Megan Delamer
Title:  Confirmation of the Long-Period Planet Orbiting Gliese 411 and the Detection of a New Planet Candidate
Abstract:  I will be reviewing "Confirmation of the Long-Period Planet Orbiting Gliese 411 and the Detection of a New Planet Candidate" by Hurt et al 2021.

Kadri Nizam
Title:  Employing Autoencoders to Parametrize Kinematic Measurements of Protoplanetary Disks
Abstract:  Recent advancements in interferometric techniques have allowed us to peer at the midplanes of protoplanetary disks to study the environments in which planets form. Central to these observations are image processing algorithms (such as CLEAN or Regularized Maximum Likelihood) to reconstruct the best possible image from incomplete samplings of the visibility plane. Using autoencoder and their various flavors, we are building a framework which will parametrize observed disk’s properties from the encoding of velocity maps from emissions of tracer molecules. One of our long-term aspirations is to couple an autoencoder trained on molecular emission ray-traced from protoplanetary disk simulations with forward-modeling imaging techniques to enhance image reconstruction quality.

Seminar starts at 12:00 pm and will be held in 538 Davey and virtually via Zoom:  https://psu.zoom.us/j/92637070419