A no-research day (Thursdays are always bad) was ended on a great note with a Colloquium by Ian Dobbs-Dixon (NYUAD), who spoke about the atmospheres of hot-jupiter-like exoplanets. He has a great set of equipment that connects the global climate model built for Earth climate modeling with lots of planet-relevant physics (like strong, anisotropic insolation and internal heat flows) to figure out what must be happening on these planets. He showed some nice predictions and also some nice explanations of the observed property (yes observed property) that these planets do not have their hottest point at the sub-stellar point. It's so exciting when we think forward to what might be possible with NASA JWST.
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