Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation(s)	Title(s)*
01/06/2015	Dr. Juan Lora	UCLA	Simulating the circulation of Titan's middle and lower atmosphere
01/13/2015	Prof. Shawn McGlynn	Tokyo Metropolitan University	Multicellular interactions during anaerobic methane oxidation
01/20/2015	Dr. Hyman Hartman	MIT	Mars, clays and the origins of life
01/27/2015	Dr. Lukas Mandrake	JPL	Machine Learning at JPL: Squeezing more out of your data
02/03/2015	Dr. Ulyana Dyudina	Caltech	Aurora on Saturn observed in visible wavelengths by Cassini
02/10/2015	Dr. Josette Bellan	JPL	Large Eddy Simulation of Two-Phase Flows with Evaporation
02/17/2015	Prof. Frank Mills	Australian National University	A review of SO2 and SO in Venus' mesosphere
02/24/2015	Prof. Gerard Roe	University of Washington	Humpty Dumpty and Regional Climate Predictability
03/03/2015	Dr. Anthony Bloom	JPL	Satellite data constraints on biogenic and pyrogenic carbon fluxes
03/10/2015	Dr. Hao Cao	Caltech	Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Planetary Magnetic Fields
03/17/2015	Dr. Esha Manne	JPL	Measurements of spectral parameters for ro-vibrational lines of water and CO2 targeted by the Mars -Tunable Laser Spectrometer
03/24/2015	--	--	--Spring Break--
03/31/2015	Dr. Bjorn Benneke	Caltech	Exploring the Elemental Compositions of Exoplanets
04/07/2015
04/14/2015	Dr. Suniti Sanghavi	JPL	Recent advances in the radiative transfer modeling of aerosol and clouds
04/21/2015	Prof. Dimitri Mawet	Caltech	Exoplanet imaging and characterization at Palomar and Keck
04/28/2015	Dr. Samuel Gulkis	JPL	The European Space Agency Rosetta Space Mission to Comet 67p/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko to Understand the Origin of the Solar System
05/05/2015	Prof. Giovanna Tinetti	University College London	Galactic planetary science
05/12/2015	Dr. Sloane Wiktorowicz	UC Santa Cruz	A Revolution in the Rotation of Exoplanets, Asteroids, and the Crab Pulsar
05/19/2015	Dr. Katherine Deck	Caltech	Orbital dynamics of the Kepler multi-planet systems
05/26/2015	Dr. Ulyana Dyudina	Caltech	Jupiter and Saturn's light curves simulated as if they were exoplanets. Effects of rings, orbital eccentricity, and non-Lambertian scattering on the light curves and Bond albedo estimates
06/02/2015	Dr. James Sinclair	JPL	Seasonal and interannual variability in Saturn's stratosphere
06/09/2015	Dr. Mark Richardson	JPL	Field spectroscopy to inform snow-mass retrievals
06/16/2015	Dr. Don Shemansky	USC	Europa's role in the Jupiter magnetosphere
06/23/2015	Dr. Jianping Guo	Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences	Aerosol-induced Changes in Precipitation over Pearl River Delta: Observational Evidence and Model Simulations
06/30/2015	Dr. Kevin Bowman	JPL	Climate Forcing in the Earth System: Perspectives from satellites, modeling, and assimilation
07/07/2015	Dr. Tao Wang	JPL	Trajectory Study of The Stratosphere: A Tracer Perspective
07/17/2015	Mr. Giuseppe Morello	UCL	A blind method to detrend instrumental systematics in exoplanetary light-curves
07/21/2015	Mr. Henry Ngo	Caltech	Helping Friends Move: Companion-Driven Giant Exoplanet Dynamics
07/31/2015	Dr. Yongyun Hu	Peking University	Stratospheric ozone, the Hadley circulation, and Antarctic sea ice
08/04/2015	Mike Wong and Yuk Yung	Caltech	Photochemistry of Pluto and Titan
08/11/2015	Dr. Kenneth Williford	JPL	Looking for Life on Mars (on Earth)
08/18/2015	Dr. Bin Guan	JPL	Atmospheric Rivers and Climate Variability: Regional and Global Connections
08/25/2015	Dr. Michael Ghil	Ecole Normale Superieure and UCLA	Interdecadal Climate Variability, Natural and Forced
09/01/2015	Dr. Laurie Barge	JPL	Experimentally Simulating Seafloor Systems for Origin of Life and Planetary Habitability
09/22/2015	Mr. Ziwei Li, Mr. Siteng Fan	Peking University, Caltech	Examining the Effect of Deformation Radius on Zonal Jets Based on a Quasi-Geostrophic Model (Li); Observations of Expansion, Fluctuations and Heating of Coronal Mass Ejections (Fan)
09/29/2015	Dr. Robert Herman	JPL	Observations of Lower Stratospheric Water Vapor Injected by Overshooting Convection
10/06/2015	Dr. Claire Newman	Ashima Research	Near-surface winds and aeolian features on Mars, Titan and Paleo Earth
10/13/2015	Dr. Anthony Davis	JPL	3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres: Main Applications, History, and Recent Developments
10/20/2015	Prof. Amy Lovell	Agnes Scott College	Radio Spectroscopy of Comets: Trends in Gas Production and Outflow
10/23/2015	Prof. Xianglei Huang	University of Michigan	[SPECIAL] Incorporating the realistic surface spectral emissivity in the climate models: motivation, treatment, and preliminary results
10/27/2015	Dr. Vlada Stamenkovic	Caltech/JPL	A bottom-up approach for plate tectonics & planet evolution
11/03/2015	Prof. Wladimir Lyra	California State University	Planet Signatures in Transitional Disks
11/10/2015	--	--	DPS Meeting
11/17/2015	Dr. Le (Elva) Luai	UCLA JIFRESSE	A Large Missing Source for Carbonyl Sulfide from the Tropical Ocean?
11/24/2015	Prof. Sunney Chan	Caltech	Learning from microbes to develop an efficient catalyst for the conversion of methane into methanol under ambient conditions
12/01/2015	Dr. Lei Huang	JPL	Distribution, Variation and Transport of CO in the Upper Troposphere from Satellite Observation and Model Simulation
12/08/2015	Mr. Christopher Spalding	Caltech	The most catastrophic catastrophe: Population dynamics under stochastic extreme events
12/15/2015	--	--	AGU Meeting
12/22/2015	--	--	Christmas Celebration
12/29/2015	--	--	New Year Celebration