• The SDSS-HET Survey of Kepler Eclipsing Binaries: Spectroscopic Dynamical Masses of the Kepler-16 Circumbinary Planet Hosts, astro-ph
• ROPS: A New Search for Habitable Earths in the Southern Sky, astro-ph
• How Thermal Evolution and Mass Loss Sculpt Populations of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes: Application to the Kepler-11 System and Beyond, astro-ph
• The chemical diversity of exo-terrestrial planetary debris around white dwarfs, astro-ph
• Measurements of Stellar Inclinations for Kepler Planet Candidates, astro-ph

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Date: 16 - 17 June, 2012
Location: Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Aberdeen will host the inaugural UK Space Environments Conference - UK Research & Education for Space & Terrestrial Benefit. Leading UK and international researchers from the fields of space biomedicine, astrobiology, microgravity-physics and astrochemistry will present and discuss details of their work and plans for the future. Day one of the conference will be devoted to Space Biomedicine. The chairman and members of the Space Environments Working Group will present on day two. An open-house poster opportunity exists for any space related organization to present a poster of the details of their company and/or related activities. Registration is #91 (#67 for students) for two days of excellent content with lunch included on both days. For more information visit - http://www.uksba.org/conference

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Date: 1 - 13 July, 2012
Location: Utrecht and Texel, Netherlands
Application Deadline: 25 May, 2012

The second Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences will give PhD and advanced MSc students an update on the state-of-the-art research within the field of Biogeosciences. The focus will be ocean acidification, the carbon cycle, microbial ecology, biomarkers, terrestrial carbon cycling and climate reconstructions, in the past, present and future. This Summer School is all about interdisciplinary research. Students are expected to work on the interface of biology, earth sciences, chemistry and physics. More information and application: www.darwincenter.nl/dss

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• The Habitable Zone and Extreme Planetary Orbits, astro-ph
• Predicting the Configuration of Planetary System: KOI-152 Observed by Kepler, astro-ph
• Astronomical Evidence for the Rapid Growth of Millimeter Sized Particles in Protoplanetary Disks, astro-ph
• Kepler constraints on planets near hot Jupiters, astro-ph
• The Frequency of Hot Jupiters Orbiting Nearby Solar-Type Stars, astro-ph
• Wideband Infrared Spectrometer for Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with Space Telescopes, astro-ph

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• Complex Organic Molecules at High Spatial Resolution Toward Orion-KL II: Kinematics, astro-ph
• Complex Organic Molecules at High Spatial Resolution Toward Orion-KL I: Spatial Scales, astro-ph
• Detection of Thermal Emission from a Super-Earth, astro-ph
• A False Positive For Ocean Glint on Exoplanets: the Latitude-Albedo Effect, astro-ph
• Variability of the Infrared Excess of Extreme Debris Disks, astro-ph
• Precision Astrometry of the Exoplanet Host Candidate GD 66, astro-ph
• A dynamical analysis of the Kepler-11 planetary system, astro-ph

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The 2012 Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference (AbGradCon) will be held on August 27 - 30, 2012, preceded by the Research Focus Group splinter, August 24-26. The science program for the conference will be held at the California Institute for Technology (Caltech), with an outreach event at the University of Southern California (USC), and a field-trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The conference will consist of three days of scientific sessions, two evenings of public outreach and education activities, and a one day field trip to JPL. Approximately 100 participants consisting of graduate students and early career postdocs are expected from both the US and abroad. The talks and poster sessions will draw on the success of past AbGradCons as a venue for early career astrobiologists to expand their horizons by forming collaborations and sharing their work and ideas with their contemporaries. By incorporating organized outreach events, we will highlight the importance of education and communication within our field and provide a venue for public involvement with the astrobiology community. The JPL tour is a unique aspect of this year's meeting, and comes at an especially exciting time for the lab, just after the Curiosity rover's (MSL) landing at Mars. At JPL participants will view active laboratories and mission development relevant to astrobiology.
For more information, please visit our website: http://abgradcon.org or email 2012abgradcon2012@gmail.com.

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