CIPS Events and Courses

JOINT PHYSICS/ ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
24 September 2009
David Jewitt, UCLA
"Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar System "

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

JOINT PHYSICS/ ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
5 March 2009
Russ Howard
"The SECCHI Experiment on the STEREO Mission"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

JOINT PHYSICS/ ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
19 February 2009
Peter Smith
"Phoenix in Wonderland "

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

COURSE OFFERING Spring 2009
C12 or L&S C70T
The Planets
Instructors: G. Marcy & B. Militzer
Time & Location: T Th 11am - 12:30pm, 4 Le Conte

Io Workshop
December 11 & 12, 2008
1:00pm - 5:30pm Thursday, 9:30am - 5:30pm Friday, Lunch included.
Organizer: Franck Marchis
Space Sciences Lab #105,
For workshop poster with speakers and talks, click here.
For workshop website with travel details and schedule, click here.
RSVP REQUIRED: fmarchis@berkeley.edu

SEMINAR SERIES Fall 2008
Astro 250/ EPS 290 Graduate Seminar, open to everyone.
Meteorites and the Solar System
Instructors: Imke de Pater / Anna Butterworth
Wednesdays 11-1pm
365 McCone Hall

October 22: Andrew Westphal, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley
"Stardust: first samples from a known comet and first solid samples of the local ISM"

October 29: Vera Fernandes, BGC
"Moon/ Earth System: lunar meteorites and Apollo samples reveal the formation and history of the Moon" [abstract]

November 5: Amy Gaffney (LLNL)
"Martian meteorites as records of planetary differentiation, volcanism and water on Mars"

November 13- 4pm, 2 Le Conte: Kevin McKeegan, UCLA
" The oxygen isotopic composition of captured solar wind: first results from the Genesis mission" [abstract]

November 19: Special Guest, open to everyone:
Larry Nittler, Carnegie Institution of Washington
"Supernova Dust in the Solar System" [abstract]
NOTE ROOM CHANGE FOR THIS LECTURE: 105 North Gate
11am - 12 noon

Course Syllabus

Course format: Two hours per week including up to 1 hour lecture plus 1 hour discussion and/or hands-on interaction with meteorites.
Description: This multidisciplinary course discusses what we have learned about the Solar System from laboratory studies of meteorites and how these studies are complimentary to observations of asteroids, planets and other solar systems. After a short introduction about the different meteorite types, and their chemical, mineralogical and isotopic composition, we will discuss their links to asteroids, comets, Mars and the Moon. In the second part we will discuss how meteorite studies have constrained the age of the Solar system, the formation history of asteroids, and the delivery of meteorites from the asteroid belt to Earth. This part will also include lunar and martian chronology and the role of short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system. Finally, we will discuss preliminary results from the two recent sample return missions from the Solar Wind (Genesis) and comet Wild 2 (Stardust), and review what questions remain to be answered. In the last week, we’ll tour some of the labs (ALS, SSL), where these studies are performed.

COURSE OFFERING Fall 2008
Astro 162 / EPS 162:
Solar System Astrophysics
Instructor: Imke de Pater

JOINT PHYSICS/ ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
24 November 2008
G.W. Collins
"Recreating Core States of Giant Planets in the Laboratory: A new Generation of Condensed Matter Science"

Tea: 4:00pm, 3rd floor Breezeway between Birge and LeConte
Colloquium: 4:30 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
23 October 2008
Sushil Atreya, University of Michigan
Titan's methane

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
13 November 2008
Kevin McKeegan, UCLA
Title: TBA

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
4 September 2008
Bill Hubbard, University of Arizona
Gravity Waves in Pluto's Sub-microbar Atmosphere

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

SPRING 2008 CIPS SEMINAR SERIES
Organizer: Mate Adamkovics

January 23 : Alyssa Sarid, UC Berkeley, EPS
"The Dynamics of Europa as Inferred From Tidally-Driven Fractures"
February 6 : Paul Kalas , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"A renaissance in imaging circumstellar debris disks with HST"
February 13- Joint with Theory Lunch: Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley, EPS
"Planetary Science with a Handful of Atoms"
February 27 : Elena Adams, University of Michigan
"How Titan got his cloak: Saturn's moon and the origin of its nitrogen atmosphere"
March 5 : John T. Clarke, Boston University
"Topics of interest to people who study giant planets at large distances"
March 12- Joint with Theory Lunch : Rory Barnes, University of Arizona
March 19 : Geoff Marcy
"Other Earths: Formation, Structure, and Detection"
April 2-Joint with Theory Lunch : Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Berkeley
"Two Problems in Planet Formation: the Kuiper Belt and Hot Jupiters "
April 16: Maegan Spencer, Stanford University
"Detecting extraterrestrial organic compounds in aerogel-capture hypervelocity particles"
April 23: Justin Simon, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
"Al/Mg Isotope Evidence for the Formation of Refractory Inclusions in the Protoplanetary Disk—Time scales and Conditions of the Early Solar System" May 7:
David Brain, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley
"Aurora in the lumpy magnetic fields of Mars"
May 14: Xander Tielens, University of Gronigen & NASA Ames
"Building planets one grain at a time"

