YLY Seminar

S Mudd


Last Modified: Oct 17 2025 (Friday) UTC 5:35 PM

Date Speaker(s) Affiliation(s) Title(s)*
01/01/2025 CANCELLED -- No speaker found for this date.
01/08/2025 CANCELLED -- No speaker found for this date.
01/15/2025 CANCELLED -- No speaker found for this date.
01/22/2025 PAUSED -- This date is still available.
01/29/2025 Jacob Shultis John Hopkins University Investigating the Seasonal Evolution of Titan's Polar Vortices
02/05/2025 XUAN JI University of Chicago The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape
02/12/2025 Kyle Patrick Batra Purdue Climatic Effects of Ocean Salinity on G-star & M-dwarf Exoplanets
02/19/2025 Nicholas Lombardo Yale University Identifying the Drivers of Titan’s Middle Atmospheric Circulation
02/26/2025 Not found N/A This date is still available.
03/05/2025 Hongping Deng Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Early Earth shaped by the Moon-forming giant impact and its implications for Earth's evolution
03/12/2025 Cheng Qian UK Met Office Energetic Constraints on Baroclinic Eddy Heat Transport with a Beta Effect in the Laboratory
03/19/2025 N/A University of Copenhagen Cancelled because speaker is busy
03/26/2025 Prof. Donald C. Chang HKUST A wave theory on the origin of matter
04/02/2025 Dr. Danica Adams Harvard University Photochemistry at Mars, Venus, & Exoplanets Through Time
04/09/2025 CANCELLED -- Cancelled because Prof. Yung is away.
04/16/2025 Dr. Anthony Y.H. Wong MIT Applying atmospheric chemistry to bridge knowledge gaps in sustainability
04/23/2025 Dr. Shreyas Vissapragada Carnegie Science Observatories Three Population-Level Surveys of Atmospheric Escape
04/30/2025 Dr. Tom A. Nordheim Applied Physics Laboratory Surface composition of icy moons – Charged particles vs endogenic effects
05/07/2025 Dr. Yuan Lian Aeolis Research 3D simulations of polar vortices on Jupiter by JupiterMPAS
05/14/2025 Dr. Caroline Haslebacher Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Accelerating a geological lineament analysis on Europa for the Europa Clipper mission with deep learning
05/21/2025 Prof Christopher Boxe Howard University Mapping Structural Risk: A Multilevel Study of Cardiovascular Mortality in the Rust Belt States of Ohio and Pennsylvania
05/28/2025 Dr. Yangcheng Luo Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD) Extreme Weather Variability on Hot Rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Explained by Magma Temperature-Cloud Feedback
06/04/2025 Dr. Stuart Bartlett Caltech A Complete Set of Metabolic Protein Folds from only 6 Amino Acids
06/11/2025 Jayshil Patel Stockholm University Lava rain, volatile atmosphere or something else? Tale of a hot rocky world 55 Cnc e as seen by JWST
06/18/2025 Dr. Thomas Pagano JPL The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Radiance Calibration and 22-year Trends
06/25/2025 Break Prof Yung on Leave
07/02/2025 Break Prof Yung on Leave
07/09/2025 Dr. Conor A. Nixon NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Probing Titan’s Terrain’s on Earth: Prospects for Analog Field Work
07/16/2025 Prof Sebastien Charnoz IPGP, University of Paris Cite Forming the First Solids Precursors in the Solar System Through Kinetic Condensation
07/23/2025 Dr. Matthew Gildner Jet Propulsion Laboratory Articulated Robotics for Planetary Surface Exploration
07/30/2025 Prof Andrew Sinclair Caltech China's Global Currency: Re-pegging the Hong Kong Dollar
08/06/2025 Prof Yuk L. Yung & Michele Judd Caltech 1) Yung family tour of Europe from Italy to Norway. & 2) A Tale of Two Countries - the Judd Sisters Journey through Croatia and Slovenia
08/08/2025 Prof Hui Su Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Emergent Constraints on Climate Sensitivity from Seasonal Variations of Extratropical Marine Low Clouds
08/13/2025 Prof Yuk L. Yung Caltech Decoding the Hazy Mysteries of the Cosmos: Aerosol Remote Sensing from Earth to Exoplanets
08/20/2025 Dr. Jingyu Wang University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Development of Photochemical Model for Venusian Atmosphere
08/20/2025 Prof Xianyao Chen Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China TBD

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08/27/2025 Prof Tim Li University of Hawaii Changes of El Nino and La Nina in the past 100 years
09/03/2025 Dr. Junjie Dong Caltech Water and Oxidation State in Rocky Planet Mantles
09/10/2025 Break -- DPS/EPSC
09/17/2025 Ting Juan (Jennifer) Liao Caltech Venus
09/24/2025 Dr. Jim Guy Caltech Jung, Einstein, and Human Consciousness: Should Astrobiology include consciousness as the 5th dimension of science?
10/01/2025 Dr. Apurva V. Oza Caltech TBD
10/08/2025 PAUSED -- This date is still available.
10/15/2025 Yifan Hu -- Hard X-ray Emission in AU Mic Flares: A Minor Contributor to Planetary Atmospheric Escape
10/17/2025 George Aumann -- Changes in the Reflected Shortwave Radiation using 20 years of AIRS data
10/24/2025 Break -- Prof Yung on Leave
11/07/2025 Break -- Prof Yung on Leave
11/14/2025 Break -- Prof Yung on Leave
11/21/2025 Break -- Prof Yung on Leave
11/28/2025 Break -- Thanks giving
12/05/2025 Yu-cheng Chen National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan Nationwide Assessment of Ambient Air Pollutants and Chemical Components in Taiwan to Support Health Risk Evaluation and Policy Development
12/10/2025 Rozenn Robidel -- Exploring Mercury’s Exosphere with BepiColombo/PHEBUS
12/12/2025 Zhu Liu Tsinghua University The international project of the Habitability of Carbon-Based Life Beyond Earth (HARBOR)
12/19/2025 BREAK -- Prof Yung on Leave (AGU)
12/24/2025 BREAK -- Christmas
12/31/2025 BREAK -- Christmas
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