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CPS Summer Meeting 2019
09 September 2019, 11:00 am–5:00 pm
This year, the UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences' ‘Summer’ Science Meeting will be held on Monday 9 September at UCL.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- Invitation Only
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Joanna Fabbri – Physics and Astronomy
Location
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Pearson Lecture Theatre G22Pearson Building, UCLGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck is delighted to host our Ninth Annual Summer Meeting on Monday 9 September 2019 in UCL's Pearson Lecture Theatre, for CPS members and associates.
We have a detailed programme of science talks and posters which are summarised below.
We look forward to seeing you on 9 September!
| 11:00 - 11:30 | ARRIVALS / COFFEE | POSTERS |
| 11:30 - 11:35 | Prof. Geraint Jones | Welcome |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Prof. Geraint Jones | The Comet Interceptor mission |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Dr Jo Barstow UCL Physics and Astronomy | Cloudy hot Jupiters: Maximizing information from retrievals |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Flavien Hardy | Characterizing the structure and compressibility of Saturn’s magnetopause |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Anastasia Kokori UCL Physics and Astronomy | Ground-based exoplanet observations in support of the ARIEL space mission |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | LUNCH | POSTERS |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Prof. Andrew Coates Mullard Space Science Laboratory | The PanCam instrument for the Rosalind Franklin (ExoMars 2020) rover |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Richard Haythornthwaite Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Carbon ions in the Enceladus plume during the Oct 2008 flyby |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Prof. Nick Achilleos UCL Physics and Astronomy | Local time dependence of Saturn's magnetodisc |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Gordon Yip UCL Physics and Astronomy | Pushing the limits of exoplanet discovery via direct imaging with Deep Learning |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | COFFEE | POSTERS |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Dr Ingo Waldmann / Angelos Tsiaras UCL Physics and Astronomy | Water in the atmosphere of a habitable zone super-Earth |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Graham Driver Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences | Active regions on Comet 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko: Source regions and geomorphological changes from outburst activity |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Mario Morvan UCL P&A / CDT DIS | Interpolating transit light curves with recurrent neural networks to correct for systematics |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Sam Halim Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences | Numerical modelling of the formation of Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | RECEPTION | POSTERS |
Poster presentations:
- Geoffrey Baron (UCL ES): Icy Worlds: How high-pressure ice phases can shape their structure
- Dr Patrick Guio (UCL P&A): Effect of magnetodisc fields on plasma injection signatures
- Giulia Magnarini (UCL ES): Friction experiments on anorthosite gouges: Implications for the mechanisms of long runout landslides on the Moon
- Affelia Wibisono (UCL MSSL): A spectral study of Jupiter’s X-ray aurorae with XMM-Newton