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KITP: CoRoT and Kepler
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on March 30, 2010 Status of CoRoT and Kepler missions is reviewed at the “Exoplanets Rising” workshop at the Kavli Institute, we’ll see if there are any news. CoRoT is up first. Magali Deleuil presenting. Kepler next with Bill Borucki.
KITP: transit overview
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on March 29, 2010 Dave Charbonneau: why transits are cool Kicking off afternoon session is Josh Winn on transit uses and abuses. Then Gaspar Bakos on ground based transits.
KITP: Z and M
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on March 29, 2010 Debra Fischer talking about correlations between metallicity and mass of stars and planets
KITP: eta Earth
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on March 29, 2010 Marcy next, talking about the ηEarth survey with the Keck.
KITP: Exoplanets RIsing
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on March 29, 2010 Well, I’m back at the Kavli Institute attending the Exoplanets Rising workshop. We have a full schedule of talks over the week, and I’ll be intermittently blogging the events as we amble along. Bunch of interesting sounding talk on the schedule, and hopefully some interesting news and discoveries that we will hear about. We kick-off…
you know who you are!
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on October 29, 2009 You either get this or you do not.
KITP: Statistical Mechanics of Money
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on May 13, 2009 Another topical colloquium here at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics… “Money, It’s a Gas”
Jesusita Fire
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on May 11, 2009 it turns out that hot tubs and light ashfall are a bad mix
satellite fire map
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on May 8, 2009 MODIS map of the Jesusita fire click of Jesusita tag on the right side
KITP: Jesusita Fire
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on May 8, 2009 The Jesusita Fire in Santa Barbara has broken out and spread far west and south, situation is looking very serious, there will be a lot of loss tonight, evacuation orders extend to Goleta, refugees are moving to UCSB, and it may not be done yet. It could be worse than the Tea Fire.