Masterpflichtseminar MVSem
'Extrasolar Planets'

Seminar Plan

• Apr 26, 2019: Introduction, Literature, Assignment of Topics and Dates

• 6 Credit Points, for regular attendance, oral presentation and written report
• Grades are given for talk (50%) and written report (50%)
• Written reports are due tbd.

Topics

1. Kepler 1658: A Massive Planet around a Massive Subgiant
   Chontos et al. 2019
2. The Role of Stellar Multiplicity in Massive Planet Formation
   Fontanive et al. 2019
3. The Period Distribution of Exoplanets and Stellar Obliquity
   Millholland & Laughlin 2019
4. Planet Occurrence Rates around the Snow Line
   Fernandes et al. 2019
5. Planet Occurrence Rates as a Function of Stellar Metallicity
   Narang et al. 2019
6. Exomoons around Directly Imaged Exoplanets
   Vanderburg et al. 2018
7. Formation of Hot Jupiters: In-situ Formation, Disk Migration or High-Eccentricity Tidal Migration?
   Dawson & Johnson 2018
8. Density Profiles of Exoplanet: Detectable with Precise Transit Observations?
   Kellermann, Becker & Redmer 2018
9. Scalings of Super-Earth Properties with Stellar Mass
   Wu 2019
10. Habitable Planets and Signs of Life
    Kaltenegger 2017
11. Earth-Like Planets during the Post-Main Sequence
    Kozakis & Kaltenegger 2019

Tips for Talks

• pre-requiste: read and understand the material very well; if necessary, read additional background material
• think about the key points which you want to deliver, and how to best convey them
• basic elements: introduction (okay to briefly go back to the very basics), main part of the talk explaining the key points, and the conclusions, summing everything up and discussing it
• presentation style: big fonts, high contrast, no typos or grammatical errors
• plots: clear axis labels, description of symbols, reference
• not too many slides (rule of thumb: 1.5-2 minutes per slide), total time roughly half an hour
• grades will be given for
  1. presentation content and structure (logical)
  2. slides
  3. style of presentation
  and in particular how well everything together achieves the goal of conveying the important information