12:00 noon- 1:00 pm
Campbell Hall #544

COURSE OFFERING Spring 2008
Astro C12 / EPS C12/L&S C70T:
The Planets
Instructors: G. Marcy & M. Manga
TTh, 11am-12:30pm
4 LeConte

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
21 February 2008
Bill Bottke , SWRI
""An Asteroid Breakup 160 My Ago as the Probable Source of the K-T Impactor""

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
24 January 2008
Margaret Galland Kivelson, UCLA
"Auroras and related phenomena at moons and planets"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
29 November 2007
Dan Brownlee , University of Washington
"The origin of crystalline silicates around stars- new evidence from the Stardust comet sample return mission"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

FALL 2007 CIPS SEMINAR SERIES
Organizer: Mate Adamkovics

September 4 : Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"Uranus RPX "
September 12 : Geoff Marcy , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"Origin of Planet Eccentricities "
September 19 : Eugene Chiang , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in protoplanetary disks"
September 26: Greg Delory, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
"Electrical Processes on Mars: New Sources and Sinks for Atmospheric Chemistry?"
October 3 : Jerry Edelstein, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
"Near-IR RV survey instrument 'TEDI'"
October 17 : Jason Barnes , NASA Ames
"Titan's Sand Dunes: Window to a New World"
October 24 : James Roberts , UC Santa Cruz
"Heating of Enceladus: Is there a subsurface ocean?"
October 31 : Xylar Asay-Davis, UC Berkeley
"DACIV: A Novel Method for Tracking Clouds in Planetary Atmospheres"
November 7 : Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii
"Limnology, Geochemistry, and Biology of Icelandic Subglacial Lakes"
November 14 : Phil Marcus , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Engineering
"Building Planetesimals for Fun and Profit"
November 21: Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"Atmospheric escape from Hot Jupiters
November 28 : Rob Lillis, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
"Electron reflectometry grab bag at Mars: dust storm effects in the
thermosphere, magmatic intrusions and how the Dynamo may have died."
December 5 : Speaker TBA
Title: TBA

12:00 noon- 1:00 pm
McCone Hall #325

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
13 September 2007
Eric Gaidos , University of Hawaii
"Dying Stars and Living Worlds: Short-lived Radionuclides and the Abundance of Planetary Water "

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

COURSE OFFERING Fall 2007
Solar System Astrophysics
Undergraduate section: Astro C162 / EPS C162
TTh 2:30-4pm, 544 Campbell Hall

Instructor: Prof. Imke de Pater(Astronomy)

The physical foundations of planetary sciences. Topics include planetary interiors and surfaces, planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, and smaller bodies in our solar system. The physical processes at work are developed in some detail. An evolutionary picture for our solar system and each class of objects, is developed. Some discussion of other (potential) planetary systems is also included.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Imke de Pater.

2007 SUMMER STUDY PROGRAM
Summer Small Spacecraft Study Program
Contact: Greg Delory, 510-643-1991
Space Sciences Laboratory

A student design exercise: defining next generation spacecraft and instrumentation for a small lunar orbiter mission.For more information on this opportunity, click here. Those interested in applying should contact Greg Delory

SPECIAL JOINT EPS- ASTRONOMY SEMINAR
May 23 2007, 4pm
Bruce Buffett, University of Chicago
"Numerical Models of Planetary Dynamos: Dealing with the Challenge of Unresolved Turbulence"

Colloquium: 12 noon
544 Campbell Hall

WORKSHOP
TITAN II WORKSHOP: TITAN AFTER CASSINI
A follow-up on the workshop "Titan: Pre-Cassini View", 17 Nov. 2003
Organizer: Imke de Pater , UC Berkeley / CIPS

May 15 - 16, 2007, 8:30am- 5:30pm
Space Sciences Laboratory, #105, University of California, Berkeley
Guest Speakers:

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
22 March 2007
Josh Eisner, University of California, Berkeley
"Building Blocks of Planets Around Young Stars"

Everything we understand to be alive depends on water. In this graduate seminar we will explore the details of how water can shape the environments of planets and how it relates to life. Starting from a molecular understanding of the unique properties of molecular water, we'll discuss to the roles of water in lithospheres, cryospheres, and atmospheres. Frequently speakers will present reviews of the literature as well as recent research, before leading a class discussion on the material.

Location: 544 Campbell Hall
Time: Wednesdays
Seminar: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Optional Discussion with Speaker: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Those attending the optional discussion are asked to read assigned papers listed in the class syllabus

The undergraduate and graduate sections will be held at different times. Class locations and times will be decided in the fall.

Instructors: Profs. Geoffrey Marcy (Astronomy) & Michael Manga (Earth & Planetary Science)

This class will provide a tour of the planets and moons of the solar system, and an introduction to their internal structures, atmospheres, and surface features. Processes that form planets and act continually to change them (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, giant impacts) are discussed, as are comets, asteroids, rings, and life. Information gained from recent spacecraft missions is highlighted. Intended for non science majors.

