On Mars

Alteration History of Mars and Implications for Water Reservoirs

Physical Properties of the Trans-Neptunian Objects

Kronoseismology: Probing Saturn’s Interior Via Its Rings

Earth's Earliest Evolution: Fire From Above, Fire From Below

Characterizing the Diversity of Extrasolar Atmospheres: From Planets to Brown Dwarfs

Venus’ Well-kept Secrets: Lessons for Earth and Earth-like Planets

Craters and Cryovolcanoes – Comparisons Across the Outer Solar System

Observing Extreme Atmospheric Escape at Mars with MAVEN

Planetesimal Collisions in the Early Solar System: What Can Meteorites Tell Us?

From Pebbles to Planets

Gravity Science at Jupiter: Initial Results from Juno (Plus a Teaser from Cassini)

The Climate of Early Mars: New Investigations into a Long-standing Problem

Large Scale Morphological Changes in the Hapi Region on Comet 67P/C-G

Probing Planets from Orbit: Lessons from Mars, Opportunities for Earth

Why are Small Planets so Diverse?

The Late Lunar Dynamo

Astrobiological Studies of Planetary Bodies via Molecular Spectroscopy

Exoplanet Demographics versus Host Star Mass: Clues to Formation from Direct Imaging

SOLAR TOMOGRAPHY: Reconstructing the 3D Reality Encrypted in 2D Data

MHD Turbulence and Particle Acceleration

Addressing the Turbulent Heating Problem with a Novel Diagnostic Method

Exospheric Science & High-Throughput Interference Spectroscopy

Hydrogen Atoms in the Heliosphere: The Interplanetary UV Glow

Volatile Transport in the Pluto-Charon System

Unusual Dynamics In Earth’s Co-Orbital Resonance and In Our Science Classrooms

Geochemistry of Martian Basalts with Constraints on Magma Genesis

Galactic Planetary Science

Dreaming of Atmospheres

Astrodynamics: A Contributor to Planetary Science

Moon-Magnetosphere Interactions at Jupiter and Saturn

In the Eye of the Storm: Inner Coma Studies of Three Jupiter Family Comets

Asteroid Science in a CubeSat: A Milligravity Centrifuge and Meteor Monitor

Living with a Comet: Rosetta at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Exploring Solar System History through Isotopic Analysis of Meteorites

Exploring Near-Earth Space Dynamics Using Optical Measurements: Role of Transient Fast Plasma Transport

Tidal Evolution of the Moon from a High-Obliquity High-Angular-Momentum Earth

Towards a Global Evolutionary Picture of Protoplanetary Disks

Playing with Fire: Thermal Escape from Hot Extrasolar Planets

Planetary Interiors Studied with Ab Initio Simulations

Pluto - The Pugnacious Planet

A Fundamental Physical Process in Collisionless Heliospheric Plasmas: Interaction Between Whistler-mode Waves and Electrons

Mercury’s Complex Exosphere: What Have We Learned From MESSENGER?

Time-dependent Global MHD Studies of the Solar Wind Interaction with Mars

New Perspectives Big and Small of the Kuiper Belt

New Insights on Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in the Universe

Cooking with an Incomplete Recipe – Computational Methods in Solar Physics

Solar Flares: Explosive Plasma Physics!

Revealing the History of Volcanism and Climate on Mars Using Radar

Colloquia are held in Kuiper 308 or 312, beginning at 3:45 p.m.
Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Kuiper Atrium.