[Astro] Seminar 2/10/2024

[Jesse Golden-Marx]

Hi Everyone,
      Our seminar speaker on Wednesday is Dr. Amy Bonsor from IOA, Cambridge.  She'll be arriving on campus around 12:00.  We'll plan to go to lunch at Lakeside Arts around 1pm.  If anyone would like to join for lunch, please let me know by tomorrow evening (as usual, we can subsidize a few post-graduate students).

Amy's talk is titled: Rocky planets and the potential for life beyond the Solar System

The abstract is provided below.

On Wednesday, the timings of the events are:

Arrival ~ 12:00pm
Lunch ~ 1:00pm
meet the speaker for postgrads at 15:00, finishing at 15:30
seminar at 15:45 in C5 (new room)
post-seminar WINE AND CHEESE

Amy will have a bit of free time during the day, so if anyone would like to meet with her, please let me know.  As of now, the plan is for her to sit in my office A108.


Cheers,
Jesse and Luke

Abstract:
We live in an epoch of exoplanet discovery. Within the next decade the discovery of rocky planets orbiting other stars will be commonplace. However, in order to fully understand these exoplanetary systems and their potential to host life, we have to consider the planetary system as a whole. Information from host-star compositions, system architectures and white dwarfs that have accreted planetary material add to our intuition. I will discuss how we can start to think about whether exoplanetary systems have the right material available and the right physical conditions for the origin of life. Our exploration of planetary systems beyond the Solar System goes hand in hand with the journey of discovery of how life on Earth came to be.





Jesse Golden-Marx, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate

Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham, UK
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