BOWIE Collaboration

BOWIE+ Seminar Series

The BOWIE+ Seminar Series is a monthly seminar highlighting exoplanetary science in the UK and around the world. Each seminar is held on the fourth Thursday of the month at 4pm UK time on Zoom.

If you would like to be informed about our upcoming talks and to receive the Zoom link, please sign up to our mailing list.

We have also set up a calendar so that your diary can be automaticaly updated with upcoming talks (Google Calendar | ICS).

If you're on Bluesky, we can be found here

Upcoming Talks

Thursday, July 16, 2026, 4pm UK time
Elsepth Lee, University of Bern, Switzerland
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 4pm UK time
Ben Rackham, MIT, USA
October-December: ECR Highlight Sessions!

Past Talks

We aim to record as many of our seminars as possible for those who can't make the sessions. Visit our YouTube channel for the full playlist or watch the latest seminar below.

Thursday, June 25, 2026
James Kirk, Imperial, UK
Evie Ahrer, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany
"BOWIE-ALIGN: Comparing Orbital Alignments and Atmospheric Compositions to Probe Hot Jupiter Origins"
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Siddharth Gandhi, University of Warwick, UK
"Atmospheric Variability and Orbit of the Super-Jupiter AB Pictoris b with CRIRES+"
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Cathal Maguire, University of Bristol, UK
"Limb from Limb: Observing Atmospheric Asymmetries from the Ground and Space"
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Beth Biller, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Partly Cloudy with Molten Iron Rain: Detecting and Characterising Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Atmospheres via Direct Imaging"
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Sarah Moran, NASA Goddard and STScI, USA
Elijah Mullens, Cornell University, USA
"Head in the Silicate Clouds"
Part I: Mineral Cloud Polymorphs and Thermal Gradients (Sarah Moran)
Part II: Silicate Sundogs and Grain Alignment (Elijah Mullens)
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Ian Crossfield, University of Kansas, USA
"Sulfur: A New Tracer in Exoplanet Atmospheres"
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Morgan Saidel, Caltech, USA
"The First Dedicated Survey of Atmospheric Escape from Planets Orbiting Hot Stars"

Matt Lodge. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
"VIRGA v2.0: Fractal Aggregate Clouds in Warm Neptunes, Hot Jupiters and Brown Dwarfs"
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Richard Chatterjee, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"Predicting the Fate of Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres"

Dan Valentine. University of Bristol, United Kingdom
"Eclipse Mapping with Ariel: Future Prospects for a Population-Level Mapping Survey"
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Cyril Gapp, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany
"Thermal Dissociation and SiO in the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b"

Nishil Mehta, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France
"Combining JWST Data and General Circulation Models for a 3D Study of the Clouds on Warm Jupiters"
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Jiachen Liu, Peking University, Beijing
"3D transport-induced chemistry and vertical mixing on temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b"

Alastair Claringbold. University of Warwick, United Kingdom
"Chemistry and Aerosols of Temperate Jupiters"
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Dr Anjali Piette, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
"Demystifying the Sub-Neptune Frontier with JWST"
Thursday, August 28 2025
Dr Ryan MacDonald, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
"Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets: Promising Early Results from JWST"
Thursday, July 24 2025
Dr Michael Radica, University of Chicago, USA
"How to Observe 3D Atmospheres for Impatient Exoplaneteers"
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Dr Eva-Maria Ahrer, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany
"What do we know about water world candidates with JWST?"