October 15, 2026, 7:00pm, Activity Center
          Dr. Ty Robinson, Associate Professor, Member of Arizona Astrobiology Center - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
                           “Exoplanet Atmospheres”

  Tyler uses sophisticated radiative transfer and climate tools to study the atmospheres of Solar System worlds, exoplanets, and brown dwarfs. Tyler also develops retrieval and instrument models for exoplanet direct imaging. He combines these areas of expertise in his work on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument and Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). Previously, Tyler collaborated on the Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Science and Technology Definition Team as well as the LUVOIR, WFIRST/Rendezvous, and Origins Space Telescope mission concept studies. Tyler is a Cottrell Scholar, as well as a former NASA Sagan Fellow and NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow.