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May 28-29, 2026
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Ravit Helled
University of Zurich

MARCH 6, 2026
3:30 – 4:30 PM ET

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Malcolm McMahon
University of Edinburgh

JANUARY 23, 2026
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET

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Gianluca Gregori
University of Oxford

JANUARY 9, 2026
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET

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T. Thévenet, A. Dian, M. Cioni, D. A. Markovits, D. S. Scandolo, A. France-Lanord, F. Siro Brigiano Angewandte Chemie (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202520364

Sam Vinko
University of Oxford

November 14, 2025
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET

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Hao Yin, Charles Heaton, Eric G. Blackman, Arianna E. Gleason, Joshua J. Turner, Gilbert W. Collins, Gianluca Gregori, Jessica K. Shang, Hussein Aluie, Theory of x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy for…

J. S. Wark, D. J. Peake, T. Stevens, P. G. Heighway, Y. Ping, P. Sterne, B. Albertazzi, S. J. Ali, L. Antonelli, M. R. Armstrong, C. Baehtz, O. B. Ball,…

S. Racioppi and E. Zurek, High-Pressure Electrides: A Quantum Chemical Perspective, (2025). In Annual Review of Materials Research, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-080423-124050

S. Racioppi and E. Zurek, Looking at high-pressure electrides through the lens of quantum crystallography: the case of simple cubic calcium, (2025). In Acta Crystallographica Section B, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520625001647

Stefano Racioppi, Iren Saffarian-Deemyad, William Holle, Francesco Belli, Jesse S. Smith, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Richard Ferry, Eva Zurek, and Shanti Deemyad, Lithium’s low-temperature phase transitions: Insights into quantum lattice dynamics and…

Zifan Lin, Sara Seager and Benjamin P. Weiss, Interior and Gravity Field Models for Uranus Suggest a Mixed-composition Interior: Implications for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, (2025). In The Planetary Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ada124

Zifan Lin, Saverio Cambioni, and Sara Seager, Most High-density Exoplanets Are Unlikely to Be Remnant Giant Planet’s Cores, (2025). In The Astrophysical Journal Letters, https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad86c3

Michelle Kunimoto, Zifan Lin, Sarah Millholland, Alexander Venner, Natalie R. Hinkel, Avi Shporer, Andrew Vanderburg, Jeremy Bailey, Rafael Brahm, Jennifer A. Burt, R. Paul Butler, Brad Carter, David R. Ciardi, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Knicole D. Colón, Jeffrey D. Crane, Tansu Daylan, Matías R. Díaz, John P.…

D.C. Rubie, K.I. Dale, G. Nathan, M. Nakajima, E.S. Jennings, G.J. Golabek, S.A. Jacobson, and A. Morbidelli, Tungsten isotope evolution during Earth’s formation and new constraints on the viability of…

Laëtitia Allibert, Julien Siebert, Ryuki Hyodo, Hidenori Genda, Sean Raymond, Seth Jacobson, Miki Nakajima, and Sébastien Charnoz, Collisional erosion of mantle silicate during accretion can set the elevated Fe/Mg ratio…

Stefano Racioppi, Alberto Otero-de-la-Roza, Samad Hajinazar, and Eva Zurek, Powder X-ray diffraction assisted evolutionary algorithm for crystal structure prediction, (2024). In Digital Discovery, https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dd00269e

Victor Lherm, Miki Nakajima, Eric G. Blackman, Thermal and magnetic evolution of an Earth-like planet with a basal magma ocean, (2024). In Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107267

Jérémy Couturier, Alice C. Quillen, Miki Nakajima, NcorpiON : A O(N) software for N-body integration in collisional and fragmenting systems, (2024). In New Astronomy 114, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2024.102313

A. K. Schwemmlein, G. W. Collins, A. J. LaPierre, Z. K. Sprowal, D. N. Polsin, R. Jeanloz, P. M. Celliers, J. H. Eggert, J. R. Rygg, A platform for planar…

D. N. Polsin, D. A. Chin, T. S. Duffy, M. Ginnane, X. Gong, L. E. Hansen, A. J. LaPierre, M. C. Marshall, G. W. Collins, and J. R. Rygg, Atomic…

