{"id":49747,"date":"2016-09-07T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=49747"},"modified":"2020-03-09T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T23:23:20","slug":"kepler-discoveries-focus-of-windward-cc-chemistry-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/07\/kepler-discoveries-focus-of-windward-cc-chemistry-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler discoveries focus of Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> chemistry forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_37067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37067\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/haghighipour-n.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/haghighipour-n.png 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/haghighipour-n-184x260.png 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nader Haghighipour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/~nader\/\"><strong>Nader Haghighipour<\/strong><\/a> will deliver a presentation about <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\"><abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>&#8217;s Kepler mission<\/a> and the discovery of new planetary candidates on September 22, 1 <abbr title=\"after noon\">p.m.<\/abbr> at <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/\">Windward Community College&#8217;s<\/a> Hale <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> 111. The lecture is part of Windward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/windward.hawaii.edu\/chemistry_forum\/2016_Fall\/\">Community Forum in Chemistry<\/a> series. <\/p>\n<p>Haghighipour, an astronomy professor with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa, will identify and discuss the occurrence rate of terrestrial-size planets within the Habitable Zone of their host stars. He will also present Kepler data from the most recent catalog of 104 exoplanet candidates with implications of the findings revealing the formation of habitable planets.<\/p>\n<p> The forum is free and open to the public. Parking is free.<\/p>\n<p>The Community Forum in Chemistry is co-sponsored by Windward Community College and the American Chemical Society-<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Section. For more information, call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windward.hawaii.edu\/People\/Letty_Colmenares\/\">Letty Colmenares<\/a> at (808) 236-9120.     <\/p>\n<h2>More on Nader Haghighipour<\/h2>\n<p>Haghighipour obtained his <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD<\/abbr> degree in planetary dynamics from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999. After a few postdoc positions at the University of California-Irvine, Northwestern University and the Carnegie Institute of Washington, he joined the <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a> in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>His field of research is planetary dynamics and planet formation with emphasis on the detection, formation and characterization of habitable planets both in our solar system and extrasolar planets. He is currently a member of the Kepler and <abbr title=\"Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite\">TESS<\/abbr> missions science team, and the president of the division of planetary sciences and astrobiology of the International Astronomical Union.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Bonnie Beatson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nader Haghighipour will discuss <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>\u2019s Kepler mission and the discovery of new planetary candidates on September 22 at Windward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[34,35,71,66],"class_list":["post-49747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-astronomy","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49747"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112925,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49747\/revisions\/112925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}