BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//astrosociety.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:658a992c-1a38-4e6d-95aa-2299c9c28012 X-WR-CALDESC:The Silicon Valley Lecture Series is back in person and talks will be available on the YouTube channel post event for viewing at your c onvenience.\n\nOn Wednesday\, Apr. 9\, 2025 at 7 pm (PST)\, Prof. Jonathan Fortney (U. of California\, Santa Cruz) will give a free\, illustrated\, non-technical lecture entitled: \n \n'New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmosp heres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope' \n \nin the Smith wick Theater at Foothill College\, in Los Altos (see directions below) \n \nThe talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series\, now in its 25th year. \n \nOver 6000 planets have now been found around other stars \, but we only have information about what their atmospheres are like for a few dozen. NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)\, which fe atures a 20-foot mirror in space\, is currently being used to understand a tmospheres. We can look for atmospheres around rocky planets the size of the Earth\, and we can measure the abundances of molecules like water\, me thane\, ammonia\, and carbon dioxide\, in larger planets\, of sizes simila r to Neptune and Jupiter. In this talk Professor Fortney will describe th e latest exoplanet results from JWST as we seek to understand these new wo rlds.\n\nJonathan Fortney is the Department Chair of Astronomy and Astroph ysics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is a planetary ast rophysicist who works to understand what planets and their atmospheres are made of\, both for exoplanets around other stars and for solar system pla nets. He has been a member of the science teams for NASA space missions l ike the Cassini Mission to Saturn and the Kepler Mission\, which found ove r 3000 exoplanets.\n\nThis lecture is in person to the Smithwick Theater! Link to directions below.\n\nThis presentation will also be available on t he SVLS YouTube site. Link below.\n\nThe lecture is co-sponsored by:\n\n* Foothill College Science\, Tech\, Engineering & Math Division\n* SETI Inst itute\n* Astronomical Society of the Pacific\n\n-----------------------\nF oothill College is just off the El Monte Road exit from Freeway 280 in Los Altos\, California\n \nFor directions and parking information as well a s a campus map to find the Smithwick theater\, see ilnks below.\n\nNOTE: Parking lot 1 is closest\, with access to the theater by stairs. Parking lot 5 provides access from the same elevation as the theater.\n\n--------- ------ X-WR-RELCALID:e31d4431aaace7dcd0fa0dae61f6625d X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20251102T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2327f8e0-a2db-428e-9f23-56ceb4d22ab3 DTSTAMP:20260408T015713Z DESCRIPTION:The Silicon Valley Lecture Series is back in person and talks will be available on the YouTube channel post event for viewing at your co nvenience.\n\nOn Wednesday\, Apr. 9\, 2025 at 7 pm (PST)\, Prof. Jonathan Fortney (U. of California\, Santa Cruz) will give a free\, illustrated\, n on-technical lecture entitled: \n \n'New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmosph eres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope' \n \nin the Smithw ick Theater at Foothill College\, in Los Altos (see directions below) \n \nThe talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series\, now in its 2 5th year. \n \nOver 6000 planets have now been found around other stars\ , but we only have information about what their atmospheres are like for a few dozen. NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)\, which fea tures a 20-foot mirror in space\, is currently being used to understand at mospheres. We can look for atmospheres around rocky planets the size of t he Earth\, and we can measure the abundances of molecules like water\, met hane\, ammonia\, and carbon dioxide\, in larger planets\, of sizes similar to Neptune and Jupiter. In this talk Professor Fortney will describe the latest exoplanet results from JWST as we seek to understand these new wor lds.\n\nJonathan Fortney is the Department Chair of Astronomy and Astrophy sics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is a planetary astr ophysicist who works to understand what planets and their atmospheres are made of\, both for exoplanets around other stars and for solar system plan ets. He has been a member of the science teams for NASA space missions li ke the Cassini Mission to Saturn and the Kepler Mission\, which found over 3000 exoplanets.\n\nThis lecture is in person to the Smithwick Theater! L ink to directions below.\n\nThis presentation will also be available on th e SVLS YouTube site. Link below.\n\nThe lecture is co-sponsored by:\n\n* F oothill College Science\, Tech\, Engineering & Math Division\n* SETI Insti tute\n* Astronomical Society of the Pacific\n\n-----------------------\nFo othill College is just off the El Monte Road exit from Freeway 280 in Los Altos\, California\n \nFor directions and parking information as well as a campus map to find the Smithwick theater\, see ilnks below.\n\nNOTE: P arking lot 1 is closest\, with access to the theater by stairs. Parking l ot 5 provides access from the same elevation as the theater.\n\n---------- ----- DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250409T200000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Silicon Valley Lecture Series in person: 'New Worlds: Analyzing t he Atmospheres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope' with Pro f. Jonathan Fortney (U. of California\, Santa Cruz) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR