Exoclimes 2012

Day 5/5, Session 1: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets

Day 5/5, Session 1: Direct Imaging of Exoplanets

Hi, Nathan Mayne here with the summary of our last session of the momentous exoclimes 2012 conference in Aspen (I have an end of school summer…

Day 4/5, Session 2: Dust, UV, Reflection Spectra, Polarisation

Day 4/5, Session 2: Dust, UV, Reflection Spectra, Polarisation

Christiane Helling (University of St Andrews) gave us a talk about the challenges involved in modelling the formation and destruction of solid airborne particles in…

Day 4/5, Session 1: Composition

Day 4/5, Session 1: Composition

David Sing here ready for the Thursday morning session.  Looks like we’ll start out with theoretical talks on clouds and spectral retrieval before moving to…

Day 3/5, Session 1: Transit Observations

Day 3/5, Session 1: Transit Observations

Hi all and welcome to my, Nathan Mayne‘s, digest of the Wednesday morning session at the Exoclimes conference in Aspen. A session dominated by observers,…

Day 2/5, Session 2: Hot Jupiters and Magnetic Fields

Day 2/5, Session 2: Hot Jupiters and Magnetic Fields

Our first talk was an overview of giant planet atmospheric dynamics by Adam Showman. Giant planet atmospheres are rotationally dominated, resulting in east-west jets. Jupiter…

Day 2/5, Session 1: Oceans

Day 2/5, Session 1: Oceans

Good morning, this is Frederic taking over from Nawal. We have two review talks and two contributed talks this morning. Colin Goldblatt, from University of…

Day 1/5, Session 2: Low-mass planets

Day 1/5, Session 2: Low-mass planets

After the ski break (11:00-15:00), we reconvene in the 100-seats auditorium at the Aspen Center for Physics, with the snow still coming down hard outside….

Day 1/5, Session 1: Earth-like planets

Day 1/5, Session 1: Earth-like planets

The session this morning started of with Raymond T. Pierrehumbert‘s talk on Radiative-Convective Modeling of Planetary Climates. The talk, which seems to be a compressed…

On our way to Aspen, Colorado

On our way to Aspen, Colorado

On Monday the second exoclimes conference starts in snowy Aspen Colorado. The conference (conveniently placed in a winter sports Mecca) will cover a whole range…

Exoclimes 2012 LIVE Twitter Feed

Exoclimes 2012 LIVE Twitter Feed

Exoclimes.com will be keeping a live twitter feed of the Exoclimes 2012 conference in Aspen Colorado starting January the 16h. The Conference Schedule is now…

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