The CPS organizes and hosts 6 Planet Days each year at the University of Toronto, Scarborough campus. Each retreat typically involves 2 distinguished international visitors and 1 UofT speaker. Ample time is reserved for discussions and new exchanges of ideas. These retreats serve as gathering points for the entire University of Toronto Earth / Solar System / Exoplanet community.

2014/15 Planet Days:

• Wednesday 18th March 2015

  Speakers:
  • Eugene Chiang, UC Berkeley
  • Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley



• Wednesday 25th February 2015

  Speakers:
  • Frances Bagenal, UC Boulder
  • Linda Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University



• Wednesday 28th January 2015

  Speakers:
  • Jonathan Fortney, UC Santa Cruz
  • Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Santa Barbara



• Wednesday 10th December 2014

  Speakers:
  • David Stevenson, Caltech
    Does Jupiter have a core?
  • John Johnson, Harvard
    Hot on the trail of warm planets orbiting cool stars
  • Francois Forget, Institut Laplace, CNRS
    Building virtual planets with global climate models: a scientific endeavour



• Wednesday 29th October 2014

  Speakers:
  • Heather Knutson, Caltech
    Friends of Hot Jupiters: A search for distant, massive companions to close-in gas giant planets
  • Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich
    Long-term interior and tectonic evolution of rocky solar system planets and exoplanets
  • Yanqin Wu, University of Toronto
    Kepler planets: back to the origin



• Wednesday 3rd September 2014

  Speakers:
  • Francis Nimmo, UC Santa Cruz
    Looking inside moons using gravity and topography
  • Tilman Spohn, DLR Berlin
    Thermal evolution of planetary objects: from asteroids to super-Earths, from plate tectonics to life
  • Ernst De Mooij, University of Toronto High precision ground-based observations of transiting exoplanets