Please join us at 12:45 p.m. for pizza on the patio outside of Campbell Hall. Seminars are held at 1:10pm in 131 Campbell Hall. We encourage everyone to attend in person but we also record all talks and provide a Zoom option. To be added to the mailing list for seminar announcements, please contact Burkhard Militzer.
Upcoming Seminars
February 25, 2026: Nimrod Gavriel, University of California, Berkeley Jupiter’s planetary-scale atmospheric circulations exposed by Juno
March 4, 2026: Paul Asimow, California Institute of Technology
March 11, 2026: Christopher Lam, California Institute of Technology Exoplanets in Galactic Space and Time, from Kepler and K2 to Roman
March 18, 2026: Flavio Petricca, Jet Propulsion Lab
March 25, 2026: No meeting (Spring Break)
April 1, 2026: Scott Bolton, Southwest Research Institute
April 8, 2026: Bjoern Winkler, University of Frankfurt, Germany
April 15, 2026: Prajna Das and Amartya Kattemalavadi, University of California, Berkeley
April 22, 2026: Evan Bauer, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
April 29, 2026: Marius Millot, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (on sabbatical at UC Berkeley EPS)
May 6, 2026: Murti Nauth, University of California, Berkeley Exit Seminar! 🎉🎓
Past Seminars
12/3/2025: Caleb Harada and Orlando Romeo, University of California, Berkeley Caleb: Searching for giant planets in the habitable zones of potential HWO target stars Orlando: Constraining Crustal Coherence Scales of Martian Magnetism with Multi-Mission Data
11/19/2025: Yao Tang, University of California, Santa Cruz Reassessing Atmospheric Escape in Sub-Neptunes: Three Mechanisms Coupled to Evolution Model
11/12/2025: Jerry Xuan, University of California, Los Angeles Mapping formation pathways of giant exoplanets from chemical composition
11/5/2025: Quadry Chance, University of Florida
Exploring the exoplanet radius gap from different angles
10/29/2025: Debanjan Sengupta, NMSU Pathway to the Formation of Planetesimals in Early Solar Nebula by Turbulent Concentration
10/22/2025: Isaac Narrett, MIT Magnetizing the Moon and Mercury
10/15/2025: Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Space Sciences Lab and University of California, Berkeley The NASA Psyche mission: Preparing for the Science of an Unknown Object
10/8/2025: Gidi Yoffe, Weizmann Institute From Signal to Structure: Statistical Thinking for Planetary and Astrobiological Discovery
10/1/2025: Emma Dahl, California Institute of Technology Characterizing the Color and Structure of Jupiter’s Clouds with Deep Learning
9/17/2025: Eugene Chiang, University of California, Berkeley The formation of chondrites
9/10/2025: Jie Deng, Princeton Exploring the Hidden Interiors of Super-Earths
9/3/2025: Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz Isotopic constraints on the formation and evolution of the Earth-Moon system
8/27/2025: Burkhard Militzer, University of California, Berkeley Phase Separation of Planetary Ices Explains Why Uranus and Neptune have Disordered Magnetic Fields
