Planetary Science Directorate

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, BOULDER OFFICE

Upcoming SwRI Boulder Colloquia

Colloquia are normally on Tuesdays at 11:00 am in the 4th-floor conference room, except as indicated below in bold text.
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For questions or suggestions for speakers, please contact the SwRI colloquium organizers:
Raluca Rufu, 303-226-0879 or raluca(at)boulder.swri.edu
Julien Salmon, 720-208-7203 or julien(at)boulder.swri.edu
Kelsi Singer, 303-226-5910 or ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu
Sierra Ferguson, sierra.ferguson(at)swri.org
Rogerio Deienno, rogerio.deienno(at)swri.org
Sam Van Kooten, 303-226-5909 or svankooten(at)boulder.swri.edu

To be added to the SwRI Boulder Colloquia email list, please contact Kelsi Singer, ksinger(at)boulder.swri.edu

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Tue Feb 11, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Jacob Kegerreis SETI Institute The destructive formation of moons and rings
Tue Feb 18, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Matt Hedman University of Idaho The Uranian rings and small satellites are really unusual things
Abstract: Uranus has a complex system of rings and small moons that occupy the space between the planet and the five largest satellites. Many of the Uranian rings are remarkably narrow, suggesting that the ring material is being actively confined at specific locations. While a couple of rings are probably confined by the gravitational perturbations from known moons, many more probably cannot be confined in this way, and so require alternative explanations that might involve oscillations and asymmetries in the planet itself. Meanwhile, the small moons between the rings and Miranda are the most tightly packed satellite system known, and their surface properties are strikingly different from Uranus' larger satellites. This could either reflect the peculiar evolutionary history of these objects that may have involved material cycling back and forth between being rings and moons multiple times, or document a primordial compositional gradient created during the impact event that may have produced Uranus' extreme tilt.
Tue Feb 25, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Ananyo Bhattacharya University of Michigan Probing Jupiter’s Deep Atmosphere and Northern Aurora at Microwave Frequencies
Tue Mar 4, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Ankit Barik Johns Hopkins University TBD
Tue Mar 25, 2025
In 4th Floor CR + Webex
11:00 am Joe Masiero Caltech/IPAC TBD Asteroids
Tue Apr 1, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Douglas Hemingway University of Texas TBD
Tue Apr 8, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Alessandro Morbidelli Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: combining observations, simulations and cosmochemical constraints
Tue Apr 15, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Krista Soderlund University of Texas at Austin TBD
Tue May 6, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Mike Wong University of California-Berkeley TBD
Tue May 27, 2025
In Room 4.615
11:00 am Rutu Parekh Jet Propulsion Laboratory TBD