Miki Nakajima, Jeremy Atkins, Jacob B. Simon and Alice C. Quillen, The Limited Role of the Streaming Instability during Moon and Exomoon Formation, (2024). In The Planetary Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad4863

Evan Tey, Avi Shporer, Zifan Lin, Keivan G. Stassun, Jack J. Lissauer, Coel Hellier, Karen A. Collins, Kevin I. Collins, Geof Wingham, Howard M. Relles, Franco Mallia, Giovanni Isopi, John F. Kielkopf, Dennis M. Conti, Richard P. Schwarz, Aldo Zapparata, Steven Giacalone, Elise Furlan, Zachary D. Hartman, Steve B.…

Thomas G. White
University of Nevada, Reno

August 15, 2025
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET

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November 8, 2024

M. Ghosh, S. X. Hu, E. Blackman, T. Suer, S. Zhang write in Physical Review B, “The high-pressure temperature phase diagram and transport properties of materials are of broad interest to planetary sciences and high-energy-density sciences and applications.”

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January 30, 2025

Z. Lin, S. Seager and B. P. Weiss write in The Planetary Science Journal, “The interior composition and structure of Uranus are ambiguous. It is unclear whether Uranus is composed of fully differentiated layers dominated by an icy mantle or has smooth compositional gradients.”

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November 25, 2024

Dr. Burkhardt Militzer writes in PNAS, “The Voyager spacecraft discovered that the ice giants Uranus and Neptune have nondipolar magnetic fields, defying expectations that a thick interior layer of planetary ices would generate strong dipolar fields.”

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February 14, 2025

Dr. Burkhardt Militzer talks in Science Friday, about his recent research based on computer simulations of fluids hints that the planets could contain vast multi-layered oceans, as much as thousands of miles deep.

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Ankan Sur, Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Yubo Su, and Adam Burrows, Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores, (2025). In The Astrophysical Journal Letters. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/adad62

Shikhar Rai, J. Thomas Farrar & Hussein Aluie, Atmospheric wind energization of ocean weather, (2025). In Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56310-1

Zifan Lin, Sara Seager and Benjamin P. Weiss, Interior and Gravity Field Models for Uranus Suggest a Mixed-composition Interior: Implications for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, (2025). In The Planetary…

Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Ankan Sur, Yubo Su, and Adam Burrows, Jupiter Evolutionary Models Incorporating Stably Stratified Regions, (2025). In The Astrophysical Journal. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ada030

Dongxiao Zhao, Hussein Aluie, Calculating spectra by sequential filtering, (2025). In Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244909

Zifan Lin, Saverio Cambioni, and Sara Seager, Most High-density Exoplanets Are Unlikely to Be Remnant Giant Planet’s Cores, (2025). In The Astrophysical Journal Letters.  https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad86c3

M. Kunimoto, Z. Lin, S. Millholland, A. Venner, N. R. Hinkel, A. Shporer, A. Vanderburg, J. Bailey, R. Brahm, J. A. Burt, R. P. Butler, B. Carter, D. R. Ciardi,…

A. F. T. Leong, D. S. Hodge, K. Kurzer-Ogul, S. Marchesini, S. Pandolfi, Y. Liu, J. L. Barber, K. Li, A. Sakdinawat, E. C. Galtier, B. Nagler, H. Ja Lee,…

Burkhard Militzer, Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune, (2024). In PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2403981121

Maitrayee Ghosh, S. X. Hu, Eric Blackman, Terry-Ann Suer, Shuai Zhang, Melting and transport properties of Al2⁢O3 at extreme conditions, (2024). In Physical Review B. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.174107

Salah Kouhen, Benjamin A. Storer, Hussein Aluie, David P. Marshall, Hannah M. Christensen, Convective and Orographic Origins of the Mesoscale Kinetic Energy Spectrum, (2024). In Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110804

Stefano Racioppi, Alberto Otero-de-la-Roza, Samad Hajinazar, Eva Zurek, Powder X-ray diffraction assisted evolutionary algorithm for crystal structure prediction, (2024). In Digital Discovery. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DD00269E