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A set of slides designed to help teachers and Subject Matter Experts explain complex topics in a fun way.

Collection of Interactive PowerPoint Slides to be Used in Public Engagement For students in Grades: 3rd to 12th - 12/2021 Author: Yasuhiro Hasegawa (JPL)

Citi Program Management Awareness Week

Exoplanets and Excellence, NASA’s Search for Life in our Galaxy - 5/12/21 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Canada

Show Me the Planets! NASA's Search for Exoplanets and Life in our Galaxy- 2/2/19 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

ExEP Overview Session at 230th AAS - Austin, TX

Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) - 6/6/17 David Ciardi (Caltech/NExScI)

ExEP Overview Session at 230th AAS - Austin, TX

Recent Progress & Results from LBTI - 6/6/17 Phil Hinz (University of Arizona)

ExEP Overview Session at 230th AAS - Austin, TX

Exoplanet Exploration Program Update - 6/6/17 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

Plainview Charter School - Tujunga, CA

Exoplanets in Our Galaxy - 5/25/17 Ray Lemus (JPL)

SETI Institute Weekly Colloquium - Mountain View, CA

You Had Me at Habitable: NASA's Search for Habitable Planets and Life Beyond the Solar System (PDF) - 3/21/17 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

SETI Institute Weekly Colloquium - Mountain View, CA

You Had Me at Habitable: NASA's Search for Habitable Planets and Life Beyond the Solar System - (PPT) - 3/21/17 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

ExEP Presentation at CCRC in Glendale, CA

Exoplanets and the Search for Life in our Galaxy - 2/27/17 Ray Lemus (JPL)

AAS Starshade Splinter Session

Accommodation of Starshade Readiness on WFIRST - 1/6/17 Dominic Benford (NASA/HQ)

AAS Starshade Splinter Session

Next Steps in Starshade Development Technology - 1/6/17 John Ziemer (JPL)

AAS Starshade Splinter Session

Engineering Strategy to Demonstrate Starshade Technical Readiness - 1/6/17 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

AAS Starshade Splinter Session

Exoplanet Science with a Starshade: Exo-S, WFIRST, and Hab-EX- 1/6/17 Maggie Turnbull (SETI Institute)

AAS Starshade Splinter Session

Introduction to NASA Starshade Development Activities - 1/6/17 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

AIAA 2016 Space Forum and Exposition

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Updates and Technology Challenges - 9/15/16 Gary Blackwood (JPL), Steven Howell (NASA Ames), Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL), Scott Gaudi (Ohio State), Shawn Domagal-Goldman (NASA GSFC), Nick Siegler (JPL), Margaret Turnbull (SETI)

Go Boldly - Boulder, CO

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program - 8/6/2016 Gary Blackwood (JPL)

Pasadena City College

Exoplanets and the Search for Life in our Galaxy - 02/10/2016 - Ray Lemus (JPL)

AAS 227th Meeting - Kissimmee, Florida

Technology Needs for the Direct Imaging of Exo-Earths - 01/6/2016 - Nick Siegler (JPL)

ExoPAG 13 - Kissimmee, Florida

ExEP Technology Needs and Status - 01/4/2016 - Nick Siegler (JPL)

Exoplanet Exploration Program Updates - 01/3/2016 - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

ExSocCal2015: An Exoplanet Orbital Interaction

Meeting Details

Introduction to the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program - 09/24/2015 - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop - Caltech

Introduction to the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program - 07/27/2015 - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

ATLAST Seminar Series - Goddard Space Flight Center

The NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program: The Search for Planets, Habitability, and Life in Our Galaxy - 02/18/2015 - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

ExoPAG 12 - Chicago

Exoplanet Exploration Program Updates - 06/13/2015 - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

Planets, Life, and the Universe Lecture Series - Johns Hopkins University

The NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program: The Search for Planets, Habitability, and Life in our Galaxy - 12/05/2014 - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

Videos:

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014

The Future of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program - 4/29/2014 - Steve Unwin (JPL)

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - AIAA Space 2014 August 6, 2014

Technology Development for Exoplanet Direct Imaging Missions - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

On the Shoulders of Giants: Planets Beyond the Reach of Kepler

24 presentations on the topic of exoplanets in orbits beyond ~1 AU, from a 'Meeting-in-Meeting' held at the 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, in Boston MA, June 3-4, 2014.

2014 JPL Astrophysics Colloquia and Seminars

5/15/2014 - Nicolas Cowan (Northwestern University)

Habitable Zones and the Occurrence of Potential Habitable Worlds - 4/3/2014 - Ravi Kopparapu (Penn State)

Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA) Meeting March 3-5, 2014

Presentation of Interim Report to the CAA (Exo-S) - 3/4/2014 - Sara Seager (MIT), et al.

Presentation of Interim Report to the CAA (Exo-C) – 3/4/2014 - Karl Stapelfeldt (GSFC), et al.

WFIRST-AFTA Presentation to the Committee on Astronomy & Astrophysics - 3/4/2014 - Neil Gehrels, Kevin Grady (GSFC)

Reports from NASA's Astrophysics Program Analysis Groups January 7, 2014

Reports from NASA Program Analysis Groups - Michael Garcia (NASA)

Exoplanet Program Analysis Group Report - Scott Gaudi (Ohio State)

Cosmic Origins Program Analysis Group - Ken Sembach (STScI)

Status Report: Physics of the Cosmos PAG (PhysPAG) - John Nousek (Penn State)

ExEP Evening Session January 7, 2014

Welcome and Program Overview - Gary Blackwood (JPL)

News from the ExoPAG - Scott Gaudi (Ohio State)

AFTA Coronagraph Overview and Science Capability - Bruce Macintosh (LLNL)

Probe STDT Progress (Design Teams) - Keith Warfield (JPL)

Probe STDT Progress (Starshade) » video 1 » video 2 - Sara Seager (MIT)

Probe STDT Progress (Coronagraph) - Karl Stapelfeldt (GSFC)

Technology Development for Coronagraphic Imaging - Nick Siegler (JPL)

AFTA Coronagraph Architecture Selection

HQ Direction on AFTA FY14 Coronagraph Technology Investment - Paul Hertz, 12/23/13

ACWG Charter NASA Astrophysics Division - 6/17/13

Coronagraph Architecture Downselect Recommendation by ExEP PO and AFTA SO - Gary Blackwood and Kevin Grady, 12/13/13

Coronagraph Science Performance Update - Gehrels, Traub, Krist et al, 12/31/13

Kepler Science Conference November 4-8, 2013

The Future of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program - November 8, 2013 - Gary Blackwood (JPL), et al.

The Search for Alien Earths — How Coronagraphs Find Hidden Planets

How do coronagraphs find exoplanets? Find out in this animation narrated by Dr. Nick Siegler, Technology Manager of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program. Several versions are available.

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