Over the last decade, astronomers have discovered over 1000 icy, rocky objects beyond Neptune, including one larger than Pluto. What is known about this "Kuiper Belt" of bodies? What are its implications for the formation of our solar system? What connections can be drawn between our home and other planetary systems? We will describe the chain of scientific discoveries that have allowed us to address these questions for the first time, in addition to some of the politics underlying the demotion of Pluto from planetary status.

Monday, November 27, 2006
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Lecture: 7:00 pm - 8:00pm, Reception following

"The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph: Direct Imaging of
Extrasolar Earth-like Planets"

Speaker: Stuart Shaklan, Interferometry Engineering Group, Jet Propulsion Lab
Organizer: Dan Ceperley, EECS Dept,
Friday, October 13, 2006
11:00 - noon, Pizza provided
521 Cory Hall (Hogan Room)

Instructors: Profs. Geoffrey Marcy (Astronomy) & Michael Manga (Earth & Planetary Science)

These monthly seminars are designed to encourage interdisciplinary interactions between graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty. The goal is to facilitate interdepartmental collaboration and synergistic research in planetary science.

December 1, 2005: BayPAC Discussion
December 2, 2005: CIPS/ BayPAC Workshop
9:00am-5:00pm both days
#105 Space Science Lab, Addition Conference Room

Next January, Stardust, the first sample return mission from a planetary body since the 1970's, and the first ever from beyond the Moon, will return cometary and contemporary interstellar dust to terrestrial laboratories. These samples are effectively the first bona fide solid samples from the Kuiper Belt and from the Local Interstellar Medium. They will be available for analysis to the entire scientific community.

The Bay Area Particle Analysis Consortium (BayPAC) and the Center for Integrative Planetary Science (CIPS) at U. C. Berkeley will host a joint workshop on the analysis of Stardust samples on Dec. 1-2. The workshop will be held at the Space Sciences Laboratory at U. C. Berkeley. The Bay Area Particle Analysis Consortium (BayPAC) was set up in 2003 to take advantage of the analytical facilities available at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Stanford and UC Berkeley. On Dec. 1, BayPAC will host a discussion of the full range of available analytical facilities with special emphasis on facilities in California. On Dec. 2, we will have a joint CIPS/BayPAC workshop focused on the science that can be expected from analysis of the Stardust cometary and interstellar dust samples.

Topics to be covered include: observations of super-earths, formation scenarios, composition (rock, rock-ice, gaseous), equations of state, leading to observables, surface effects such as tectonics, seismology, and minerology, composition / retention/ cycling of atmospheres, internal energy/ transport/ thermodynamics/ tidal effects, detection techniques, and characterization by future observations.

Daniel P. Lathrop , Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
"Building Laboratory Models of Planetary Cores"

Instructors: Profs. Imke de Pater(Astronomy) & Raymond Jeanloz(Earth & Planetary Science)

This class will provide a tour of the planets and moons of the solar system, and an introduction to their internal structures, atmospheres, and surface features.Processes that form planets and act continually to change them (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, giant impacts) are discussed, as are comets, asteroids, rings, and life. Information gained from recent spacecraft missions is highlighted. Intended for non science majors.

The first half of the course covers the essential physics of fluid dynamics under the influence of strong rotation and stratification. During the second half, we will examine the dynamics of large-scale flows in oceans and atmospheres, with special attention to: Gulf Stream, jets streams, Antarctic ozone hole, Jupiter's great red spot, other planetary flows, abrupt climate change, and star and planet formation in protoplanetary disks. The emphasis on each topic will depend upon student interest.

Conditions of high Reynolds number, large spatial scales, strong rotation, stratification, shallow aspect ratio and various combinations that often occur in atmospheres, oceans, planetary atmospheres, and astrophysics result in flow behavior that is qualitatively different from what is normally encountered in the laboratory. We shall derive the equations needed to describe these flows, including the quasigeostrophic, shallow-water, and anelastic equations, using a combination of physical intuition and rigorous asymptotic analysis. Topics such as Ekman dissipation, the thermal wind, geostrophy, Poincare, Kelvin and Rossby waves, resonant triads, Karman vortex streets, the beta-plane, potential vorticity, vortex dynamics, and nonlinear and baroclinic instabilities will be covered.

COURSE OFFERING Fall 2004
Interdisciplinary course on Planetary Sciences (or Solar System Astrophysics)

Discussions in class are strongly encouraged; discussions are best if a variety of students with different backgrounds participate in the class. Topics may range from planetary atmospheres, to surface geology, interior structure and formationof our solar system (including meteorites, asteroids and comets). Topics depend a bit on students' interests.

An examination of 7 classic papers that helped shape modern Earth and Planetary Science, this course is intended for graduate students from across the full breadth of the EPS Department.

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
28 October 2004
Bill McKinnon , Washington University, St. Louis
"Remarkable Moons: Structure and Evolution of the Galilean Satellites of Jupiter"

WORKSHOP
Europa: From Geophysics to Astrobiology
October 11, 2004
1:30pm-5:30pm
#105 Space Science Lab, Addition Conference Room

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
16 September 2004
Yorum Lithwick , University of California, Berkeley
"Planet Formation: The Final Chapter"

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