Upcoming Seminars

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

March 4, 2026: Paul Asimow, California Institute of Technology
Composition of Earth’s core from First-Principles Molecular Dynamics simulations

February 25, 2026: Nimrod Gavriel, University of California, Berkeley
Jupiter’s planetary-scale atmospheric circulations exposed by Juno

2/18/2026: Steven Giacalone, California Institute of Technology
The End of the World(s): New Insights into the Origins and Natures of the Highest- and Lowest-Mass Exoplanets

2/11/2026: Christopher Glein, SWRI
Seafaring in Space: A Personal Voyage to Enceladus

2/4/2026: Zack Gainsforth, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Lab
Asteroid Bennu

1/28/2026: Sam Courville, Arizona State University
Interior Evolution of Asteroids and Dwarf Planets

1/21/26: Michael Manga, University of California, Berkeley
Cryovolcanism on ice-covered ocean worlds

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