UCF Planetary Science Journal Club
Welcome to the Science Journal Club seminar series!
Meetings are conducted on Fridays at 11:00 – 12:30 in Room 160/161 of the PS building (building 121) and Zoom (contact us for connection details). Meetings start with elevenses, an opportunity for everyone to informally mingle over a beverage and snacks. The seminar starts at 11:30am.
At our seminar series, everyone is welcome to bring food items and/or snacks and participate. The meetings last about 45 minutes, and are very informal. There will either be a research seminar or (preferably) a journal club.
A general list of topics and ground rules can be found here.
Please contact the organizer(s), Jonathan Keathley (jonathan.keathley at ucf.edu) or Theodora Karalidi (tkaralidi at ucf.edu) if you have questions or would like to give a talk.
Visit the archive page for this seminar series to see a list of speakers in past semesters, and some statistics on who has given talks.
Spring 2026
| # | Date | Who | What |
| #495 | 05/01 | ||
| #494 | 04/24 | Sana Kodakeri | TBD |
| #493 | 04/17 | Xavier Inosencio | TBD |
| #492 | 04/10 | Césarine Graham | Formation of Martian Linear Dune Gullies |
| #491 | 04/03 | Rhiannon Hicks | Visual inspection of potential exocomet transits identified through machine learning and statistical methods: paper 1 and 2. |
| #490 | 03/27 | Alex Medina | Pink Dwarfs and the Paths to Stardom: How Brown Dwarfs Pushed Above the Hydrogen Burning Limit Evolve |
| #489 | 03/20 | ——————– | —————-Spring Break & LPSC—————- |
| #488 | 03/13 | Daejhanae Smith | On the Oort Cloud Giant: C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli–Bernstein |
| #487 | 03/06 | Chris Duffey | Multiple formation pathways for amino acids based on C and N isotopes in asteroid Bennu samples |
| #486 | 02/27 | Kris Laferriere | Evidence of lunar hydration from Chandrayaan-2 |
| #485 | 02/20 | Michael Himes | Extracting Features from Thin Air: Deep Learning for Stratospheric Remote Sensing |
| #484 | 02/13 | Lizzie Faulkner | Ring Seismology of the Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune |
| #483 | 02/06 | Antoine Bourget | Shape Model of 2005 UP156 |
| #482 | 01/30 | Ryan Ogliore | Deep thoughts on the origin of cosmic rays |
| #481 | 01/23 | Angelina Minocha | Delivery of carbonaceous materials to the Moon |
| #480 | 01/16 | Everyone | Intro to semester/sign up reminders |